Hobbies
The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Four
Perhaps it’s worth mentioning the tool I use for cutting sheet and plate steel, a standard 4.5 inch angle grinder. ½ inch thickness can be dealt with quite easily and if you mark the job [more…]
Hobbies
Animals
Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Seven
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a very long while – you may want to refresh [more…]
Computing
How to 3d Print – a beginners guide, Part 2
In part 2 (Part 1) we are going to take a 2d design and make it 3d. Once you do this then you will see that anything can be made 3d-ish. First we load up [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fourteen
Monday Well, it’s Monday again and surprise, surprise it’s wet. It was nice not to have the pro-Hamas lot ‘marching for peace’ in central London on Saturday. I really wish I could understand what they [more…]
20th Century
Next Stop Jungle Junction
Following some confusion regarding a caption mentioning both Southsea and Southampton, your humble reviewer of old photographs realised that the 1949 picture in my grandparents’ family album was of a flying boat called Southsea coming [more…]
Hobbies
The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Three
The next component that I needed was a so-called ‘’spool valve’’ with is basically a device with a hand operated lever that ports the hydraulic oil to either end of the hydraulic rams according to [more…]
Computing
How to 3d Print – a beginners guide, Part 1
I’ve been using my 3d printer for 4 years now and initially it was the most awe-inspiring piece of tech I owned. “I can print anything! Make anything! Wow!” has turned into “This tech is [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Thirteen
Monday Good morning all. Well, this morning started off just like many others recently, rain at first then sunshine, Felix for breakfast, then the thunderbolt struck. The Rich Boy sacked Suella and set a reshuffle [more…]
20th Century
Rievaulx Abbey And Robin Hood’s Bay
My grandparents’ and father’s 1935 summer holiday in Redcar allowed for a day trip opportunity to Rievaulx Abbey which sits about the halfway point in the fifty or so miles that separate the North East [more…]