On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 17:15:10 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
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> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 16:51:13 +0000 Tease'n'Seize
> <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:
>
>> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>
>> > I can remember small ads for soap presses
>>
>> I saw an etsy shop today, selling 3D printed 'coins' for shopping
>> trolleys ... bargain at 4zu each.
>
> I printed my own less than €0.05 each.

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On 09/03/2024 18:20, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
> On 09/03/2024 10:22, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> Now unless you like that hideous liquid soap, whenever you get bars of
>> soap,
>> there comes a time when its too small to really do much. What is
>> needed is
>> some device that will melt them down and make bigger bar of what is
>> left of
>> several bars. How are bars of soap made? Presumably something more
>> liquid is
>> poured into moulds and then it solidifies. I'm sure we have all tried
>> gluing
>> the small bits together when wet, but it seldom works.
>>
>
> But glueing the small bit to the next bar of soap DOES work.
>
> Imperial Leather has an indent on one side of the bar, with a label
> stuck in it - if you peel the label away, its the perfect spot for that
> left over bit.
>
> Also, some time ago on one of those Chinese web sites, I saw a thing a
> bit like a giant garlic press, for the specific purpose of moulding your
> own bars of soap - but I dont seem to be able to find it any more :-\

Try Ikea. Potato ricer.

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>>
>> Also, some time ago on one of those Chinese web sites, I saw a thing a
>> bit like a giant garlic press, for the specific purpose of moulding
>> your own bars of soap - but I dont seem to be able to find it any more
>> :-\
>
> Try Ikea. Potato ricer.
>
>

What for ?

I am not the one with the problem - and in any case, a potato ricer will
leak potato (and soap)

John Williamson said:
> On 09/03/2024 18:10, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <AgidnX9hZfgfDnH4nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@brightview.co.uk>,
>> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at
>> 16:51:13 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can remember small ads for soap presses
>>>
>>> I saw an etsy shop today, selling 3D printed 'coins' for shopping
>>> trolleys ... bargain at 4zu each.
>>
>> I have one that I got for nothing, well sort of. I paid for a coffee
>> with some coins. The barista refused one, it was not 1zu but a Spanish 1
>> Euro that some fbq gave me in change. It turned out that it fits in the
>> lock release of a Tesco or Sainsburys trolley.
>>
> Rumour has it that in Senapr, a 10 pence piece does the wbo.

I was just unforgetting ... it used to be that a Serapuvian 1fr coin
fitted 10p slots. (I also STR they were both worth about the same ...)

> Last time I was one of the Trezna brothers' places, the trolleys were
> marked as accepting 1 GBZU and 1 EUZU coins.
>

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:50:09 +0000
Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:

> I am not the one with the problem - and in any case, a potato ricer will
> leak potato (and soap)

No no NO! I said give them Leek and Potato SOUP!

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Tease'n'Seize said:
> Brian Gaff wrote:
>
>> Any smart ideas on how to recycle or personally use the left overs?
>
> I seem to remember the older contingent of my family would stack the
> soap slivers, often in a rainbow configuration, and this would then be
> used at the sink in the outhouse

I have done it by breaking the leftover slivers up into a
mug-or-something. When there's "enough", cover with water till it all
turns into sludge, then leave somewhere warm to dry, squashing
occasionally if I got impatient. Slow business, but doesn't take any
actual jbex.

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Abandoned Trolley said:
> On 09/03/2024 10:22, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> Now unless you like that hideous liquid soap, whenever you get bars of soap,
>> there comes a time when its too small to really do much. What is needed is
>> some device that will melt them down and make bigger bar of what is left of
>> several bars. How are bars of soap made? Presumably something more liquid is
>> poured into moulds and then it solidifies. I'm sure we have all tried gluing
>> the small bits together when wet, but it seldom works.
>>
>
> But glueing the small bit to the next bar of soap DOES work.
>
> Imperial Leather has an indent on one side of the bar, with a label
> stuck in it - if you peel the label away, its the perfect spot for that
> left over bit.
>
> Also, some time ago on one of those Chinese web sites, I saw a thing a
> bit like a giant garlic press, for the specific purpose of moulding your
> own bars of soap - but I dont seem to be able to find it any more :-\

Potato-masher, in a mug.

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Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:50:09 +0000
> Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I am not the one with the problem - and in any case, a potato ricer will
>> leak potato (and soap)
>
> No no NO! I said give them Leek and Potato SOUP!

*grin*

Anybody unforget Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans ? Some horrible
landfill got flooded and all the mdia were chanting "toxic gumbo", so
some blog I was reading called for other hideous recipes.

