Double 0 Soul

Thanks Martin.. at least you know where your next PowerPoint is coming from.. The pattern making industry is in ruins.. nobody makes patterns this way anymore apart from me.. folks invested heavily in cnc / robotic arm type pattern machinery which are programmed to cut this kind of thing out of modelboard with zero practical skills.. but a couple of £100k machines +£20k every few years to keep the software package up to date takes a lot of funding so those machines need to be running 6 days/wk.. to pay back the investment. alas, there isn't enough pattern work around anymore in the UK.., it's usually done in China or India for a fraction of the cost.. we still need the components but we can meet environmental targets by shipping castings across the ocean.. somehow? Folks only call me when they're up shit creek and they need a component like.. yesterday, or they have issues with accuracy / tolerance or QC.. This is the first pattern i've made for ages but atleast with my machines being stuck in the 1980s and valueless i'm not going bankrupt while they're not getting used.

Has anyone posted Bobson yet? I think it's the same brand that used to be called Earth Culture back in the 90s

I've been doing a bit of old school pattern making this week.. I started making a pattern for a valve angle body.. it's going to be cast in WCB grade carbon but because molten metal is weird shit.. i'm making the outside of the pattern in 1/38 contraction (for every 38mm i will add 1mm) to allow for the shrinkage so when the casting cools it will be dimensionally correct at standard.. but the inside of the casting will be made at 1/48 contraction because internal dimensions behave differently to external dimensions even though it's the same material the flanges being thicker tend to contract at 1/38 on the outer face but will contract at 1/60 between the flanges.. it's fkin nuts how liquid metal behaves but i haven't got time to explain metallurgy 101 today.. Started making the core / internal shape.. the wall thickness of the casting needs to be 15mm so all these allowances i'm making need to be made wrong at this stage but absolutely correct when cast.. It's made in halves and doweled together using perfectly round silver steel pegs Dusty Warehouse 506 repro in action ..finish building the former / positive which creates the (negative) internal shape for the liquid to flow through the pump Both halves fit together.. the pink is car body filler, it's easier to create radius's and developments.. ie- the plywood disc is a diameter and the pine is a diameter.. but once the pine has been cut at 45 degrees, it ceases to be a diameter on the angled face, so one needs blending from one shape into the other.. i'm just trying to feel how the liquid would flow through the pump without restricting flow rate.. of creating turbulence at high pressure.. ..half of the core on the joint of half of pattern to double check the wall thicknesses.. this will make more sense on the sketches at the bottom.. The core needs to be very slightly smaller than the print (the print doesn't actually exist, it's just there to support/position the core within the cavity which the pattern will create in the mould) i've allowed 0.25mm around the radius for clearance.. too little and you're in danger of the core not fitting in or not being able to close the mould .. too much and you're 15mm wall thickness will be out of tolerance ..made a few plywood discs, just by drilling a hole through 6x pieces of 1.5mm ply, then using the drill to spin them on the sander.. Set half of the core box former up on a perfectly flat board.. used the discs^ to mount the dowels, build a frame around and cast up in liquid PU resin.. ..once cured, build the other half onto the joint uising the silversteel location pegs.. cast that half too.. once cured, split the mould, and make some levers to gently extract the former.. creating vibration by tapping on the joint with a small hammer will help.. the sand core will just fall out, because it's heavier.. ..lift out the former to leave a perfect resin mould to create the sand core.. ..these are examples of smaller sand cores.. in the foundry, sand is mixed with amine and then blasted into a core box under pressure on a core blowing machine, you can see the line left by the joint line of the corebox brass vents are inserted to allow the air out as the sand/amine mix comes in.. the metal dowel locates both halves of box together to blow the core ..two halves of corebox with a hole in the top to blow sand through ..clipped together with suitcase clips so the sand doesn't blow out of the joint. ..now i have to start mounting the pattern on a male and female joint, to allow the two halves to perfectly locate together in the foundry.. .. then i have to use my metallurgy skills again to create a runner system to allow the metal to flow into the mould.. and feed the casting.. ie- the thick flanges will stay hot longer than the 15mm wall thickness.. but if the 15mm wall cools too quickly, it will contract while the flanges are still liquid which creates small cracks at the point where the 15mm wall meets the flange and the very expensive casting will fail radiography. This is an exothermic sleeve which keeps the metal hot to feed the casting .. so theory is this.. half of the pattern is mounted on a male picture frame joint.. i build the female frame around this platform to ensure a perfect fit for the other half.. i've drawn on part of the runner system with the exothermic sleeve ..a moulding frame is put around the pattern and filled with sand / amine ..the pattern is removed and the sand core drops in.. located by the prints ..the bottom half of sand mould is then dropped on top to close the mould, encasing the core and leaving a cavity / space between the sand moulds and the internal sand core.. ..the whole thing is turned over and metal is cast into the runner system.. filling the cavity with what will become our casting.. when cooled, the sand is broken away, the runner system is cut off with a radiac cutter, the casting then goes to radiography to makes sure it's sound, the flanges are machined up to allow other parts of the pumping system to be cleanly bolted to it .. and off it goes, on it's merry way..

