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    How Trendy!
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    CRS: You mean besides the well documented use of meteorites for cold ironworking before European contact? It's interesting that some of the early Spanish explorers claimed that SW Indigenous tribes were smelting iron, (incorrectly it seems.) IIAC I read it in "The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542" G.P.Winship.
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    I once had a discussion with a late night crew of ICE officers at a checkpoint on I-25 near Radium Springs that with a little work their I beam supported shade structures could be modified to look like Giant Centipedes....
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    Frosty, it's a take off of "The Evil League of Evil" from Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog. The cyborg goats will, of course, have corkscrew horns; glowing red eyes are just a given...
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    That looked to be a pretty old picture to me a lot of stuff is not there that has been there for quite a while now, like a bunch of hinged busses from Albuquerque.
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    Yes a 56 pound anvil is considered a quite small one for blacksmithing work; but very handy as a "travel anvil" for when you take your forge on the road. (Or if you have to carry all your equipment outside to where you can forge in your yard. I used to have to carry my 91# Arm and Hammer anvil up a flight of shuddering stairs from the basement, across the kitchen and out the back door to forge. 56 pounds would have been nice!
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    BWA-hahahahahah, The Villainous Team of Villains is working at this very moment on Cyborg Goats *with* engines!
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    Triffid and Truffles.
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    Not Lego; but Ptree built a powerhammer that he wore on his hat at Quad-State that actually worked. They heated a sewing pin up with a bic lighter and forged it with it.
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    My local scrapyard is bimodal; junked cars available for parting out, then they get filled with random scrap and crushed. The other 3/4 is piles of random scrap and out here the random scrap can be pretty random! I avoid junkyards that only deal in cars; they tend to be more expensive. It's a small place; but I like it. 34.217257, -106.917990 if you want to see the satellite view of it.
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    Triffids & green chili casserole; now there's good eating!
  12. ThomasPowers
    You mean "needing a ring job" doesn't refer to the use of the rings on old grenades?
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    Zeppelins are better for chocolates made with hydrogenated fats!
  14. ThomasPowers
    You use a zeppelin of course!
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    No problem; I've got recipes!
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    I don't recall as I was not part of the folks getting it set up---I lived about 2 hours away.
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    Tall Tales
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    Harry Belefonte---"Come Mr Talisman..."
  19. ThomasPowers
    And many of us have had at least one relationship where we are now very glad we didn't get married.
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    I sometimes run across stainless pipe/tubing at my scrapyard; of course the town it's sort of in has a population of 626 people. I think it comes from the small University down the road in Socorro, (Socorro pop about 10000 when the University is in session.) I seem to recall Seattle being a tad larger when I was there last August...
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    Might be able to sterilize them.
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    Avoid things marked HSS, M2, solid carbide, etc; do ask about drops particularly if you can determine their alloy!
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    An electroscope. I used to have a copy of "The Scientific American book of science projects for the amateur scientist" that included things like building your own linear accelerator using a Van de Graaf generator and a home built mercury diffusion pump. They did warn you not to irradiate anything with an atomic number greater than iron...Mutating beans was suggested.
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    "where it waits quietly in silence to one day Bite you in the leg with the point of its horn when you least expect it!" IF you are *lucky*!
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    I was thinking of building and airboat and waiting for my neighbor to flood irrigate his alfalfa...
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