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Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery did a number of videos on learning to scrape and also sells a 9" camelback straight edge rough casting that needs scraping to be used but cost and postage from the US might be an issue. Ah! Just noticed you are in the US!

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If the lines you are trying to cut are generally straight, then adhesive tape as a guide would be more visible than scribing. You may also consider the method of printing patterns and spray adhesive them to the material.

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I used to buy my epoxy from 'HobbyKing' who stock 5,15,20 and 30 min versions. It was rarely used for anything critical but didn't let me down. I favoured the slowest set which I'd expect to give the stronger bond.

As for VAT.. When I was in business and having to do the returns, then it became a matter of determination to claim every possible last penny....

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Folks may be amused by a recent incident here.
DPD new chap asked at the door if it was the right house. I looked at the packet and directed him to the next bungalow along and pointed East. Later that day the owner rang to see if we'd had a misdelivery 'cos he was expecting expensive jewellery. It ended up with his purchase being replaced and DPD paying the vendor.
Three weeks later I spotted some 'rubbish' by my 'burnables' bin in the hobby shed on the floor. Picking it up and it was the lost packet. Why does a delivery man with a sign-for parcel just throw it onto the floor of an obvious shed full of machine tools when directed to a bungalow?
Both myself and purchaser are honest and the extra item returned to the seller and reported to DPD - local manager admits their driver is an idiot.

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I do agree with the terrible state of TV in some other countries where advertising is intrusive to the program, often to the point where ads take up more of the screen than the subject matter. However, the BBC has also changed.

Recollection through youth and rose-tinted memory is such that one had belief in the integrity and truthfulness of BBC news and opinion and program content in well articulated 'Queen's English' and a moral message.

Those days have gone with competition and inclusiveness and every subset of nation and ethnicity wanting their own views and voice, giving the BBC an impossible task to fulfil. That, and claims of journalistic independence and a company that follows its own agenda lead to claims (rightly or wrongly) of bias. And certainly to poorer journalistic standards, with rarely a day free of grammatical errors on the BBC news website

The BBC has lost its place as the vice of honest government and the country has lost any suggestion of the latter such that i contend that it no longer justifies the right to charge in the way that it does.

If we are in the era of 'choice' then I have chosen not to have a TV licence, not to have subscriptions to sky and the like and find my entertainment elsewhere.

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Note the embarrassment of criticising BBC grammar and seeding my own post with typos...which i hope I just corrected

Edited By pgk pgk on 18/01/2022 11:03:16

Why copyright? I’ve just had a bit of a dig about and copyright law at that period was mostly for printed works?
Apparently the UK was signed up to the Berne Convention which had a review in 1908 - coincidence?

It did make me wonder if this could be a calculator for print - mixed sizes of characters on a type-set page?

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Out here in rural-land rodents are a problem. I've had three cars nibbled and several house invasions.
House invasions are now rare because we monitor the cats' entry and have removed all the nice vegetation that grew up the side of the house. We've had access via the cavity wall and plastic air vents - which failed to resolve with plan A of ally replacements, and now they're DIY stainless. If we have another invasion via drain-pipes and roof then I'll have to fit the downpipe cones. Main barn has a RatMat electric floor backed up with numerous bait boxes and the feed has been moved to a more remote steel shed. And then stored in steel bins. OH parks her car on the apron and puts an ultrasonic deterrent under it. Everything seemed calm but with this recent wet and cold weather I noticed bait going missing in the barn - so they are looking for nicer winter quarters again.

Apart from 1 cheap and 2 expensive car repairs it's cost a small chest of drawers, one fridge, a repair to the main water pipe coming in, rewiring one drier and the indoor part of the line to the borehole and some sack-truck tires on small kit. And throwing away all the useful stuff I kept in the barn like part rolls of carpet - anything chewable or habitable.

One early invasion via the roof was discovered by teeth marks in a bar of soap in the bathroom. The worst invasion was after local forestry work when all the rodents emigrated our way.

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Facetious;
Expansion coefficient of frog legs during broiling originally postulated by Madam Rana Shrincage

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But this machine can go downwind faster than the wind as opposed to only doing so with a side-wind component. can any of ice yachts and hydrofoils go directly into wind?

The method used does suggest that a boat might do so with a rotating sail connected to a subsurface propellor.

How cool is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u2RgiRJ2Uc

Googling 'H section vehicle weatherstrip' might find what you need. Or try your local agri engineers for help.

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Far too simple approach. No consideration for the weight of rider/driver/passengers, and none at all to the contact pressure of two narrow tyres compared to four fat ones. Then there is the need to pay towards the licence plate registration and administration costs. Also while cyclists are allowed to use roads then motorists get no use of cycleways, towpaths and bridleways all of which probably cover the motorway lengths. And that's before we make allowances for the increased food intake cyclists need and their fart and sweat pollution and the lycra landfill. Oh, and the health hazards and costs to NHS from ruptures, haemorrhoids, lady issues and the like. They should also be expected to hold insurance and pass a roadworthiness test for driver and vehicle.

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That fits in with my theory that Stonehenge was built as an out-of-town shopping mall but its success didn't justify putting the roof on.

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I have a lot of land so when I moved here I started growing my own spuds - different varieties for different purposes and store in the barn for all winter. Sadly, the levels of endemic scab in my soil meant throwing almost half away and age made ridging up and then digging up too painful in bulk. But I’m with circlip - parboiled and then whack int'oven works fine with a rooster potato.

(just off to knock up some wholemeal and oat bread rolls)

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It does depend on the implementation and interface and driver aids. As cars get more intelligent with lane keeping, speed management , obstacle and danger awareness then some driver load is removed. If effective voice recognition and read back is implemented, then there is no reason why access to some Internet functions should be any more distracting than drivers messing about with hunting up radio station or music sources.
At one time some 25+yrs ago I messed about in my old 200sx and installed all sorts of nonsense ambient lights and a full entertainment system that included digital and terrestrial TV, DVD etc. Whilst I admit to having had TV shows running while driving, I didn't look at the 4.5in screen - just used it to listen to the audio. It was handy during a 1-hour accident queue, though.
These days, I rarely have even a radio on when driving, which may be more distracting if one starts to think about 'stuff'

As for large car screens - the benefit is obvious with rear and side camera displays and less beneficial with unnecessary menus for car functions that used to be on ergonomically easy buttons

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82mph?
Enjoy the speed awareness course. I was delighted to learn that I'd been under the delusion that NSL on single carriageways was 50mph (hangover from the 70's fuel crisis?) and chuffed to learn it was 60mph (doh!)

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There’s an upcoming offer UK for a cordless compressor for just under £30.
https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/auto-shop/ultimate-speed-portable-cordless-compressor/p49064

Whether this may be useful for test or demo running engines remains to be seen but I shall be trialling it for the assorted bits of kit I have that slowly lose air and tend to be stored in shed away from a handy power point that ends up needing extension leads and dragging a bigger compressor along - including petrol wood chipper and genny. May be useful to get enough air into vehicle to make it safer to drive to the main compressor.

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Level5 autonomy is still vapourware. If/when it does happen then I’d guess that the makers will carry cover at a huge premium which they then pass on to owners as an annual charge/rental for use of the system'

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