Hold on to something for long enough and it becomes useful

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:10:38 +0000
soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:

> Hold on to something for long enough and it becomes useful
>
> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Fw7bZoPyVU?feature=share

The abstrad! He reached through shedspace to nick that from my shed.

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In article <20240117165235.5750d4c2de181bb1341b44fb@eircom.net>, Ahem A
Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> on Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 16:52:35 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:10:38 +0000
>soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> Hold on to something for long enough and it becomes useful
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Fw7bZoPyVU?feature=share
>
> The abstrad! He reached through shedspace to nick that from my shed.
>
I am sure that, that is the one that SWMBO threw out when I was not
looking?
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When the seat of my old office char went and the jagged end of the bolt
stuck through. I binned the set part and its tube, but kept the wheeled
base. Over 10 years later its the base to a stand fan where the base was
so flimsy it fell to bits I no a year. As luck would have it the tubular
portion went into the wheeled bas like a glove and I now have a wheeled
fan.
Likewise, an old CRT TV and Video and stand were sold but the purchaser did
not want the stand. I kept it for about 7 years, and now its a speaker
stand for my right hand speaker as I was all out of skyhooks.
Brian

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"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message
news:20240117165235.5750d4c2de181bb1341b44fb@eircom.net...
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:10:38 +0000
> soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> Hold on to something for long enough and it becomes useful
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Fw7bZoPyVU?feature=share
>
> The abstrad! He reached through shedspace to nick that from my shed.
>
> --
> Steve O'Hara-Smith
> Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
> Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
> Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

On 18/01/2024 12:55, Brian Gaff wrote:
> When the seat of my old office char went and the jagged end of the bolt
> stuck through. I binned the set part and its tube, but kept the wheeled
> base. Over 10 years later its the base to a stand fan where the base was
> so flimsy it fell to bits I no a year. As luck would have it the tubular
> portion went into the wheeled bas like a glove and I now have a wheeled
> fan.
> Likewise, an old CRT TV and Video and stand were sold but the purchaser did
> not want the stand. I kept it for about 7 years, and now its a speaker
> stand for my right hand speaker as I was all out of skyhooks.
> Brian
>

I get through a lot of orifice chairs. It's always the gas cylinder that
'lets me down' (quite literally). I've just ordered another designed for
big blokes, with what they call 'three way gas suspension'. I will
report back.

Tone

On 18/01/2024 15:19, Hymermut wrote:
> On 18/01/2024 12:55, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> When the seat of my old office char went and the jagged end of the bolt
>> stuck through. I binned the set part and its tube, but kept the wheeled
>> base. Over 10 years later its the base to a  stand fan where the base
>> was
>> so flimsy it fell to bits I no a year. As luck would have it the tubular
>> portion  went into the wheeled bas like a glove and I now have a wheeled
>> fan.
>>   Likewise, an old CRT TV and Video and stand were sold but the
>> purchaser did
>> not want the stand. I kept it for about 7 years, and now its a  speaker
>> stand for my right hand speaker as I was all out of skyhooks.
>>   Brian
>>
>
> I get through a lot of orifice chairs. It's always the gas cylinder that
> 'lets me down' (quite literally). I've just ordered another designed for
> big blokes, with what they call 'three way gas suspension'. I will
> report back.

You can buy the gas cylinders on their own.

On 19-Jan-24 12:59, Mike Fleming wrote:
> On 18/01/2024 15:19, Hymermut wrote:
>> On 18/01/2024 12:55, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>> When the seat of my old office char went and the jagged end of the bolt
>>> stuck through. I binned the set part and its tube, but kept the wheeled
>>> base. Over 10 years later its the base to a  stand fan where the base
>>> was
>>> so flimsy it fell to bits I no a year. As luck would have it the tubular
>>> portion  went into the wheeled bas like a glove and I now have a wheeled
>>> fan.
>>>   Likewise, an old CRT TV and Video and stand were sold but the
>>> purchaser did
>>> not want the stand. I kept it for about 7 years, and now its a  speaker
>>> stand for my right hand speaker as I was all out of skyhooks.
>>>   Brian
>>>
>>
>> I get through a lot of orifice chairs. It's always the gas cylinder
>> that 'lets me down' (quite literally). I've just ordered another
>> designed for big blokes, with what they call 'three way gas
>> suspension'. I will report back.
>
> You can buy the gas cylinders on their own.
>
Not very comfortable though. I'd still stick with the chair.

--
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On 19/01/2024 19:13, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> I've just ordered another designed for big blokes, with what they
>>> call 'three way gas suspension'. I will report back.
>>
>> You can buy the gas cylinders on their own.
>>
> Not very comfortable though.  I'd still stick with the chair.
>
> --

Chair arrived today. Had a battle assembling it. Lining up screws with
holes and anchor nuts in the seat and cushioned back-rests was a
nightmare. It is really a two person job.

The heavy duty gas cylinder is indeed 'three way'. i.e. It is a piston
and rod inside a piston and rod inside a cylinder.

I have already ordered a replacement for when it lets me down.