My favourite was "secret black and midnight haggis". But "Leek and
potato soap" would be up there, along with "Pea, and ham soup", which
sadly is only an aural joke. See also "Lancashire hotspot".

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On 09-Mar-24 21:29, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 20:44:04 +0000
> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/03/2024 20:33, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> On 09-Mar-24 19:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 18:20:48 +0000
>>>> Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Imperial Leather has an indent on one side of the bar, with a label
>>>>> stuck in it - if you peel the label away, its the perfect spot for
>>>>> that left over bit.
>>>>
>>>> Bbbut that label is to stand the soap on so that it drains without
>>>> need for a soap dish.
>>>>
>>> If it were so, then the label would have to be on an outdent, not an
>>> indent.
>>>
>> After a few uses, the label is on an outdent.
>
> Perzackly.
>
>> What I want to know is how the h*** do they persuade it to stay on?
>
> Imperial decree.
>
Thanks, but I'll stick with Centigrade.
You know where you are when zero means 'it's freezing'.

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In article <umnHN.47415$hN14.35608@fx17.iad>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
on Sun, 10 Mar 2024 at 18:55:22 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
>On 09-Mar-24 21:29, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 20:44:04 +0000
>> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/03/2024 20:33, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>> On 09-Mar-24 19:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 18:20:48 +0000
>>>>> Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Imperial Leather has an indent on one side of the bar, with a label
>>>>>> stuck in it - if you peel the label away, its the perfect spot for
>>>>>> that left over bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bbbut that label is to stand the soap on so that it drains without
>>>>> need for a soap dish.
>>>>>
>>>> If it were so, then the label would have to be on an outdent, not an
>>>> indent.
>>>>
>>> After a few uses, the label is on an outdent.
>>
>> Perzackly.
>>
>>> What I want to know is how the h*** do they persuade it to stay on?
>>
>> Imperial decree.
>>
>Thanks, but I'll stick with Centigrade.
>You know where you are when zero means 'it's freezing'.
>
Anyroadsup -40 is when its freezing.
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>
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Brian Gaff wrote:
>
>> Now unless you like that hideous liquid soap, whenever you get bars of
>> soap,
>> there comes a time when its too small to really do much. What is needed
>> is
>> some device that will melt them down and make bigger bar of what is left
>> of
>> several bars. How are bars of soap made? Presumably something more liquid
>> is
>> poured into moulds and then it solidifies. I'm sure we have all tried
>> gluing
>> the small bits together when wet, but it seldom works.
>>
>> Now without using power in the form of heating the stuff, it seems there
>> has
>> to be waste soap all over the place. I guess one could heat it using
>> renewable energy, but that would surely take ages.
>> Any smart ideas on how to recycle or personally use the left overs?
>> Brian
>
> Easy! I detest liquid soap and use a scentless olive oil soap. When it
> gets too small to use, I just merge it with a new soap bar. No waste and
> problem solved! =)

That should not work. It will be just a lot of bits of soap in a bag, in
effect. How does the soap get out?

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>> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > To merge an old bar with a new bar you need to score one side of each
>> > with
>> > the nail scissors then press the scored sides together.
>> >
>>
>> Never thought about that. Usually I just press them together when wet.
>> Let
>> dry, and they are like one piece.
>>
>
> My Mum said that in the last Great Unpleasantness they would save the
> last scraps of soap, put them all into a discarded nylon stocking and
> twiddle it up tight.
>
> In the next episode: How to make a 'Normous Ball of Milkbottle Tops
> with which to adorn the kitchen windowsill.
>
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> In article <1qq5sub.osxhusnp3wiwN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 15:47:22 awoke Nicholas
> from his slumbers and wrote
>>D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > To merge an old bar with a new bar you need to score one side of each
>>> > with
>>> > the nail scissors then press the scored sides together.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Never thought about that. Usually I just press them together when wet.
>>> Let
>>> dry, and they are like one piece.
>>>
>>
>>My Mum said that in the last Great Unpleasantness they would save the
>>last scraps of soap, put them all into a discarded nylon stocking and
>>twiddle it up tight.
>>
> Nylon Stocking during the Late Grate Unpleasantness? Your Mum must have
> known a GI; in the UK you could only find them in the crock at the end
> of a rainbow.
>
> I have often wondered what American Logistics people were thinking of
> when they shipped things like nylon stockings to the PX stores.
>
> In the early '50s I can remember my Mum doing the washing up that way,
> although most of the soap in the stocking was 'green' soap. The plates
> survived that green soap but the soapy water fair use to take the skin
> off her hands. My Mum's hands were not soft like a baby's bum.
>
>>In the next episode: How to make a 'Normous Ball of Milkbottle Tops
>>with which to adorn the kitchen windowsill.
>>
>
> Granny used to say that there was a Spitfire made from her bottle tops,
> although I thought that milk bottles were capped with waxed card plugs
> in the 1940s. I could be wrong though.
>
> --
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Its not working here, due maybe to the curved sides of the soap?

