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Offline DavidA

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I know I put it down somewhere.....
« on: January 25, 2016, 11:17:41 AM »
Dedicated to everyone who has walked into a room then can't remember why.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2016, 11:50:11 AM »
...oh yes ..... spent loads of time today looking for four large dowel pins I'm going to need to locate a vice on the mill ... I know I bought them ... I know they were delivered ... I know I put them in a safe place ...... BUT WHERE  :bang:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2016, 12:07:15 PM »
Like trying to buy four candles.

Bloody spell checker.
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2016, 12:29:52 PM »
I knew I would need an 1/8 gas blanking cap for when I removed a gas fire in my flat. This was going to be some time in the future. I found one in a box and then put it aside "safely". When I needed it 18 months later it was nowhere to be found, surprisingly. It was only when I stripped out my kitchen that I found it, on a small corner shelf on a kitchen cupboard, by the sink, and clearly on display. I must have looked at it hundreds of times whilst standing at the sink but did it register? Of course not  :Doh:

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2016, 12:59:28 PM »
...oh yes ..... spent loads of time today looking for four large dowel pins I'm going to need to locate a vice on the mill ... I know I bought them ... I know they were delivered ... I know I put them in a safe place ...... BUT WHERE  :bang:


....ah .... found them .... filed under 'Silver Steel' .... but WHY  :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2016, 02:20:38 PM »
...oh yes ..... spent loads of time today looking for four large dowel pins I'm going to need to locate a vice on the mill ... I know I bought them ... I know they were delivered ... I know I put them in a safe place ...... BUT WHERE  :bang:


....ah .... found them .... filed under 'Silver Steel' .... but WHY  :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

One word

Shiney
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2016, 02:53:38 PM »
...oh yes ..... spent loads of time today looking for four large dowel pins I'm going to need to locate a vice on the mill ... I know I bought them ... I know they were delivered ... I know I put them in a safe place ...... BUT WHERE  :bang:


....ah .... found them .... filed under 'Silver Steel' .... but WHY  :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

One word

Shiney

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2016, 03:23:58 PM »

It is the onset of - err? Well, it is and I shoul*********

Regards and - what was the question?

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2016, 12:36:33 AM »
Ha ha, reading these posts was fun. The key words seem to be "Safe Place". In my experience a dangerous place to put anything you want to find later   :lol:

   In my case I bought 10 or 12 30mm diameter diamond coated cutting /grinding disks. They arrived in a nice blue plastic envelope with clear plastic front. "Don't need em just yet", says I so put them away safely.
     So, I bought another lot because I couldn't find them when i did need em. Thought that I would find the first lot when putting the new arrival away. Nope, stuck the new lot on the door of my rotary tool cupboard and they are in plain view.  First lot? Still looking.

  Alas the video seems too close for comfort.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2016, 03:00:17 AM »



I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager)

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later.

I don't have to go to school or work.

I get an allowance every month.

I have my own pad.

I don't have a curfew.

I have a driver's license and my own car.

I have ID that gets me into bars and the wine store.  I like the wine store
best.

The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant, they
aren't scared of anything, they have been blessed to live this long, why be
scared

And I don't have acne.

Life is Good! Also, you will feel much more intelligent after reading this,
if you are a Seenager.

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much. People do not
decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because
they have more information in their brains, scientists believe this also
makes you hard of hearing as it puts pressure on your inner ear.

Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so too, do
humans take longer to access information when their brains are full.

Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they
get there, they stand there wondering what they came for.  It is NOT a
memory problem, it is nature's way of making older people do more exercise.

SO THERE!!

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember
their names.  So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my
friends, too.





Jeff

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2016, 03:53:50 AM »
I couldn't agree more Jeff. Well said!

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2016, 11:36:14 AM »
That's brilliant Jeff

Especially the last paragraph.... :thumbup:

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2016, 03:31:38 PM »
I find myself cursing under my breath and wiring things together, it prevents that "I know I have two, but can only find one" moment,  But in order to innovate..................you need junk!

Man who says it cannot be done should not disturb man doing it! https://www.youtube.com/user/philhermetic/videos?

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2016, 07:01:46 AM »
..you need junk!..

