Member postings for Geoff Theasby

Well done, Rod! A worthy winner!

Geoff

All very interesting! Was it not the study of Galapagos Finches that started all this? However, more to the point, it is the position on the autistic spectrum of the human male, in counting, collecting and classifying items into groups, (he said carefully, avoiding any mention of any hobby whatsoever) from the backrooms of the Natural History museum to the collectors of ephemera.....

"Male pattern behaviour"

Geoff

An empty desk is a sign of a sick mind...

Geoff

Go for it! I gave up on Windows years ago because it kept corrupting picture files. I still have WinXP, but I use exclusively Ubuntu, selected on switch-on. I haven't had a single problem with it in more than 5 years.

Geoff

"I consider judging to be 'work' so it can wait until Monday "

Lucky you! Some of us work all hours. Weekends, late nights, early mornings, Bank Holidays...

Geoff

Emgee and Martin,

I don't have a steady, and its not worth buying one just for this job, which is probably the biggest I will do. I agree that if I needed to be really accurate, or a centre was not acceptable in that location, then I would need a steady.

It's only an axle for a 7 1/2 inch gauge driving trolley.

Geoff

What NDIY said.

Turning a steel axle in my minilathe, too big to pass through the headstock spindle, I marked the centre of each end, as accurately as possible using a centre finder, checking several times. Then, with a centre drill in the cordless drill, very carefully, make a centre. Again check several times. When happy, deepen them and turn between centres, at the tailstock end with the other end in the 3-jaw chuck, then reverse ends and turn the other. This worked well enough for me.

Geoff

My entry for the 2017 Christmas Challenge.

Candlesticks made from mild steel, yellow Dymo tape and acrylic tubing & rod. All found in the scrap box, indeed the candle was marked ‘Decimal currency 2p’, so it is at least 40 years old. The steel bases could also be old CDs. If you don’t have any, get off to your local charity shop and buy a couple of Barry Manilow or Pan Pipes CDs. Either way, they are resistant to tipping, in the choppy waters of the Norfolk Broads or in order to withstand the celebrated Grand Union Bore. They are rather like a Captain’s Decanter, at least if you are captain of a Monitor… I had the had the idea at 7am Thursday morning and the job was done by 5pm. If you don’t ‘get it’, they are modelled on canal boat engine exhaust stacks. My lathe wasn’t big enough to face the ends, not having a Steady, but I realised I could square off the ends in the mill. Acrylic resists burning, but melts, so it should be safe, with care.

Then, on Friday, I had another idea, in collaboration with Mr Kipling, using preassembled foil, pastry, filling, and icing. The cherry was surgically removed and a pin drill used to mount the candle-holder without cracking the icing. This had the advantage that I could eat them afterwards, although the candles were a bit chewy. It took longer to find the Cherry Bakewells in the local shops, that it did to make them into candleholders.

I have a Rotary Aquaplunge, bought for £1 at a car boot, an Accurist analogue quartz which I like, a Casio Waveceptor which I can't gt onto GMT and a chronometer lookalike, which tells only the time, but cost only £3 from Amazon.

Geoff

My maths master at school taught us how this worked. It relies on a seemingly plausible but wrong conclusion earlier in the calculation.

Despite working in an accountancy-based job and another electronics-based one, I have never needed to know anything more complex than square roots since leaving school. Yet, 20% of school leavers are functionally illiterate and innumerate despite 11 years of schooling! Check the reading age of popular newspapers, ask why so many bought Stephen Hawking's book yet have never read it, and why it is that anyone with an aptitude is regarded as a geek or a swot.

Geoff

went to a meeting at Cutlers Hall on Thursday, opposite the Cathedral. When I came out, the bell ringers were hard at work, serenading me all the way to the bus stop.

Neil, only with a stick forged from the finest Samite, dew-picked in moonlight, by a young maiden, on the Feast of Beltane, and machined on a new Myford ML7 by Brig. The Reverend Chortley Wharnecliffe, CDM, BSc & Bar, (Mrs) of Whizzo Steels and Non Ferrous scrap merchants, Kelham Island, Sheffield.

Geoff

Dave, John,

Excellent! I remember hearing, at Railfest 2004, a young couple encouraging their children not to swear, by using phrases such as , "Great Steaming Pistons!" and, "Red Hot Cinders!"

The there are innocuous words said with huge emphasis and great feeling, "Oh, Dear!", "I Say!", "Good Heavens!"

But I do like "You half-nut"

Geoff

I have heard it said that half the UK population don't understand percentages!

My wife often laughs out loud when reading a humorous book, for some obscure reason people look at her sideways, as though this is odd.

Geoff

As a radio amateur, Volvo driver, and ex-scout, I get insulted stereophonically...

Geoff

It's high tide, and the water is flowing back upstream, to the left.

Geoff

During our recent stay on the Isle of Bute, I caught this image ofMoonrise over the Clyde Estuary.

Geoff

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 13/10/2017 19:59:30

Yes, Martin, it is.

Geoff

"Martin, is there no good news?"

"Yes, the heat of the fire warmed the ground, and the daffodils came up a week early!"

Geoff

My immediate thought was, why screw it down? Glue a magnet underneath and it can be placed anywhere.

Geoff

Hamza lost the eye on his first day of practicing with the hook!

Geoff