Just beautiful objects
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Have a wild stab in the dark. My money's on wankel engine.When I was at school years ago we had a show and tell, where you had to bring something in and discuss it. One kid who lived in Whitechapel (and was a bit of a lad to say the least) turns up with this massive object covered in a Hessian sack. He drags it up to the front of the class, and it weights a ton.
"This looks interesting" says the teacher. So kid unveils it, one of those full sized metal underground signs you see on the walls of tube stations, with ALDGATE EAST on it.
"Christ alive man" says the teacher. "where the hell did you get that?"
So kid looks down at sign, looks at teacher, looks at sign again, looks at teacher with quizzical look, and replies
"Aldgate East sir!"
Much uproar in class.
Turns out he remembered about show and tell on his way in, didn't have anything, and they just happened to have the sign off the wall for painting as his train pulled in to Aldgate East, so he quickly nabbed it. Teacher made him promise to return it on the way home!
I guess these days he'd be spotted on CCTV, and he'd be most wanted man on Twitter with 20 minutes.
anonymous said:
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nope, although there are plenty of defunct '8s to choose from, to be fair. The ones in my photo came from a later 13B motor as found in third-generation RX-7s. They're low compression (not that you can really tell from the pics) cos of the turbo application. Earlier 12A engines had asymmetric "bathtubs" and were narrower
Not sure if the link will work (phones are useless sometimes) but this is one of the nicest bits if wood carving (all done with just 2 normal whittling knives -100 hours work) i've seen in a while. And I do love my carving.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=147328386965...
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=147328386965...
Beautiful, but deadly...copied from Wikipedia:-
XB-70 Valkyrie is the prototype of the B-70 nuclear-armed, deep-penetration strategic bomber for the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. North American Aviation designed the Valkyrie bomber as a large, six-engined aircraft capable of reaching Mach 3+ while flying at 70,000 feet (21,000 m).
Jonboy_t said:
Wow!! Not sure about the chair, bit too much for my taste, but those tables are beautiful! Your friend is talented! Any chance of a point in the direction of his/their website?
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