On May 3, 7:26 pm, PDW wrote:
OzOne wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2007 02:10:16 +0200 (CEST), PDW
scribbled thusly:

As for the USA starting things with Iran, I suspect you've gotten your
knowledge of history from SBS or the ABC, not by any serious reading of
history. But I could be wrong, you might actually know better and are just
stirring the possum. Either way I don't have the time to bother, and you've
shown little stomach for an argument on facts rather than polemics, so....

Ahhhh maybe you should address this to Joe....

Why bother, Oz? I *know* that Joe is pig-ignorant of anything outside the USA.

I know it's smarter and more cost effective to buy portholes than to
tool up to mfg a dozen or so, unless your time is not worth anything.


If you've read other stuff I've written in the past, you'd have seen my
ripping strips off him. You, OTOH, I'm not sure about.... your lobotomy may
not have been 100% effective.

Almost as effective as yours Peter, shoulden't you be moving around a
80 ton hunk of rusted chinese iron so you can tinker in your shop?
Just think, you would only have to build 4 molds, and 24 parts and
finish your foundry, spend several hundered dollars on electricity,
find scrap bronze to melt, use a couple 75K machine tools and with
only 100 plus hours labor per porthole... you will have a fine
porthole for your boat.

Joe



Back to the ship. One new transducer fitted, one to go. I got over being
surprised over how a 2 day job takes at least 10 the moment you put a ship
in
a dry dock back in the last century. However, I haven't gotten over being
****ed off about it. Garden Island is a great spot though, and I'm enjoying
wandering about looking at all the historic buildings. Photography is still
banned in a lot of places there.

I believe the Island has some very sensitive sites that our various
Govts would prefer that we didn't know about....something about the
heart of nuclear free Sydney........

Stupid place for a Naval dockyard IMO. Made sense - maybe - in the 40's but
not now. Ah well, new sea chest goes in tomorrow - maybe - then X-rays to
follow, then we can fit the gear and get on a plane. I do like Sydney to
visit, but there are limits. Besides I just loaded a new universal vertical
milling head aboard for my Hobart toy shop, and my stores guy in Hobart
informed me that my Ebay milling machine has arrived. I have more interesting
things to do now I've spent my current machine tool toy budget.

PDW