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> On 9 Mar 2024 11:13:16 GMT
> "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> To merge an old bar with a new bar you need to score one side of each
>> with the nail scissors then press the scored sides together.
>
> I must try that - I usually wet and mash but it disnae always jbex.
>
> Now will I unforget in a few fortnights when the bar is getting
> small ?
>
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It might still have a market for the blind, as often you have no clue where
it went. So if you boil water and shove soap in and get it all soft, can
you actually remake it with a mould?
If so then maybe the renewable energy and a battery might be the way to go.
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> On 09/03/2024 15:59, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On 9 Mar 2024 11:13:16 GMT
>> "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>>> To merge an old bar with a new bar you need to score one side of each
>>> with the nail scissors then press the scored sides together.
>>
>> I must try that - I usually wet and mash but it disnae always jbex.
>>
>> Now will I unforget in a few fortnights when the bar is getting
>> small ?
>>
>
> Many megafortnights ago I invented 'Floap'. Soap that floats.
>
> How often do you have to search in intimate places to find a bar of soap
> in your bath?
>
> So, we boiled up some soap, and then stuck it in the freezer while it as
> still full of bubbles like Aero. And, you know what, when cooled it did
> float in the bath!
>
> I was about to make my fortune when they invented shower gel.
>
> Doh!
>
> Tone

Yes but in much the same way as the KTel record vacuum, they never worked
very well.

I reckon that soap called shield with its pattern of colours must have been
all the left overs. You had to watch soap though, many had a piece of
plastic in the middle for no apparent reason other than to make it look
bigger, but it did have less left over. Brian

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> Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> on Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 15:59:31 awoke
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>On 9 Mar 2024 11:13:16 GMT
>>"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>>> To merge an old bar with a new bar you need to score one side of each
>>> with the nail scissors then press the scored sides together.
>>
>> I must try that - I usually wet and mash but it disnae always jbex.
>>
>> Now will I unforget in a few fortnights when the bar is getting
>>small ?
>>
> I can remember small ads for soap presses, along side look alike Charles
> Atlas ads.
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Nah, you used to be able to buy those for less than a quid from markets.
Made of some lightweight metal. I don't think trolleys were sophisticated
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> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>
>> I can remember small ads for soap presses
>
> I saw an etsy shop today, selling 3D printed 'coins' for shopping trolleys
> ... bargain at 4zu each.

So, what is the real point of having the coin hole in the first place? Is it
to stop people using them for other purposes, like filling up canals,
shorting out railway tracks or something?
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> On 09/03/2024 18:10, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <AgidnX9hZfgfDnH4nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@brightview.co.uk>,
>> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at
>> 16:51:13 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can remember small ads for soap presses
>>>
>>> I saw an etsy shop today, selling 3D printed 'coins' for shopping
>>> trolleys ... bargain at 4zu each.
>>
>> I have one that I got for nothing, well sort of. I paid for a coffee
>> with some coins. The barista refused one, it was not 1zu but a Spanish 1
>> Euro that some fbq gave me in change. It turned out that it fits in the
>> lock release of a Tesco or Sainsburys trolley.
>>
> Rumour has it that in Senapr, a 10 pence piece does the wbo.
>
> Last time I was one of the Trezna brothers' places, the trolleys were
> marked as accepting 1 GBZU and 1 EUZU coins.
>
> --
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>
> John.

