Onoff

About the only thing you're capable of turning on!

Lost my copper pipe soldering mojo a while back. Couldn't get on using MAPP gas so went back to the blue bottle stuff and all good.

Just take your time!

3D printed lithophanes?

You can catch a cold if making to sell when such a lamp I think would have to be CE marked. For that you need to submit a Technical File and lodge with an approved body. Also has to comply with the Low Voltage Directive if mains. Pretty sure the making of such lamps was discussed on The Electrician Forum a few years back. Someone was making them from pipe fittings. @ProDave might recall? Link to the mig welding forum: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/western-themed-lampshade.124392/#post-2134677

Here you go ref the material element. The rest is just tin bashing: https://www.dannells.com/lampshade-materials-11-c.asp

I've seen some hideous, tasteless carp but this is right up there! 😂 Reminds me of the fake western tat at the theme hotel I stayed in at Disneyland Paris. However...ever willing to help a fool part with his money...going to post on the mig welding forum for thoughts. The cutting out of the shapes, assuming you can find suitable graphics would be a doddle for one of the lads over there with a fibre laser. It would then need rolling into a hoop and tacking together. Only bit I'm thinking of "how to" would be the opaque section.

Hole In My Bucket?

Aren't some screws designed to counter this to some extent? Agreed not the best method. As I said on Zoot's thread I would route pockets in the underside of the top rail for the spindles to slot into. Would act as a "band" around the spindle and help guard against splitting. Then screw from above and plug. I'd likely glue the joint too.

I knew where you were going with it, don't worry. Very unsporting what with me being blind and inebriated! 😂 My being sober and sighted might have given us another 5 or so points I reckon. Might have edged to 3rd place.

My daughter might remember. Not only had I had a few pints but I'd worn my contact lenses so no good for reading / writing (had thought about walking back in the driving rain). Didn't think to take my reading glasses. Such was my blurred vision I put Alan Titchmarsh down for Alec Baldwin and Seb Coe for Paxman in the picture competition..... Great fun. There's another on Fri 28th!

Go back far enough and 🍺 was brewed on the premises. Let's face it the hops were on the doorstep round here.

I've been to the pub two nights in a row. (Looking like it might be a third). Pub quiz last night, just my daughter and I on our team. Never done one before. My hurriedly thought up team name seemed to be appreciated. Apt seeing as we live down in the valley depths...where it's incidentally very damp with lots of exotic and no doubt esoteric green mould...

His house is definitely bad for my mental health.

The outside air no, the inside air yes.

A figure of 72% internal humidity explains everything. https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20271/guidance_for_private_tenants/1129/preventing_damp_and_mould#:~:text=A good range of indoor,minimise or control dust mites.

😉

Presumably then neither vacuum flasks or refrigerators work in Fern Gulley as the whole area defies the laws of physics.

My sentiments exactly.

Erm yes I do. Lowest house in the valley pretty much. The road next to me is a seasonal water course. Watercress grows along the roadside. Steep valley walls meaning at certain times of the year we get hardly any sun and a frost pit in winter. The NW, NE facing and shallow SE roofs are covered in thick green moss. I know all about damp and that it is not in any way insurmountable. Just needs good design, all which can be found on here. It's the time and money element I struggle with!

What's the paint that's going on the timber?

Perimeter drainage and how the ground slopes (or not) away from the house helps I'm sure. We had a concrete path laid tight to the North facing wall above the DPC on one of the "modern" extension sections of the house (circa 1950 😂). Damp had come through the cavity wall. Not helped by the rubble filled cavity! When I removed the path it all dried out fine.

Ar$e level! 👍

Unfortunately I did buy it...

If there's something strange in your neighborhood or if there's something weird and it don't look good, who you gonna call? Maybe it's ectoplasm?