James.
Sou'West UK. Have M.E.
Likes; Nature, engineering, brewing and history.
I also follow Russia's war against Ukraine so may post on the subject just a warning if it's difficult for anyone who might follow me.
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- Petrichor is strong today.
- The BBC coverage of the Papal Chimney is surprisingly entertaining, trying to talk about things while nothing is happening.
- This is probably a silly question but I've searched online and can't seem to find the answer... What can I stick these bits together on, that won't in itself become stuck? Glass? #Modelling #PlasticWeld #Railway
- The baking paper works! It sort of stuck to it, but has just peeled off cleanly. Thanks everyone for the replies 😊
- Thanks everyone for the replies! I'm going to try the parchment paper first with a bit of sprue.
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- It worked on TVRs, not so much on MG-Rovers.
- I asked the curator of the gasworks museum where town has comes from. "From coal!" He Retorted
- Clearly doesn't work, word wise, and only about 70 years out of date.... And just seen the typo. 🤦🏻 Just had to write it down to get it out of my head.
- The antonym of Antonym is Deconym.
- Err B&Q whilst not wanting to kink shame, I don't think that's the correct word. #TantalisedWood
- Fed up of trying to explain the simple concept of how opening windows when it is hotter outside than it is inside, it makes the house hotter.
- Now i've just read what appears to be crumple zones being proposed for railway locomotives in 1841... My head is properly fried now.
- And this is what happened to what appears to be the inventor of that engine!
- Been doing some Family/Local history research. Found references to a heat engine, that was placed on display at Newton Abbot. it originated from Weston-s-Mare old Junction, of a type installed by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, in a few places It'd seem it is now in the NRM. with the label ex-NA
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View full threadThe GWR evidently decided however that one of these engines were worth preserving and displaying on Newton Abbot station, also the location of the Broad Gauge survivor Tiny.
- hotairengines.org/furnace-air-... It'd seem to be one of these.
- This process appears very similar to the stages of a Gas Turbine, albeit using pistons, and operating at much lower pressures.
- These engines were built in 1869! They were installed by the Bristol and Exeter Railway at Hallatrow, Chard, Wiveliscomb, Taunton, Weston-s-Mare and Williton. the 1923 article states the ones and Chard and Williton are still in use, although Williton is soon to be replaced.
- It'd seem to my understanding to be an early, successful internal combustion engine. It consists of two pistons. A smaller diameter Piston pumps air into an internal chamber. In this internal chamber is an Anthracite fire. which expands the air.
- This expanded air is then through intake valve to push the larger cylinder, the valve closes to allow expansion for efficiency. The exhaust valve then opens as the piston reaches the top and with the aid of flywheel to return to bottom of the cylinder.
- This is going to need more research... When my head works.
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- It's great stuff until you're given gone off salad cream. Then you can never have it again. 🤮
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- The search and rescue helicopters used to be state funded until Tories outsourced it. I always felt it seemed like good practice for military helicopter crews. Although probably find it was dedicated crews seperate from "frontline" squadrons...
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- does he count as a "Populist"?
- Was in the warning area for rain, didn't think to look up what the wind speeds would be. Really rough and noisy out.
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- Is that when Spice Girls started? The return of chart Music to the control of the corporations and publicists with manufactured acts.
- I really despise people who think because they have a problem, everyone else does too! (This is very different from sharing a problem with others who may be experiencing things thinking it's "just them")
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- Aren't they called Evri now?
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- Wasn't the UK Rwanda scheme a copy of Israel's?
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- Not all of them are. Just the dangerous ones.
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- Tbh sounds more like an Ed Davey thing.
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- A good rule of thumb is to be wary of Japanese cars, they're either driven by people who don't care about driving, or they care too much about it. Both are best avoided.
- They were always thus. The champions though are people with pick-ups, although the issue gets cloudy when actually in the countryside.
- Just made a cold coffee, tried to rescue it but had to throw it away 🤮. Just thought I'd go back and check my morning score... Oh yeah, now I remember.
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- He does seem as though he's playing a computer game, as though conquering countries for resources is simple way to get more money.
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- Just need to add some trees strung across like the Finns did in the winter war.
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- Do the Falklands export to USA or is it just another case of the sloppy way these Tariffs have been implemented?
- So the reason Norfolk Island copped a dramatically higher tariff than the rest of Australia is two shipments of Timbaland boots from the Bahamas and some aquarium supplies from the UK that had their point of origin mislabeled or misrecorded. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- So to get around tariffs we could just mislabel origins? Given that US State and town names are often duplications of old world places, it shouldn't be too hard...
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- Depends how big your turning circle is.
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- Wasn't this supposed to have been delivered two months ago?
- Britain's wrongest man rides again.
- That's not Alister Heath.
- Been out for the second time this year! Cream crackered now.
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- Isn't that what Cremation is for?
- 1. Infuriatingly, here in the UK, the government still seems to believe that the only way of introducing trees is to plant them (see, for example, the current Land Use Framework consultation). News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵
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View full threadAn issue brought about by having quantifiable targets, and the handy use of numbers for press releases?
- As everyone else has already said... i'm a bit slow today sorry.
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- I always wondered what the point of those Panini stickers was.
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- And we save ourselves £2.50
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- Walk to work, but go for a drive in the evening?
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- Genuinely makes more sense than having a fire on a summer evening, when it's still light. Almost as though those people are idiots...