I wonder if you could cut soap to fit? You could probably get 2 pound coins
out of one left over.
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> Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
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>> Tease'n'Seize wrote:
>>
>>> I saw an etsy shop today, selling 3D printed 'coins' for shopping
>>> trolleys ... bargain at 4zu each.
>>
>> I have one that I got for nothing
>
> The RAF gave me a nice enamelled roundel.
>

Ah then you plant the Rhubarb.
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> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at
> 11:31:33 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>Brian Gaff wrote:
>>
>>> Any smart ideas on how to recycle or personally use the left overs?
>>
>>I seem to remember the older contingent of my family would stack the
>>soap slivers, often in a rainbow configuration, and this would then be
>>used at the sink in the outhouse
>
> They were posh, a sink in the outhouse!
>
> My mother had an outhouse WC, but no sink. My grandmother us to collect
> newspapers to cut up and suspend in the outhouse for the necessary post-
> movement cleaning.
>
> At least they were working Water Closets.
>
> One place I worked for six months, I had use of a cottage without
> running water. Water came from a spring which was about 25 yards from
> the front (well only) door and the 'necessary' was a bucket in a little
> shed about 75 yards away.
>
> In the cottage there was a well thumbed copy of Chic Sale's short, short
> story, "The Specialist" and a spade, to dig a hole, from time to time,
> to dispose of the contents of the bucket.
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How did you get it back out though?
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> Tease'n'Seize said:
>> Brian Gaff wrote:
>>
>>> Any smart ideas on how to recycle or personally use the left overs?
>>
>> I seem to remember the older contingent of my family would stack the
>> soap slivers, often in a rainbow configuration, and this would then be
>> used at the sink in the outhouse
>
> I have done it by breaking the leftover slivers up into a
> mug-or-something. When there's "enough", cover with water till it all
> turns into sludge, then leave somewhere warm to dry, squashing
> occasionally if I got impatient. Slow business, but doesn't take any
> actual jbex.
>
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> "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
>
> My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

It does not work, I said that in my post.

I think that you get a curvature which means it can never glue together over
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> On 2024-03-09, Brian Gaff <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now unless you like that hideous liquid soap, whenever you get bars of
>> soap,
>> there comes a time when its too small to really do much. What is needed
>> is
>> some device that will melt them down and make bigger bar of what is left
>> of
>> several bars. How are bars of soap made? Presumably something more liquid
>> is
>> poured into moulds and then it solidifies. I'm sure we have all tried
>> gluing
>> the small bits together when wet, but it seldom works.
>>
>> Now without using power in the form of heating the stuff, it seems there
>> has
>> to be waste soap all over the place. I guess one could heat it using
>> renewable energy, but that would surely take ages.
>> Any smart ideas on how to recycle or personally use the left overs?
>
> Wet it and stick it to the new one.
>

No but today is yesterdays tomorrow.
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>> Now unless you like that hideous liquid soap, whenever you get bars of
> :
> :
>> Now without using power in the form of heating the stuff, it seems
>
> So, is "now" the new "so"?
>
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Imperial Leather is also one of the brands that has a chunk of plastic
inside it to make it look bigger. I tried to do the gluing on those and that
did not work either, by the way. By the way, what is the point of soap on a
rope?
Brian

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"Abandoned Trolley" <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 09/03/2024 10:22, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> Now unless you like that hideous liquid soap, whenever you get bars of
>> soap,
>> there comes a time when its too small to really do much. What is needed
>> is
>> some device that will melt them down and make bigger bar of what is left
>> of
>> several bars. How are bars of soap made? Presumably something more liquid
>> is
>> poured into moulds and then it solidifies. I'm sure we have all tried
>> gluing
>> the small bits together when wet, but it seldom works.
>>
>
> But glueing the small bit to the next bar of soap DOES work.
>
> Imperial Leather has an indent on one side of the bar, with a label stuck
> in it - if you peel the label away, its the perfect spot for that left
> over bit.
>
> Also, some time ago on one of those Chinese web sites, I saw a thing a bit
> like a giant garlic press, for the specific purpose of moulding your own
> bars of soap - but I dont seem to be able to find it any more :-\

Entropy?

I wonder if they force dry soap? I have one part of a leftover where
obviously there is soap tectonics as it has an ever widening crack in it.
Brian

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"Sam Plusnet" <not@home.com> wrote in message
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> On 09-Mar-24 19:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 18:20:48 +0000
>> Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Imperial Leather has an indent on one side of the bar, with a label
>>> stuck in it - if you peel the label away, its the perfect spot for that
>>> left over bit.
>>
>> Bbbut that label is to stand the soap on so that it drains without
>> need for a soap dish.
>>
> If it were so, then the label would have to be on an outdent, not an
> indent.
>
> SWMBO has a theory of aging soap.
> The type of soap she purr-chases[1] can dissolve into a squidgy mess quite
> quickly, after it has been in contact with water a time or two.
>
> Howsomever, if she buys a handfull of bars and keeps them for several
> months, it seems to be much better at keeping its shape and consistency.
>
> [1] Simple[2]
> [2] The soap, not SWMBO.
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