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Where's the old spirit of adventure gone ? I am surprised to hear Griz' concerns about imbalance in the helicopter. I am sure that Ruaidhri will agree that that you have the right kind of thinking that we need. When can you get on a plane for Dublin? We need you on the 'Team' you are our kind of man. Hmmmmmmmmm there is really some dissertation material here.

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Old LP turntable (really old remember 78's?)Ĭomputer Hard Disc Drive (if I could figure out how to get it open) I have other speedy rotary devices that might be susceptable to use for cleaning pens:Ĭlothes washing machine (spin cycle, only) The mower is not affected by the imbalace in blade weight when you affix the pen. If your fixation system fails, you destroy the evidence.

Multitasking is a good thing (mowing and pen cleaning).īoiling grass smells like overcooked cabbage. It is really hard to clean the dining room after upending a lawn mower on the table, twice. Not pens, shirts.Ĭhlorophyll based green ink has nice yellow highlihtsĬhlorophyll based green ink fades as it dries. I usually fill the green Phileas with Levenger's Always Greener so I found a spare converter, a sheaffer school pen (yellow, if you must know) and sucked up some ink.Ĭhlorophyll based green ink realy stains. I boiled down th soup to a few ounces, strained the soup through a coffee filter and admired my green ink. While drying I thought about the green soup and decided to see if chlorophyll is a good dye for ink. I dumped the whole thing in a cup of tepid water and it quickly turned to green soup.Īfter 10 minutes of soak time I fished the pen out and rinsed it and set it to dry. There was no noticible impact on the grass (I did a lousy job, as usual) and when I upended the mower on the dining room table again and cut the plastic tie thingies I learned that while it is effective removing ink from the pen, I now face the chore of figuring the best way to remove grass from the pen.

Took me about 30 minutes, but the actual mower-on time is about 8 minutes (the other 22 minutes spent wiping brow, sipping iced tea, and getting the power cord out of the way of the mower blades). I strapped the pen to the blade with 3 of those plastic tie thingies and went out to mow the lawn. I was able to affix the pen, a green Phileas (not yet ready to try this with the green Pelikan Souverain 1000) on the presumption that the grass might stain the pen but if it were green I would hardly notice. Electric Mowers are much less messy upended on the dining room table. That gave me the opportunity to actually implement the rotary mower pen centrifuge. SWMBO is in Kansas City for the weekend and the son is off in camp. When I moved into this house I bought him an electric lawn mower to keep him from playing with gas, oil, and other flammables. I usually berate and bribe my son into mowing our miniscule backyard lawn on Sunday mornings. I thought I would need at least 5.5 hp as a prototype until we could get Ruaidhri's steam powered design up and built Herself had other ideas and I have been banned from engineering for the rest of the weekend. In the Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts, Mansion, the final straw was trying to modify the rotary lawn mower on the dining table. The holder goes in the basket not on the top of the centrifuge!Īt the end of the day, just rinse the thing off and let it dry.

Here's a picture of a Sheaffer Flat top in the centrifuge. The nib will press against the plastic tab, but that's OK. This stops smaller pens and things like 75 or 51 sections from flying out through the holder, and the nib through the holes in the basket. One other important item - the end ouf the spout is lined up with a solid, wide piece in the basket (just happens to be at the end of the rib). The put a blob of glue on either side, and finally tye-wrapped it in place for extra security. I drew a bead of hot glue on a ridge, and set the funnel spout on the hot glue. Note too, that the holder sits on top of a ridge in the basket. Note the notch to fit over the pivot point in the middle. Using an Xacto saw, part of the spout was cut away so that I could grab the end of the pen.

I used the spout of a long, narrow plastic funnel from an auto parts store or Wal Mart to hold the pen. Starting with a with a basic salad spinner (note: the outer basket is a closed bowl). But I just couldn't get into the idea of having to stuff a piece of PVC pipe with paper towels etc every time I want to use it, so took their basic idea and modified it. I have to give the left coast repair guys credit for the basic idea. People laugh when I pull it out at a pen show, but this thing WORKS, and I use it all the time. Elaine asked if I could post this at some point.

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