Today I acquired...........

[Onoff]

Same as that, trouble is they aren't water proof

Might explain why my cement mixer is so rotten...

 

[Rannsachair]

A gift of BSW and BSF taps and dies from @Tangledfeet

And a new pair of Lucas pickups for a K2F magneto.

 

[brewdexta]

6 VIP tickets for the Liverpool beer festival at St George's Hall at the end of September. My turn to organise, normally we get the normal tickets but decided to get a guaranteed seat this year

Fantastic venue and over 100 beers and decent food.

 

[dobbslc]

Burp!
I hope you have a hotel booked

 

[brewdexta]

Burp!
I hope you have a hotel booked

We usually go home on the train after visiting a couple of Liverpool institutions such as the Dispensery and end up dieing for a wee most of the journey home, but trains are getting better, toilets that sometimes work

But, this year we are planning on staying over, maybe the Adelphi. Probably a bit faded compared to it's hay days but beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder and we will have had plenty!

 

[northwest]

Following on from my "Garmin" thread, this appeared in the post today, thanks to a very generous forum member:



I sourced a couple maps for it and the sensitivity of this thing is just amazing. I am hoping it will keep me out of trouble over the winter. I was a bit sceptical but I am a full convert now.

 

[Robotstar5]

We usually go home on the train after visiting a couple of Liverpool institutions such as the Dispensery and end up dieing for a wee most of the journey home, but trains are getting better, toilets that sometimes work

But, this year we are planning on staying over, maybe the Adelphi. Probably a bit faded compared to it's hay days but beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder and we will have had plenty!

That was one of the hotels the company would book us into if we were working in Liverpool, can't remember what it was like as it must be 30 years ago

 

[Anguz]

Following on from my "Garmin" thread, this appeared in the post today, thanks to a very generous forum member:

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I sourced a couple maps for it and the sensitivity of this thing is just amazing. I am hoping it will keep me out of trouble over the winter. I was a bit sceptical but I am a full convert now.

Try talky toaster maps, the free ones

 

[sako243]

A functional sink in the dark room - now I don't have to go downstairs to the workshop to wash my hands / get a drink of water.

 

[Bullet2012]

A functional sink in the dark room - now I don't have to go downstairs to the workshop to wash my hands / get a drink of water.
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Daft question, if it’s a dark room, what is the reason for it being white ?

 

[sako243]

Daft question, if it’s a dark room, what is the reason for it being white ?

Cheap and it was sprayed so easier all one colour.

It's a dark room for developing circuit boards (like old fashioned photos just nastier chemicals). There's four bulbs, two for white normal bulbs and two provisioned for red bulbs because it's UV that develops the photo resist on the circuit boards.

Doesn't need to be dark, just no UV / blue light.

 

[Bullet2012]

Cheap and it was sprayed so easier all one colour.

It's a dark room for developing circuit boards (like old fashioned photos just nastier chemicals). There's four bulbs, two for white normal bulbs and two provisioned for red bulbs because it's UV that develops the photo resist on the circuit boards.

Doesn't need to be dark, just no UV / blue light.

Thank you, appreciate your time to reply.

 

[redlig]

Cheap and it was sprayed so easier all one colour.

It's a dark room for developing circuit boards (like old fashioned photos just nastier chemicals). There's four bulbs, two for white normal bulbs and two provisioned for red bulbs because it's UV that develops the photo resist on the circuit boards.

Doesn't need to be dark, just no UV / blue light.

Jeepers that has taken me back about 60 years squeegeeing the gloop through a screen with a rubber wiper thing and then etching it off . I didn't realise that was still carried out but I guess it's all digitally controlled now.
Just realised it was all digital then ..............we used our fingers!

 

[Cuthy246]

Try talky toaster maps, the free ones

@northwest https://extract.bbbike.org/ is good for free maps too. Can get both osm maps and topo data

 

[Robotstar5]

Today I was forced to acquire a bigger gas bottle thanks to Calor dropping the 4.5kg size even had to buy a new regulator as the old one doesn't fit the bigger bottles.

 

[MetalMonkey]

Jeepers that has taken me back about 60 years squeegeeing the gloop through a screen with a rubber wiper thing and then etching it off . I didn't realise that was still carried out but I guess it's all digitally controlled now.
Just realised it was all digital then ..............we used our fingers!

The way I used to do it was laser print the design on an acetate sheet, then lay it over the board, UV expose it, then straight in the acid etch tank - and that was old-school twenty-odd years ago!
Obviously only good for the odd small job on a single layer board, but handy if you need to knock something up quick, or prototype - anything serious we would send out externally to be done.

 

[OJCar]

Better access.

 

[brightspark]

Today I was forced to acquire a bigger gas bottle thanks to Calor dropping the 4.5kg size even had to buy a new regulator as the old one doesn't fit the bigger bottles.

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did u just have to swap it or did they con you in to having to pay for new bottle ?? i have an empty 4.5kg one

 

[Robotstar5]

did u just have to swap it or did they con you in to having to pay for new bottle ?? i have an empty 4.5kg one

They won't take the small bottles back so I picked up a big one from marketplace for a tenner and just had to pay for the refill/exchange.

 

[Seadog]

Today I was forced to acquire a bigger gas bottle thanks to Calor dropping the 4.5kg size even had to buy a new regulator as the old one doesn't fit the bigger bottles.

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That sounds like Apple's tactics.