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What have you been doing today?
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Out at 0300, off to Heathrow.
Got back to sunny staffs just after 0800.
Got back to sunny staffs just after 0800.
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I'd use up the ply, I think. The measurements aren't critical under a carpet are they?
If it's a milli out?
Being delivered tomorrow. I called in with one of my pieces and they said it was 5.5mm. We'll see when it arrives. If it’s wrong, I’ll order some more and they can deliver it for free!
There’s London and there’s London.
The above post was on April 11th last year. The first one has popped up earlier this year, probably due to the milder weather.
Morning wood!
Andy
Andy
The ply turned up this morning at 7.20! It was the same size as the stuff I already had so three sheets were all that were needed. After 'de-stapling’ and screwing down any loose floorboards, all boards are now cut to size and partially laid - just a few screws to hold them in place and there’s no rush now as the carpet shop can’t come round until next Monday to measure up properly. Will finish it off tomorrow now. Had to go to B&Q to get some screws - 4x20's. I normally buy my screws loose but they were out of that size in the pick 'n' mix boxes so I managed to get two boxes of 4x20's and half a box of 5 x 30's into a £6 pick 'n' mix bag. Would have cost me about £15 if I’d have bought them in boxes. Result!
I did it again! Got all the way up Sainsbury’s, got a trolley, went to zap my Nectar app for the self shop and found I’d left my phone at home so I’d be unable to pay or get the Nectar discounts. Left my trolley in the store, dashed home, changed cars (as there’s no return within 1 hour which they strictly monitor) and went back. Of course, someone had nicked my trolley and I didn’t have another pound coin so I had to change up a fiver to get a coin to get another trolley. I hate it when a day gets off to a shyt start!
Yet another glass shattered, due to differential expansion. These are the tall, plain, cheap drinking glasses. I went through a period, of managing to break several of them. They break cleanly, down at the base, leaving a base, and a glass tube.
Av has just managed to break one, in the process of washing them up, just running hot water into the bowl.
Then on to another go at welding up the deck of the little tractor mower. One of the two brackets on the deck, which raises and lowers the deck, had come adrift earlier in the week, I welded it back on, but I'd located a good inch out of alignment with where it needed to be. Today's job, was to grind off enough of my weld, to be able to rotate it to the correct alignment, and reweld it up. That done, it now fits, but the deck up/down lever doesn't feel quite right, but it's too wild out there to investigate further.
Av has just managed to break one, in the process of washing them up, just running hot water into the bowl.
Then on to another go at welding up the deck of the little tractor mower. One of the two brackets on the deck, which raises and lowers the deck, had come adrift earlier in the week, I welded it back on, but I'd located a good inch out of alignment with where it needed to be. Today's job, was to grind off enough of my weld, to be able to rotate it to the correct alignment, and reweld it up. That done, it now fits, but the deck up/down lever doesn't feel quite right, but it's too wild out there to investigate further.
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Because the glass can't change size to any discernible degree, repeated heating and cooling just introduces stresses into them.
Which is unable to dissipate.
Eventually, a single hot rinse, swill, or otherwise minor tap or knock will see it break.
