[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 81, Issue 60
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Re: Brittish stove manuf. could it have been Aga, or Sterling?
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1. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (Mike Spencer)
2. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (Andrew Vida)
3. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (Andrew Vida)
4. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (ries)
5. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (peter fels & phoebe palmer)
6. Re: Forging Tungsten (peter fels & phoebe palmer)
7. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (Andrew Vida)
8. Re: OT- buzzards (peter fels & phoebe palmer)
9. Re: The hard cider is good... OT: (Andrew Vida)
10. Re: OT- buzzards (Andrew Vida)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:23:59 -0300
From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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> But a vast refinement was a "mill wheel" of stone that rolled around
> in an annular trough.
A thing like that sat for years in a Halifax junk yard. About 8'
across, two cylinders of polished granite rolled in a steel (or cast
iron?) annular trough about a foot deep. Heavy SOB. I *wanted* that,
probably could have afforded to buy it at (then) scrap prices but
couldn't afford a crane truck to get it trucked 75 miles home. Too
bad.
At some point, someone noticed that they'd been scrapping batteries
there and letting all the lead-bearing electrolytes just soak into the
ground. So everything went away and they turned the site in to an
environmental disaster zone. I did get a good leg vise and a
repairable 30" paper shear out of their pile, though.
Must be a mizzable day everywhere. We're all swapping email instead
of beating iron or splitting wood.
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:00:02 -0400
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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Jerry Frost wrote:
> Yes I do Mark, it looks good next to the Viking Rangetop. My kitchen skill
> set it is Knead to know though. Stop on by and I'll whip something up.
AH! THis may the place to ask....
Anyone here know the name of the British manufacturer of gast stoves -
the ones that start at about $5K and go up from there? They are all
enameled. They had a store at the Short Hills Mall in NJ, but I'm never
up there anymore. I cannot dredge the name from memory no matter how I
try. I had a couple of their brochures but cannot find them.
Any help on this would be welcomed.
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:43:34 -0400
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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Jeff Wilson wrote:
> I tend to agree/disagree. Scotch and tea is good for a cold. The tea is
> optional and should be taken on the side. Blacksmithing content: I knew a
> fellow who carried an old square cut nail in a fancy little fitted wooden
> box. He used it to stir his Drambuie and scotch.
Drambuie is nasty in itself - I cannot begin to imagine the death serum
it must make when mixed with scotch. That aside, one need not mix up
said serum using *good* scotch. Some Seagrams of Lord Barry should do
the trick, I'd say. Leave the 30-year MacAllan out of that. You know
that stuff is going for something like $2K/bottle now? It's like the
Louis. Love the Louis. I never got to try that 125 year Hennessy.
Imagine.... drinking a cognac that was casked just 20 or so years after
the Civil War.
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:53:03 -0700
From: ries <ries at riesniemi.com>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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maybe these AGA's?
http://www.aga-ranges.com/_store/scripts/catlist.asp?idcat=39
lots of french stoves that are ten grand, all enamel, and double as central heating and cooking stoves, as well.
ries
On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
Jerry Frost wrote:
> Yes I do Mark, it looks good next to the Viking Rangetop. My kitchen skill
> set it is Knead to know though. Stop on by and I'll whip something up.
AH! THis may the place to ask....
Anyone here know the name of the British manufacturer of gast stoves -
the ones that start at about $5K and go up from there? They are all
enameled. They had a store at the Short Hills Mall in NJ, but I'm never
up there anymore. I cannot dredge the name from memory no matter how I
try. I had a couple of their brochures but cannot find them.
Any help on this would be welcomed.
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:56:37 -0700
From: peter fels & phoebe palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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Wrong kind of plasma cutting Jer.
On 10/25/2010 1:55 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> Jerry Frost wrote:
>
>> Deb says I was out-juicing pretty copiously that day but I don't know of
>> anyone who'd want any Frost Jack. You?
> That's OK. I'll pass - but thanks for thinking of me.
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:59:24 -0700
From: peter fels & phoebe palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forging Tungsten
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The areas where we used a lot of DU ammo now have much higher rates of
leukemia.
On 10/25/2010 2:05 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> ries wrote:
>> the story I heard, which may or may not be true, is that he was using
>> depleted uranium rounds after they had been shot at somebody, but
>> missed. When they hit, especially something like an armored vehicle,
>> they turn to plasma and burn right thru the armor- but in the middle
>> east, there are a fair amount of them just sitting around on the
>> ground.
> The penetrators certainly liquefy on impact - not sure there is enough
> energy to generate a plasma, but I could be wrong there.
>
> Using a DU longrod as a smithing tool strikes me as something a bit
> beyond stupid. The uranium is highly toxic - especially its oxides, and
> if I recall correctly, the metal is pyrophoric as well. Ever see
> enriched uranium being processed? Example: when the buttons are worked
> after casting to remove scale, the scrapers spark like crazy. It's a
> really eerie sight... at least to me anyhow.
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:25:31 -0400
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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Mike Spencer wrote:
> Jerry> You ARE aware nutmeg is a hallucinogenic if taken in sufficient
> Jerry> quantity; yes? About 1 to 1 1/2 TBSP ground is usually enough
> Jerry> to make for funny brain inputs.
>
> Andy> Oh yes, well aware. 2 whole nutmegs is enough to kill most
> Andy> adults, in fact. But they taste wonderful.
>
> Well, even further off topic: Mid-60s, I was hanging out in the UMass
> student union [1] and at the next table the (very weird) son of the
> president of a prestigious seminary was advising the stoner son of
> the president of a prestigious Ivy Leage college on how to get
> wrecked on nutmeg. They dumped a whole can -- you know, the kitchen
> spice shelf kinda thing -- into a milkshake and when I went off to do
> something else, the stoner was sucking it down and making faces.
>
> A couple of hours later, I was leaving the building. The SotPoaPILC
> was sitting on a park bench in the dark, rocking back and forth
> going, "Ohhhhhhh...I'm sooooo sick. Arrrgggghh...I'm sooooo sick"
> while the older SotPoaPS paced anxiously around, trying to console
> him.
>
> I guess people's ideas of fun differ considerably.
Stupid kid tricks. There was a fairly good reason adults used to keep
the youngins on rather short leashes. Seems the filthy hippy crowd
took stupidity to an artform. Woohoo.
But yeah, nutmeg can bring serious problems in excess amounts.
Woohoo^2
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:29:19 -0700
From: peter fels & phoebe palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT- buzzards
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90 chickens buys a lot of chicken wire Andy.
Here, we have to surround anything from fruit trees to chickens ( i gave up)
in 360* aviary wire and even that isn't enough sometimes.
Otherwise we have to kill a lot of animals.
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:31:04 -0400
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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Those are the ones. Ries to the rescue. Thanks.
ries wrote:
> maybe these AGA's?
> http://www.aga-ranges.com/_store/scripts/catlist.asp?idcat=39
>
> lots of french stoves that are ten grand, all enamel, and double as central heating and cooking stoves, as well.
>
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:12:46 -0400
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT- buzzards
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peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> 90 chickens buys a lot of chicken wire Andy.
> Here, we have to surround anything from fruit trees to chickens ( i gave up)
> in 360* aviary wire and even that isn't enough sometimes.
> Otherwise we have to kill a lot of animals.
I'm willing to kill everything on this damned mountain. Problem is
twofold there - first, they're all smarter than I am. Second, they
don't cotton to the idea of being killed.
Bottom line: tough for me.
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