RMweb Premium Popular Post polybear Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, polybear said: Bear once googled "lathe accidents". If that doesn't teach you to respect lathes etc. you'd be better off with lego. Definitely not for the squeamish, by the way.... Buggerrattion, posted this on the wrong board ☹️. It's all that bluddy Hippo's fault. AGAIN...... ION...... The Big River delivered a new smoke alarm to Bear Towers this evening; they did actually ring the bell but as I was wallowing at the time they dumped it on the doorstep (despite instructions to the contrary in my account settings - I've got no less than three very close neighbours to choose from listed) and with no attempt whatsoever to hide it somewhere more discrete. T0sser. Yep, Rant. BG Edited October 16, 2023 by polybear 2 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, polybear said: Buggerrattion, posted this on the wrong board ☹️. It's all that bluddy Hippo's fault. AGAIN...... It'll been due to all that organic LDC you recently scoffed at the alpine redoubt with the Capitan that caused it. 5 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 ... Today teaching and answering emails from the excuse generator of Friday. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/10/16/covid-enquiry-government-didnt-listen-to-experts/ 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2023 1 minute ago, Winslow Boy said: It'll been due to all that organic LDC you recently scoffed at the alpine redoubt with the Capitan that caused it. Not this Bear - not had so much as a sniff for 23 days 21 hours ago. Not that I'm counting..... 1 11 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 21 minutes ago, polybear said: Not this Bear - not had so much as a sniff for 23 days 21 hours ago. Not that I'm counting..... Erm…just a couple of questions Bear……so when is this cake fasting going to end then? …and is it going be a planned event or are you ‘just like gonna snap’ and nick a motor and ram raid your local Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose, M&S, Gregs, local bakers?, etc etc…in a cakey frenzy. please note that other cake vendors and or cake wholesalers are available. 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post NGT6 1315 Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2023 Cheers all. Gonna inspect eyelids in a few! Warning: R**l**y content follows... As you may know, the railways in Alsace have retained RH running from the German period, as opposed to LH operation elsewhere in France. There is a fairly long grade-separated crossover between Imling and Xouaxange for changing between both modes. Stay safe... 12 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2023 11 minutes ago, Grizz said: Erm…just a couple of questions Bear……so when is this cake fasting going to end then? …and is it going be a planned event or are you ‘just like gonna snap’ and nick a motor and ram raid your local Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose, M&S, Gregs, local bakers?, etc etc…in a cakey frenzy. please note that other cake vendors and or cake wholesalers are available. The plan is for a month; I did quiver "somewhat" this morning when I spotted that their "Puff Pastry Mince Pies" were back in stock - with a deal if you buy two boxes..... At least I can report that I'm back to my "Big C scare" weight of 73Kg though, which is bluddy good/unheard of for A Certain Bear..... ION........ No comment necessary......though if that happens to me I'd be claiming "not of merchantable quality": https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/couple-furious-as-they-re-handed-17k-bill-for-driving-tesla-in-the-rain/ar-AA1ihAHA?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fd581419ea9e42148b195a407d8f45eb&ei=6 BG 13 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2023 Bit of good news, my energy supplier has agreed to refund a chunk of my credit balance. I plan to spend some of it on this. https://railsofsheffield.com/products/ger-wisbech-upwell-train-pack-post-1919 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, polybear said: Bear here..... The day started reasonably well as I carried on playing with Templot (it'll be a long slog.... not helped by the fact that Bear has a cr@p memory); later in the morning I carried out a recce to the Co-op for essential supplies before din dins. I then took delivery of three items I'd ordered, one of which was damaged 🤬. Now was it: (a) a pack of five easily replaceable 0.8mm dia. Centre Drills? or: (b) five various MDF Jigs from EBMA Hobby - again easily replaceable? or: (c) a much awaited purchase off the 'bay, namely an extremely well constructed and finished (and very rarely seen example of) a kitbuilt Loco ? Fuggin' Rattin' Piggin' Turdycurses 😭 BG. IS this your house? 6 6 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2023 Can any of our antipodean ER's identify the make/model of the cars. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 They'll regret not wearing a hat! 1 8 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2023 Goodnight all. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 31 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: They'll regret not wearing a hat! At least some of them are in the shade though so they'll be the Aussie ones Chimpy 3 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post BSW01 Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2023 Good evening everyone The weather was very kind to me today and much progress was been made. By the end of the day, I’d lightly sanded the 2 remaining workshop walls and given them both 1 coat of paint. Hopefully tomorrow should see me add the final coat of paint to the workshop, thus bringing the repaint to a close! This has taken me a lot longer than planned, mainly down to the atrocious weather we’ve had this year. The painting was finished just after dinner, so after cleaning and tidying up the painting tools, there was just enough time left to get another section of the cellar wall sized and some paper cut ready for hanging. I may even get the chance to hang some paper tomorrow too! After tea, I completed the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix. I also called in to Aldi and bought myself a rechargeable battery screw driver, for less than £15, so I’ve now got something to play with tomorrow. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2023 11 hours ago, Andy Hayter said: And I was making the point that an engine designed for fuel oil will not (or would not then) run on gas without extreme risk. Aside from legal/regulatory issues, a marine engine designed for oil will not run on gas. The fuel supply system is designed for oil and literally will not work with gas, ditto injection and ignition if somehow fuel got to the cylinders. There are two basic types of gas engine at sea: 1. Gas Diesel engines, gas is injected at high pressure (circa.250-350Bar) and ignited by combusting a small amount of pilot diesel in the normal way. Combustion is very efficient but it needs a high pressure gas supply. On land that is a huge problem because compressing gas needs a lot of energy and big multi-stage compressors, at sea because gas is carried as LNG the pressure is lifted up in the liquid phase which needs a tiny fraction of the energy of gas compression. NOx emissions can be quite high, so NOx abatement is needed.; or 2. Gas Otto engines. Gas is mixed with air before admission into the cylinder at low pressure (<10Bar) and then ignited by either spark plugs or pilot oil injection (most marine gas engines are dual fuel). This avoids a high pressure gas system but combustion is significantly less efficient and methane slip is an issue. The flip side of lower combustion efficiency is NOx emissions are low so engines can meet NOx emission standards easily. The issue isn't engines, it's everything else. Modern marine engines use the platform concept which dominates many fields of engineering. There's a base engine which can be built for various fuels and applications. So if you buy an oil engine, it is relatively easy (which of course is not the same as cheap) to convert it to operate with methane, or with other alternatives such as LPG or methanol. It doesn't even take long. What is much more expensive is fuel storage (especially cryogenic LNG tanks and LNG handling systems) and all the associated fuel systems and converting the engine room to meet regulations for gas fuelled engines etc. That is a much bigger job and seriously expensive. For liquid fuels like methanol it's not that bad as tanks can be re-purposed but it's very difficult to make a sensible case to convert ships from oil to LNG fuel. It's been done but I know at least one of the conversions was to make a political/environmental statement and that financially it was bonkers (the CEO of the container line concerned shared some pretty blunt opinions on it). 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 4 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Can any of our antipodean ER's identify the make/model of the cars. The internet suggests a convertible Daihatsu Mira. "Barbie cars" offered by Tropical Topless Car Rentals on Magnetic Island. Might include custom plastic. 5 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ozexpatriate Posted October 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 Happily (for once) one of my smoke detector batteries decided to expire while I was both at home, and awake. I had to decide which one was bleating, but it now has a new battery without waking me up in the wee hours of the morning, which is, for me, a win. I had a number of errands this morning - paying home owner's insurance, dropping off some mail at a post office and, the one I was dreading, renewing my driver's license* at the DMV. Pleasantly, I was in and out of the DMV in less than 40 minutes. After that it was off to the pharmacy and all the prescriptions I needed were ready. I was prepared for this to take most of the day but it was all done well before noon. * And no it's not a "driving license" here. Weirdly they call it a "driver license". As I was preparing to leave there was a slew of telemarketing calls -the first at 6:47am, which I believe is illegal. Most of them were related to healthcare benefits - it is 'open enrolment' season. I am not yet 65 so why they persist in offering me Medicare benefits (for which you need to be 65) is beyond me. 1 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 6 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Can any of our antipodean ER's identify the make/model of the cars. Errr, what cars???? 2 4 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post polybear Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: IS this your house? THAT House has a Garage........🤬 2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: Happily (for once) one of my smoke detector batteries decided to expire while I was both at home, and awake. I had to decide which one was bleating, but it now has a new battery without waking me up in the wee hours of the morning, which is, for me, a win. When a low battery warning starts up at Bear Towers it's usually around 2am; finding which one of the seventeen devices it could be (smoke alarms/heat alarm/flood alarms or C0 alarm can be "fun"..... The majority of the smoke alarms have sealed "10 Year" batteries fitted - I've yet to find one that gets close to that figure, though the company (Fire Angel) are very good at sending out free replacements once you've jumped thru' a couple of (reasonable) hoops. Bear here....... I decided to check the status of a certain pre-order last night (an Accurascale Class 37**) that I've paid a deposit on but heard no more. Investigations suggest it should've landed by now (TBC) - I'll be a very, very unhappy Bear if someone has f****d up and I've missed out. Watch this space.... (**Note to Puppers: Don't worry, it's Green). 