We've had a couple of nice clear days recently in the UK where any air traffic just emitted normal contrails that soon evaporated and left no trace, now we're back to this, white streaks all over the sky that linger and slowly spread out leaving a sky full of hazy 💩 that blocks direct sunlight. What is this stuff? What's the consequences on biodiversity? Will traces of this stuff inevitably make its way into our food & water supply, are people breathing this stuff in? #geoengineering #stratosphericaerosolinjection #SAI #solarradiationmanagement #SRM #chemtrails

New bike thoughts - Giant Revolt. Gravel bike, general all rounder, on & off road, not planning on doing any heavy offroading or jumps. Giants seem to have generally good build quality and good components for the money. Current bike is an early 2000s Giant Xtc hardtail owned from new, still running the original bearings & bottom bracket, pedals haven't fallen off, no major failures. £1.2k base model - £5.5k top spec is kinda out the question currently though. So it's about £150 of entry level but new parts & tools off Ebay. Shifter cable inners Alivio cassette Shimano chain Buckloss crank set chain rings Alivio rear derailleur Master link pliers Crank removal tool Chain whip Cassette lock ring tool Dot 4 Brake fluid Sometimes it's not worth doing up old bikes if it's going to cost more in parts vs buying a new bike but it'll do for now and rides okay.

There's quite a few videos on YouTube of people building a mitre saw & table saw combination unit but I just don't have the room for one, the mitre saw I've got measures 970mm deep when set at a 90° cut (from the front of the angle adjuster knob to the back of the sliders) and leaving it set up like that in a single car garage 2.4m wide with cupboards and a narrow bench on the adjacent wall leaves naff all room - barely enough for sawhorses, the shit concrete floor hasn't even got any dpc and gets wet from rising damp when it's been pissing it down even though there's a Arco channel drain in front of the garage door. The smallest footprint solution I could come up with was this contraption on castors made out of some 6x50x50mm angle iron and scrap timber, the side panels are salvaged rough old plywood that had previously been used as concrete shuttering. Many people do build stuff with scrap or pallet wood but usually after it's been ran through a planer thicknesser to clean it up and make the pieces a uniform thickness, and if pieces are being glued together to make a board - the edges are squared up on a jointer (surface planer) but I just put a front chamfer on the pieces, glued the edges and forced them together with sash clamps then fixed metal bands across the back with coach bolts going through the lot. Anyhow, the max depth of the unit is 620mm and a Dewalt DW735 table saw folded up on its rolling stand fits underneath. The unit is a bit high to use the mitre saw on especially with leaving the mounts on the underside of the saw for its stand, in an ideal world I'd just leave both the saws set up on their stands but don't have the room. Probably going to add a proper top next, either a piece of melamine or phenolic ply with a router plate & T tracks inset for a makeshift router table. Having little room is a ballache, you can go from tidy and organised to chaos in no time once you start doing stuff, small work areas also highlight how nasty grinding dust is, as your abrasive wheel is wearing down it's turning into dust settling on everything and going in your lungs. The frame was put together with a stick welder. (definitely won't be showing the welds off on Instagram 🤣) Machine can go upto 170 amps if you use a 16a plug but run it on a 13a domestic 3 pin plug, 140a got the arc going when everything was cold but then turned it down to about 125a once the steel got warm. Wouldn't mind doing more metalworking in the future and get better at welding. #tools #Dewalt.

Have you tried switching off your devices and going outdoors? Preferably off the beaten track! Nothing about your life or the world around you will have changed once you get back but it's better than sitting there like a frog in water that is heating up while you endlessly scroll & refresh. *Random picture off the internet. Previously had some Addidas Terrex ax4 gortex that started coming apart too soon (maybe non of these modern hiking trainers last that long - the gortex waterproofing certainly doesn't) Currently have some LA Sportiva Ultra Raptors - bit pricey but worth the money. Tried running, wish I hadn't tbh, gone all my life with no knee trouble, pushed it too far and hurt my knees.

