double the fun!
I took a picture of yesterday...but I went to the pub until it turned into today...and I HAD to sleep, cos I haven't got to bed before midnight all this week, and the night before our flat fire alarm went off at twenty past four in the morning for about ten minutes. So, that's my excuse. And the dog ate it.
I just got an electric shock by messing with the exposed ends of my aerial cables and holding my laptop XD Go me! Obviously missing work (where I also gave myself a shock today)
Anyway, pictures -
That's Midlife up the spiral that we constructed to test that it all fitted together. The whole thing almost fell on Tom earlier, which would have been fun, but messy. Anyways, Midlife is getting down the stupid cross of St George that's been up there for about two years, being a general fire hazard. It was put up for he football, once upon a time.
And this is today:
That's the jig I made (the plate ith the flat and the CHS welded to it. CHS is circular hollow section. Or tube, as the rest of the world calls it. The bit of metal wrapped around it with the curls in either end is what I was forming. We form things like that by hand - ooooh, the modern technology! So the object at the front, the mild steel, is a dogbar. It's used to pinch the metal against the former. You put your hand on the end of your straight piece of metal, you hold the dogbar in your other hand, the front prong inside the CHS, the back prong outside, and you walk around, pushing the metal and squeezing it in with the dogbar.
There y'go.
I got in touch with the Exec Producer of Children in Need to suggest they had the Ashes to Ashes cast doing a musical number this year. Possibly 2-4-6-8 Motorway. He said he'd suggest it to the production team, which is way cool! Hopefully they'll get to do something!
I just got an electric shock by messing with the exposed ends of my aerial cables and holding my laptop XD Go me! Obviously missing work (where I also gave myself a shock today)
Anyway, pictures -
That's Midlife up the spiral that we constructed to test that it all fitted together. The whole thing almost fell on Tom earlier, which would have been fun, but messy. Anyways, Midlife is getting down the stupid cross of St George that's been up there for about two years, being a general fire hazard. It was put up for he football, once upon a time.
And this is today:
That's the jig I made (the plate ith the flat and the CHS welded to it. CHS is circular hollow section. Or tube, as the rest of the world calls it. The bit of metal wrapped around it with the curls in either end is what I was forming. We form things like that by hand - ooooh, the modern technology! So the object at the front, the mild steel, is a dogbar. It's used to pinch the metal against the former. You put your hand on the end of your straight piece of metal, you hold the dogbar in your other hand, the front prong inside the CHS, the back prong outside, and you walk around, pushing the metal and squeezing it in with the dogbar.
There y'go.
I got in touch with the Exec Producer of Children in Need to suggest they had the Ashes to Ashes cast doing a musical number this year. Possibly 2-4-6-8 Motorway. He said he'd suggest it to the production team, which is way cool! Hopefully they'll get to do something!