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simon wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:58 pm Aye it was another treatment of glyphosate that lead to this. Just spraying the leaves only knocks it back, it needs severing so the glyphosate can directly penetrate it. And that's where my problems begin... :-(.

Especially as it has grown into the iberis next to it so it needs careful spot treatment.

Hopefully it's all treated now. If not the next step might but a bulldozer!
Some years ago I used neat (undiluted) commercial glyphosate and a small paintbrush to kill a load of knotweed and deadly nightshade. Paint the leaves and the whole thing dies - systemic weedkiller.

I used one of those small paint tester pots with an inbuilt small brush attached to the lid. Very good for spot killing dock/bindweed etc.
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brought to you, I beleive, by the corporation that has poisoned half the planet...I further beleive they(the corporation) will sell you the antidote to the damage......

also, I beleive, famous for agent orange and the genetically modified seeds that will only reproduce once, so the third world farmers have to keep buying.

give a farmer a fish and he will feed for a day, teach him to fish and he can feed for as long as you're willing to sell him a fishing rod....

I am willing to stand corrected....
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ed wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:09 pm brought to you, I beleive, by the corporation that has poisoned half the planet...I further beleive they(the corporation) will sell you the antidote to the damage......
If you mean PTFE/Teflon, that was Du Pont.
ed wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:09 pm also, I beleive, famous for agent orange
ICI mainly, but some US organisations (not drug companies) were involved too.
ed wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:09 pm and the genetically modified seeds that will only reproduce once, so the third world farmers have to keep buying.
Monsanto... but contrary to popular belief, this was never commercialised (other companies have the technology and also didn't productise it).

Monsanto did commercialise glyphosate under the trade name "Roundup"... oddly, it's one of the safest herbicides around (apparently).
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#799 Re: what are you doing ?

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jack wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:15 pm Some years ago I used neat (undiluted) commercial glyphosate and a small paintbrush to kill a load of knotweed and deadly nightshade. Paint the leaves and the whole thing dies - systemic weedkiller.

I used one of those small paint tester pots with an inbuilt small brush attached to the lid. Very good for spot killing dock/bindweed etc.
Yep, hedge trimmer to cut it back exposing the sap and spray. Where it's mixed in I snipped with secateurs and painted on neat Roundup or whatever it is.

Shiny leaves tend to resist glyphosate, like ivy and acanthus. When we had the patio done a few years ago I just couldn't get rid of the acanthus so I got them to dig down with the mini excavator and remove a lot of soil (well, sand in these parts) to a skip and I still had to triple dig.

And then my better half planted some in a different corner of the garden...
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simon wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:46 pm
jack wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:15 pm Some years ago I used neat (undiluted) commercial glyphosate and a small paintbrush to kill a load of knotweed and deadly nightshade. Paint the leaves and the whole thing dies - systemic weedkiller.

I used one of those small paint tester pots with an inbuilt small brush attached to the lid. Very good for spot killing dock/bindweed etc.
Yep, hedge trimmer to cut it back exposing the sap and spray. Where it's mixed in I snipped with secateurs and painted on neat Roundup or whatever it is.

Shiny leaves tend to resist glyphosate, like ivy and acanthus. When we had the patio done a few years ago I just couldn't get rid of the acanthus so I got them to dig down with the mini excavator and remove a lot of soil (well, sand in these parts) to a skip and I still had to triple dig.

And then my better half planted some in a different corner of the garden...
Note that I mentioned "commercial glyphosate" - Roundup is Monsanto's marketing name for consumer-grade glyphosate; the commercial stuff is many times stronger but you can only get it from an agrochemical supplier - it's a different beast and needed if fighting knotweed etc. I believe that as an ordinary member of the public, it may be tricky to get - my in-laws are farmers...
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#801 Re: what are you doing ?

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Yeah it's getting increasingly difficult to get proper weedkillers for the average gardener. And maybe that's no bad thing in some respects.
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Faffing with the lathe.

I wanted to use the fine feed when i was making the parts for the latest version of the arm im working on, however to do that the change gears must be...well.... changed.

Getting at the ones on the apron is no problem if a little fiddly, getting the spindle gear off is another matter.

The lock ring needs to come off, then the main pulley, then the gear itsself. The lock ring came off fine, the pulley wouldn't budge.

So i just made the parts by hand, moving the carriage with the leadscrew dog clutch disengaged.

To get the pulley and gear off, i bought a set of pullers for not much the week before last. and is it has thrown it down all day so i couldnt go outside and do what i was supposed to be doing i finally got round to dismantling the back end of it to set it up to fine feed.

The medium sized puller worked fine on the belt pulley and spindle gear, so was worth buying, fitting the correct gear had a third of the job done.

