[Blackpool] Saturday 4th July 2015

[Olly Clark]

Hi James,

I'll be there tomorrow, I don't mind helping you take your laptop if you 
want, do you have any thermal paste and rubbing alcohol?

Regards

Olly

On 02/07/15 17:01, James Page wrote:
> I think I need to stick some new thermal paste on my laptop's CPU. Cleaning
> out the vents etc hasn't helped to decrease the running temp. Will there be
> anybody around who could guide me through it? It's not something I've done
> before.
>
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
> James
>
> On 2 July 2015 at 13:02, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,I've just been asked to help out on a Scout camp this Saturday so won't
>> be there :o(.
>> It's been too hot to be indoors hacking this week.  I've been in my garden
>> trying to get as far as I can hacking the tree stumps and roots before
>> deploying the chemical warfare.
>> It's bad form to use a chainsaw on anything but clean wood, even if you
>> powerwash the roots the grit remains and ruins the chain, a man should look
>> after his tools and the chain can pickup something sharp and fling it at
>> your head...  But the convenience and speed of a chainsaw makes cutting a
>> stump out a lot less of a chore (actually it becomes an enjoyable job!).  I
>> was doing this with two expensive chains and sharpening the chains between
>> runs last year, which is tedious and it doesn't take long before the grit
>> ruins the way the chains run in the saw and they have to be dumped anyway.
>> Cheap Chinese goods to the rescue yet again, at £5 a pop for a new chain it
>> makes it economical to use the chainsaw (it's still scarily unsafe though,
>> plenty of protection req'd).  I have two cheapo chains and I'm still on the
>> first one, I'll probably resharpen them once and then dump them as running
>> them too long is probably damaging the saw itself.
>>
>> After looking at the Makerspace progress I had another look at my lower
>> ground floor space and decided I am going to do a proper job same as Mike.
>> I'll take the walls down to brick, tanking slurry, 25mm of insulation,
>> battens and probably I will go for OSB walls in this workshop.  Floor is
>> screeded, I have read that should go back down to the concrete slab for the
>> tanking slurry to really bond in.  I don't have any major damp issues in
>> this room and I'm loath to take out the screeded floor as it's quite well
>> done.  So I won't get a good tanking fillet between the wall brickwork and
>> floor (I believe the tanking will not bond in with the screeded floor but I
>> will come it from the wall for about a metre with the tanking anyway).  I
>> am thinking of using the sheet you use to tank a shower wetroom to overlap
>> the wall/floor join by a metre or so.  25mm foam insulation on the floor on
>> top of the wetroom style tanking sheet and a floating chipboard floor.
>> Door frames will stay as is, most people including myself will fit under
>> them without having to duck!  OSB walls will be a great base for a shelving
>> and storage system.  It's not a massive space so the costs won't mount up.
>>
>> I will be at Preston Raspberry Jam with my soldering iron helping out
>> younglings with a soldering project.  I have promised someone I'll have the
>> ESP8266 project done and written up on the blog by then too...  we'll see
>> how that goes.
>>
>> Regards
>> Arthur
>>> From: mikehull2008 at hotmail.co.uk
>>> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:49:22 +0100
>>> Subject: [Blackpool] Saturday 4th July 2015
>>>
>>> Tyldesley Road will be open as usual Saturday from 10am.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Mike Hull
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