Anyone want a Readers Digest DIY manual from the late 1970s/early 80s?

Lots of neat projects to recover your furniture with Dralon, block up
those unsightly victorian fireplaces etc :-)

I've tried the local (Reading) library and Freecycle groups. It'd cost
about £5 to post.

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:49:33 UTC, Andy Hall wrote:

I think I might have one of these as well. It's a grey ring binder
with two sections - one is techniques and the other is projects.

Funnily enough, my copy surfaced yesterday! It's fun...I'll keep it!

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On 2006-08-05 18:34:05 +0100, John Stumbles said:

Anyone want a Readers Digest DIY manual from the late 1970s/early 80s?

Lots of neat projects to recover your furniture with Dralon, block up
those unsightly victorian fireplaces etc :-)

I've tried the local (Reading) library and Freecycle groups. It'd cost
about £5 to post.

Don't you want to keep it then?

Surely panelling the doors with hardboard and fitting plastic handles
will become fashionanable again....

I think I might have one of these as well. It's a grey ring binder
with two sections - one is techniques and the other is projects.

It's not as excruciating as American DIY books. I was thumbing
through one on bathroom remodelling today. As you do. There was a
section on fitting the WC - conventionally there is a soil pipe socket
in the floor (only 3", so I wonder about the Richards) and the bog sits
on it - i.e. connection inside the pedestal. Then there were
chapters on fitting the "tub" (bath) and "setting tile" (tiling).
Finally there was a photo of a guy stuffing a load of wiring with wire
nuts into a hole in the wall (before patching it and covering it with
"mud" (basecoat plaster).

In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:49:33 UTC, Andy Hall wrote:

I think I might have one of these as well. It's a grey ring binder
with two sections - one is techniques and the other is projects.

Funnily enough, my copy surfaced yesterday! It's fun...I'll keep it!

Yeah, I've got one somewhere

I don't think I've ever opened it

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raden wrote:
In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:49:33 UTC, Andy Hall wrote:

I think I might have one of these as well. It's a grey ring binder
with two sections - one is techniques and the other is projects.

Funnily enough, my copy surfaced yesterday! It's fun...I'll keep it!

Yeah, I've got one somewhere


And me. Actually - is there anyone here who *hasn't* got a copy?

I have some other, rather more ancient, tomes like the 5-volume "Amateur
Mechanic" from the 1930s (where "mechanic" means "diy-er") and the
fabulously Pythonesque "The Practical Man's Book of Things to Make and
Do", which must be of similar vintage. Useful topic like:

- Making a wood harp
- Building a sailing boat
- Overhauling a motor-car
- Taxidermy
- Making a reflex camera
- Thatching a roof

and many more...

David

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:15:21 GMT, Lobster
wrote:


I have some other, rather more ancient, tomes like the 5-volume "Amateur
Mechanic" from the 1930s (where "mechanic" means "diy-er") and the
fabulously Pythonesque "The Practical Man's Book of Things to Make and
Do", which must be of similar vintage. Useful topic like:

- Making a wood harp
- Building a sailing boat
- Overhauling a motor-car
- Taxidermy
- Making a reflex camera
- Thatching a roof

and many more...


...and probably every article written personally by FJ Camm.

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Frank Erskine
Sunderland

Andy Hall wrote:

Surely panelling the doors with hardboard and fitting plastic
handles will become fashionanable again....

It still is, round here....

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from Lobster contains these words:

I have some other, rather more ancient, tomes like the 5-volume "Amateur
Mechanic" from the 1930s (where "mechanic" means "diy-er") and the
fabulously Pythonesque "The Practical Man's Book of Things to Make and
Do", which must be of similar vintage. Useful topic like:

I've got "Enquire within upon everything" from 1900 - with a recipe for
rat poison.

TO DESTROY RATS

The following recipe originated with Dr. Ure and is hightly recommended
as the best known means of getting rid of these most obnoxious and
destructive vermin. -Melt hog's-lard in a bottle plunged in water,
heated to about 150 degrees Fahrenheit; introduce into it half-and-ounce
of phosphorous for every pound of lard; then add a pint of proof spirit,
or whisky; cork the bottle firmly after its contents have been heated to
150 degrees, taking it at the same time out of the water, and agitate
smartly till the phosphorous becomes uniformly diffused, forming a
milky-looking liquid. This liquid, when cooled, will afford a white
compound of phosphorous and lard. As the spirit spontaneously seperates,
it may be poured off and used again for the same purpose. This compound,
on being warned very gently, may be poured out into a mixture of wheat
flour and sugar, incorporated therewith, and then flavoured with oil of
rhodium, or with oil of aniseed &c. The dough, being made into pellets,
is top be laid into rat holes. Being luminous in the dark it attracts
their notice, and being agreeable to their palates it is readily eaten,
and proves certainly fatal.
Note. -Chloride of lime is a good preventative, as rats have an extreme
aversion to it.

Scary - phoshorous bombs for rats.

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Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2006-08-05 18:34:05 +0100, John Stumbles
said:

Anyone want a Readers Digest DIY manual from the late 1970s/early
80s?

Lots of neat projects to recover your furniture with Dralon, block up
those unsightly victorian fireplaces etc :-)

I've tried the local (Reading) library and Freecycle groups. It'd
cost about £5 to post.

Don't you want to keep it then?

Surely panelling the doors with hardboard and fitting plastic handles
will become fashionanable again....


You forgot...how to make a serving hatch. ;-)

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

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from "The3rd Earl Of Derby" contains these words:

You forgot...how to make a serving hatch. ;-)

Servile hatch as they're called round here.

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The message
from Andy Hall contains these words:

Servile hatch as they're called round here.

Have you got one?

The house should be designed or modified to accomodate it..

No we most certainly haven't!

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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

On 2006-08-06 18:07:15 +0100, Guy King said:

The message k
from "The3rd Earl Of Derby" contains these words:

You forgot...how to make a serving hatch. ;-)

Servile hatch as they're called round here.

Have you got one?

The house should be designed or modified to accomodate it..

Andy Hall wrote:

Surely panelling the doors with hardboard and fitting plastic handles
will become fashionanable again....

I still remember my Dad doing that!

Polstyrene ceiling tiles, red & yellow patios, stone cladding, what were we
thinking of!


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