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Cutting (OT)

Oh Tony, you just don't understand do you? None of us really *do* any DIY!

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Richard Conway
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That's too profound for me.

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

No, he's in the garage, turning a needlecase. He wanted to makean inkle loom but I think the needlecase is more pressing. Then there's the waxjack and various rushnips to say nothing of awls ... he's too busy to theorise these days.

Reply to
Mary Fisher

In 1983, my brother broke his arm. The hospital plastered it, but to allow for swelling cut a seam along the length. When my mum spotted blood on his pillow, the nurse said it must have just been from the previous patient, but mum insisted and eventually they took the plaster off to discover they had cut through the skin on his elbow. He still has the scar.

Reply to
Stephen Gower

So he is one of the clever buggers then; I thought as much. You're just keeping him to yourself.

Must go. Have 2 boffydips to repair before dinnertime.

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

A bit like my generation's teenage boasts of sexual conquests then.

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

Is that an admission? :)

Reply to
Richard Conway

Isn't every generation prone to that?

And not just teenagers!

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

Yes :-(

YES! :-)

I've almost finished the iron miner's tallow dips.

AND dinner's cooking in the oven! How's that for efficiency?

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

More male 'e's than 'ad's in the 1940's.

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

I only belong to one. What these lucky sods with 'before and after' pills get up to, I don't know. :-)

We geriatrics are more discreet.

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

er ... ?

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

Well, when "'Im Indoors" has finished his roasted rushnips, ask him which branch of engineering deals with cutting, which is what this thread is supposed to be about.

Efficiency is chucking the whole lot in a frying pan (5 vegetables , of course). Less washing up.

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

Same as the rest of us get up to, just more often and for longer.

Owain

Reply to
Owain

You mean you don'tbrag about it ?

:-)

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

No, we had lamb hot potwith celariac, Scots something potatoes, marmaladed carrots and butter-fried parsley. the rushnips are packed ready to be posted tomorrow.

OK.

No, a casserole is easier :-) You don't need to have your five veg at one meal. For lunch we had (homegrown) cucumber, tomatoes and apples.

That's real diy!

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

Braggart. Pride cometh before the fall (or something like that) (:-

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

I know. I HAVE tripped in the garden but so far haven't done any real damage. However, not being all that good on my pins I'm very aware of what might happen one day.

I'm only human, despite all rumours to the contrary ...

Mary

Reply to
Mary Fisher

Sorry Andy, I missed this somehow. Mary's fault - she leads me into idle chatter (:-

Makes sense as far as the skin and grinder are concerned; and the fact that different disks, rotating at the same speed, are needed to cut stone and metal clearly implies that relative hardness is an important element. It would be fascinating to know what others are involved though.

I re-posted my original query on alt-mechanical engineering, but have had no response, so far, so the search goes on.

Tony.

Reply to
tonybo

Could be worse ... at least it's not the Primrose path.

Yes, the more you know the more you know that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.

Or something ...

Mary

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Mary Fisher

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