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Offline benji

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Brass Monkeys!!
« on: December 12, 2010, 08:40:19 AM »
Well I thought I'd managed to chase the brass monkeys out of the workshop after all the snow had thawed, but I've just been out there and the little sods are back, and now they have brought the damp with them  :bang:

Question is, if I can catch them do they have any value as far as raw materials go? Has any body successfully melted a brass monkey down?

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Re: Brass Monkeys!!
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2010, 11:12:14 AM »
I don't know about that, but if you wait long enough, their dangly bits will fall off, and that will save having to make a ball turner

Depending on the size of the monkey, governor weights, or door handles, or even make yourself a Newton's cradle.


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Re: Brass Monkeys!!
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2010, 03:04:33 PM »
Quote from: benji on December 12, 2010, 08:40:19 AM

Question is, if I can catch them do they have any value as far as raw materials go? Has any body successfully melted a brass monkey down?

mark

They do have a useful purpose in protecting your tomato plants.  Just hang one by his ears in the green house with a tin bucket under him.  You will get an audible alert when a hard frost is setting in.
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