Member postings for Niloch

.  In post 19 Steve Garnett accepted this inaccuracy and mentioned that IIRC was a bog-standard e-mail abbreviation.  Does this forum really want to use e-mail or, come to that, texting abbreviations?  Steve Garnett continued by telling us that YMMV is an abbreviation for your mileage may vary  -  really?>>

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Chris Stephens came to my rescue in post 20 drawing my attention to a web site which gave information about acronyms.  Thank you very much Chris, now I know that IRRC stands for the Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission or could it be Infrared Remote Control amongst fifteen unlikely others.>>

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I suspect that all members here would support the highest standards of craftsmanship in a whole variety of skills pertinent to our hobby, for example, those of boilersmiths, silversmiths, tinsmiths, blacksmiths etc. etc.  I find it unfortunate that the skills of a wordsmith are, apparently, not very highly regarded by many contributors.>>

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Circlip managed to reply before I had the chance Stick.  You will have gathered from Circlip’s response that I was the originator of this post.>>

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I concur with Circlip that post numbers would help so that reference to them could be made more easily.>>

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Perhaps I’m mistaken Stick but do I detect in your post a little frustration with the relevance or otherwise of some of the respondents posts here, especially perhaps, on page 2 onwards?  >>

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One doesn’t of course, wish to sound ungrateful but it is clear to me that there is a certain amount of showing-off of knowledge which is not very germane to the original question being displayed here.  >>

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I’m sure that many members here have knowledge gained in a previous livelihood but, thankfully, keep such knowledge to themselves.  I briefly mentioned that I had a glass cutting bandsaw but very rapidly also mentioned that such information belonged to another forum.>>

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I did in post 17 respectfully reprimand members for using abbreviations which may not be familiar to British nationals and English speaking members largely in deference to our foreign colleagues.>>

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I requested information about  IRRC, apparently a method recommended by Ivan Law and recommended by Meyrick in post no. 2.  When John Hayne made a contribution in post 16, somehow or another, this had morphed into IIRC.

Anyhow, it's not important; the very latest idea is to use Circlips thumbs and my 600mm dia. mitre saw.  He has refused the body armour and chain mail gloves proffered, the helpfulness of this fraternity of model engineers never ceases to amaze me.

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