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Workshops and Neighbours Peter Neill 04-24-2008
Posted by on June 27, 2008, 6:35 pm
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> John Stevenson wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:44:57 GMT, John Stevenson
>
> >> Peter,
> >> Any chance of a bit of that No 2 plastic to make machineable wax out
> >> of ?
> >> Got some big candles from Ikea last night for 50p each, far less than
> >> bulk paraffin wax
>
> >> Harrogate show in just over a week so go to get some blanks made up.
>
> > Oops sorry should have been email to Peter
> > --
> > Regards,
>
> > John Stevenson
>
> What's the No 2 plastic?
>
> -- Peter Fairbrother

It's the recyclable number on the plastic.
1 is PET, plastic bottles, 2 is LDPE Low density etc.
3, dunno and 4 is HDPE high density etc.

No 2 is some plastic sheeting, bubble wrap etc when mixed with
paraffin wax in a 75% to 25% LDPE and allowed to set it makes a form
of machinable wax.

Our's wasn't too bad, not as good as the professional gear but the
candles were a bit spurious as they were in two parts, a flaky outer
and a hard inner.

Did the job though at the show but won't bother again, now we are stup
with enclosures and coolant it's as cheap to cut steel.

John S.

Posted by John Stevenson on April 24, 2008, 6:58 pm
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 On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:21:11 +0100, Peter Neill

>Just had a call & visit from the local planning enforcement officer
>following an 'anonymous' complaint that I was illegally running a
>business from home.
>I suspect that my neighbours (the ones with the noisy dog mentioned
>before) have made the complaint, as we recently informed them that
>they were in breach of the Party Wall Act with respect to the
>extension they are building, which didn't go down too well.
>
>The good news is that the planning officer (very pleasant lady btw)
>happily confirmed that having a phone, desk, computer, and fax machine
>is perfectly ok as she could see from our website that this is just a
>local sales office, with the factory and toolroom being 25 miles up
>the road in Clacton, so the complaint has been closed almost as soon
>as it was opened. Having a lathe & mill in the garage for hobby use is
>no problem either apparently.
>
>I suspect that the next avenue of tit-for-tat complaints from them
>will be excessive noise (although there isn't) when the machines are
>being run.
>Has anyone else had problems with neighbours complaining about their
>hobby workshop, from noise or other activities?
>
>Peter

Had a very slight problem with one of the neighbours sons a while ago
when scrap prices were low.
He decided he was going into the used car game and collecting MOT
failures to repair.

Problem was we started getting out of MOT and out of tax cars parked
all along the road.

Telling said plonker didn't do anything and plod wasn't interested.

Thinks came to a head when he 1/2 blocked the driveway and I couldn't
get the truck out early one morning.

Just managed to squeeze it tighter on the drive and got the fork truck
out.
Picked the offending car up and stacked it on top of another one
outside his house.

No more problems after that.

Have you tried signing them up to readers digest ?

Do your houses have the square BT box on the front of each house like
some of the newer housing estates ?
If so they bring a multi core cable into the end box and loop it box
to box.

First box uses two cables, next box uses two different ones etc, etc.

Nip out one night and pull the cover off their box and note the
colour's, next time they go away for a couple of days connect a spare
phone to those colour's in your box then ring the talking clock in
Australia and leave the phone off the hook.............

If they have external electric meter pull the mains fuse when they go
away for a week and put it back just before they return, no one ever
checks the seal.

I know a couple of better ones for if they really piss you off........
--
Regards,

John Stevenson
Nottingham, England.

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Posted by newshound on April 27, 2008, 7:05 am
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> Thinks came to a head when he 1/2 blocked the driveway and I couldn't
> get the truck out early one morning.
>
> Just managed to squeeze it tighter on the drive and got the fork truck
> out.
> Picked the offending car up and stacked it on top of another one
> outside his house.
>
ROFL! Always wanted to be able do that!



Posted by Tony Jeffree on April 27, 2008, 7:37 am
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:58:57 GMT, John Stevenson

>Picked the offending car up and stacked it on top of another one
>outside his house.

Next time, you could at least do the decent thing & sell tickets in
advance <G>

Regards,
Tony


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