Turtle neck?.. pair of New Balance?.. like Steve Jobs innit

Me neither Charlie.. can't remember the last time i watched TV.. don't know why i even pay for a TV license The documentary is from 2014.. there is a terrible quality copy on youtube or an equally terrible quality copy on dailymotion with subs. I'll pm you the link to the copy i watched when i get home.. it's really good! edit- Here you go @Dr_Heech .. this one is ok quality

They were out in the Peaks.. i drew them a route map on a scrap of paper in the pub, they were asking how many miles / feet of elevation.. ect, I dunno, the Mam Tor loop usually takes me 5hrs.. they sent me some photos of the hills they'd ridden up (they live on the south coast where everything is pancake flat) .. They made it to the Millstone in Hathersage stopped for a pub lunch (halfway round the loop) then decided to head back.. cycle computer said they'd traveled 19miles with a 2150ft climb, impressive for middle age folks who're not used to riding hills In comparison.. i felt too hungover to eat my breakfast.. went to Tesco at 1pm to buy recovery food, a prepacked bacon sandwich on white bread, a tub of pasta, pesto, pine nuts and parmesan, a danish and a can of Dr Pepper Last night i watched Atari :Game Over .. the story and fall out of the collapse of the 1980s gaming industry.. (it's really good, even for folks with zero interest in vintage gaming consoles) .. then i had an early night

Absolutely! .. i'm not great with large department stores at the best of times.. i haven't been in one for more than a decade.. my Ikea experience was just after lockdown.. apart from my daily hour of exercise.. i hadn't been out of the house for ages but i'd just made the boy a desk for his bedroom and he needed an office type swivel chair which looked like bedroom furniture rather than office furniture, not something i really wanted to buy online.. I'd seen one at M&S and one at Ikea so we went to try them for size when restrictions were lifted.. I was already feeling pretty apprehensive about it.. when we got there my kid was hungry because he didn't have any breakfast so he and my mrs went to the cafe in Ikea while i went to find the chairs.. "ring me when you've done" said i. When i got into the store.. everything was taped off due to 2m covid restrictions.. i wandered around but couldn't find the chairs or (because of covid restrictions again) any staff to ask, my phone signal was zero so i couldn't call the family, i wandered around for what seemed like hours then i heard my name on the tannoy saying "Double 0.. please go to such and such department" but i had no clue where that department was? I didn't even know what department i was in . Abandoned the trolley, and started retracing my steps back to the entrance but they force you through the store and through an unmanned till point.. when i eventually got back to the entrance the door wouldn't open.. it was one way with a sensor.. had a bit of a mini freakout and went into the loading bay area to ask for help.. a friendly driver took me into the carpark and i went to sit in the car, got a phone signal, rang my mrs and asked them to meet me outside.. they said we're in the chair department, "come back in and have a look at these chairs".. but i couldn't bear it.. we ended up ordering one from John Lewis..

Tyred and emotional.. I only drank 3.5 pints.. before I went out my kid said he’d had half a pint of something called Bad Kitty porter at the local micro bar when it was his friends birthday so I had a pint of that before we walked up to the pub.. it was delicious but one was enough, I didn’t want to mix my drinks but the only porter they had at the pub was plum.. it was revolting! .. like Guinness and blackcurrent, ugh! so I reverted to Guinness, now I feel terrible.. my problem is I rarely go to the pub so when I do I’m like a kid in a sweet shop.. Im not short of offers but ... Remember when I had that mini freakout when I got lost in Ikea? and couldn’t find my way out.. I’ve had a bit of social anxiety since then.. when I’m out, I’m fine/enjoying myself but the days before Im thinking of any excuse not to go..

Impressive!.. the only coffee wash too, that was an obscure one. Looks like tg might be queen of sufu My god i'm hungover.. my bike buddies are doing my Mam Tor ride today, i could barely ride to work..

