Member postings for Michael Gilligan

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Please feel free to do that

MichaelG.

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P.S. ___ it may be amusing for the forum to consider what collective noun[s] would be appropriate.

Edit: __ this iist currently lacks an entry:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_collective_nouns

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 17/09/2023 05:54:07

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I think you have probably ‘got it’ now, Antony … but the 0 - 10mm reference means the total travel is 10mm

… The little dial counts rotations of the big one.

MichaelG.

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Curiously … the ones I have been looking-at on ebay are black oblong tins

[ which don’t feature on the Saint-Gobain website ]

MichaelG.

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Me too, Roy !!

One of the things I use, and recommend it, for is freeing-up the slide-ways on microscopes … and application with ‘surgical precision’ is much preferred.

Aerosol cans are generally for the benefit of the seller, I would think. … So much wastage.

MichaelG.

Wow !

… a cunningly designed stress-raiser if ever I saw one

MichaelG.

The time is approaching for me to buy more PlusGas

I have always used ‘Formula A’ … which came in a blue tin, but has recently been changed to black

So I checked on the website, for some assurance that the product was unchanged

… The words are a bit weasely but I think the answer is basically yes

What did intrigue me though; was the ‘history’

**LINK**

https://www.plusgas.co.uk/en-gb/history-plusgas

Does anyone recall what was special about B, C, D & E

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MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 15/09/2023 16:03:53

Thanks for that, Chris

MichaelG.

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https://unicrimp.com/product/QCXT20S

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 15/09/2023 07:50:23

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That looks tidy, and very useful, Chris

Could you share the Part Number please ?

MichaelG.

Thanks for the clarification, Clive

MichaelG.

Slightly bewildered, Clive, that you have [apparently] not even considered using Numbers

… it comes free with your Mac, and is well-supported.

MichaelG.

[ Addendum ]

If your spreadsheets do rely on the clever manipulation of dates … you will need to do your homework:

Over the decades there have been some ‘interesting’ differences between, and within, the two product lines

For a flavour of this; start with this Google search :

date format compatibility apple vs microsoft

MichaelG.

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Have you tried opening any of your old spreadsheets using Apple’s Numbers App ?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/numbers

Unless you have used some particularly complex Excel stuff, you might be pleasantly surprised.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 14/09/2023 05:49:26

Not my thing … but both the products and the site look well thought-out

MichaelG.

Well-found, Clive

**LINK**

http://eddy.dawa.de/Werkstatt/watton.pdf

MichaelG.

… but it’s worth watching:

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MichaelG.

Google Earth shows No. 74 as Myrtle Cottage … which, from Street View appears not to be subdivided

But, there is a small property behind it which may possibly be 74B

MichaelG.

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Edit: __ I am getting more confident about that, because searching for 74B gets us to that location

… although the tree looks nothing like Laburnum to me.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 11/09/2023 19:30:56

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Thanks for the offer, Duncan … much appreciated

I am, however, currently sinking in the quicksand whilst trying to rework some survey drawings in preparation for a planning application, and wouldn’t have time to study it this side of Christmas !!

With your notes and John’s I am already pointed in the right general direction thanks …

All I would ask for now is could you please let me have a copy of your file ?

I am likely to try it in Apple’s ‘Numbers’ which, although it has its own idiosyncratic style will happily open .xls

… I will send you a P.M.

MichaelG.

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With your ‘inside knowledge’ Howard … do you have any idea how they achieve the feat that inspired this thread ?

If every bag of Pears is required to be saleable as 610g … what is the tolerance, how is it specified, and how does the supplier achieve it ?

A guess would be that the weight must be 610g with a tolerance of say +20 / -0

[customers rarely complain if they get a little more than they paid for]

and an even wilder guess is that the packer has a wonderful computerised robotic pear-shuffling machine which can find suitable sets of four or more fruits.

All this for an end-buyer’s price of £1 a bag !!

If true … it’s an amazing world we live in.

MichaelG.

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That’s very neat, Duncan

I must confess that I’ve never got to grips with graphing in spreadsheets

… Grateful if you could provide a brief description of how it was done.

MichaelG.