Gondor's Grumblings

[Gondor]

Another tool I am finding extremely useful is this one. There are other similar items available which will do the same job at being great for making fine precision cuts.

Gondor

[Pellson]

Another tool I am finding extremely useful is this one. There are other similar items available which will do the same job at being great for making fine precision cuts.

Gondor

When sawing, how wide does the cut get? These days, I more often than not try to cut rather than saw to mitigate material loss, but at times, that just isn't an option, so I'm a bit curious.

[Gondor]

When sawing, how wide does the cut get? These days, I more often than not try to cut rather than saw to mitigate material loss, but at times, that just isn't an option, so I'm a bit curious.

The blades I have are quite thin and they come in different numbers of teeth per mm or something like that. Think razor blade thickness.

Gondor

[NARSES2]

I agree with Gondor. I quite often use a razor saw to separate parts from sprue gates and don't bother with a handle most of the time, I hold the blade with my fingers as it enables me to judge where I'm cutting better. I normally use the fine tooth edge of the blade.

There are various different blade shapes you can get and there are even some etch blades which are thinner than the traditional razor blade based ones, although I can't really see the difference.

Invaluable tool

[Pellson]

I shall order one from CMK, then, as per your link, Alastair. Thanks.

[Gondor]

Well the last couple of days have been interesting. I have seen parts of Livingston that I didn't know existed and seen some of the surrounding countryside from a different angle. I have also exhausted myself by being far more physical that I am used to being.
All the above is due to my being advised not to drive due to my deteriorating eyesight. A fifteen to twenty minute walk to the local train station, then wait for a good ten minutes for my train. Change trains at Edinburgh Park and head towards Glasgow and get off at Livingston North then catch a bus which leaves me with a roughly ten minute walk to work. Stairs to get to the correct platform at both Stirling and Edinburgh Park on the outbound leg and the same again at Edinburgh Park on the way home so far.
Both days I have had to deal with train cancellation on the return journey, and I also think that I might have gotten home earlier today if I had travelled to Edinburgh Haymarket and changed directions there as several "fast trains" went through Park while I was waiting for my train. Further investigation is required.
The return trip will change in a few weeks time when my bus ticket turned up and I can take the bus home for free 

Gondor

[Gondor]

My knees are killing me. Not only from all the walking I am having to do recently but from the fact the chair I am having to use in my study/model room is a little on the short side! I;m having to use this chair due to the cat having claimed my normal computer chair!
Trying to find information information online about the height of the chair seat is difficult. Sure I can find out the min and max height of the chair, that's not as important as the height of the seat!
Just found out that the seat adjustment was locked in position, slightly lower that I would have liked. Now at maximum height and much happier on the legs! Still think I will see about getting a new chair though, will confuse the cat as he won't know which chair to take over although the betting is it will be the one I want to use.
The cat is called Spot. So named to enable me to be able to quote Shakespeare to him. I don't often have to do so, usually when he can't decide if he want's to go out or not so ends up sitting half out the door!
This talking about why I came up with the name of the cat reminds me of when I went to pick up the previous two cats I had. I was travelling by train to an ex's who I was getting the cats from. I had a pet carrier box with me and the ticket lady asked to see my ticket. She asked what was in the box and I said it was a cat called Schrodinger.
I think the reason she didn't want to see the cat was in case it escaped 

Gondor

[scooter]

The cat is called Spot. So named to enable me to be able to quote Shakespeare to him. I don't often have to do so, usually when he can't decide if he want's to go out or not so ends up sitting half out the door!

Gentlewoman
...
Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper

Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;
and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.

Doctor
How came she by that light?

Gentlewoman
Why, it stood by her: she has light by her
continually; 'tis her command.

Doctor
You see, her eyes are open.

Gentlewoman
Ay, but their sense is shut.

Doctor
What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.

Gentlewoman
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus
washing her hands: I have known her continue in
this a quarter of an hour.

LADY MACBETH
Yet here's a spot.

Doctor
Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from
her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.

LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.

[McColm]

Try taking cod liver capsules for your aches and pains, they work for me.

[Pellson]

The cat is called Spot. So named to enable me to be able to quote Shakespeare to him. I don't often have to do so, usually when he can't decide if he want's to go out or not so ends up sitting half out the door!

Gentlewoman
...
Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper

Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;
and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.

Doctor
How came she by that light?

Gentlewoman
Why, it stood by her: she has light by her
continually; 'tis her command.

Doctor
You see, her eyes are open.

Gentlewoman
Ay, but their sense is shut.

Doctor
What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.

Gentlewoman
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus
washing her hands: I have known her continue in
this a quarter of an hour.

LADY MACBETH
Yet here's a spot.

Doctor
Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from
her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.

LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.

[Rheged]

Two responses to your cat comments

A)   Is Spot the cat that caused all of the fuss when it got stuck up a tree in Birnam Wood?

and B)   Was Schrodinger  the cat alive, dead or both when the ticket collecting lady approached you?


Much sympathy from family Rheged regarding the creaky Knee problem.

[Gondor]

Two responses to your cat comments

A)   Is Spot the cat that caused all of the fuss when it got stuck up a tree in Birnam Wood?

and B)   Was Schrodinger  the cat alive, dead or both when the ticket collecting lady approached you?


Much sympathy from family Rheged regarding the creaky Knee problem.

Answeres are:

A)He is an outdoor cat but not known for climbing trees, at least I have never seen him do so.

B)There was no cat but there could have been, it would have all depended on if you looked to see the cat or not. A variation of the question set by Schrodinger.

THe knee does not creak, it almost clicks  It is as if the joint movement has more freedome than it should to move at times. Slightly worrying to myself and trying to remember to phone for a teliphone apointment with my Dr is another problem as I get so cought up in work I remember after the cut off time 

Gondor

[zenrat]

Cats called Spot make me think of Star Trek TNG and this pome.

Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

[TheChronicOne]

    Watching TNG at this very moment.

G, I sympathize with the knee business, both of mine are bad and give me misery at times. Finicky and delicate for the amount of duty they pull. Damn....  everyone should be better on their knees but it's difficult to really think about when they aren't hurting or failing.

[Rick Lowe]

  Watching TNG at this very moment.

G, I sympathize with the knee business, both of mine are bad and give me misery at times. Finicky and delicate for the amount of duty they pull. Damn....  everyone should be better on their knees but it's difficult to really think about when they aren't hurting or failing.

Yeah, like so many other parts/things, they are just... there... not things you think about or pay attention to, until they go wrong.