The last time i went out with them.. i spent the following day face down on my desk with drool running out of my mouth.. i was so hungover, i had to buy a bacon and egg sarnie.. then i took one bite and couldn't manage any more..

I'll be walking.. it's just at the top of my road, they will be though, they've got an airbnb above the buddhist meditation center

I'm going out for a few pints tonight with bike forum people.. in your face denim forum people! Don't wait up...

Check the symmetry of the right heel.. No way these are Nike Tailwind.. listed on eBay.. 100% seller, NIB with no legit check

Oh... and for those who've only been around for a few years or are yet to do some deep thread mining.. these are 3 classic sufu threads Ie- "I've just cum on my jeans but i wasn't planning on washing for a few more months.. what's the best way of dealing with this situation? " There are / were even photographs attached It could only happen here!

I spotted these while walking through student-ville last week.. ..they were in the window of one of the flats, I couldn’t see what they were and it wasn’t immediately apparent so I held my phone above my head and stood on my tiptoes to get a photo then went back to work and found them on the webz luckily nobody saw me.. if you think this is unusual behaviour, just imagine the sneax are jeans and it’ll make perfect sense

Don't mess with me Carl! Anything can happen they way my brain interprets certain words.. We have a forum member here called olmecasteve.. i know it's a nonsensical word but it sends my dyslexia wild My brain knows him as omelette steve

Folks in the UK.. go look at the night sky people! it looks incredible.. The 7 planet alignment is on the 28th but it's so clear tonight.. i can see beehive without binoculars

Agreed.. my three previously mentioned laptops, first one i bought was from these smakheads .. they used to pull up in a car and rush the Tesco my near work running out with arms full of booze speed off in the car.. then go sell it around the nearby workshops.. one day i bought a laptop from them for something like £50.. it was fked, i had to manually defrag the thing daily .. then i bought a black Macbook A1181 in 2007 remember when they were either black or white? I had it for years.. loved the thing, then my toddler knocked cherry juice over it and fried the motherboard, i hadn't backed it up for ages and it was full of my baby photos so i sent it away and had the HD put into a usb transport with a request to "please save my baby photos".. which they did and put them on a separate drive.. I've still got that HD it's messy but it's also full of the clothing photos from the old storage room days.. when i photographed them all to list them on ebay.. i'll pick through it one day and see what i can recover.. after that trauma, i bought a 2012 macbook pro which i'm still using today I was an early adopter of phone tech.. not quite city-boy brick era.. but i did have a Sony H333 in 1993 (ish).. what folks called the mars bar phone.. this was in the days when some of my friends still used pagers.. i bought it from Dixons the highstreet electrical shop.. it was in the days before phone-shops existed.. even back then i was paying something like £28/mth line rental and 30p /min for off peak calls and 50p /min peak .. i used to get a new phone every year.. then one died in a cycling rainstorm so i bought a £20 burner from Tesco.. i left it on the beach in my pack while i was off catching crabs with the boy.. when i got back it was gone so i just thought fkit! i don't need a phone and i didn't have one for 5 or 6 years thereafter... I've always repaired my own jeans (within reason).. never been happy with any of the results, always drawn blood! .. i find that once they get to that stage their days are numbered.. my many hours spent results in justr a few more weeks of wear.. it's just not worth my (poor) efforts.. i have three pairs awaiting crotch repairs, now MrB has a darning machine.. i might send them all down for repairs.. Only sufu hook'ups i've had was Sugar Mountain (remember him?) i sold him some McCoys goodies.. he'd previously hooked up with Ranon, (maybe) flash and Ed a few times.. he did say Ed was far removed from his sufu persona.. a lot more sensible and 1000% less offensive.. in fact, quite charming! I think he (SM) went to live in Taiwan or maybe Singapore.. (i can't quite remember) he married a girl from there..

