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Don't bother with a press. cleaning is a joke. miss one bit, use it again and poison everyone. Roll the meat mix into a ball, depending on your prefered burger size, slap it in the frying pan, then sqaush it flat with the spatula. Simples.

The title of this post means absolutely nothing to my boss, who today demonstrated what a heartless money grabbing **** he really is. One of our 7.5 tonne drivers badly sprained his ankle today, all the way down in Southampton. He rang in to let the office, know who duly informed the boss. He didn't even ask how the driver was, his main concern was the recovery of the truck. In the end it was decided that a van would drive to Southampton taking a qualified 7.5 tonne driver to drive the lorry back and the other van would bring back the injured driver. This plan was then delayed by my boss who didn't want to send out a van empty, so waited a further 3 hours for confirmation of a delivery in Andover, which they would go to first then onto Southampton and pick up the driver and lorry. I am disgusted at the company I work for. Left the poor bloke in sweltering hot heat, probably in extreme agony pretty much all day. I would have somehow made my own way home, left the van and told my boss I'll see him in court.

John Smiths for me, no John Smiths then IPA. Never tried Doom Bar, local has it, but it has John Smiths and IPA so never felt the need to try it.

Due to lack of sleep over the last few days caused by this weather we are having, I decided to buy a couple of fans, one for the workshop (I now have power) the other for the living room where I am currently sleeping as its a few degrees cooler than the bedroom upstairs which is like an oven. So bought a couple of Amazon Basics 20" oscillating fans, some assembly required. They arrived promptly nice quality, easily assembled but, and its a huge but, they are just too powerful, 3 speed settings with to be honest very little difference between them speed wise, No1 setting is like a small hurricane ripping through the room, paperwork blown off my desk and the fan was 6 foot away, and the noise, ever heard a Euro fighter powering up before take off? well this fan is not far short. I tried the other two settings and there is very little difference in speed, The wallpaper had started to peel at the edges, The flooring was beginning to lift sadly with the cat still attached. I switched it off and the living room was a scene of devastation my dog would have been proud of. I thought it must be faulty, so assembled the other one and tried it in my workshop, and that one is exactly the same, so I have a huge tidy up job to do before I can crack on with any work today. My neatly stacked and labeled wet and dry sheets are randomly deposited all over the place. Liners strewn everywhere. Ash from my forge was blown everywhere and thats outside. And that was just a couple of seconds burst before I switched it off. Anyway, great bit of kit if you have an aircraft hanger for example that needs a bit of ventilation, Not so great bit of kit in a 18x24 ft living room or 12X8 ft workshop, Will be contacting Amazon about sending them back and getting something a little more practical.

I was told Estwing axes and hammers where made by the inmates of prisons. mate of mine told me a few years ago, he said thats why they are called Eastwing Axes obviously the eastwing of the prison. I thought sounds feasible, Estwing tools was actually founded by an imigrant buisness man something Estwing, nothing to do with prisons at all, The bloke who told me swaore it was true. Chippy since school I thought he must know his hammers..... Put him straight on the matter a while back and he was having none of it, even showed him on google, still not having it. He said "My dad was a chippy man and boy, he told me, I'm a chippy of 25 years, if my dad says thats the truth then thats the truth **** what a phone says"

If your going to put it to good use then forget the Dremel and get a Foredom pendant grinder. Even the Chinese version on ebay is better than a Dremel. I have one with the footswitch and always done what I asked it to. the flexi attachment has a small chuck inside a comfortable ally hand piece not a collet, that you invariably need to change and lose when it drops on the floor.

Has anyone else who's workshop is temporally out of action found that the kitchen is an ideal replacement for small jobs such as polishing and electro etching. For some reason my wife does not share my beleif that I won't make a mess, and no that is not corrosive and what dust? in fact she felt so strongly about me using the kitchen which I have to say the kitchen table is the perfect height, coffee at arms reach and the big ceiling fan keeping me cool, that she promptly exploded, this was 4 hours ago and she is still at critical mass now. I really don't get what she's got so upset about.

