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Hi Amatino- yes, it is! Now I’m reading about a fire suppression system for a tobacco-curing warehouse (Little brick outcroppings dotted every 20 feet or so on old brick building. Nashville TN)
It’s 3am, and I’m looking at a “drill hammer thing”…
Definitely on trend! Ten to fifteen years back, a common complaint in England was that all the High Street shops were closing and being replaced by thrift shops. Now those shops are closing and being replaced by coffee shops.
There’s five within two minutes walking distance of my home.
I can mess with Sabir now, who runs a coffee shop across the road from my sweetheart’s. I think he gets high on his own supply. ‘cos he won’t shut up. Does his own blend, from 150 different beans, also believes that women have two nerves in their neck, and men only have one, which is why women are intuitive. <cough>
I can say “Hey, my mates are selling their coffee on eBay. And they use PYREX!”
The cork crimpers (bottle corkers) I’ve used have been conical tubes with plungers; the cork’s soaked in water to make it pliable, then placed in the tube, the tube’s put on top of the bottle and the plunger driven down to force the cork into the bottle. Can’t see how this could be used on a cylindrical cork.
Might be something to do with sheet metal working, but unfortunately I’ve just sold my 3-volume encyclopaedia of sheet metal to a steam loco enthusiast 🙂
Backstreet denture repair. Shame they didn’t take a photo of the inside!
The regulator valve might be part of a set-up to administer an anaesthetic gas to dental patients. Which I suppose was an improvement on holding an ether-soaked rag over the patient’s mouth!
I suppose the Tiger micro engine would have a long flexible drive shaft to drive the drills.
There’s a denture repair place near me- I called in on behalf of a friend a few years back. It was a long room with about a dozen workers sitting at benches with drills; the place was covered in plaster dust; looked like a Victorian factory. That sort of business might have a need for drill motors and parts.
Amatino, apparently “Ugly Christmas Jumpers” are a category on UK eBay. Somehow, someone’s managed to sell 85 black jumpers with “Tesco Finest Christmas Jumper” in grey.
The electrical machine might be a TENS machine; they’re available over the counter in the UK. They were developed back in the 1980s (I think)- an electronics magazine had a ‘build your own’ article. I presume they actually work if they’re still being sold- the one I made didn’t, but that was probably down to my soldering!
I think whatever’s used to make moulds for dentures is also used by modellers and craftspeople because it produces detailed castings (just checked- Cynthia Plaster Caster used dental alginate, so the plastic resin must be the modern replacement for it)
I created a ‘Shonky’ category, inspired by this geezer. Didn’t get any sales.
One could try ‘Kitsch’, ‘Cheap Tat’, ‘Bin End Specials’ or ‘Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width for your schmatter specials.
That mix of
sawdusthigh fibre cereal and sugar’s priced at 24 dollars a pound, or 18 GBP, which is the same price as 150 pounds of potatoes, or 50 pounds of potatoes and 12 pounds of sausages if you need extra protein in your diet. If you don’t bother washing and peeling the spuds, you’ll get all the roughage and trace minerals you’ll need.10/12/2020 at 4:32 am in reply to: Customer Left a Neutral, Saying they ordered something from me that I dont sell #82357Probably not worth writing a response- after a dozen more positive feedbacks anyone interested in reading what the neutral says has to click on the link in the feedback rating, and then they have to work out exactly what was going on, maybe by clicking on the link to the item. And then what? “Hmm… she was upset about getting a HUGE BOWL. How huge was this bowl?”
Personally, I blame Etsy for getting customers to write gushing bilge about their banal transactions:
“I Love! this HUGE BOWL looks amazing on my living room wall…with the other HUGE BOWLS! amazing addition. I received this art in a timely manner! I will purchase from this seller again…” (actual quote- item changed to HUGE BOWL to protect privacy of seller)
If it’s for forming a seam, then maybe if the jaws can be locked closed, then it could be used to hold two workpieces while they’re stitched or revetted together. If they don’t lock, then it could be that the seam is glued or it’s used to force two surfaces together (like tinplate) so the process would be to close the jaws then release immediately once the work has been crimped or clamped.
I’m maybe thinking cobblers.
I haven’t seen one for years- builders and road workers have to wear fluorescent jackets now.
What I remember about 1984 is seeing the film at the cinema, and the student’s residence where I worked being used during the term break as a barracks for police that were being bussed in to break up picketing by striking miners. And donkey jackets. I used to wear one, until I went to the cinema and realised that everybody else was wearing one!
If you’re using the Gimp photo editing program, which is free, there’s an option in the crop tool dialog to set it to crop square. The second option to check is “allow growing”. Use the crop tool to crop the image, set the colour palette to the default white background, flatten the image and then resize to (say) 1,600 x 1,600 pixels for eBay.
The advantage of uploading square images to eBay, even if most of the image is white, is that the main image stands out a bit more. Also, although eBay doesn’t allow text or borders, or presumably coloured backgrounds that look like borders, they don’t say nothing about close-ups in your main image.
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