Can you build me a ....

Dec 17, 2009 27 Replies

Following on from the thread re fixings (and thanks for the advice) the sleigh was built on Tuesday.



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' long x 4' high x 3'6" wide, made from 2 sheets of 18mm ply. Seat, back & cross supports made from 18mm ply with 47 x 18 softwood frames screwed & glued. 22 x 6mm bolts into tee nuts hold it together - or allow it to come apart for storage.



Painting & tinsel courtesy of club manager.



BTW Anyone recommend a hosting site without the increasingly annoying ads on photobucket?



Firefox & Adblock, it's all gone.

Good stuff! I'm messing around making model siege weapons at the mo...

Google's picasa (picasaweb.google.com) works well for me (when I don't just use the dumping ground I've got at a friend's ISP). Flickr's probably pretty good too, although there was something that drove me nuts about the interface when I tried it a few years ago (but I forget what and it's probably been fixed now anyway!)

I second Steve though, Firefox and Adblock sort out a *lot* of evils - for the first time in yonks I saw the other day what the web's like without it, and it's flippin' horrible :-(

cheers

Jules

annoying

flickr it's quick to display images when clicking through an album and simple to use.

IIRC that needs a plugin (flash) to display a still image that 99.9% of known browsers can display natively. Either that and/or is 'orribly slow to load a page with all the fancy scripting and bollocks that are not required.

Wow! I'm into that!

I bought a kit Trebuchet a while ago, about 8" high. I'd love to build a bigger one. Got any pics?

There's a pic or 2 there could be handy on the wiki. Care to let em go up there?

NT

Very nice, but you forgot the personalised number plate (SAN 7 A) and if it's a commercial vehicle it needs no-smoking signs on it!

Owain

mogga gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Or photobucket viewed through Firefox & AdBlockPlus...

Help yourself to any of them metey.

Which ones are handy?

Me too!

8" beam / 30 brick weight trebuchet in the garage (breaks down for car transport)

I've also been known to make tiny onagers (12" arm)

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How cool is that? Wow!

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

Simply open a flickr account - no such bollocks on it and you can block any of it with noscript, if you're using FF.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Jules saying something like:

That happened to me recently - I was impressed by how much s*it FF/noscript/adblock had been shielding me from.

You can automate it with a mindstorms kit. 8-)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Owain saying something like:

And if Santie's giving away any electrical goods, he'll have to take the old ones in exchange and for that he'll need a Waste Transport Licence. It's for everybody's own good, you know.

Is that the entry.. "how to focus a camera"?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian saying something like:

I find photobucket still annoyingly slow most of the time even with all that enabled. Perhaps it's due to the popularity of the site, but flickr is Xtimes faster.

I think you mean "How crude is that" 8-)

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's shockingly badly made and was thrown together in an afternoon or so. Everyone should have one.

Never mind how badly made, how does it function?

Did you ever see this?

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