The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

[ZRX61]

This metal GPz900R model. It all goes together with tabs & slots.

https://www.metalearth.com/premium/kawasaki-gpz900r

[ZRX61]

I've been looking for the Huey that same company makes, that's how I found the GPz9. Decided to look on Amazon & ordered two of the Hueys.. & that lead me to a couple of spiffy tool kits for model construction (I also need to finish the big Revell Huey model I have).
I also noticed the metal Huey's are classified as "Easy" to build.. & the GPz9 is "Challenging".. So I'm holding off doing that one until I've done the two Huey's

[demographic]

he'll be wanting shiny loo roll next

Izal

Coal tar soap kills covid & other lurgies

Izal, worlds hardest bog paper, doesn't take any shit from anyone.
I remember it from primary school, was like a roll of grease proof paper.

[Mr. Dazzle]

It would have helped with Covid though!

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles ... EAAEMRUqpd

Wilson’s report to Thomson explained that with soft paper, people’s “fingers would be virtually in contact with the faecal material” and so “until the routine washing of hands after defecation becomes a universal practice”, soft toilet tissue simply posed too great a risk to health.

They still had rough bog paper when I was at primary school in the early/mid 90s, in fact I remember the glorious new term when they simultaneously introduced the twin luxuries of soft bog roll and full height doors on the cubicles.

[Horse]

he'll be wanting shiny loo roll next

Izal

Coal tar soap kills covid & other lurgies

Izal, worlds hardest bog paper, doesn't take any shit from anyone.
I remember it from primary school, was like a roll of grease proof paper.

You can polish the corners off diamonds with that stuff

[Skub]

Izal, worlds hardest bog paper, doesn't take any shit from anyone.
I remember it from primary school, was like a roll of grease proof paper.

May as well wipe yer ass with a plastic bag. It didn't remove shit,just relocated it.

[v8-powered]

Milwaukee battery impact gun, looks nice and red and shiny

[moth]

he'll be wanting shiny loo roll next

Izal

Coal tar soap kills covid & other lurgies

Not now it doesn't. They removed the coal tar from it.

I'm surprised you can even mention it in Californicate. 3M electrical tape carries a health warning there, the health authorities would shit themselves at people rubbing aromatic hydrocarbons into their skin.

[ZRX61]

Spurtles & other assorted *tools* for the kitchen.

[MrLongbeard]

LED lighting for the garage, best few quid spent this lockdown

PXL_20210328_134835053.MP by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

[Jody]

LED lighting for the garage, best few quid spent this lockdown

PXL_20210328_134835053.MP by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

Were you replacing traditional tube type lighting?

Do you rate the LEDs?

[MrLongbeard]

Were you replacing traditional tube type lighting?

Do you rate the LEDs?

No, you see that single solitary bulb in the middle, that was the landlords idea of garage lighting so after 7 years of having various bodges which including LED strips from vending machines and a dodgy GU10 lash up, I thought it about time I got around to it.

Rate them? night and day mate, night and day, piece of piss to install, cheap enough (less than £30 each with a quick google for discount codes) and plenty bright enough for a standard size garage.
https://ledhut.co.uk/products/55w-led-t ... k-standard

[ZRX61]

A rather nice 20-200 INCH/lb torque wrench. Now I have five torque wrenches... 3 Craftsman, 1 Norbar & the new 1/4in drive Lexivon. May as well be accurate putting the ZRX engine gubbins back together.

[ZRX61]

Just had a massive polystyrene box show up containing 55 frozen meals. A mix of breakie, lunch & dinner from the SouthBeach Diet people. They were offering a 70% discount plus free shipping so I just got $316 of scran for $95.
I better lose some damn weight during April....

[MrLongbeard]

An all in one bluetooth, DAB, FM, internet, USB box for receiving music.
Saw it yonks ago when Techmoan reviewed it but held off for the price to stabilise, it's a little on the cheap feeling side of things but it works well enough in my Hi-Hi stack

[moth]

In an strange coinkydink, this has just arrived

[Noggin]

Pastys!!

A friend makes cakes to sell on a stall at the markets here but is also Cornish so offered to make pasties one day a month.

The first time (March) she had to make 130ish pasties!! (Hand made to a 'local to her' Cornish recipe!)

This month the total orders were almost 200!! LOL Mental as she normally works alone, but did have some help for prep for the pasties this time!!


So, I have a traditional pasty and a steak and stilton.

One tonight with mash peas and gravy, one tomorrow out in the sun on the balcony of my friends' chalet!!

Gurt lush indeed!!

[Scotsrich]

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Revolution Triad 1.0

I’ve been browsing Gumtree and Facebook for weeks looking for a bargain and this came up at a decent price.

I don’t know what it’s been used for but it’s spotless. It must have been used because it’s got a complete brand new braking system front to back.

It’ll do for me bimbling around.

[ZRX61]

A US made 10.25in Lodge cast iron skillet. This one is new & the finish is a bit rougher than the really old ones that I think disappeared with the ex wife.
Anywho, I know how to get them seasoned (with proper lard, not that Crisco stuff) & up to snuff, so that will take place on Tuesday when no one else is around. Once I get this one sorted I might just start buying & restoring old ones again. Back in the day I did quite a few for friends. I can pick up loads of them from the thrift stores etc (skillets, not friends)

[moth]

A US made 10.25in Lodge cast iron skillet. This one is new & the finish is a bit rougher than the really old ones that I think disappeared with the ex wife.
Anywho, I know how to get them seasoned (with proper lard, not that Crisco stuff) & up to snuff, so that will take place on Tuesday when no one else is around. Once I get this one sorted I might just start buying & restoring old ones again. Back in the day I did quite a few for friends. I can pick up loads of them from the thrift stores etc (skillets, not friends)

Does being US made make it better?

Mine's French, and it's a monster