He said the 'J' word. :bugeye:

Gonna spend a long time in purgatory for that sin.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2016, 05:24:43 PM »
me to can never find out when I tidy up me workshop just get sorted then I need to tidy up a gane  and when I can not find it I blame the dog
 

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2016, 08:21:36 PM »
I can vouch for Bob's dog Leo, he is a good hound and would not hide Bobs stuff, well apart from biscuits etc which he might 'keep safe ' for Bob in his belly  :drool:
   As for tools , metal etc Leo is innocent  :thumbup: Bob is guilty :palm:

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2016, 09:51:32 PM »
I read about a bloke who has a drawer labelled "A Safe Place" just for the things he needs to find later.
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2016, 03:44:27 AM »
Does anyone else have workshop fairies?
They do my head in. I'll put a spanner down then go to pick it up and it's gone
After 10 mins of searching I find it where id already looked
Lee.
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2016, 04:46:36 AM »
I have noticed the Fairies hate immaculate workshops, so having sprinkled traps amongst my organised tool piles.  The stitches are being taken out next week...
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2016, 11:29:17 AM »
Well they've had it away with my stash of V engraving cutters  :bang:

I KNOW I had some tucked away somewhere - they a 1/8" shank carbide 90 degree V cutters - individual blue plastic caps to protect them - I've a feeling that they were TiN coated . . . where the heck are they  :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

... I suppose I'm going to have to fork out for some more, but a quick google hasn't found a supplier, never mind a fairy with full pockets  :med:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2016, 11:48:16 AM »
Hear you go http://www.banggood.com/search/engraving-bit-keywords.html just takes three weeks  :lol: .
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #21 on: February 15, 2016, 11:53:47 AM »
Thanks, but no 90 degree one there - been there and looked  earlier :scratch:

I've ordered some Chinese ones off ebay - I wonder if the fairies or these cutters will turn up first  :ddb:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #22 on: February 15, 2016, 03:49:33 PM »
I blame multiple dimensions.

Either that or I'm losing my marbles. Now, where did I put them ??

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #23 on: February 15, 2016, 03:54:43 PM »
Hi All
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Does anyone else have workshop fairies?

Yup  :palm: So many things have dissapeared in my workshop its unbelievable  :doh:

About 5 years ago a chrome oil tank cap rolled off the saddle of its bike onto the floor
Since then I have cleared out the entire floor area to move lathes around but the oil cap is still missing ????

Last week I went to use a piece of steel plate to make a jig so an awkward shaped bike cylinder head could be mounted on a  head machine so it could have new valve seats fitted
Now I'm positive that I  had made such a jig plate before as I know that I had prevoiusly gotten the same job done ??
No sign of the steel plate ????  I persuaded myself that I must have given it away to someone???
Off to the local scrap recyclers place and got a piece of 20mm thick ally about 200 x 350mm
There were a couple of skips full of really handy looking pieces there, but I resisted stocking up  :drool:

Today as I was cleaning off the workbench I suddenly realised that I had used the steel plate to add load area underneath the "new" vice I got a while ago :doh:

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2016, 08:18:59 AM »
They strike again.

Some time back I bought front wheel  bearings for my car as the old ones were starting to whine a bit.

The whining has developed into a steady drone. Quite frightening.

So, today being dry and not too cold I decided to change at least one side.

And I can't find the bearings.

Just spent two hours looking in my sheds.

I know they are in there somewhere.

But, as the consequences of a front wheel bearing collapse can be catastrophic I am going to have to go by some more, at £20 each.

And I know that as soon as I get beck home with the new ones the first lot will appear in a place I have already looked.

Damned gremlings.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2016, 02:11:47 PM »
I got this as an email .
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2016, 02:25:52 PM »
Did you look in the glove box?

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2016, 06:29:13 AM »
Tom,

Yes I did.  And in the boot.  Nothing.

I'm going out into the shed soon to light the stove and have another look.

Dave.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2016, 06:20:01 AM »
Probably turn up when you have a spring clean.

The mortal words thinking i'll put it there safe, 2mins later spend 10 mins trying to find. Sign of scenial decay join the club.

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« Reply #29 on: February 29, 2016, 11:52:29 AM »
Found them.

In the shed on a shelf. partially hidden by a piece of equipment.

Now all I have to do is fit them.

Great fun on a cold day in March.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #30 on: March 10, 2016, 03:55:06 AM »
In my atemtps to get my Arduino to do something , I tried Pycam for engraving it generated G-code and the default save location is Docume~1/Jeffrey/Locals~1/Temp/METB32922/SAMPLES/name , do you think I could find this after saving , Microshit search engine cant find it , who saves files in hidden folders  :bang: ? just a heads up guys .
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #31 on: March 10, 2016, 07:01:45 AM »
 Jeff,

I'm using XP.