Well Sparky Martin has just left, got here about eleven, told him what you guys told me to do. and he went straight for the board, opened it up and the problem was obvious. corrosion facilitated by lots of dead spiders. It had been going for some time but had only just reached a point where its causing a problem. Moisture or water is getting in there somewhere and he suggested relocating the new board. old board has had it. Will price it up and can fit a new board and a thorough power check up Thursday this week. Some of the sockets I have fitted do not conform to the machine I am running off of them, bench grinder for instance, charging station should be plumbed direct with the on/off via spur if that makes any sense? not to me it don't. But I'll go among with it. My main lamp has an emergency power outage by pass, that should not be taken out of the circuit as it pulls more amps which I did, all in all plenty wrong. This is going to hurt.

Everything off, flick the isolator and it trips out the house

Mines armored as well plus inside ally conduit, I'll leave it to Sparky Martin on Sunday to have a look. Seems to me to be a serious fault.

Going to, she who must be obeyed won't let me touch electrics, changing a plugs ok but anything more than that she will go into meltdown If it is the board then to be honest unless its blatently obvious like a wire hanging out, I wouldn't have a clue.

Looks like the board, nothing plugged in or powered in the workshop, house power on, turned on the workshop power from the isolator and off went the house power,. so could be the isolator itself or the board in the workshop. I believe it rhymes with clucking bell.

Cheers sounds like a plan. I'll give it a go now.

Total power outage in my workshop, one minute all ok, next thing lights off nothing working. Then came the spine chilling shrill from indoors that the power was off in there as well. Isolated the workshop feed and tried the house power, all good came back on straight away, however tried the workshop again, loud click from the breaker and power off. Again isolated the workshop and power back on. So that the fault obviously at the workshop end. Rang my electrician, and he was as helpful as ever with his I can pop over Sunday afternoon not sure when but I will turn up. So that me waiting in all Sunday afternoon, I asked him what he could be and again he was bit economical in his reply, could be something simple or it could be your board. Have a board in the workshop its pretty much brand new and he fitted it, Seriously frustrated by this. got lots of work on cannot afford the time the workshop is out of action. So any sparks on here give me a more detailed and less sketchy response than my electrician as to what it could be, I know its a bit difficult without seeing it. But I have a large fluorescent double tube on all the time, a 550W bench grinder, battery charging station on all the time. A couple of belt sanders, a pedestal drill and two 500w pendant grinders, and 12 plug sockets, thats pretty much whats pulling power all the time. The forge fan pulls a hell of a lot but I don't have that plugged in until I need to use it. So can you conclude from that? Any help so I can get up and running again, can't really wait till Sunday, I know he will tell me whats wrong but can't fix it til next weekend or something like that and thats is not good for me. Cheers chaps.

The 2pk Epoxy glue not only sticks the stack together it also stabilizes the leather as it soaks in making it almost like wood when its cured so its just a matter of shaping it on the belt grinder then through the grades on the sandpaper.

Drew Pritchard from Salvage hunters would have that off you. Sort of thing he buys a lot of.

Thanks for the reply's people.👍

It was a very interesting project, like I said never done an Axe before, quite a few Estwing hammers, they are relatively easy as the handle is straight. Glad your happy with it mate and also that your happy with the Sticklebacks.

