The line broke!

Should find something here:

Richard explained on 05/08/2014 :

Thanks very much, they have some 4mm.

If you use stainless, does it *really* need to be plastic covered? In my experience rigging and safety wires on sailing boats stay pretty clean. Should be readily available from Chandlers (and eBay).

She has always insisted it does need to be plastic covered, but she is definitely weakening. Bare stainless I have in stock.

Getting back to the precautions I took with the heavy counterweight...

I made the weight a close fit to the diameter of pipe I used, then blocked the lower end and also added several inches of polystyrene. The idea was, that the weight built up air pressure like a piston as it fell then finally landed on depth of 6" of polystyrene. It worked a treat, landed with a barely whisper lol

I'm impressed. I aspire to design things like this, but seldom succeed!

Sounds like something you could load up on the WARC bands.

In article , Harry Bloomfield writes

To be fair, I think non-coated stainless could capture airborne muck which would pass to damp clothes, it doesn't take much to taint a clean wash.

In short, I think you need something coated and easily wiped down.

I reckon she's right. Stainless can corrode a little, and getting iron stains in her best shirt would probably be a really bad idea. "Pretty clean" is different to "good enough for clothes". Almost certainly won't happen straight away, but do you really want to take the chance of damp fabric not doing something in contact with it?

Graham. laid this down on his screen :

No need - the top of the far pole carries the HF dipole :')

True of "cheap cutlery" stainless, not true for stainless to AISI 304 or

Expect the usual price multipliers: highest for "disabled", next highest for "sailing", only slightly lower for "equine".

In message , newshound writes

The guard rails on our boat are stainless covered in white plastic.

They were made up by a friend rather than bought from a chandler.

You are all too fussy, my mother lived all her life (died at 93) with plain stranded steel uncovered clothsline wire

Otherwise I was going to suggest some strange rope I saw at b/q. It was hollow down the middle so you could put it over mettal wire. Might have been a challenge for a long run though!

Brian

Sorry, can't get this out of my head.

Three, Six, Nine The goose drank wine The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line The line broke, the monkey got choked And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat"

Perhaps writing it down might help...

" can't get this out of my head"

Sounds like a kylie song.

Earworms, I think they call ehees songs.

And caught gonorrhea by all accounts.

Phew, not just me then

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Adrian C has brought this to us :

That was in my head, as I wrote the Subject line :')

if you are old enough to remember the original in 1965 having to write things down is becoming second nature :(