Seadog
Save the planet. It's the only one with rum!
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Keep it pure 
James1979
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That’s good of him. Great place this forum.Today I received, big thanks to Graham @northwest who kindly arranged an order & delivery to his address [Seller was one of those "Doesn't post to Scottish Highlands"] and then redirected it to me, one of these magnetic chucks https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-X7-Permanent-Magnetic-Chucks-Industrial-Stainless-Steel-Rustless/223633716758?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Really grips onto stuff - the only thing I'll have to rejig are the hold-down clamps, not a problem but as they come they're wrongly spaced for the small Amolco table.
Another confirmation of how great the forum is.
Those sellers are a pain.
Purely in the name of research I once tried a taste of meths
It's safe to say that you would have to be either very odd or very low in life to drink it regularly...
slim_boy_fat
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Purely in the name of research I once tried a taste of meths
It's safe to say that you would have to be either very odd or very low in life to drink it regularly...
Iirc, the old time alcoholics used to filter meths through white bread [not sliced but with some of the centre scooped out] - apparently it removed whatever had been added, to leave the pure alcohol?
bigegg
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Purely in the name of research I once tried a taste of meths
It's safe to say that you would have to be either very odd or very low in life to drink it regularly...
The ink firm I worked for used to stock 99.9% ethanol to use as solvent for a specific type of food-safe ink.
Every year, about this time, at least 20l would go missing.
It was actually quite nice with orange pop.
Seadog
Save the planet. It's the only one with rum!
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It got rid of the dye but not the methanol. That's why you go blind after drinking it for a prolonged period.
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Many years ago my Mum and Dad's next door neighbour's SIL worked on the bins.
He was in the ale house every dinnertime and had to get his daughters, aged 12 and 13 at the time, to walk him home after one session as he was quite literally blind drunk. No longer with us, his liver predictably packed in after all that abuse...
bigegg
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I hesitated at saying that but the meths was better with orange squash.
This stuff was, literally, super concentrated vodka - No picric acid, no methanol, no dye.
Mixed 3pts water to 2pts solvent, you'd not be able to tell it from Smirnoff's finest.
bigegg
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Apparently, it was mixed with cheap wine, slowly adding more so the drinker built up a tolerance to the methanol. (The mix was known as "red biddy", which was also my usual tipple at Tate's wine bar, until they stopped selling it)
The treatment for methanol poisoning is to go on a "drip" of ethanol over several hours/days - it reacts with the methanol in the body so the kidneys can flush it out more effectively.
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A Hammer.
Found on a road near Bristol.
@angellonewolf
No where near you.
@Parm No, it is not yours.
It is mine.
Plus a few other bits.
Found on a road near Bristol.
@angellonewolf
No where near you.
@Parm No, it is not yours.
It is mine.
Plus a few other bits.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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The rest.
The fire side tools came free with this old shell casing.
The shell casing.
There is some markings on the base, but right now they are impossible to make out.
The regimental badge.
Oh yes, another foot pump.
Yes a new gauge and hose.
But it is seized, so can't test it.
The fire side tools came free with this old shell casing.
The shell casing.
There is some markings on the base, but right now they are impossible to make out.
The regimental badge.
Oh yes, another foot pump.
Yes a new gauge and hose.
But it is seized, so can't test it.
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Some 'Friends' have been posting glitter to me because its 'funny'. I have explained how its not even faintly amusing and a complete waste of everyones time, but they seem to think that makes it funnier. At last somebody has worked out that posting useful stuff is a much better idea.
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Some 'Friends' have been posting glitter to me because its 'funny'. I have explained how its not even faintly amusing and a complete waste of everyones time, but they seem to think that makes it funnier. At last somebody has worked out that posting useful stuff is a much better idea.
The beer on the left.
Named after you?
well, it's mine..
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Sure?
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Second hand shop, in Bristol. The charger was supplied.
Just need to get the leads and test probs.
