Major Emergency - Oil on Carpet

[vernon]

> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor fitted.
>
A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor got
me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in

 

[Mark McNeill]

Response to Nobody Here:
> > Flippy neck. Eat a heary breakfast?
>
> Heary???? Hearty.

I read that as... um, on second thoughts, never mind.

--
Mark, UK

"If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything."

 

[Nobody Here]

vernon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor fitted.
>>
> A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor got
> me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in

Cool, what was that for, a rubber powered free flight model? One day I'm
going to get the time to get back into that hobby.

--
Nobby

 

[Stuart Millington]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:17 +0100, Not Responding
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Any suggestions for the condemned man?

Large quantities of "anaesthetic" from the local Inn before the pain
is inflicted?

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[Richard Goodman]

"vernon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor
>> fitted.
>>
> A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor got
> me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in
>

How do you manage to make something like that perfectly balanced and
symmetrical by hand?

Rich

 

[Peewiglet]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:17 +0100, Not Responding
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
>
>I have to leave the house in less than an hour. She will /notice/. In
>this instance, even /I/ would notice.
>
>Any suggestions for the condemned man?

Hiri kiri?


Wet fishes,
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[Peewiglet]

On 28 Oct 2005 07:00:11 -0700, "David Martin"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Not Responding wrote:
>> Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
>>
>> I have to leave the house in less than an hour. She will /notice/. In
>> this instance, even /I/ would notice.
>>
>> Any suggestions for the condemned man?
>
>Silly boy!
>
>1) pour oil over the whole carpet, then the stain won't be noticeable.

This is very creative! I like this idea best


Wet fishes,
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[vernon]

"Nobody Here" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> vernon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor
fitted.
> >>
> > A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor
got
> > me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in
>
> Cool, what was that for, a rubber powered free flight model? One day I'm
> going to get the time to get back into that hobby.
>
Yes is was for a 1947 Ron Warring Wakefield, 'Voo Doo' It's a demanding
hobby. It's made demands on my wallet, time and space - balsa has a nasty
habit of expanding when converted into airframes
The hobby has, however, led to the accumulation of a range of solvents that
will rid the domestic carpets of just about any stain that I can create on
them

Some of them smell nice too - the solvents that is

 

[vernon]

"Richard Goodman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "vernon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> >> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor
> >> fitted.
> >>
> > A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor
got
> > me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in
> >
>
> How do you manage to make something like that perfectly balanced and
> symmetrical by hand?
>
Start with a cuboid of balsa and carve away everything that isn't a
propellor

In all seriousness though, the propellor block is carefully marked out and
through a process of every decreasing cuts the propellor takes shape almost
by itself providing of course the block is marked out correctly and the cuts
have been made in the right direction - I have made a couple of 'pusher'
props instead of 'tractor' ones by accident rather than design. Rough
balancing is done with very fine sand paper. Fine balancing is done with
layers of cellulose lacquer. It helps if you have a 'keen eye'. The biggest
propellor that I have carved was a three foot diameter one thirty odd years
ago to be used on a hovercraft - more accurately I did the rough carving
and my teacher finished it off - it was his project after all and I was only
fifteen at the time but got to have go in the finished vehicle.

 

[David Martin]

Richard Goodman wrote:
> "vernon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> >> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor
> >> fitted.
> >>
> > A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor got
> > me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in
> >
>
> How do you manage to make something like that perfectly balanced and
> symmetrical by hand?

I was trying to work out why a knee high pile of balsa shavings would
need to be symnmetrical and balanced...

Then the penny dropped

...d

 

[Clive George]

"Peewiglet" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:17 +0100, Not Responding
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
>>
>>I have to leave the house in less than an hour. She will /notice/. In
>>this instance, even /I/ would notice.
>>
>>Any suggestions for the condemned man?

> Wet fishes,

How does that work then?

cheers,
clive

 

[Tony Raven]

Clive George wrote:
> "Peewiglet" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:17 +0100, Not Responding
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
>>>
>>> I have to leave the house in less than an hour. She will /notice/. In
>>> this instance, even /I/ would notice.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for the condemned man?
>
>> Wet fishes,
>
> How does that work then?
>

Fish oils are supposed to be good for you ;-)

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[vernon]

"Tony Raven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Clive George wrote:
> > "Peewiglet" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:17 +0100, Not Responding
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
> >>>
> >>> I have to leave the house in less than an hour. She will /notice/. In
> >>> this instance, even /I/ would notice.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions for the condemned man?
> >
> >> Wet fishes,
> >
> > How does that work then?
> >
>
> Fish oils are supposed to be good for you ;-)
>
But not if they are 'fragrancing' the carpet ;-)

