From: null@void.com   
      
   Here it's temperate, but rains - often "mizzle" - somewhere between a   
   mist and a drizzle.  Other times it is simply raining - and it can do it   
   for a long time - often on a 45deg or more slant as the winds rotate-in   
   from the West and South-West, from the lows out over the North Atlantic.   
      
   Vast amount of lighter stuff now stowed on boards in the roof-space,   
   managed to settle down with the paraffin stove radiating at me - and oh   
   yes it felt "good to be home".  I used to mechanic motorcycles in the   
   garage at my folks' home as a youth - and was well set-up.   
   Here it comes again...   
   As I've mentioned - maybe I could get a lathe, a little milling machine   
   or shaper, ...  Begin to make mechanical things...   
      
   Plans are coming as I sit there in the space and warmth...   
      
   Air-compressor up on a platform just under the roof (so it takes up no   
   floor-space).   
   Iron pipe the length of the garden to the "hard-standing" area where I   
   could make lean-to's to cover mineral separation equipment.   
   Pneumatic single-head stamp for bashing-up sacks-full of ore?  Just   
   flick the lever up and down and it's like a sledgehammer but neater and   
   more enclosed so bits don't go flying - what goes in all comes out the   
   discharge...  Air-hydraulic pump for useful rarely used hydraulic   
   things? - energy inefficient yes, but simple, totally reliable, just   
   stalls on overload, and can be left out but under cover.   
      
   Thoughts thoughts thoughts - big picture is it's a sign of optimism.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)