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169 ExcellentAbout ditchman
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- Birthday 28/06/1955
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Male
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norfolkstan cantley
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Interests
Game shooting.....pigeon shooting.....making knives....mending old knives ...re-building engines....and dogs
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i would be happy with that............"a blade makes a knife ...the handle sells it "............
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im going to steal your phophore bronze shim slides..
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they are really nice..........the more weird the antler is the better i like it ....
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i think i have a spare chimney for that alladin..............if you ever need it give me a shout..............
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that is a beast of a knife..........it looks in good condition as well.......nice one.. i wonder if you could trace the name to a person on the war records ???
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i bet they thro a bit of light..................are they still in working order ?
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ooohhh they are nice....................
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cheers for that..............to be quite honest it works and throws a nice ammont of light......far more so than a candle...............it is 3/4 's full of parafeen and sits on the desk and no longer smells...but is always ready to be lit ....as we have several power cuts here from time to time...... i have been looking at some of the large drawing room oil lamps on the net ...some of them with glass shades.....i bet they threw some light as well...
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put the wick back in and trim it ......polish it up ....clean the chimney and light it up ....... jobs a gooden.........
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heat up the handle and melt it away from the body..............clean.....(it must be clean)...and re-solder......
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what about a bottle of Justeni and a packet of pork scratchings.......that was a good night out on a park bench...
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next thing was to .....give it a good old clean up and check what needs fixing.....the burner was ok and i had the wick out and washed and flattered it and trimmed it ...then a look at the body ...and as you can see ...where the handle joind the body ...the solder is cracked............
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they look reqally nice................i re-built a HY 77 a while ago..........not to that standard tho........mine was a barn find and has alot of the blueing missing / worn off...and had a very very strange mod on it......i will put some pics up of it some time... but that pair you have are really smart..........troulble with the HW's you need a wheelbarrow to cart them around ..
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in the back of the shed .......i have this old diddy parafeen lamp.......dont get used in the house as it has a couple of splits where the handle joind the body....so it does stink on parafeen..........so i had a bit of time on my hands about 3 weeks ago...and decieded to take it apart and clean it ..take the dents out and mend the holes...cause i rekon it is a pretty little thing and should be bought back into use... will post a few more pics of progress later..............
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i have a very low alchohol tolerance...........i can get slap faced on a wine gum and a glass of water.............also i sober very quickly.........i have awesome kidneys.. (and a childish sense of fun.......im not ready to grow up yet )