[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 81, Issue 60

[Andrew Vida]

Yeah, AGA, thanks.

Been looking at American Range - Nice 10-burner, 72" ranges with 35K BTU 
burners.  'Course, I'll need a much larger kitchen for that.  Oh,and a 
job so I can pay for it all.  Yeah - that last bit is kind of important 
I guess.

ray1940 at att.net wrote:
> Re: Brittish stove manuf.  could it have been Aga, or Sterling?
> ray
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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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> 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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> Message-ID: <201010252223.o9PMNxO07743 at nudel.nodomain.nowhere>
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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
>