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Wishing you both well, while it's all in God's hands a good physician is a definite bonus

Bully for the good news, sad for the needless stress and heartache, wishing you and the family well!

Nice little shop that you have there. If I may comment as follows, 1) you need cross ventilation so that air moves through the space. 2) your air intake must be at the furthest point from your fire.

While Glenn has given you good advice re the fan etc. Remember that as this setup is at your home and depending on the topography of your setup you don't want to move the pollution issues to your home. Have you considered changing to '"good clean charcoal" ?

Tut,tut,i only get to visit the USA every so often and when I do going to HF is a must (Especially if you have go some discount vouchers in hand.)  

Its going OK wish I seem to keep getting ahead of myself(optimism vs. Real world thing) not only taken a physical beating but a financial one as well! So that encourages depressive mood swings.so I have to keep finding activities that lift my spirits.  so far I seem to be in the up side. However going onto the ww. Exposes me to yhe news which I seem to find lees than cheerful most of the time.

Thanks for asking friend.

Just seen this I hope you are both well and Deb mends well ,

Love from the dark continent !

310 is "furnace grade" s/s.

In my prayers!

Are you quenching /cooling the socket portion prior to bending?

Good joss with your booth!

Sadly this becomes a sides thing and violence begets more violence so whether the officers involved in the previous incidents exceeded their mandate or not drags Inocent uninvolved officers whom are just doing their job into the firestorm, The very essence of the protests is to voice disapproval to a form of collective profiling and or punishment and then the exact thing is inflicted upon the police. The nett result will be a more paranoid paramilitary police force with less respect for or from minority groups. A very sad day indeed.

12 hours ago, Alan Evans said:

 

I must say I was confused for some time in these accounts of the events, by the plethora of Clintons involved. 

Alan

Didn't someone say something about history repeating itself?

6 hours ago, JHCC said:

 

The complicated relationship between the West Point fortifications, Benedict Arnold, his second wife Peggy Shippen, and British officer John Andre was the ultimate inspiration for the Fleetwood Mac song "The Chain".  Who knew?

The opening song from my favorite music laser disc (shows my age I know) however I had thought The words were about Stevie Nix's 'complicated' relationship with another band member(the passion with winch it was performed leant credence at the time!)

6 hours ago, Alan Evans said:

In the Papillon novels by Henri Charierre about surviving the prison on Devil's Island in French Guiana he referred to those "bullets" as chargers

Alan

The book was a great read when I was in high school and the charger concept widely used, however it was the 'silver bullet' bit that I found interesting maybe Vlad the impaler(Count Dracula by all accounts) was the one that confused the issue of killing vampires with 'silver bullets '

Have you worked out how long it will take you? @an hourly rate,The cost of material? Add the two together and multiply by 2.4 and you shouldn't loose too much!

Early on most will UNDERCHARGE. 

Alan , I wasn't sure if you had noticed it but on page 42 of the first book there is a reference to a silver bullet that I have never seen before!

3 minutes ago, Alan Evans said:

 "A day and a bit"... yea I once had a car like that too.. I eventually scrapped the ruddy thing When I was in the army the drive from base to my parents house was 2555km(1600miles)  a 21 hour drive if you pushed it a bit.

Alan

I have booked a flight home on Saturday, somewhat to my wife 's chagrin I'm tired of recovery  and all seems well.

Those books are indeed interesting, thanks for posting links.  I suspect that not only is it a case of history the propaganda of the victors but what is disbursed/taught is screwed further by regional 'loyalties. I remember chatting to a rather distinguished American gentleman on a cruise whom had never even heard of Saladin, never mind his achievements. He professed that this 'history' had to be insignificant as it wasn't widely known. When I asked him about Genghis Khan and the Mongols he said they knew about that as it was caused by a drug called Thalidomide.?   hence I enjoy reading about 'everyone's ' history in order to reduce my own ignorance

37 minutes ago, Alan Evans said:

Fry and Cadbury.  so diversified into the confectionary industries where their products could not be used against their fellow man. 

Alan

Therein killing far more of their fellow man with silent killers like diabetes than their foundry products might have! Sort of sweet irony

7 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

or for spelling to be codified---how many ways did Shakespeare spell his last name? and I don't mean "Bacon"...

"M a c o n "in reverence to the Sabbath

Alan , that article on the 'fake Hudson chain ' was indeed interesting, one born every minute as Dellboy would have it(reference to 'only Fools and horses') (portrait for Frosty )

I wondered if there were indications of some 'mechanical device for chain lifting/removal at the site?

4 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Hey at least they spell Vice correctly across the pond!   Here in the States I find that Vises are a major Vice for me and respect them for shortening the difference!

TP , you must have been legless when you posted this as we were on about the Hudson Not Colombian!

2 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Alan, have you been taking the deer in the King's Forest again?  Historically this was frowned upon....

It did however save you on travel expenses to Australia and you weren't bothered by those snooty border control fellas that you see on TV

Frosty, believe drill them it's the way to go, the bit a dash smaller than the crayon on low speed in the cordless and then a few minutes on the BBQ  a bit of black smoke and its done.

whoa there Andy rules and regs are usually there for good reason. I'm not a safety nanny and I view numerous OSHA regs as ridiculous yet just the thought of having numerous LPG/propane cylinders inside a building is just irresponsible. In the event of a fire these bombs place the lives of 'first responders' at risk. We regularly use 48kg tanks(i suppose similar to your 100#) indoors yet when done it's stored in a gas-cage as per our local by-laws. The gas cylinder on the forklift is much like the fuel in your vehicle . You are usually not permitted to store more than 1 gallon In a container etc.

Ha Frosty, that paper/cloth is sold in the microwave kiln kits, I got one of those on my last trip to the USA, then gave a sample to my furnace supply guys and they got me some albeit somewhat thicker.

3 hours ago, Alan Evans said:

I have just taken delivery of a Tenderum. It arrived yesterday in the post, it was on half price offer. It is a little electronic calculator which averages temperature and time to monitor a deer carcass to tenderise the meat. Based on forty degree days. I.e. Forty days at 1 degree C, ten days at 4 degrees C and etc.

Which curiously links the last few posts together.

 

Alan

Interesting megafter? So almost 2 days at 25C equals tender? Not ripe?... I suppose it will be tender!