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    Selling old engineering tools - how to go about it?

    Me too. We won’t of course, it’s far too expensive to change all the alloy road signs. While we’re at it can I drink litres please. Back in 1984 I went Metric - literally. I have a good perception of mm, M and Km. cm throw me. That said I have two beautiful micrometers, each with a...
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    Compost

    Compost and wormeries are totally different animals. Composting is far too hot for worms. My daughter’s wormery looked like a composting dalek but had a textile filter near the base. Liquid accumulated below the filter and was drawn off via a tap. Your list of ingredients looks pretty...
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    Pine martin release on dartmoor.

    OK. Thanks.
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    Pine martin release on dartmoor.

    I’m not challenging but I’d welcome a reference to this.
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    Hello All

    Hi, Welcome.
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    Pine martin release on dartmoor.

    Certainly, some farmers around here absolutely believe that red kites take lambs. A friend of mine just shuts down in denial at any attempt to describe them as scavengers. Rarely do predators eradicate a prey species. Even non specific predation tends to reach a balance - if it didn’t then...
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    Winterizing the home.

    Is the pull out bed a “truckle bed”?
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    Voluntarily handing in a large blade to the UK police

    Totally agree ^^^^^^^ Edited to add: I did get a clip round the ear from PC Evans, the village beat bobby for Heald Green. I kept riding on the pavement after being warned.
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    DIY wood carving tools from used garden saw blades

    I love the personalised handles too. How are you mounting the blades?
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    Zip lube

    Is it parting at the same point each time? It just takes one damaged tooth and the slider will pull out sideways, then the zip totally fails. That is more usual than a worn slider but there is little you can do to fix it in either case. If you can’t see any damage it might be worth trying a...
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    Tent Pegs

    This ^^^^^^^^. and there have been several links to tents recently. Why do tent manufacturers who design some superb and very expensive tents, supply such crap tent pegs. Who uses them except for camping on the lawn in good weather. I’m away from my camp kit just now but I’ll add a photo of...
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    Winterizing the home.

    It may be AI but one of the points in having cabinet beds and four posters is that in early big houses in England all the bedrooms connected together so you’d have people tramping through your room to get to theirs. That’s as well as living in horribly draughty piles of stones. Winterising...
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    Voluntarily handing in a large blade to the UK police

    Take a lockable box. Some belief systems involve blades. A friend waited several months to get her atheme back and was careful to lock it in a cash box before taking it out of the police station. I have no idea whether Crown versus Pendragon still applies or has been superseded. It certainly...
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    Room a new SAK

    Yeah - IF COURSE they can relate errors. Don’t ask someone working in a sausage factory to tell you about the process; don’t ask a veterinary assistant what goes on etc. etc. There will always be errors. Our medical staff are human. Ask how many letters of thanks they get and it will put...
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    Bluebells are protected?

    Our bluebells have been strictly segregated into different beds which are patrolled by my wife. No hybridising on HER watch!! Protected or not, both are lined up, thinned and given away when occasion arises and generally instructed to behave!
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    Room a new SAK

    Oh @Chris it is my sincere wish that you never develop a polyp. I’m not a Swiss Army fan but I believe there is a sewing option - if only the sacking needle!
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    Room a new SAK

    Which tool is best for THAT? Don’t answer, don’t answer. I don’t have enough mind bleach!!! Hope for quick recovery.
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    Room a new SAK

    I think that’s why there is an enquiry!
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    Room a new SAK

    Good luck.