The Search facility in Windows Explored has an option to

'Search hidden files and folders' in the advanced search area.

Hope this helps.

Dave.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #32 on: March 10, 2016, 11:33:29 AM »
In my atemtps to get my Arduino to do something , I tried Pycam for engraving it generated G-code and the default save location is Docume~1/Jeffrey/Locals~1/Temp/METB32922/SAMPLES/name , do you think I could find this after saving , Microshit search engine cant find it , who saves files in hidden folders  :bang: ? just a heads up guys .

Not Windows fault (at least on this occasion) but the application / app designer's fault.

The App might default to saving there - if so that's rather bad design; you should never actually ever save anything you want there - that's in Windows volatile "Temp" storage - and well-behaved apps are meant to clean up anything they park in Temp when the application exits (and Windows will periodically clean-out any detritus that apps leave behind in Temp).  No user should ever have to go and do anything in Temp - and that's one of the reasons its hidden.  The reason you couldn't find it is possibly because the app had done as it was supposed to and deleted it when it exited! 

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« Reply #33 on: March 10, 2016, 01:45:16 PM »
Oh I found it all right just took some working out , I use XP and clean out temp and outher files to stop XP slowing down on a regular shedule lesson learned .
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #34 on: March 10, 2016, 01:59:11 PM »
I think My stuff goes to the Tardis!
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2016, 06:14:00 PM »
 but which Dr Who is driving it?

I found old carpet stops stuff rolling too far and minimizes damage to tools.

I also got one of these extending magnet gadgets with a built in torch for $2 and that at least gives me a chance! If that fails the Cree torches with zoom function give LOADS OF LIGHT to allow you to curse in comfort when you can't reach it.

Spent ages once looking for v small screw which dropped onto floor. Magnets, torch, small children all deployed to no avail. Then looked in trouser turn up - bingo.

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« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2016, 05:36:11 PM »
A little aside on the bearings I 'lost'.

On Sunday I set about fitting one side.

I don't have a press so I was committed to driving out the old bearing with a drift.

It was tight. So I was really laying into it when there was a sharp pain and blood was squirting everywhere.

And I do mean spurting. It was apparently coming from the little finger of my right hand; the one holding the hammer.
Problem was my hands were really black and oily. so first job is to clean them.
The sink was soon a bloody, oily mess as I had to wring my hands together to get the dirt away.
Got the hands clean and began looking for a huge laceration.
Blood still running, but can't find a cut.
Then found a tiny pin hole in the finger less than a millimeter wide.
Nothing in the hole. I couldn't believe so much blood could come from so small a wound.

Anyway my daughter taped it up and we went back out to finish the job.

I never found out where the shrapnel came from.

Dave.

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2016, 06:02:52 PM »
...oouch  :bugeye:

Full marks to Daughter  :thumbup:

... heal quickly   :worthless:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #38 on: March 16, 2016, 05:15:04 PM »
Acording to Dr Who "One should never put turnup in trowsers"

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« Reply #39 on: March 17, 2016, 01:48:28 AM »
David, could it be that the head of your drift was mushroomed? Though how it flew from there to your little finger on the hammer handle I am at a loss as the forces should be downward. BUT, swarf and chips do amazing gymnastics at times.

Tape up and keep going sounds like a commitment to the project at hand.

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« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2016, 07:49:25 AM »
John,

The drift head was the thing I suspected.  But it was ok, I'm careful to remove any mushrooming.

I think the bit must have bounced back from somewhere.

Do you remember the inimical Daniels from The Salvager ?

His motto was 'the only way to get a job done is to do it'.  And the bearing had to be changed. So, tape it up and think of England.

Dave.

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« Reply #41 on: March 17, 2016, 12:17:10 PM »
Years ago - decades ago - I used to walk from the Tube station to the Polytechnic where I was studying my 'A' levels, and it took me past a tool dealer - not absolutely sure but I think that it was a Buck & Hickman's. In the window they had a display of Moore & Wright measuring tools, and nestled in the middle was a No. 800 Thread Pitch gauge - the sort that folds out with lots of blades like a pen knife.

