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Of late I've only ever used the Fischer resin in tubes, FIS V 360 S I think it is. I last used glass capsules in the mid 80's from memory. "Special" chisel pointed studs with a turned down end that accepted a hex bit...again from memory!

The thoughts up to now weren't to have a washer here, just tube bearing against block. It's a fair comment though. Imho I don't think it will be an issue. If you are worried you could buy, quite cheaply, half a dozen large dia stainless washers. You will of course need a correspondingly larger hole. This could be made with a sacrificial flat wood bit. There would then be a gap around the spacer you would need to fill of course. Something like Sika EBT I would for piece of mind. I'll have another look for large OD round, stainless washers. I could tack them onto the spacer tubes...reminds me I asked laddo to buy more 316 stainless rods, I wonder if he ordered them as he's suffering quite badly from the Covid?

Microwaved croissants. They hold scalding steam for ages. Scars to prove it.

Old news, I proposed something similar using the "stays hot forever" McDonald's apple pie filling, some time ago. Again the multinationals made me an offer to keep the thing quite...or it might have been someone just suggested I keep quiet...

Why would I not want the 20% back? I wonder if I could just keep the bathroom?

Pity that doesn't apply in my case! 😂 If I could claim the tax back on all my unfinished projects I could knock down and rebuild.

I asked a waitress that one night in Corfu. She said it was the way to build in stages as and when you had the money. Particularly if you rely on the tourist trade. I recall being amazed at them using pumped concrete.

Who says I want to live longer?

https://www.staggchili.com.au/history/

Looks like someone paid him to set up in France and pussy foot around with convoluted, tiered investment schemes or is that delaying tactics? https://www.metalectrique.com/

As I believe the great Orlando Bloom once said "I'm just a pikey from Kent". Having to fend for myself with the whole house sick I think it's only right I take care of myself. Just finishing the evening off with a couple of corned beef and onion doorsteps and more beer followed by a packet of Shortcake (The Fruity One). Luckily I'm sleeping on my own!

When you're saving the planet you have to be magnanimous about things like cost. Then again, given the timescales to which I work I may break even...

I hate waste with a vengeance by and large. I look at what we put out for recycling and can't help thinking the answer to our problems lies beneath our feet so to speak. Thus, in the best traditions of my Solar Thermal From Scrap project and after a couple of 🍻. It's no coincidence right that a beer can fits inside a chilli can like this? I mean it's like they're designed to go together. Then wtf are these things for in the pizza box (ok they make great stand offs for spraying flat panels)? However they do fit in the bottom of a beer can: Then there's all those lovely electrolytes we tip down the drain. (OK it's a drop of washing up liquid and bleach in some water): Let's put them all together shall we! That's a third of a volt FREE! Remember my name and the day one man solved the energy crisis single handedly! Before the black helicopters took me away on that trumped up indecent exposure charge... @pocsteryou can PW my ar$e!

Yes, I think so. One time I tried lifting a panel out and it wouldn't budge. Today, after dry weather, up she comes. Rotten as a pear along the bottom. I may be able to salvage something by fitting a concrete gravel board and cutting the bottom off. A bit to early to give it "I told you so!" to SWMBO. Making these was bloody labour intensive and what with the price of timber now etc. I'll let her get over the Covid first.

Bugger...counted 3 posts like this so far...only put in brand new in 2016. Not impressed.

That'll be the day that I die.

Flints nearly done in the second pillar. Needs a good clean when gone off a bit. Then concrete sealer sprayed on. Got to figure infill panels left and right. Probably a welded steel frame with more black stained scaffold boards like the gate. I might even think about powering it up...

Our frontage consists of concrete posts, put in using a tractor PTO and lashings of concrete. Then homemade panels, to SWMBO's design, o/of 2"x1" nailed together with a collated nailer on a jig. Two things didn't happen. There are no gravel boards as SWMBO was insistent on keeping access for "all the liccle animals" I knew that would come back to haunt me. The other thing is I never applied a waterproofer to the concrete posts. Did a 100' of fence elsewhere 30 years ago, painted the concrete with Thompson's, and they're still like new. Thus I've noticed a post here that has blown. I don't really want to dig it out and put a new one in tbh. I'm hoping that the fence frame has swollen and just snapped the return off but gut feel this will be water having gotten in and rusted the steel. Maybe shutter and recast a bit on? Any thoughts?

Surely at the ages we're talking about, any feeling there is good?

Probably to check nobody's living in it.

Down here in the valley it'll be like Z For Zachariah with the earth battery still churning out 0.8V.

You can at least hunker in the bunker...and bunk her....

Come in No.7, your time is up! 😂 Won't the nuclear winter make PV redundant? That and the EMP destroy all the clever electronics.

As in you know you want to / resistance is futile?

Well that's exciting...not. Rubbing blackfly off the bean stalks and leaves then spraying with a few drops of peppermint oil in a plant sprayer full of water. Seem to have cleared a lot though.