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Got a speck in my eye this afternoon. Eye cup didn't work. Wife couldn't find it. At my wits end, I could feel it rattling around under the upper lid. Filled one of these with warm water, grabbed the lash and pulled the lid away from the eyeball, and squirted the contents upward into the gap between eyeball and lid, over the basin. Had to do it three times, third time it worked! Will have one in the first aid kit in the van from now on.

Vehicular lithium ion cells are the ubiquitous 18650. They are retired when their capacity isn't good enough to run an EV anymore, but they still have plenty of charge cycles left for repurpose into domestic energy storage etc. I heard the actual cell is hard to recycle but then also heard there is a cost effective way to do it now..

Try hanging upside down for five minutes every evening before supper. Ideally by the ankles with a proper inversion table, but results can also be achieved by inverting in a climbing harness. Relax and let the weight of the head and arms gentle stretch the spine. Not much good for elbow or shoulder, but very beneficial for the back, especially the lower back.

It'll be just fine like that. But remember to always fully unreel it before use or it could overheat.

He's got a new machine. Very arb. https://youtu.be/0e4jjL5bTbY

It says they cannot enter a "private dwelling house". I would think this extends to a domestic property (ie. not a "premesis")... Anyway, it's horticulture whether you're doing it for yourself or being paid to do it for someone else.

There's a guy near me who went in near paralyzed with a back problem (Ireland). Stuck on a trolly in a corridor for six hours and nobody would take him to the toilet to pee. He was in agony and ended up phoning 999 for an ambulance. Obviously, the resulting confusion and drama was legendary... They helped him use the toilet after that...

Run them through conduits. Chase, run cable through conduit - 1 for each cable - and then glue the conduits into the chasings with liberal amounts of Tek7 or similar and clips. No sharp bends. There shouldn't ever be a problem with the cables, the terminations, maybe. Conduits must be amply large to allow the terminations to slide through them, like HDMI etc.

Put the box somewhere else, not behind the tv, and chase the wires from the box to the tv into the wall and fill and paint. Install the burner first then do the tv?

Nobody in the rest of the world gives a toss about our example. It's a hoax always was. Figure it out now or later, eventually. It was always about western governments taking control of the entire energy sector and by extension the economy and society.

I believe plans are afoot to mount sails on some cargo ships to help reduce fuel consumption. I saw an article about it somewhere. I read about that some years ago. They were trialing sails on oil tankers. The sails were essentially huge parachutes deployed when the wind was favorable, no masts or anything or ability to sail against the wind. They were retractable when not in use. I'm guessing there were issues with the mechanics and possible safety of the system. The crews of these massive boats are quite small, and not really sailors in the traditional sense.

That's a spring. Loads of them around me. They were also used for keeping things cool.

There's a balance point somewhere between industrial revolution level polluting and complete cessation of industry and economy. Seems like our governments are aiming for the latter. Not by forbidding it, but by loading expenses and regulations on the producer sector to the point it becomes financially unsustainable.

Is the ozone hole still around?

Clue is in the title, no?

Global warming is where atheists park their existential guilt. A religion without a god.

Whatever you get, go for the sectional fiberglass poles. Will be more money, but very handy for pulling stuck branches with a hook on the end. Safe around electric, probably find other uses for them too. And will hold some of their value as well.

Hard to tell but looks like the peeled the door or sommat?

In the cases where long-standing friendships were sundered it was more than disagreement, guaranteed. Totally different and irreconcilable understanding of reality, I would say, which kind of does preculde friendship of any but the most superficial kind. Essentially, a feeling of betrayal.

Huh. I've a couple. Switching doesn't seem to bother them at all. I'd say your controller unit is playing up.

It's bordering on a fetish, tbh.

Four fairly major domestic projects completed during lockdowns 1 & 2... Would have never got around to them otherwise, realistically. And completed well, and properly, as time pressure wasn't an issue. Loads of people waking up to "stuff", joining the tinfoil side = new friends. Learning who people really are - invaluable, regardless of where one stands on the issues. Acellorated spiritual maturation. I've become much more understanding of other's weakness. I'm gentler with others, in my thoughts (was never outright mean to people in day to day life, but ones personal thoughts are a different matter). By the way Mick - off topic - was listening to August Hunicke interviewing Gerald Bereneck this morning and he was reading some questions from viewers - your name and "France" was mentioned! ...Interview was a few years ago.

I wonder if autotune/m-tronic cope with e10 better? I stand by my old suggestion of mixing Aspen with petrol half and half, to offset the crappyness of the petrol and reduce the cost of the Aspen. Optimum, always shooting for the optimum.

I have made some progress on identification, and there's a bit of history in it's history. Going by the plate, it was the property of a now defunct company in the former East Germany. VEB Ströhmungsmaschinenbau Pirna WWW.INDUSTRIE-KULTUR-OST.DE BAUJAHR: 1914/1970 ANGESTELLTE: 2000... in the town of Pirna, near Dresden. The company premesis was once a mental asylum. During the GDR era it was a state owned factory for aeroplane terbines. When that industry failed, it was repurposed to make water terbines. Whether the outfit built Tirfor copies or not, I don't know. It may have been purchaced somewhere else and rebadged with the company logo and data. However, there is a "date of production" on the plate (1976). This model of Tirfor are called H-15 in Germany, and were/are Bundeswehr issue. The bottom of the casing can be easily removed for cleaning and oiling, there is also a grease nipple on the non-lever end of the main crankshaft, which lubricates the main load bearing element. I have not seen this on other Tirfors, and I wonder why it isn't standard? Seems like a great idea. The Bundeswehr Tirfors are dark green with a riveted carry handle, but mine is light grey with a folding carry handle. So I'm thinking it might have been a special GDR version. The cable, original (?), is also oddball. It's not a "maxiflex" 4 strand but it has the same diameter - 11.5mm.... I cut the frayed end off and re-welded and ground the taper. Looking at the cross section it appears to be 7x19 seale. I've restored the workings to a pristine condition as possible, lubed it to the max and made a handle for it. My custom handle is even "telescopic" after a fashion. If you want it longer you pull out the inner, flip it, and shove it back in. I've wire brushed the rope and treated with linseed oil, which has dried to a nice finish. The auld machine came with broken there pins (it's the version with two, rather than three) and there were another 6 spares on board. A new maxiflex rope is en-route, from Slovenia, for €100 cheaper than the standard Irish price. I'll keep the original rope for gnarly dirty pulls. This machine came to me third hand, via a neighbor who I helped out. It came to Ireland in the early 90's, I believe, with an east German chap who has long passed. He was said to be a gangster of some sort, very shady background.

Congratulations on the purchase! The paper copies are expensive, but it will hold it's value probably. I'm not aware of anything comparable in terms of practical literature. I have the PDF version. Love to buy the video series if it ever becomes downloadable, but don't want to pay 200 bucks for DVDs. Maybe one day... He was a true master of the trade, who's career was ended by getting his foot crushed by the hydraulic stabilizer of a lorry, of all things.