04.23 today - maybe I could've snoozed again but couldn't be ar5ed to try, so here I am. Today? Templot. ION..... It seems that POTUS is to visit Israel tomorrow. So why give Hamas advance notice to prepare "something" for his arrival? Crazy. Ultra-tight security etc.? Heard that one before.....I bet those responsible for protecting him are doin' their nutz. BG 5 5 1 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post iL Dottore Posted October 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 Quite frankly I blame Mrs iD. A few careless words that I perceived to be of encouragement and approval and off I went on a woodworker’s workshop setup shopping spree (for her, of course, she’s the “artistic projects in wood” artiste around here, not me). Anyway, in short order I have acquired (to add to my existing wood-working compatible equipment) a bandsaw table saw scroll saw nail gun thickness planer drill press belt sander oscillating spindle sander dust extractor system A router table was put on hold by Mrs iD (but with the equipment above I can build a table for my plunge router). You will note the absence of both a chop saw and a lathe Why so much equipment? Simply because I firmly believe that it should always be “the right tool for the right job” and bitter experience has shown me that trying to do something that requires a metric auto-fumbler by improvising with a manual pinch-clencher will only end in tears… Setting up the woodworker workshop will require (a) scaling back on the extent of my planned m**** r****** (b) a clear out of the existing workshop [we have a marquee and painting supplies that haven’t been touched/used for 15 years or so], (c) building a new dual purpose workbench (model railways & woodworking) and (d) partition the cellar into “clean” (modelling, painting, assembly & finishing) and “dirty” (sanding & sawing) areas. What have I done??? As Captain Oates said “I may be some time” 3 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) Ey up! Off to see the GP regarding meds this morning. Going to be very stubborn.. as in.. if I don't need them.. why take them? As it seems that once you are on meds you can never get off them (having said that a locum GP visited my late grandma. On seeing a huge array of tablet bottles he proceeded to get rid of all bar 2 of them. a diuretic and her "heart" pill.. the rest just cancelled each other out. Grandma was devastated....pill count was seen as being part of bragging rights back then!) I have had to replace some of the batteries in my alarms (they operate on mains power plus battery back up). Major problem was finding PP9 batteries.. then sorting out which one "bleeped".. pah! @polybear would advise against a huge cake gorging session..that sugar hit could be near fatal! Nice list of items @iL Dottore..my problem would be finding time to make use of them regularly. My lathe ( a gift from a fellow ER) sees use 3 or 4 times a year.. I know it should be more but...... Time to get myself ready for a stroll to the Marie Celeste.. perhaps a coffee at Costa may be taken if time permits. @NGT6 1315 is that why the train from Brussels went to Disney land by mistake? Have a great day ! Baz Edited October 17, 2023 by Barry O Spullung 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 9 hours ago, NGT6 1315 said: Cheers all. Gonna inspect eyelids in a few! Warning: R**l**y content follows... As you may know, the railways in Alsace have retained RH running from the German period, as opposed to LH operation elsewhere in France. There is a fairly long grade-separated crossover between Imling and Xouaxange for changing between both modes. Stay safe... Nice Locos the Sybics but a lot have been withdrawn now. They are still in front line passenger service on inter city routes. I saw one in Limoges just over a week ago. I believe that the cost of re doing all the Signalling for left hand running was the very pragmatic reason for installing flyovers at all the former border crossings into Alsace and Lorraine. Anyway good moaning from the Charente. The supermarket and Garage are to be visited this morning. Then there is some more firewood to be stacked. Regards to all. Jamie 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post TheQ Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2023 The only thing I query on il Dottore's list is the nail gun. That's only of use if you're building a shed from first principles . But at least he can build some quality base boards with the rest of the equipment. Mooring Awl, 1 hour, 4 hours , 1 hours sleep. Weird dreams.. Forepaws and right ankle stiff and painful. These rapid weather changes are not good. Was finally woken by heavy farm machinery going past the house , what ever it is it's just gone back the other way, so it's probably just been down to his on farm diesel tank. Ben I want out Collie requested patrol, but he only went half way down the garden.. too dark for him I think , his eyes are definitely clouding over in his old age. Cloudy, damp. Breezy. Plans for today , Reconnect trailer cable, if it tests ok then Start the now developed procedure for adding flappy bits to another unit of unmentionables. Time to think about getting muggacoffee number 1. 16 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2023 49 minutes ago, Barry O said: @polybear would advise against a huge cake gorging session..that sugar hit could be near fatal! But what a way to die...... 1 2 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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