From: T i m on
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:52:00 +0100, nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:


>Yet my tires have Max. Press. in kPA on them nowadays.
>(about 300 of them, iirc)
>
Do you run a fleet of these by any chance Jan?

http://www.fallingpixel.com/products/3208/mains/Appliance%201.jpg

Cheers, T i m
From: Phil Taylor on
In article <190320102024109063%nospam(a)yrl.co.uk>, Elliott Roper
<nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> > [1] I'm the only person (that I know of) that ever found a use for the
> > ato- prefix. I once developed an assay for serotonin whose sensitivity
> > was measured in atomoles. I notice that the spelling chucker on this
> > newsreader doesn't like the word atomole:-)
>
> I'm not surprised by that. Everyone else spells it 'atto'
> Attoboy!

Heh! Well, it was a long time ago. Shows how often I've had to write
it since:-)

Phil Taylor
From: T i m on
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:48:15 +0000, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid>
wrote:

<snip>
> Last year
>I built a boat, using Lloyds-certified marine plywood.

That sounds interesting. What did you build may I ask?

> Sizes of
>plywood sheets are quoted in mm - lots of mm long and wide and 6mm or
>3mm thick, but it turned out that those measurements were only nominal
>- actually the sheets were exactly 8' x 4' x 1/4" or 1/8".

Yup, the Percy Blandford 'pram' I built when at school was 6' long
(not 1828mm). ;-)

Cheers, T i m
From: Peter Ceresole on
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote:

> >Yet my tires have Max. Press. in kPA on them nowadays.
> >(about 300 of them, iirc)
> >
> Do you run a fleet of these by any chance Jan?
>
> http://www.fallingpixel.com/products/3208/mains/Appliance%201.jpg

Good heavens no. How lumpen. JJ rents out a better class of car.

<www.starcarhire.co.uk/movie_tv_fab1.htm>
--
Peter
From: Phil Taylor on
In article <goo7q59e4fmf43favis3cmnliaqn0j8k2q(a)4ax.com>, T i m
<news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:48:15 +0000, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Last year
> >I built a boat, using Lloyds-certified marine plywood.
>
> That sounds interesting. What did you build may I ask?

Just a two-man kayak, but I never built a boat before, and it was fun.

Picture here: <http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/Widget.jpg>

Phil Taylor