There’s enough frightening stuff goes on in your average sheet metal shop – none more so than Jasper arriving on a Monday morning having spent the weekend watching Braveheart on a loop coddling a bottle of Lidl’s finest cooking sherry. Talk about pudgy round the gills and waxing not too lyrical. He’s simply a sequence [...]
Continue readingI Really Wanna See Those (Slow Motion) Fingers Stop a Saw Blade
Posted on 10, Jun
Firemen Use Angle Grinder to Free Man’s Pipe from Steel Pipe
Posted on 22, Jan
We all know that first week back after Christmas and New Year can be a lonely and desperate time. Just ask Jasper. Many’s the time he can be seen skulking in the steel racks for hours on end when it’s quiet with nary a peep out of him. I sincerely hope he’s not up to [...]
Continue readingHow can you not love this collection of aircraft old, new, conceptual and fictional? But if you thought that was a fairly entertaining use of aeronautical social media usage, you haven’t had the pleasure of of being exposed to Lockheed Martin’s open source proprietary social media tool. And if we’re being perfectly honest, neither have [...]
Continue readingDuct Tape, Darts and Balloons
Posted on 23, Jun
Yes, wrap your motor in Duck tape. How could I not venture to the Avon Duct Tape Festival this past weekend? Avon happens to be one of the two (there may be more) duct tape capitals of the world – the other being Sarah Palin’s home village of Wasilla. And yes, it’s kind of what [...]
Continue readingLaser Cutter Plays Super Mario Bros. Theme
Posted on 21, Apr
Considering quite a few sheet metal shops are experiencing a bit of downtime at the moment, we could all do one of two things: 1. Work our nuts off trying to find extra work in order to keep the wolves from the door. or, 2. See what tunes we can get out of our workshops’ [...]
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The Tinbasher is the award-winning company blog of Butler Sheetmetal Ltd UK, a small fabrication shop in the darkest recesses of North West England.
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- Refuse Vehicle Cleaning Platform for Burnley & Pendle Binmen
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- Manufacturing Exhibition at Reebok, Bolton
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- Duplex Stainless Steels Fabrication – Practical Guidelines
- A Right Royal (Claret & Blue) Do; and Obama Visits a College
- Firemen Use Angle Grinder to Free Man’s Pipe from Steel Pipe
- Have Yourselves a Lovely Christmas
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