I coveted that gauge. I looked daily, and kept saying that I couldn't afford it - I was 16 at the time and funds were practically non existent  :(

Well one day I bought it - can't remember how I managed it, but I had it in my pocket for days  :clap:

Now that was 50 years ago, and I've used that gauge regularly measuring Imperial threads ever since - more recently (probably 15 years ago) I got a Metric version, but it's only Draper and nothing like the quality but it does the job.

On Monday I was using the M&W 800 - used it several times - I know EXACTLY where I was using it (at the lathe and at my bench) - went to get it out of the drawer on Tuesday - gone, vanished not a trace or even a note to say goodbye  :bang:

Since then I've turned the workshop upside down, the bench has never been more tidy, the lathe and it's surroundings have been given a spring clean, but no, not a trace, not a sign, nothing.

So rather reluctantly I've ordered another identical one on eBay, but I have an odd feeling of being disloyal  :med:

... so how long before the original comes back from it's travels, and settles back into it's comfortable lined drawer        :scratch:
Andrew Mawson
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« Reply #42 on: March 18, 2016, 06:07:12 AM »
Well that didn't take too long  :ddb:

I keep my measuring tools in an office type 5 drawer Bisley A4 unit. It occurred to me that it was entirely possible that when I closed the top drawer where they are kept, the gauge had been pushed 'over the top' and fallen behind the other drawers.

So, take the top drawer out, then the next etc and lo and behold 'down the back' were all sorts of lost goodies including a brand new 'Zeus' reference booklet that I'd not seen for weeks - BUT NO THREAD Gauge  :bang:

As I put the drawers back and got to the top one, hey, what's THAT jammed up in the fold that forms the side of the drawer? Yes, my poor innocent thread gauge - it hadn't been out on the town partying, it was where is should have been all the time. Ironic - I'd completely emptied the drawer searching previously, but as I'd not removed it I'd not seen it at the angle that revealed the stuck thread gauge  :lol:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #43 on: March 18, 2016, 07:46:21 AM »
Andrew,

It just shows that the fastest way to find a lost tool is to order a new one.

Works every time.

Dave.

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« Reply #44 on: March 19, 2016, 12:05:30 PM »
Having just ordered a new set of CK folding Allen keys to replace my 'misplaced' ones, I am hoping a little bit of your majic rubs off on me!

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #45 on: March 30, 2016, 04:59:36 PM »
Andrew

are you sure SWMBO had not ,as part of a diabolic plan, carefully relocated it temporarily? "workbench never looked so clean" - always a bad move to let 'em see that. Gives them as sorts of ideas about tidiness being next top godliness ( see the irish dictionary for relevant entries ).

Glad it turned up eventually.

As a first aid  aside - always useful to have some 'steri-strips"in the workshop first aid kit . Pressure stops the bleeding and the steri strip binds the skin flap down.

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« Reply #46 on: March 30, 2016, 05:17:06 PM »
Ian,

25 mm masking tape works pretty well as a temporary blood stop  :clap:

Managed to gash a knuckle with a Stanley knife this morning - got a first aid kit in the workshop, but no way can you get those silly modern sealed elastoplasts open with blood all over the place  :bang:

A turn of masking tape round the affected digit stemmed the flow, and when clotting started a more conventional fix could be applied  :lol:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #47 on: March 30, 2016, 06:49:28 PM »
I just hold a cigaette paper on it the bleeding stops and dries and forms a second skin that washes away later

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« Reply #48 on: April 01, 2016, 05:44:34 PM »
I just hold a cigaette paper on it the bleeding stops and dries and forms a second skin that washes away later
So smoking can be good for you :bugeye:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #49 on: April 02, 2016, 02:45:25 AM »
Well I don't smoke, but I keep cigarette papers in the workshop for 'touching off' on the surface grinder. A small piece is moistened with saliva and stuck on the work. Then bring the wheel down gently until the paper is wiped off and you know exactly how close you are to the work.

Trouble is the wife steals them to clean the reeds of her Oboe mouthpiece  :lol:
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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #50 on: April 02, 2016, 03:50:19 AM »
I was given a small bible Andrew and found the pages to be great for touch of paper   :dremel:



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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #51 on: April 02, 2016, 09:38:20 AM »
A divine datum......I like it  :)

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Re: I know I put it down somewhere.....
« Reply #52 on: April 02, 2016, 10:45:04 AM »
I was given a small bible Andrew and found the pages to be great for touch of paper   :dremel:



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Doing that you leave your self open to Ungodly Errors creeping in  :med:
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