Eddoakley on here asked me if I could have a rattle at refurbing his Estwing Sprtsmans Axe Firstly I have never done a full refurbishment on an Estwing Axe before so needed to consult the masters on YouTube, you can learn brain surgery on YouTube if you know where to look, there’s just about every tutorial on there for any subject or task you can think of. The handle was my biggest concern, the actual metal work was rusty but I can deal with that no problem. I needed to learn the exact way of cutting the leather for the stack as the handle curves so the holes in the leather have to be in a certain position for when it comes to shaping the handle, you don’t want to uncover any holes as you go. This is the condition of the Axe when it arrived, seems to have seen some action over the years.. The handle is pretty much beyond repair along with the spacers. When I removed all the leather fillets another problem presented itself, The handle bar which the leather fits onto had rusted badly at one end, where the leather is missing in the picture it had rusted away the metal rods that are peined over to hold the end cap on. This presented a problem, as I now have nothing to pein over when I replace the end cap. I decided to grind back the rust until good Then drill two 2mm holes in each side of the inner handle and tap a thread so if all goes well I can use a couple of round head hex bolts to do the job and they won’t look too out of place either. First however was to get rid of the rust and see if I can get a shine on the old girl. Its seems after all these years there is life left in that metal and it did indeed take a semi mirror polish. A few pitting marks remained I could have taken them out but they are character and add to the history. I got it from 80 grit all the way up to 3000 grit and it looks pretty good Now comes the part I have been dreading the stacked leather handle, I decided I would go for 1 inch by 5mm veg tanned leather In hindsight I should have gone for half inch wider, this would have given me more to “play with” when shaping the leather handle. I was originally going to replace the plastic spacers with some bone or antler, I decided against this after numerous failed attempts to get the antler fillet perfectly flat. As it was only 2mm thick this was causing me all sorts of problems, I eventually got it as good as. But upon returning next day my hours of work getting these four fillets as flat and as true as possible was ruined because they had “yellowed” over night something I should have taken into consideration, Antler yellows the ticker it is the longer it takes, obviously 2mm will take no time at all. And no matter how hard you polish it, it won’t go back to white. So I used 2mm white HDPE and 5mm black Perspex. So with all the leather cut and holes and slots punched out, the same with the liners, Time to mix up some hour working time 2pk epoxy and get sticking. But before I do that probably a good idea to do a dry fit to make sure all lines up good. Yep all looks good so lets get sticking. Not as easy as I thought it would be I had to stop half way up the handle to clamp it and then carry on from there once the epoxy had cured. So eventually have it all glued and end cap on. Give it 24 hours I think before I started sanding the hell out of it. Going better than I thought, got the basic shape into the handle. I decided it was a little on the fat side so shaved it down a bit. I didn’t want to go too far as I was unsure if I was going to uncover a hole or slot at some point I had to be getting close especially toward the bottom right. Any way got it to where I wanted with no accidents. So now its sand sand sand sand Then a light coat of my chosen dye colour, this helps to keep those fibres under control, for the final 1000 grit sand. upload And it looks like that. Tomorrow I will hit it with a few coats of carnauba wax and work on that scruffy end cap. Well It came out ok unfortunately when I was buffing the handle, the mop caught the metal and pulled it out of my hand, not sure what it hit on the way but whatever it was damaged my nice new leather stacked handle, I was gutted. I was able to tidy up the damage it was a lot worse than the picture shows, I looked at it and even considered starting again. A couple of other photo's The end cap I decided to give a satin shine to with a fine scotch wheel, Its engraved and due to the axes age some of the engraving was wearing so the less aggressive approach was needed. So after I had put a nice useable edge on it and a final polish I can cautiously say my first Estwing Sportsman Hatchet restoration was complete. Now just have to wait and see what its owner thinks. Got to admit and blow my own trumpet if I had one, if it was mine I would be well happy considering the condition it was in. So here is an “action shot” of the final finish.

Dijon on a pork pie.

Roads in London, Piccadilly, Regents Street, Whitehall etc etc, covered in the stuff. You never see anyone picking it, well I haven't anyway and I'm there everyday. A bit of horse manure is not a problem, live where I do. thousands and I'm not lying of those silver gas cylinders everywhere, on the pavements on the roads. Some kind of high they get from inhaling them, I cannot beleive the amount they get through, like I said, thousands of them just appear on a Saturday morning, along with the discarded masks everywhere, condoms and takeaway wrapping. Not to mention the redecoration of the bus shelter and surrounding area with lager and kebab induced vomit. Give me a horse taking a dump any day of the week.

Thats one of the key functions I'd like in as you say ready to run, is a swivel function. Not seen many with that included.

Got my PPI cheque at last, only been waiting just over a year. Always said the first thing I'm going to get is a proper 2x72 belt grinder. I have a Clarke woodworker which I have converted and a homemade file jig for knife bevels. There are a lot of 2x72 belt grinders on the market, sadly not that many in the UK, and most come without a motor. I have set a budget of 1500 quid. Theres a nice one on Etsy inside budget, but its only 2hp but its got all the toys, hydraulic tracking and tension, variable speed, and you can fit the different front wheels, Can anyone recommend one and pass me a link? Also taking shed space into concideration I quite like the 2x48 designs, Mirikou Dave had one, but he seems to be AWOL on here at the moment. And for the record, I also had a Ford MK1 Mexico on my purchase list, as I couldn't afford one when I was 17, looking at the prices now, it transpires I STILL can't afford one.

I was welling up reading that Lloyd, been there mate just before Christmas, said goodbye to my best and loyal friend George. Safe Journey Skye. RIP.

Readybrek! now yer talking. You don't see the chocolate flavoured one any more. On the subject of Condensed milk, never tried it but apparently if you boil the unopened can in water for several hours the condended milk turns to toffee, anyone tried it it?