How are you filling in your day in lockdown?

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, willedoo said:

what medium do you use.

Just myself, a few friends and a ouija board.

[willedoo]

17 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Just myself, a few friends and a ouija board.

oops, make that media.

[old man emu]

I bought a 1 kg bag of bonsai gravel from Bunnings.

[spacesailor]

Yippee 

The wife & I Were asked to go and BABYSIT !.

Out of the house.

spacesailor

[Marty_d]

Hear about the dwarf psychic who knocked over a bank and hasn't been caught?

 

They're a small medium at large.

 

 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Marty_d

[onetrack]

So - What you're intimating is - you put something in your home-made tumbler, and it comes out clean and descaled, and 1/10th its original size? 

[Marty_d]

You might have heard of Dark Mofo - the midwinter festival down here in Hobart.

 

Well, our local neighbourhood friends held a "Dark Lofo" last Saturday, so we each did something to bring a little weirdness to the party.

 

Here's my effort - an armoured Scotsman who contains a 2 litre bottle with a tap at the bottom.  He was filled with mulled wine, which made the dispensing a little... disturbing... but caused some amusement just the same.

 

Materials used were some scrap 6061-T6, PVC pipe & elbows, plywood, some Tartan cloth and a stainless steel cup for the noggin.  Oh, and a couple of Lindt chocolate balls... see if you can guess where they went!

 

 

 

 

[nomadpete]

He looks great. But must be an old scotsman. I detect a developing incontinence there.

Don't think much of the colour of his mulled output either.

 

I'm starting to think you invented him to keep everyone from stealing your mulled cider?

[nomadpete]

Marty, start a new thread, call it

"What to do with all the leftover stuff from your aeroplane build."

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

He looks great. But must be an old scotsman. I detect a developing incontinence there.

Don't think much of the colour of his mulled output either.

 

I'm starting to think you invented him to keep everyone from stealing your mulled cider?

If you're talking about the video, that was water used to flush out the last of the mulled wine.  At the party he pissed dark red, which is more of a worry than the incontinence issue...

[onetrack]

Marty, you've got too much time on your hands. Aren't you supposed to be using these bits to build an aeroplane?? 

[Marty_d]

What, tartan cushion covers?  I don't think so!!

[Dax]

Living on a farm in a small community and in Tas, don't know what a lock down is. We had a couple of weeks wearing masks early last year and since life has been normal, but wet. I spend my time since being unable to work, designing and making things in my workshop.

[pmccarthy]

I spent all morning lapping this bearing to make it fit. Two engineering shops couldn't do it for me. Now I feel good.

[red750]

Lockdown is almost second nature to us in Victoria, particularly metro Melbourne. Now we have Chairman Dan back in charge, with a $10K pay rise despite all the pain he has caused.

[spacesailor]

PMC

That pic looks like a ' crank ' with a ' roller race bearing '.

No lapping there !.

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

23 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

PMC

That pic looks like a ' crank ' with a ' roller race bearing '.

No lapping there !.

spacesailor

The outer shell compressed when I fitted it in the eye. So either the outer or the crank pin had to be adjusted. I took .0015 inches off the crank pin diameter using tape and grinding paste.

[willedoo]

Not in lockdown, but this filled in my day today. The little man in the head was telling me to weld a brace on the rusty mixer frame before using it. But what the hell does the little man know.

 

Time for a new mixer.

 

 

[willedoo]

That old mixer is just home built anyway. I found the bowl at the dump many years ago, and that's where it started. Lightburn make mixers, but they also used to make industrial washing machines using a similar bowl design and that's what this one is off, a washing machine.

 

It didn't cost much to buy a Lightburn pinion and ring gear from a local, old fashioned type of hardware store that stocked mixer parts. It was one of those stores that had everything, from Pops ballroom dancing sawdust to live baby chickens. There's none of those types of hardware stores left around here anymore.

 

The wheels are the front wheels off a Howard Kelpie garden tractor. The rest was just scrap steel. The main frame pipes are some old steel bore casing. I don't remember where the electric motor came from. The mixer was built more than thirty years ago, so it's paid for itself.

[Old Koreelah]

My good lady is staying with the kid in Newcastle while she has some eye operations. Their Covid-free holiday is now over, with lots of cases across the city. I hurried home from there last Saturday and started 14 days of isolation.
 

After a week I’m getting low on fresh tucker, so she alerted our neighbours.
A few minutes ago a lovely lady delivered a big box full of vegies from her garden, eggs from her chooks and a some freshly-baked sweetcakes! 

Good reason to keep up the pretence that men can’t cope with being Home Alone!

 

 

[facthunter]

OK you're just trading on their caring instinct. You should be ashamed of yourself.. Nev

[Old Koreelah]

2 minutes ago, facthunter said:

OK you're just trading on their caring instinct. You should be ashamed of yourself.. Nev

I’ll decide on that after dinner tonight; she also cooked my an exotic feed ready to reheat!

[facthunter]

I think you are skiting a bit. Nev

[old man emu]

She's just some Jezebel getting in under your wife's guard.

[Marty_d]

The way to a man's heart... 

 

...is straight between the 3rd and 4th ribs, according to my wife.