Tone

In article <uof2of$3br7c$1@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 00:05:30 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 19/01/2024 19:13, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>> I've just ordered another designed for big blokes, with what they
>>>> call 'three way gas suspension'. I will report back.
>>>
>>> You can buy the gas cylinders on their own.
>>>
>> Not very comfortable though.  I'd still stick with the chair.
>>
>> --
>
>Chair arrived today. Had a battle assembling it. Lining up screws with
>holes and anchor nuts in the seat and cushioned back-rests was a
>nightmare. It is really a two person job.
>
>The heavy duty gas cylinder is indeed 'three way'. i.e. It is a piston
>and rod inside a piston and rod inside a cylinder.
>
>I have already ordered a replacement for when it lets me down.
>
The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
the piston assembly be disassembled because the piston is likely still
under pressure

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On 20-Jan-24 0:26, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <uof2of$3br7c$1@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
> Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 00:05:30 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>> On 19/01/2024 19:13, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>> I've just ordered another designed for big blokes, with what they
>>>>> call 'three way gas suspension'. I will report back.
>>>>
>>>> You can buy the gas cylinders on their own.
>>>>
>>> Not very comfortable though.  I'd still stick with the chair.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> Chair arrived today. Had a battle assembling it. Lining up screws with
>> holes and anchor nuts in the seat and cushioned back-rests was a
>> nightmare. It is really a two person job.
>>
>> The heavy duty gas cylinder is indeed 'three way'. i.e. It is a piston
>> and rod inside a piston and rod inside a cylinder.
>>
>> I have already ordered a replacement for when it lets me down.
>>
> The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
> the piston assembly be disassembled because the piston is likely still
> under pressure
>
Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?

--
Sam Plusnet

On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:26:26 +0000, "Nicholas D. Richards"
<nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

>The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
>the piston assembly be disassembled because the piston is likely still
>under pressure

The destructions for a new car boot gas cylinder spring set came with the note
to cut the cylinder wall on the old, uninstalled ones, with a hacksaw between
*here* and *there*. This would safely release the pressure and then the springs
could be safely treated as scrap, and to please not cut the things anywhere but
in the designated bit...

Thomas Prufer

>>
> Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
> defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?
>

No idea - but it sounds like the sort of thing that should have happened
to at least one of the drummers in Spinal Tap

In the Tarantino film "True Romance" Patricia Arquette may have killed
Dennis Hopper with the porcelain lid from a lavatory cistern ?

And Susan George killed her husband with a frozen leg of lamb in some
obscure episode of "Tales of the Unexpected" - the defrosted and
roasted lamb was then served up to the homicide detectives in a break
from their search for the murder weapon.

I cant remember who it was that got thrown in to the wood chipper in
"Fargo" or if they were alive at the time.

On 2024-01-20, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
> On 20-Jan-24 0:26, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <uof2of$3br7c$1@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
>> Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 00:05:30 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>> On 19/01/2024 19:13, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>> I've just ordered another designed for big blokes, with what they
>>>
>>> I have already ordered a replacement for when it lets me down.
>>>
>> The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
>> the piston assembly be disassembled because the piston is likely still
>> under pressure
>>
> Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
> defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?
>

I start to feel queasy with this talk of pistons and cylinders in a
chair. Actually, I must look up the price of won, Chees

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In article <uog2gj$3k137$1@dont-email.me>, Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-
smith.co.uk> on Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 09:07:32 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>
>>>
>> Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
>> defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?
>>
>
>
>No idea - but it sounds like the sort of thing that should have happened
>to at least one of the drummers in Spinal Tap
>
>In the Tarantino film "True Romance" Patricia Arquette may have killed
>Dennis Hopper with the porcelain lid from a lavatory cistern ?
>
>And Susan George killed her husband with a frozen leg of lamb in some
>obscure episode of "Tales of the Unexpected" - the defrosted and
>roasted lamb was then served up to the homicide detectives in a break
>from their search for the murder weapon.
>
>I cant remember who it was that got thrown in to the wood chipper in
>"Fargo" or if they were alive at the time.

I have a vague memory of a drama on the Home Service which revolved
around solving a murder where the victim has been stabbed but no murder
weapon can be found.

The victim had been killed, rather than murdered, by a large icicle
falling from the eaves of a house.
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On 20/01/2024 09:47, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> I have a vague memory of a drama on the Home Service which revolved
> around solving a murder where the victim has been stabbed but no murder
> weapon can be found.
>
> The victim had been killed, rather than murdered, by a large icicle
> falling from the

That rings a bell with me too - although I think they might have
actually got round to calling it Radio 4 by that time.

Come to think of it, there were a few unusual murders perpetrated by
Vincent Price in "Theatre of Blood" and some really weird ones in "The
Abominable Dr. Phibes" which had a very similar plot.

On 20/01/2024 01:24, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
>> the piston assembly be  disassembled because the piston is likely still
>> under pressure
>>
> Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
> defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?

Some hectarefortnights ago my mate had a massive Guy Fawkes bonfire,
burning a lot of stuff he didn't want from his farm house, that he had
just sold.

He had an orifice chair he wanted to give away, but nobody wanted it, so
he chucked it on the fire. It burned well, but he forgot about the gas
cylinder.