 

[Sniper8052]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:56:15 +0100, michael adams wrote:

> "Not Responding" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
>>
>> I have to leave the house in less than an hour. She will /notice/. In
>> this instance, even /I/ would notice.
>>
>> Any suggestions for the condemned man?
>
>
> Two Frank Spencer solutions.
>
> a) Place a large heavy piece of furniture i.e the sofa over the stain.
>
>
> b) Cut a hole out of the carpet where the stain is. Cut a matching clean
> piece of carpet out from somewhere hidden - under the sofa - and replace it
> with that.
>
>
> michael adams
>
> ...

Sugar and washing up liquid.

Sniper8052

 

[Sue White]

Adrian Godwin <[email protected]> whizzed past me shouting
>Not Responding <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Fettling bike in sitting room and dropped chain.
>>
>> Any suggestions for the condemned man?
>
>Swarfega or equivalent (I like the orange stuff)
>

I second that. I've used 'Fast Orange' successfully to remove dirty
bike grease from a light brown carpet. You work it in gently until
you're sure the grease has lifted, blot it off and then apply carpet
shampoo according to its instructions.

Citrus chain cleaner would probably do as a subsititute.

If you haven't got any of these, the best (and bravest) approach is to
blot off as much as you can with paper towels, then leave it until you
can get them.
BTW detergent works on natural oils but not on mineral oils, which are
what you get on bike chains.

--
Sue ];)

What goes down must come up again - Confucius' Law of Mountain Biking

 

[Tony Raven]

Sue White wrote:

>
> I second that. I've used 'Fast Orange' successfully to remove dirty
> bike grease from a light brown carpet. You work it in gently until
> you're sure the grease has lifted, blot it off and then apply carpet
> shampoo according to its instructions.
>

What do you do to hide the clean patch you now have in the middle of the
carpet?

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[David Martin]

Sue White wrote:

> BTW detergent works on natural oils but not on mineral oils, which are
> what you get on bike chains.

Funny that, I could have sworn that 3 in 1 is a vegetable oil, and that
detergent works just as well on mineral as vegetable oils..

...d

 

[David Martin]

Tony Raven wrote:
> Sue White wrote:
>
> >
> > I second that. I've used 'Fast Orange' successfully to remove dirty
> > bike grease from a light brown carpet. You work it in gently until
> > you're sure the grease has lifted, blot it off and then apply carpet
> > shampoo according to its instructions.
> >
>
> What do you do to hide the clean patch you now have in the middle of the
> carpet?

Pour some bike oil on it till the colours blend..

...d

 

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:40:05 +0100, Sue White <[email protected]>
said in <[email protected]>:

>Citrus chain cleaner would probably do as a subsititute.

Noooooo! This leaves a dilute solution of grey over a large area
instead of a concentration of black in a small area.

DAMHIKIJKOK?

Guy
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"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

 

[Nobody Here]

vernon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "Nobody Here" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> vernon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> This would seem the ideal excuse to get that luxury hardwood floor
> fitted.
>> >>
>> > A knee high pile of balsa wood shavings from an 18" diameter propellor
> got
>> > me planning permission for a shed to do my aeromodelling in
>>
>> Cool, what was that for, a rubber powered free flight model? One day I'm
>> going to get the time to get back into that hobby.
>>
> Yes is was for a 1947 Ron Warring Wakefield, 'Voo Doo' It's a demanding
> hobby. It's made demands on my wallet, time and space - balsa has a nasty
> habit of expanding when converted into airframes
> The hobby has, however, led to the accumulation of a range of solvents that
> will rid the domestic carpets of just about any stain that I can create on
> them
>
> Some of them smell nice too - the solvents that is

When I were a lad, I'd heard of this drug "dope" that rock stars took,
and having a tin of dope I thought I'd give it a bit of a try. It was
OK at first, but I end up feeling a bit sick after a while. Thankfully
I didn't know that dope was meant to be rolled in a spliff and smoked,
coz it might have been a bit of a disaster. Having said that, trying
to straighten a warped doped tissue glider wing over my Mum's cooker
hob turned out not to be such a good idea either when it burst into flames.

You used to live in Leeds, didn't you? Where did you fly free flight
round there? I was lucky enough to do all my aeromodelling in Oz where
there was a lot of space. Not sure where to do it here (near Leeds) and
I don't really want to join a club, I'd rather do it on me todd.

--
Nobby