Onto the 2 gears on the apron, and im missing the bloody key steel for one of them. I have got 2 pieces somewhere that have been put away in a 'safe place'. So i wont lose them......

So bought a length of key steel as i havent got anything in to make some.

Next onto the leadscrew gear which is the biggest one in the set (100 teeth) and has to fit in the smallest space. And be fitted over the key on the part of the dog clutch thats fitted onto the leadscrew

Practically impossible without taking the rest of the clutch assembly off the machine..
So that had to come off too. Pretty much all the other gears will go on without taking the clutch off, its just the piggin fine feed configuration that needs surgery to get set up.

So, its finally all set up now to fine feed, bar the piece of key steel that needs to go in on the second apron gear. That one is easily accessible so ill settle for that today.

A pig to set up, one of the drawbacks of old lathes, but to get a new machine of the same sort of quality as the md65 is probably a couple of grand. Too rich for me, ill put up with the faffing when it comes to threading and fine feed. Its not often ill need to thread something so once the key steel turns up it can stay as it is.........
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The tiler has now finished the bathroom...he started in March 2020 and stopped for covid before completely finishing...
I had the bath in before he'd tiled....
now to lay the floor
now to fit and plumb the new wc
now to fit and plumb the basin
now to fit the doors

and then I have to work out how to hang the ladder radiator on a lathe and plaster tiled wall.....I sent Paul an email in case he had the knowledge but so far no reply....Paul?


molly bolts?

Oh happy day.....
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#804 Re: what are you doing ?

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While waiting for parts to arrive for several jobs ive got on, i dug out another broken rega r200 i had been given a while ago. The usual problems, a perished bias belt and a broken arm rest lock. Couldnt do anything about the broken arm rest lock, but i could fit a new belt.

This one must be a later model as the innards are abit different to the other one i had. That one was a pain to get apart and to adjust but this one was not so bad.

The 2 locknuts came out, then rather than there being a plate with a ball race cut into it there was a top hat shaped washer with a hole down the middle for the yoke shaft, with the ball race profile cut into the top of the top hat, and a shoulder cut into the inside of the arm pillar for the bottom or the brim of the washer to key into.

The ball race was then sat on another shoulder further down the pillar. This washer centres the yoke shaft in the pillar, centres the ball race for the bearing, and the locknuts thread onto the end of the yoke shaft instead of into the inside of the pillar as the earlier one did. It was much easier to adjust it up as it puts the assembly in tension against the bottom ball race rather than in compression. Trying to keep everything lined up in the earlier one to get the plate for the ball race to line up with the balls and not foul the side of the arm pillar was teeth knashingly frustrating.

I then reattached the arm leads to the elbow connector on the end of the original cable.

The new belt was from the same seller i got it from last time, and needed the little tensioner piece in the bias housing again.

Ill turn up a new adjustable mounting boss for it like i did with the last one when i get around to it, but getting hold of a replacemet arm rest and clip will be like looking for a needle in a haystack so ill have to have a think about that repair..
Id also like an original rega branded headshell for it, i suppose one may come up but id bet it wont be cheap.

No idea what ill put it on, but its nice to know its up and running again

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#805 Re: what are you doing ?

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just finished the year end PAYE submissions...minefield, nightmare, waily doesn't even start to cover it...

bottle of scotch
bag of jelly babies
feet up, couple of hours with the firestick, tomorrow I'll have forgotten all about it.
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This week for Easter I’m cleaning my entire record collection on my homemade ultrasonic cleaner and put them in new inner sleeves .

I’ve just finished Genesis which is about 250 actual lps . G to Z left . Ah well
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Impressive motivation !
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I do 7 at a time for 30mins in enzyme bath. I can get on with other things while they clean. Today I touched up the kitchen paint.
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I let my first wasp of the season out of the attic room today.
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Resurrecting an old thread...

Did our first extraction and bottling at the weekend. 67kg of honey... we'll have about 190 jars in total from this lot.

It's beautiful honey - pure apple blossom (cox, braeburn & gala) - lovely flavour and viscosity. In 30 years of keeping bees, it's right up there with the best we've had.

The honey in the extractor is run through two stainless steel filters and stored in the white buckets you can see in the background. Each small bucket holds 5kg; the larger ones hold 15kg.

Input stack of supers on the right of the extractor; output stack on the left. Extractor takes 9 frames at a time and takes about 20 minutes to spin those out. Each super has 12 frames and there can be around 10-15 kgs of honey in each super.
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The settling tank holds about 40kg max - the honey rests in there for a few days before bottling to allow any tiny flecks of wax to float to the surface so it doesn't get into the jars. We use 340g/12oz hexagonal jars - each one is filled to exactly 340g by placing the empty jar on a digital scale just under the tap on the setting tank.
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