There's a reason why furniture grade baltic birch plywood is x3 more expensive than the hardwood ply found in places like B&Q (Uk equivalent of Home Depot) The plywood isn't supposed to be used for furniture - it's construction grade but even so the surface layer on this stuff is impossibly thin (think cigarette paper 😂) Ripping it wasn't that bad but cross cutting it with my general purpose circular saw blade (saw used in conjunction with a Trend varijig clampable straight edge as don't own a tracksaw) splintered it real bad, even with a high tooth count blade, melamine blade or a saw with a score cut function - the face would still splinter and if you use a router on it you can hear the ply exploding as it hits a void. There was a guy on YouTube who found this out the hard way when he tried to clad out the interior of his campervan with this stuff 😬

Is it worth trying to fix electrical appliances nowadays in this mass produced throw away society? (Obviously not if you're familiar with oldskool washing machine bearings vs the new sealed tub type) Unless you know exactly the cause of the fault and can do it yourself - probably not. Bottom oven kept tripping out the rcd, sometimes straight away other times after a period of use, changed the element - still tripping, changed the thermostat - still tripping, wasn't worth keep throwing money at it but as a final throw of the dice disconnected the fan motor and used it conventionally - never tripped. Ordered a new fan motor, fan is held on the shaft by a dome nut, shaft shoulder to threaded section length different on the new motor so had to cut the nut down. Everything working fine, for now!

There's quite a few of those "New life in the sun" type TV shows aired in the UK where people buy property in rural areas of Europe, usually France or Italy to rent out or for weddings. Definitely get more for your money in terms of property size and land, obviously prices hinge on the state of repair. I was thinking about how much stuff you'd need if you were to take on a conversion and planned to do a lot of it yourself (Purchase price, fees, building materials, kitchens, bathrooms, some meagre living expenses aside 😂) I'd priced up about £25k of tools & equipment, maybe that's ott but you always need oodles of gear when you start doing stuff - everything from hand tools, power tools, step ladders, builder's trestles, tower scaffolds, generator, transformers, extension leads, whacker plate, cement mixer, stuff you wouldn't think of like buckets, hose pipes, wheel barrows, tarpaulins, comes with land? Add in chainsaws, strimmer, petrol mower, endless amounts of miscellaneous stuff like diamond tipped blades, cutting disks, drill bits etc None of that includes any form of plant such as a mini digger which I guess you could hire if needed. Like everything in life it boils down to money, everything ends up costing more than you thought and what's the point of taking something on if you haven't got the means to see it through?

Bag of shyte! Old pan connector quickly shoved in the bag from the new pan connector, those toilet seat fixings work the same as spring toggle plasterboard fixings, one of them is corroded/broken - no wonder the seat moves and there's been a leak from the close coupled doughnut washer evident by the staining. Would you like a coffee with your doughnut washer 🚽🍩☕?

̶N̶e̶t̶ ̶Z̶e̶r̶o̶ Nut Zero where lunatics like Miliband want to ban gas boilers and fossil fuels and force everyone to have a heat pump, saw another story recently where a family had one fitted, if they ran it full whack they could only get the house upto 19 degrees C, the hot water was only luke warm and it resulted in a massive electricity bill for their troubles 🥴 Maybe for people with land and the funds to have one fitted - ground source heat pumps are more efficient but the few I've seen on shows like Grand Designs required 100s of metres of pipes and trenches in the ground fairly deep.

You have to downsize your barn conversion desires if you've wasted all your money on alts instead of buying Bitcoin. 🐴

The only guns you're allowed to keep in the UK 😂

Wonder if it was a good vase in its day or it was just tourist tat? 🤔 Either way, looks like it's had a rough life.

Poverty UK, cheap crap flat pack wardrobe with a hardboard backboard standing against an solid 9" brick external wall in a typical terrace house, heating is probably never on, window closed in the evening, mouldy af. This isn't where I live - thank fuck! Count your blessings.

The UK, a region with some of the highest energy prices in world so people don't have their heating on. Meanwhile the government spends billions on 'overseas climate aid', weapons for Ukraine and continues down a road of 'Net Zero' madness which is just lies and propaganda to transfer more wealth to the Davos crowd.

#Starmer #BillGates #WEF

I guess the X App on my mobile is riddled with malware seen as it's becoming almost unusable at this point, maybe it's the same idiot that thought messing around with my desktop cursor was a good idea when I used to listen to music on my laptop - something I no longer do for that reason.

Looks like I stumbled across a Polish encampment, better not hang around too long in case Mariusz, Dariusz, Marcin, Pawel & Wojciech return all tanked up on Tyskie and want to fight me 😂

Homestead Rescue Season 2 Episode 2 Kentucky. They were cutting down a 100ft oak tree in windy conditions that was leaning the wrong way, not the best pictures but they had a bottle jack notched into the tree trying to push it over, looks like the back cut was a few inches higher than the front notch so they cut the hinge wood away and the tree just jumped forwards off the stump and fell backwards, scary stuff, cutting trees down ain't no joke. #chainsaw #treefelling

Same day, coincidence?