OT: Disposable tools

[Steve Firth]

I'm sorry, but your post was mostly old bollocks nor am I referring to just recent history. I presume that you've never used a good modern saw and and wearing the usual blinkers.

[John Rumm]

The foam probably does not, but the foil can. Note also some have a bitumen coat on one side that tends to mess up the saw somewhat anyway, leaving it covered in black gunk!

There is also the point that you don't need a sharp saw for that application, so there is less chance of lacerating yourself with it while manhandling large sheets of insulation if you use a slightly less than razor edged one.

[Cash]

Well it's obvious that you are not the sharpest splinter in the woodpile that's for sure, and as for me being 'blinkered', take a long, hard look at yourself and you'll find that you suffer from quite sever tunnel vision that suits your ego.

BTW, have you ever actually tried sharpening a saw, and if you have, how did it go?

Never mind Steve, its interesting to see that you still 'think' you know it all - yet know sod-all in reality.

Cash

[jgharston]

I've just been turned down for a burger-flipping job in MacDonalds, and tomorrow I'm going to court to be fined for being poor[1]; I'll sharpen drill bits for a living if you pay me.

[1]Have no money, can't pay council tax, am being summonsed to pay council tax plus =A350 being-poor fine.

JGH

[scorched]

I've just been turned down for a burger-flipping job in MacDonalds, and tomorrow I'm going to court to be fined for being poor[1]; I'll sharpen drill bits for a living if you pay me.

[1]Have no money, can't pay council tax, am being summonsed to pay council tax plus £50 being-poor fine.

JGH

You need to know what you can claim for. I don't, but a friend of mine is really up to speed on this. He knows exactly what he can claim for. Maybe go see citizens advice? I sympathise.

[Halmyre]

Many years ago I worked for a defence contractor. One day a contract came to an end, and all the equipment assigned to that contract (PCs, test equipment, test jigs, the lot) was taken away and smashed up with hammers. Not allowed to use it on anything else, not allowed to sell it, not allowed to give it away.

-- Halmyre

[Halmyre]

When I was in the Western Isles recently, I noticed that on every island there's usually one or more bus graveyards, with old coaches mouldering away.

Smaller items like cars and tractors used to be left on a west-facing beach to let nature do the recycling.

-- Halmyre

[The Other Mike]

Pats near new Darex V190 drill sharpener picked up for peanuts* at an auction a few years ago and wonders if I ought to buy a solar panel, battery bank and inverter to power it and help keep me fed in old age.

• 50 quid vs about 600 quid new

[Steve Firth]

Some prat calling himself "Cash" who is unable to configure a news reader pounded his headstick on a keyboard to produce the following pole of guff: .

Pram ------------>. Toy

Are you going to throw your dummy next?

Several, all sharpened just fine. My grandfather taught me how to sharpen saws. One presumes that your role in life is teaching your father's mother how to evacuate ova by the application of a partial vacuum.

I just know more than you. However that is setting a very low standard.

[jgharston]

25 years ago I made the insanely stupid decision to spend all my spare money (about 25% of my income) on providing myself with a pension in order to provide for my own future. Which means that I don't qualify for means-tested benefits as I have "assets" as the pension is a building. Even though those assets aren't an income, they're an outgoing, because that's what a pension is - you pay *in* for 30-odd years before it gats to a state where it will pay out. The DWP look at all your assets and income and blithely ignore all the outgoings - ie, the mortgage, the insurance, the maintenance, etc.

What's your income from this asset? Minus =A350 a week. No, what's your /income/? I told you, /minus/ =A350 a week. What's your income from /your/ pension?

Should have spent all my money on fast beer and expensive women, then I could sponge off the state to my heart's content.

JGH

[tony sayer]

Oi!, Get yer facts right!.

Other way round!, Fast wimmen and expensive beer;!...

[Adam Aglionby]

As George Best said when asked how he had gone bankrupt after being worlds highest paid football player

" I spent a lot of money on women, fast cars and booze, the rest I just squandered"

Cheers Adam

[Terry Casey]

About 25 years or so ago I used to drink with an electrician who was ex RE and had served in the Faulklands.

He told me about all the generating plant they took and used there and how they were ordered to smash it all up when they left rather than fetch it back to the UK or leave it for the civilian population to make use of.

[jgharston]

Churchill ordered Bletchley Park to do the same with the Bombe and the Colossus.

JGH

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Generating plant isn't in the same league of secrecy, though. The Falklands thing was just idiocy, although there might have been pressure from the existing supplier of gensets already there.

[John Rumm]

it goes without saying that wimmen are expensive ;-)

[John Rumm]

Yup, it would be interesting to know how far back that set the UK computing industry....

(Two colossi were moved to what became GCHQ IIUC rather than being dismantled at the time)

[The Other Mike]

On big stuff stay half an inch and above I still can, but with anything smaller the Darex quickly produces point geometry (and split points too) as good as the very best UK and Euro factory supplied drills. My eyesight and hand eye coordination never could cope with grinding small drills by hand.