Scrap Metal

“I’ll just put a bit extra on for shipping.”

Posted on 17, Aug

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Might you be sitting on a million dollar goldmine? One of the tightest things I have ever heard of in my entire life was during a stint at an industrial supplies place. We had some farmer come in for a few nails for some fencing project, which we bagged for him and charged the extortionate [...]

Leave it to the amateurs

Posted on 7, Jun

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Oh my giddy (she’s epileptic y’know) aunt. So you throw £400,000 at a bunch of branding specialists to encapsulate the essence of the London Olympics and they manage Bruce Forsyth on steroids. And is the colour scheme not all a little bit Timmy Mallet? Of all the logos in all the world that could’ve benefited [...]

Hephaestus – The God of Tinbashing

Posted on 19, Apr

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You have a few poxy jobs that pretend to have patron saints but that doesn’t come close to actually having your own God (monotheistic deities apart). HEPHAISTOS was the great Olympian god of fire, metalworking, construction and the fine arts. He was usually depicted as bearded man with hammer and tongs, the tools of a [...]

Steel Drum Manufacturing Video

Posted on 17, Apr

And bone-idle Barry returns. I’d love to tell you that I’ve been feverishly beavering away this past week banging away at a steel drum in the back garden. But, I’d be lying. However, I’ve found you a a steel drum being manufactured on Youtube. It’s worth it just to watch the middle class white types [...]

Hammering out a tune on your own steel drum

Posted on 26, Mar

With the Cricket World Cup in full swing, The Tinbasher is happy to help you capture the mood of cricket in the Caribbean. No, I’m not suggesting a game of Cluedo but instructions on how to make your own steel drum. Or, to be more precise, a Dudup. This site explains how to make a [...]

Sheet Metal Cowboys

Posted on 22, Feb

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This isn’t going to be some diatribe against those sheet metal firms that get you to do fabrication for them, fold like a lump of aluminium in a hydroform, refuse to pay then give you a call to do a similar job having set up again under a different name. Whilst I was looking for [...]

Pete Burns’ Lips Cause Massive Traffic Explosion

Posted on 25, Jan

You know something is going on when you suddenly find your referrals clogged with google image results for Pete Burns. Obviously, here in America people are more concerned with the State of the Union address than the state of Pete Burns’ lips. But, it’s awfully nice to know [...]