If we can somehow incorporate this into Jasper’s work routine without freezing his lips shut we might not have to employ anybody else for a bit.

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Whilst this guy doesn’t have any exact plans in relation to building said tube bender form scratch, he does have plenty of pictures, information and is more than happy for you to ask any questions via email.

As he points out:

There are No Plans for this bender, none now, and none later.
I want you to think freely and create.

So off you go to try and cobble one together.

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UPDATE: More about tube bending including various calculators here.

I honestly have no idea really, but I know things are up and down more than a bride’s nightie at the moment.

It seems that every six months or so I bound head-first into a quagmire of hosting/server troubles.

You may have noticed some serious downtime this week and, other than me hovering over the thing like a rabid mother hen, I can’t keep on top of the incessant system crashes due to too many peaks of burstable ram. (Am I sounding convincing?)

To put it mildly: we’re a bit low on memory.

Now if I was a proper systems admin I’d be having a blast tweaking and twonking, but considering I’m not I’m having panic attacks stopping and starting my vps in the vain hope something might click back into place.

You’ve also got to remember that this is a fully managed vps and those who are doing the managing are being extremely patient and holding my hand the same way your Gran did whilst crossing a busy road as a toddler.

That’s why I’ve decided to personally fork out for a dedicated server after a bit of advice/consultation/persuasion from the guy who provided me with the vps. I’ll trust him – he’s been really rather good so far.

Whilst I kinda find the whole server side of things interesting, it also scares the living daylights out of me.

So, apologies for the intermittent transmissions just recently – it’s another bout of growing pains I suppose.

It’ll be sometime next week before we’re anything like again as there’s a 48-72 hour setup time.

Don’t you love all this trial and error cobblers?

Look what you can do in an hour with a bit of mercury paste.

According to the following article:

Unless you are a representative of a national meteorological bureau licensed to carry a barometer (and odds are you’re not), bringing mercury onboard an airplane is strictly forbidden. Why? If it got loose, it could rust the plane to pieces before it had a chance to land. You see, airplanes are made of aluminum, and aluminum is highly unstable.

I had no idea that you could make such a mess of aluminium in such a short space of time.

I also never thought that a weatherman with a death wish could pose a greater threat to aviation safety than your average shoe bomber.

I always loved tinkering, or to be more precise watching other people tinkering, in their shed when I was but a mere tinker myself. That pungent aroma consisting of two-parts kerosense to one-parts Jays Fluid with a bit of meths, paint, grease and engine oil making up the final part still sends me back to this day.

Subsequently, I always like finding blogs which have a certain shed/workshop feel about ‘em.

You can check out Finkbuilt to learn all about 3-D circular saw blunders. Don’t ask me why you’d want or neen to learn about circular saw blunders in 3-D, it’d only make any sort of sense if I’d been sniffing the Jays Fluid and washing it down with a thimble of meths.