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Mornin' Marky, "when we were wee boys my mum made it that thick you could dance on it ." Brings back memories! When I was a kid Mum was ill (an exceptional instance!) and Dad took over the 'cooking' for a week or so 🙄 First attempt at porridge he offered us "One slice or two?"😮 Same thing happened on Sunday, roast beef and potatoes were acceptable but the gravy was again "One slice or two?" Dear ol' Dad, Gone but not forgotten 😊 I soon learned to make creamier porridge myself. My Sis and I used to fight over the cream off the milk (top o the milk) to put on top of the porridge with a splodge of Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup. Back in the days of real milk in bottles on the doorstep, before the thin homogenised stuff packed in cardboard boxes. I still make it the same way, in a pot on the hot plate, and with cream (now sold separately!) and brown , or when I can find it here, Golden Syrup😋😋😋 Microwave porridge? No! But scrambled eggs go pretty well once you get the timing right😋 Otherwise it can quickly become another case of "One slice or two?" 😁 Here endeth the culinary dissertation from Munich for today (tonight!?)😉 😎

4 years ago by RNinMunich

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TRIAL FITTING SMOKE UNIT TO THE HSL

What used to be fertilizer is now used for mining explosives here JB. Its very safe to transport - much safer than conventional explosives. That is until its mixed with diesel and a detonator fitted..... We used to blow up tree stumps with ammonium nitrate fertilizer & diesel fuel - much quicker for land preparation if a little messy. So most nitrates will do the job if required. Air Force taught us a lot of ways to make things go bang ........... Even and other seemingly harmless things can be taught to do so............ In the right circumstances even instant coffee can be made to go bang..... Did you know that most window cleaner liquid of the blue variety is highly inflammable.......... And that powdered aluminum can increase the power of black powder and creates a brilliant flash ............

5 years ago by redpmg

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New drive Train and Oiler

Most of this actually took place last August / July! Regular readers may have seen that when Dad built this boat in the 60s he put a Taycol Target field motor in it. About 25 years ago I put a Decaperm and 'modern' transistor ESC in her to provide forward and reverse. Performance was sedate to say the least. I have since modified the Taycol (see below) so it can be run forward and reverse and decided to put it in an ancient Billings Boats Danish fish cutter (Gina) that I inherited from an Aunt. The cutter is badly in need of renovation (see pic 1) and the Taycol will be more suited to her performance requirement! On advice from Canabus in Hobart I obtained a Propdrive 2830 1000kV brushless motor, appropriate ESC and a 35mm 3 blade prop from Raboesch. Pic 2 shows the old and new motors. Next step was to trial fit new motor mount, coupling and prop. Pics 3 &4. While doing this it became obvious that a new shaft was in order, as mentioned in last update. Soooo, - appropriate stainless steel rod, thrust washers and set ring were acquired and back to the workshop. After cutting to length to accommodate the new coupling type a 3mm thread was cut a the prop end. At the inboard end I milled recesses for the grub screws in the set ring and the coupling, pics 5 - 7. I don't like to just file(or even mill) flats for the screws cos they have a tendency to slip and work loose😡 Trial fitted the new shaft and found I'd boobed a bit with the measurements and need extra thrust washers to make up the difference. 😲 Pic 8. No sweat, they came in a pack of 50 anyway😊 You can also see in this pic that I decided to fit an oiler pipe while everything was in bits anyway.😉 To solder it on in a cramped space without setting the boat on fire 😡 I packed a wet rag underneath and used a gas Kitchen Torch! Known as a 'Gas Gourmet Burner'. Yep, those handy little gas torches like your Missus uses to melt the brown on her Crème Brûlée!! So do I, delicious 😜😉 The torches are not expensive, small, very handy, refillable with lighter gas and can be adjusted to a very small hot flame. ideal for this job. See pics 9 & 10. Pic 11 shows the new motor & mount, shaft and coupling all trial fitted after using a brass alignment tool I quickly made up on the lathe. Pic also shows the trial electrical installation after cleaning up the 'machinery compartment' a little and painting with silver Hammerite. A Quickrun BL ESC is sitting in the bottom in one of the trays my Dad originally fitted for the 2 wet cell (very wet!) 6V lead acid batteries. The home made board on the left carries the battery and ESC connectors, main ON/OFF switch with LED, blade fuse holder with a 20A fuse and a green LED which tells me if the fuse is blown! Stuck on the walls (OK Bulkheads!) with so called Servo Tape are a 6 ch Turnigy iA6 2.4Gig RX and the arming switch for the ESC. Battery compartment is sized to fit 2S and 3S hard case LiPos. For trials I can fit my Wattmeter forward of the switchboard and splice it into the battery supply using Tamiya connectors. Might change these to XT60s later if current drain is more than 12 to 15A. All for now, all this was pulled out again preparatory to cosmetics on the hull, decks, cabin roof and walls inside and out. But that's another chapter so, 'Tune in next week, same time same channel when once again it's time for 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN BUCK RODGERS IS APPROACHING!? 😁 Or 'The Saga of the Cabin Roof' 😉 Cheers Doug 😎 BTW: After drilling the shaft tube for the oiler pipe I flushed it out with light machine oil (pumped in from a big syringe) and shoved a few pipe cleaners through (rotating them on the way) to remove any remaining drill swarf!!

6 years ago by RNinMunich

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Guidance for newcomers to the site :-)

Hi Peter, "send details of the website on the other side of the asteroid belt" I'd love to but comms are a bit difficult. I'm still waiting for an answer to a query I sent a couple of years ago🤔 Tea was frozen solid by the time it arrived☹️ and no 😝 I'll order from 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' next time!

5 years ago by RNinMunich

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Help and advice please

Not sure of the exact recipe Doug, saw it on TV on some travel program and didn't get time to write it down. It has semolina, , flour, coconut and rose water and syrup as a finishing 'sauce'. It's made into a dough after simmering the semolina, mixing a truckload of , adding coconut, flour, putting in a shallow tray and baking at around 150c for about 40 mins. After its done add another truckload of to water, simmer till dissolved, add rose water and pour all over cake/slab. I've tried small quantities and although as previously described still tastes quite reasonable. Better call it 'ships ballast cake' so we are not accused of misusing the site. As an international traveler you might recognize it being a common Arab sweet. Will try and hunt out the name (think it had an A and E init) Here endeth the cooking lesson. Just found it! called Basboosa

5 years ago by jbkiwi