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  1. CraigyBoy

    Large horse chestnut tree being felled

    Thanks for the replies guys. I'd not realised that chestnut/sweet chestnut were different. Doesn't sound like it's worth the bother on that basis. I'd seen chestnut for sale and assumed it was horse chestnut. You learn something new everyday! Cheers Craig
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    Large horse chestnut tree being felled

    I was talking to a friend last night, and he told me that his brother has had a covenant on a large horse chestnut tree removed and is going to have it chopped down. He wanted to know if I wanted some firewood!! It's a big tree and my initial reaction was "wow that'll be worth quite a lot" he...
  3. CraigyBoy

    Complete handplane novice fettling old Stanley No 5

    Hello, I'm doing a similar thing with a number 4, 5 and a record 180 block plane. I'm interested to know what method you used to de-rust bits and strip the handles. Cheers Craig
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    Electrolytic de-rusting=dull grey tools! :-(

    Thanks all. I think that physical polishing is the way to go initially. I don't want it perfect, but I do what some of the things to look nice. It's not simply a case of then being usable! The coke was interesting. It made it worse from a colour perspective, but it did seem easier to sand...
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    Face to Face Sketchup Tution Needed!

    Nick at cadsoftsolutions provides very good training and I'm 99% sure he covers sketchup. I've spoken to him about other things as they are local to me in Cambridge and he's a jolly nice chap. I'm also pretty sure he regularly does training remotely, so if there a few people who are interested...
  6. CraigyBoy

    Wind

    Err, but you didn't. Instead you provided a statement without caveat or context. Anyhoo ... OK, I'm happy to accept your personal experience and retract the "regardless of the source of the flickering" part of my post. However I maintain that shadow flicker from a wind turbine is highly...
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    Wind

    This should not be ruled out, but a lot of research has been done in this area, and it is currently considered highly unlikely. Epilepsy in action did a survey in 2007 and one person did say that they had a seizure whilst looking at a wind turbine, however that person didn't suffer from...
  8. CraigyBoy

    Electrolytic de-rusting=dull grey tools! :-(

    Hello, I built one of the electrolytic de-rusting tanks a few days back, and whilst the results are impressive, I'm left with dull grey metal. I have tried water, lightly sanding it, steel wool, metal polish, t-cut metal polish, alu oven cleaner and silver cleaner - all without much luck...
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    Wind

    ... and soda stream!
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    Wind

    An interesting (brief) overview on power storage http://www.windpowerengineering.com/des ... age-media/ I'm reluctant to bring up electric cars again ... however ... There is also a lot of interest in the expected increase in electric cars. This effectively means that there will be millions of...
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    Wind

    Assuming (for arguments sake) that the turbines were expected to have a load factor of 25% it changes the point of the article entirely. It stops being "wind farms are useless" (I'm paraphrasing!) to "wind farms perform exactly as expected". If you wanted to spin this differently it then becomes...
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    Wind

    Clearly wind power is no good without some storage medium. When wind starts to contribute a bigger percentage of the power used then this will be more critical. Currently our grid operates in a way that can be turned on/off as needed. They simply turn on/up the power stations during the day an...
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    Wind

    I'm not dismissing it, I'm simply saying that a report stating that wind farms aren't very good written by a group that is against wind farms needs to be considered within context, and any potential bias borne in mind. Unfortunately a lot of people won't do that, they will accept biased reports...
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    Wind

    So what's the answer then Digit? It's easy to pick fault with everything and simply say "this won't work", "that won't work", but it doesn't add much value in solving the problem. What's your view? What should we do to safeguard our children's/grandchildren's future in say 100 years time? How...
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    Wind

    I wonder what % efficiency a modern car typically operates at? I genuinely don't know, but would be surprised if it topped 50-60%. The efficiency argument is the one that is usually used to attempt to rubbish wind farms, but I wonder how well the figures compare against other similarly large...
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