There was an almighty bnag. The cylinder shot skywards. Half the fire
distributed itself around the garding in the dark* past folks ear 'oles,
and the cylinder was never seen again by us. Don't know where it came
down, if it did.

*That was quite speck tack you lah

Tone

Abandoned Trolley said:
>
> And Susan George killed her husband with a frozen leg of lamb in some
> obscure episode of "Tales of the Unexpected" - the defrosted and
> roasted lamb was then served up to the homicide detectives in a break
> from their search for the murder weapon.

Roald Dahl short story.

--
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My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On 20/01/2024 12:07, Richard Robinson wrote:
> Abandoned Trolley said:
>>
>> And Susan George killed her husband with a frozen leg of lamb in some
>> obscure episode of "Tales of the Unexpected" - the defrosted and
>> roasted lamb was then served up to the homicide detectives in a break
>> from their search for the murder weapon.
>
> Roald Dahl short story.
>
>

Called (upon further investigation) "Lamb to the Slaughter"

In article <uogcl1$3ljkr$1@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 12:00:28 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 20/01/2024 01:24, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
>>> the piston assembly be  disassembled because the piston is likely still
>>> under pressure
>>>
>> Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
>> defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?
>
>Some hectarefortnights ago my mate had a massive Guy Fawkes bonfire,
>burning a lot of stuff he didn't want from his farm house, that he had
>just sold.
>
>He had an orifice chair he wanted to give away, but nobody wanted it, so
>he chucked it on the fire. It burned well, but he forgot about the gas
>cylinder.
>
>There was an almighty bnag. The cylinder shot skywards. Half the fire
>distributed itself around the garding in the dark* past folks ear 'oles,
>and the cylinder was never seen again by us. Don't know where it came
>down, if it did.
>
>*That was quite speck tack you lah
>
I am surprised that there are not more such 'incidents'. The only place
that I have seen a warning of the danger in these pressurised pistons is
in the destructions to my particular orifice chair and in this thread.
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:07:32 +0000
Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:

> I cant remember who it was that got thrown in to the wood chipper in
> "Fargo" or if they were alive at the time.

They did the woodchipper one in an episode of Bones - probably the
best program for imaginative deaths.

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On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:00:28 +0000
Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:

> There was an almighty bnag. The cylinder shot skywards. Half the fire
> distributed itself around the garding in the dark* past folks ear 'oles,
> and the cylinder was never seen again by us. Don't know where it came
> down, if it did.

Old style glof balls used to fun things to put in bonfires, they
were basically tight wound rubber bands.

--
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Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:00:28 +0000
> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>
> > There was an almighty bnag. The cylinder shot skywards. Half the fire
> > distributed itself around the garding in the dark* past folks ear 'oles,
> > and the cylinder was never seen again by us. Don't know where it came
> > down, if it did.
>
> Old style glof balls used to fun things to put in bonfires, they
> were basically tight wound rubber bands.

'Sparklets' gas bulbs for soda siphons go off with quite a bang.

--
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My pet rock Gordon just is.

>> Old style glof balls used to fun things to put in bonfires, they
>> were basically tight wound rubber bands.
>
> 'Sparklets' gas bulbs for soda siphons go off with quite a bang.
>

And let us not forget Lithium batteries

On 20/01/2024 14:00, Sn!pe wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:00:28 +0000
>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There was an almighty bnag. The cylinder shot skywards. Half the fire
>>> distributed itself around the garding in the dark* past folks ear 'oles,
>>> and the cylinder was never seen again by us. Don't know where it came
>>> down, if it did.
>>
>> Old style glof balls used to fun things to put in bonfires, they
>> were basically tight wound rubber bands.
>
> 'Sparklets' gas bulbs for soda siphons go off with quite a bang.
>
As do plastic cigarette lighters in an old direct heat tumble dryer.
Luckily, the launderette owner wasn't in and the only damage was to my
nerves.

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John.

On 2024-01-20, Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
> On 20/01/2024 01:24, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> The destructions for my chair warn that under no circumstances should
>>> the piston assembly be  disassembled because the piston is likely still
>>> under pressure
>>>
>> Has one of these ever been used as a murder weapon (or last-gasp
>> defence, in case of attack) in programmes on the haunted fishtank?
>
> Some hectarefortnights ago my mate had a massive Guy Fawkes bonfire,
> burning a lot of stuff he didn't want from his farm house, that he had
> just sold.
>
> He had an orifice chair he wanted to give away, but nobody wanted it, so
> he chucked it on the fire. It burned well, but he forgot about the gas
> cylinder.
>
> There was an almighty bnag. The cylinder shot skywards. Half the fire
> distributed itself around the garding in the dark* past folks ear 'oles,
> and the cylinder was never seen again by us. Don't know where it came
> down, if it did.
>
> *That was quite speck tack you lah
>
> Tone

A friend, after working overseas after a bad economic idea, came home
and decided to have a garden party to celebrate with his neighbours. A
barbeque was lit, too close to a hedge of cupress lawsoniana, which took
fire and almost burned the house next door. Back to dubai for another
five years.

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