God I love growing our own

[Erichalfbee]

sorry you had a bad day Dani. Hope you are feeling better. Must have been bad to be up at 1.30am!

Stan's had an MI
No Cath Lab at Aber! I thought all major hospitals had one....stupid me. He's safe in Swansea now

 

[Newbeeneil]

Stan's had an MI
No Cath Lab at Aber! I thought all major hospitals had one....stupid me. He's safe in Swansea now

Sorry to hear about Stan, but glad to hear he's safe.

 

[Amari]

Stan's had an MI
No Cath Lab at Aber! I thought all major hospitals had one....stupid me. He's safe in Swansea now

Best wishes to Stan for a speedy recovery

 

[drex]

Love and best wishes to you both.

 

[pargyle]

That's exactly the sort of thing Just don't buy one with a crank that breaks after ten years

James

They don't make them like they used to ....

 

[philipm]

Been using an apple peeler for years normally do a load of apples me peeling and putting the apples into a bowl of salted water to stop them going brown and the wife choping them up and bagging ready to go into the freezer.The handle on ours is straight if you have the skills I dont think it would be that hard to make a new one.

 

[pargyle]

Been using an apple peeler for years normally do a load of apples me peeling and putting the apples into a bowl of salted water to stop them going brown and the wife choping them up and bagging ready to go into the freezer.The handle on ours is straight if you have the skills I dont think it would be that hard to make a new one.

I use lemon juice to stop the apples browning ... squeeze a lemon into a couple of pints of water - solves the problem.

 

[JamezF]

The handle on ours is straight if you have the skills I dont think it would be that hard to make a new one.

I've managed to get the broken end of the crank off the shaft, at least. I close examination suggested that I might be able to make out the end of a thread on the inside, so I put it in a vice and turned the broken bit with a pair of mole grips. It came off nicely.

I don't think I can repair it. It's sufficiently small that I don't think it would survive an attempt to braze/silver solder it (assuming that's even possible with aluminium, which is what I assume it's made of). If I can identify the thread (it looks far too coarse for a standard metric thread, but I seem to recall there are some common coarse sizes) I may be able to make a new one from a bit of scrap.

James

 

[pargyle]

I've managed to get the broken end of the crank off the shaft, at least. I close examination suggested that I might be able to make out the end of a thread on the inside, so I put it in a vice and turned the broken bit with a pair of mole grips. It came off nicely.

I don't think I can repair it. It's sufficiently small that I don't think it would survive an attempt to braze/silver solder it (assuming that's even possible with aluminium, which is what I assume it's made of). If I can identify the thread (it looks far too coarse for a standard metric thread, but I seem to recall there are some common coarse sizes) I may be able to make a new one from a bit of scrap.

James

Whitworth is still a common coarse thread - for things like winders on all sorts of things ... it's a design that's very old and the factory making them in the far east is probably still using the same tooling from the day they orginally copied the design !

 

[JamezF]

Whitworth is still a common coarse thread - for things like winders on all sorts of things ... it's a design that's very old and the factory making them in the far east is probably still using the same tooling from the day they orginally copied the design !

Aha. Thank you. I shall bear that in mind when I dig out the thread gauges tomorrow.

James

 

[JamezF]

Looks like the thread is M6 x 1mm. I believe the standard pitch for M6 is 0.8mm, so it's unlikely that I have a suitable tap already.

James

 

[roche]

Looks like the thread is M6 x 1mm. I believe the standard pitch for M6 is 0.8mm, so it's unlikely that I have a suitable tap already.

James

I'm pretty sure it's 1mm so you should be lucky...

 

[JamezF]

I'm pretty sure it's 1mm so you should be lucky...

It's entirely possible that my memory is playing tricks on me and that the coarse thread form is the default with some additional fine threads. I'm just confusing myself now I'll dig out an M6 die and see if it runs down the male thread cleanly.

James

 

[pargyle]

It's entirely possible that my memory is playing tricks on me and that the coarse thread form is the default with some additional fine threads. I'm just confusing myself now I'll dig out an M6 die and see if it runs down the male thread cleanly.

James

Or you could take the easier route and splash your cash on a new one ...and then fix your old one and have TWO ... so, in ten years time when one or the other breaks you will have a spare and won't have to spend £120 on a new one (after inflation of course) thus saving yourself £12 a year at a cost of less than £2 a year .... and you would still have the asset value of two - even if one needed a new handle.

Convoluted economics but good financial logic if you intend living for a further 10 years !

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lakeland-A...sprefix=apple+corer+and+peeler,aps,72&sr=8-26

 

[JamezF]

Or you could take the easier route and splash your cash on a new one ...and then fix your old one and have TWO ... so, in ten years time when one or the other breaks you will have a spare and won't have to spend £120 on a new one (after inflation of course) thus saving yourself £12 a year at a cost of less than £2 a year .... and you would still have the asset value of two - even if one needed a new handle.

Convoluted economics but good financial logic if you intend living for a further 10 years !

I may well do that. Hopefully I can manage another ten years. At least I might if the NHS stop causing me stress by telling me my blood pressure is too high

James

 

[roche]

Or you could take the easier route and splash your cash on a new one ...and then fix your old one and have TWO ... so, in ten years time when one or the other breaks you will have a spare and won't have to spend £120 on a new one (after inflation of course) thus saving yourself £12 a year at a cost of less than £2 a year .... and you would still have the asset value of two - even if one needed a new handle.

Convoluted economics but good financial logic if you intend living for a further 10 years !

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lakeland-A...sprefix=apple+corer+and+peeler,aps,72&sr=8-26

But what about depreciation?

 

[Goran]

" That" time of a year..

 

[JamezF]

" That" time of a year..

They look very nice. For air-drying?

James

 

[Goran]

Yes, some smoke of beech sawdust and air drying.

 

[pargyle]

But what about depreciation?

Yes ... you are right ... I should have factored that in ... mind you, in real terms it will probably APPRECIATE over the next 10 years !