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Macpherson

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  1. Looking at the naive braiwashed children in the foreground speaks volumes.
  2. Aye, it's great for smoking but you've got to take the bark off first or it makes the food bitter👍
  3. Great video, so enjoyably casual for an unguarded machine👍
  4. Whilst I would agree that the understanding and being able to control of the building blocks of Nature will likely be fundamental to our future, if we have a future... I'd have to say that our infantile use of a technology which we barely understand, inside the closed system that is our biosphere is reckless beyond belief and will almost without doubt be our undoing.. and will expose the same fate to every other living creature on the planet..🙄 ..
  5. very nice👍
  6. Simples.. Stop small greedy minds fecking with everything that really matters... do it OFF WORLD or don't do it at all... this spherical petri dish floating in a vacuum really doesn't need any more totally uncontrolled poisoners or the digital infiltration of the previous organic' process of counting '...that was called evolution. I'm a very big advocate of the { mostly hidden from us } golden ratio or Fibonacci number sequence which describes all of nature and science and everything in the universe perfectly... It's how your crops grow.. I'm sure you know this🙄
  7. Yep.
  8. What about ****************ushima, pouring 100 tons of plutonium contaminated cooling water into the Pacific every day for the last 12 years.. the half life of which is 24.1 thousand years. And it seems now they are just going to dump millions of tons of similar debris into the Pacific .. do we have a feckin say ?? The dots said ****************ushima before it was censored It's a fecking joke when you can't say the truth..
  9. Well you've hit the nail right on the head.. Answer... thick as f%ck tw$ts running everything for decades👎
  10. Aye, I totally agree with you on that.. it's just that I realised that I hadn't answered your question..
  11. I wouldn't be surprised if these piles were put in by the afore mentioned Glasgow company' Murray's ' in the 70's or 80's. I'll also be interested to hear how @nooie gets on milling this stuff.. I'm very jealous😁
  12. Just out of curiosity.. what are you replacing them with, new greenheart piles?
  13. Aye, apologies for not addressing the question. It would seem from a quick search that most of the shingles available are a bi-product of the Canadian BC lumber industry, although I did find this company advertising 'home grown' in the UK shingles. Home-Grown Cedar Shingles Roofing WWW.RUBY-GROUP.CO.UK Length 300mm Width 175mm Thickness 12mm Coverage 1.2sqm (per pack of 50) Installation & Calculator Guide Click here Timber Home-grown cedar Delivery 3-5 Working...
  14. Hi, my village on the West coast of the Highlands was originally a forestry village with typical forestry type houses which are / were roofed with Cedar shingles. As a friend and neighbour of mine has such a roof { maybe 60 ish years old } I can say that the shingles available today and back then are sawn as opposed to traditionally cleft.. the basic forestry house back in the day was , believe it or not, a 2x2" kit clad with Larch so I'd expect that the very light roof would have been a necessity of this skimpy design. With a quick search you'll find that shingles are readily available.. but regardless of that perhaps you might enjoy watching this video of the traditional craft, cheers.
  15. Aye, it's a very interesting alternative to alloy welding, but just bear in mind that it's essentially a type of high melting point solder, and although it creates a very strong repair it will just run away in a flash if overheated. Imo the best way to repair any bust Alloy is a TIG weld with the correct rod, and on very small items this is a [ very worthwhile ] skill that's only learned through much practice. What HTS 2000 is to me, is a practical method of repairing things that I would previously considered to be scrap... for instance small broken off lugs on carbs that can be recast in situe and seamlessly repaired, or just the ability to ' solder ' pot metal things that really can't be welded... It's Achilles heal is the simple fact that if the repair ever gets heated up beyond a certain temp.. it will just melt away. Loads of vids on YouTube showing off the impressive possible uses of this now ' not so new ' techniche for repairing / joining non ferrous things. cheers.
  16. Aye, me too.. I've just got this vision of some guy up a tree with a near bare arse, the crotch of his type c's at his knees [ to be fashionable] 'jail style' and only his cock holding up his pants🤣
  17. Plus 1 for braces, they're heavier than normal trousers and tend to pull themselves down if only held up by a belt [ particularly if you have a fat gut ] or tools hanging on a belt, at which point when you spread your legs the crotch is put under a stress it's not designed for, simples😄
  18. Aye, from my useage of the stuff the most important thing to take onboard while getting it to bond is just how quickly many alloys form an oxidised surface layer and the utmost importance of using a stainless wire brush to avoid ferrous particles depositing in the repair and cleaning the area of all oils including finger prints.. Isopropyl alc or Acetone do that. And if you get a bit 'tacked' and go to set about the next bit... just give it another brush to keep the surface exposed and fresh while remembering all the time that all you've already done will run away like watery solder if you over heat it. You'll be surprised just how hard any excess material that you have to dress afterwards is compared to an Alloy casting and I'm also sure that if you manage to get the hang of it you'll find many instances in life where this is the best repair option... Cheers. BTW. you will likely use more rods than you would think to do a small repair but any spillage can be saved for the next time and reused.
  19. Imo, you are absolutely correct, and as I see it.. every single piece of shite that's been happening over recent times is deliberate and is designed to be the massive distraction that's needed for evil people to encourage division in every little place that they can in order to pull the wool over folk's eyes while they unpick every part of civilised, decent society for their own filthy ambitions. Anyway, ordinary hard working people are being backed into a corner, and eventually something in society will give way and the sooner folk realise that they're being played for fools ..the better. cheers.
  20. How fat? and where's the whistle? 😁
  21. Yep, I watched a documentary on this area of tectonic activity some years ago where much like the Hawaiian islands are being produced by the mantle slowly moving over a weak spot in the crust, or something like that?... this area is similar in that there has been a series of well documented seismic events heading along a major fault East to West and the next big one [ which this probably isn't ] is predicted to devastate Istanbul... we really have evolved on and do live on the skin of the rice pudding.. ... back to jokes, pls.
  22. You can effect a proper repair with it at a low temp Alloy or Mag.. in fact any metal as long as it's non ferrous, if going to attempt this it's worth having a look at various YouTube vids first, cheers.
  23. Aye, intricate / tricky for sure but not impossible, a dremel would probably be needed to prepare the mount before and dress the weld after, anyway could have 3 goes at it. Would need a pic to judge properly whether I thought it repairable or which 1 of the 3 would be easiest.. if an Alloy weld I'd probably do it with the steel tube inserted in the casing to prevent it blowing through. It might be a good candidate for trying this HTS 2000 which I've successfully used in many delicate repairs.. just a blowtorch needed so little risk of damaging the casting so you can have as many goes as it takes till you get it to your satisfaction. ALUMINIUM REPAIR (low temp, NO FLUX) HTS-2000 braze,welding,solder FULL 18" rods WWW.EBAY.CO.UK HTS 2000 will successfully join all aluminium alloys, it is the easiest, fastest and strongest brazing rod ever developed! Requires No Flux. Low Temperature. Between 380°C - 408°C...
  24. Could it not be welded... and strengthened at the same time ?
  25. Well you mentioned scrambling....👍 How the worlds changed.. motorcycle+scrambling+legends+of+the+60's+/+70's+uk - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM

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