Shush! You.. you’re ruining my narrative

You pulled that out of the bag Ooms.. ! 3/4s of the way down.. it was like you'd nvr heard of the place. Clothing aside.. i turned away from consumerism years ago @Cold Summer the only reason i still buy expensive things is because i don't want to buy them again .. i've only ever owned 3 laptops.. my DSLR is 20+yrs old.. I've only recently got a secondhand iphone having not owned a phone for years and not because i wanted one.. just became life became so difficult / bordering on the impossible without one. But i do have a collectors mentality which left unchecked, gets a bit out of control.. before my kid was born.. his soon to be bedroom was my clothing / sneaker storage room.. i had two metal shop rails on wheels full of jackets, you could barely open the door without knocking over boxes of sneakers pilled up to the ceiling.. i was buying stuff and just shoving it in the room.. out of sight.. out of mind. When my kid was born in 2009.. i realised how little any of it meant to me and just took the collection back to current wearers / what would fit in the wardrobe. It didn't stop.. it just slowed down momentarily while i adjusted to parenthood, then i started buying jeans again.. i thought i'd buy a pair of engineer boots.. but because i don't want to "buy cheap buy twice" i bought an insanely expensive pair.. and because of the previously mentioned 'collectors mentality' within 12mths i'd spent £6000 on a small collection of hand made boots.. this was on top of my lace up boots.. every pair was black (same with the lace ups) they all looked the same I was the first person outside Japan to buy Clinch from Brass..(you can probably blame me for the CSF thing too) did i wear any of these boots.. no not really, my life centered around my kid, all my leisure time was spent knee deep in mud wearing wellies.. out in the woods fishing, collecting tadpoles, bike riding, camping or hiking in the Peaks.. i rarely got the opportunity to wear £1600 boots (so why did you buy so many?... good question) i decided to wear the cheapest pair of fancy engineers in the workshop (that is their intended purpose after all) but they were fucked in a few short months so i sold them on. I spent years and 100s of hours painstakingly collecting every colour of ultra-rare 1990s era Buckweat sneakers.. never wore any of them and sold them on to MJF9 for a song When we moved house 7ish years ago i had another rethink / sell off.. it's these life affirming moments like kids being born, house purchases which makes me reassess.. i haven't bought any sufu-related clothing since 2017.. the last item being a Stan Ray SunSurf shirt from PSA. The social commentators will tell you.. "buying clothing always leaves you wanting more, feeling unfulfilled and empty inside".. i've got to admit, it was all a massive waste of money but i did thoroughly enjoy it.. researching, tracking down and buying rare items of clothing was exciting and with that gone, there is less joy in my life.. but do i feel happier and more contented inside?.. absolutely not.. i feel exactly the same.

We all justify it in different ways..

Nice to see PrettyBoyTony in WAYWT making highstreet labels look no different to denim-snob labels.. it's how this place used to be, we all came here as denim nerds but before too long, due in part to our pathetic inability to resist consumer urges we were all wearing head to toe sufu approved brands.. I've always tried to resist buying fancy t-shirts, £5 Gildan tees fit me perfectly so why spend £40 on Whitesville tees..? folks working at the Whitesville factory in Japan will probably have better working conditions than the folks working at the Gildan factory in Haiti .. but then, with the lack of employment opportunities in wartorn, earthquake struck Haiti.. i'm sure any work, (apart from working down the old poison mine) is better than no work at all so should i buy tees from Haiti or not? are Gildan taking advantage of cheap labour.. probably, yes. So why do I/we feel compelled to use the "im paying a little more to ensure better working conditions" argument when buying clothing yet only today on my way home from work, i called at Tesco to buy some ramen and zero fucks were given for the folks working in the Chinese noodle factory.. their working conditions could be terrible but i just tossed them in the basket along with everything else i bought from far off lands.. only drawing the line at Dr Oetker I appreciate there is a lot of clothing we crave here which can't be bought on the UK highstreet (for less than car money) our jeans for one with all their period correct intricacies.. i also appreciate those folks buying expensive tees could say the same thing.. but we didn't come here as t-shirt nerds.. the forum manipulated us into buying expensive t-shirts.. ..or Aliens ring coat for two.. you would struggle to find anything akin to this on the highstreet, therefore it is worth buying.. but if you take a flannel shirt for instance .. i've bought a few Woolrich varieties from the local vintage joint for work shirts.. a step up in price would be Uniqlo followed by M&S, SC, UES.. IH then RO with £1000 separating the cheapest from the most expensive for essentially something that looks quite similar.. even to me.. The shirt-nerds would strike me down in flames.. but again, we didn't come here as shirt nerds.. the forum made us into shirt nerds, it's not called Supershirts is it?

I used to see quite a few ring coats over on DB.. They’re not an easy garment to pull off.. I thought your buttoned up fit later in the thread was ok but the unbuttoned one on pg3 was fantastic.. up there with the best I’ve seen.

What the hell are you doing on the Fendi site?

Fixed it.. jacket was nice too tho!