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Ian Stirling
 
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After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ian Stirling wrote:

After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


Is that *before* or *after* the concrete has set? g
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Roger Mills wrote:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ian Stirling wrote:

After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


Is that *before* or *after* the concrete has set? g


Thankfully, before.
Last look round the site, to see if there was anything else I needed to
do.
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On 14 Apr 2006 16:20:08 GMT, Ian Stirling wrote:

After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


I assume your mixer now needs a new flex.

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Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


LOL you too ?




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"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


I predict a long thread ...

Mary


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Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


Lol. Well done!

My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was
already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite
tame.


NT

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Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC
pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the
other way up.


Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !!

Dave



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Dave Stanton wrote:
Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC
pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the
other way up.


Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !!

Dave

Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem.

I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity
unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that
sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before
the tiles are laid...
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In article ,
Frank Erskine wrote:
Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC
pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the
other way up.


I always put a name on the original art work so it's obvious if you've
forgotten to flip at any stage in the process.

Could you not have fitted the IC on the track side?

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Or...in the days before they invented 'Tile edging strip '; set up your
circular-
saw bench with a stone cutting disc, mitre ALL of your external corner
tiles so as to provide a neat edge. THEN realise you have mitred for an
internal corner not an external one. AND ...since they were all cut to
size they were no use for anywhere else....Whoops


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John Kelly wrote:
Or when you carefully cut a tile to fix around an awkward part of the
sink discover you've cut it from the wrong side.


Easily done. And it's always the last one you have. ;-(

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Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


Thats easy. Cut the flex and leave it for 'time team 3000' and fit new flex.
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:
After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


Thats easy. Cut the flex and leave it for 'time team 3000' and fit new flex.


reckon thats what I'd have done. Whatever you were building needed
mains power.

NT



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On 14 Apr 2006 16:20:08 GMT, Ian Stirling
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After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.


After accidentally vacuuming up a vital and unique screw, do not put
it in your holed shorts pocket after carefully going through the
dustbag in the garden.

Then having found the screw after ages spent on hands and knees in the
dirt, remember to put a new bag in the vacuum ready for use next time.

Also when throwing out the old bag and not replacing it with a new
one, remember to retain the bag holder for when it's needed a few
weeks later....

cheers,
Pete.
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Pete C wrote:

After accidentally vacuuming up a vital and unique screw, do not put it
in your holed shorts pocket after carefully going through the dustbag
in the garden.

Then having found the screw after ages spent on hands and knees in the
dirt, remember to put a new bag in the vacuum ready for use next time.

Also when throwing out the old bag and not replacing it with a new one,
remember to retain the bag holder for when it's needed a few weeks
later....


Not your best of all days, was it?


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When your strimmer starts to emit clouds of smoke and stop working,
switch off the mains BEFORE cutting the wire off with a pair of
scissors...

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