Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[steve_holmes_11]

What amazed me was... Really Heavy Steel bathtub needed disposal. Asked cousin if he might be able to cut it up with grinder.
He SMASHED it up with a heavy Sledge! I had NO idea that Steel could be so brittle!
Makes you think about Armour Plate... 'Cast' armour and late WW2 poor quality German armour 'Shattering' under impacts. 

Think Bath was 'Galvanised Steel' rater than cast Iron.... but not metallurgist!

Cast Iron is poured and allowed to cool, generally hard and brittle (but see *).

Wrought Iron is heated and worked with tools: swords, horseshoes, garden gates. It is generally flexible and impact resistant (but see *).

* Things like alloying, carbon content, plating and rate of cooling can introduce far more variation to flexibility and brittleness than the cast / wrought difference.

Galvanisation is one form of plating.
A thin layer of zinc is applied which protects the base metal against corrosive substances.
This is usually done through a "hot dip" into a bath of molten zinc.

Obligatory Wargame angle:
The first examples of gamvanisation are found in 17th century Indian armour.
(You try keeping a plate/mail hybrid in good nick during a monsoon).

Other surface protections are available.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Cast Iron is poured and allowed to cool, generally hard and brittle (but see *).

Wrought Iron is heated and worked with tools: swords, horseshoes, garden gates. It is generally flexible and impact resistant (but see *).

* Things like alloying, carbon content, plating and rate of cooling can introduce far more variation to flexibility and brittleness than the cast / wrought difference.

Galvanisation is one form of plating.
A thin layer of zinc is applied which protects the base metal against corrosive substances.
This is usually done through a "hot dip" into a bath of molten zinc.

Obligatory Wargame angle:
The first examples of gamvanisation are found in 17th century Indian armour.
(You try keeping a plate/mail hybrid in good nick during a monsoon).

Other surface protections are available.

Fascinating, ta.

[Last Hussar]

Thanks to Orcs for the E.D.N.A. markers.

[Orcs]

Thanks to Orcs for the E.D.N.A. markers.

No problem, Thought they might look a bit nicer than a dice.

[Last Hussar]

Currently in Twitter prison because I said something nasty about cats. Or more accurately, I said cats were waiting for a poster to die so they could eat him.

Twitter mods are cats, who had that on their 2022 bingo card.

[FierceKitty]

Comes the revolution, people who are nasty about cats will be third into the giant mincer (after rock musicians and people who neglect grammar).
I haven't forgotten warmongering politicians and religious leaders, but the mincer's too quick for them.

[DecemDave]

Comes the revolution, people who are nasty about cats will be third into the giant mincer (after rock musicians and people who neglect grammar).
I haven't forgotten warmongering politicians and religious leaders, but the mincer's too quick for them.

28mm wargamers?
Or do they just get the re-education camps?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Comes the revolution, people who are nasty about cats will be third into the giant mincer (after rock musicians and people who neglect grammar).
I haven't forgotten warmongering politicians and religious leaders, but the mincer's too quick for them.

I HATE Cats -------

[FierceKitty]

28mm wargamers?
Or do they just get the re-education camps?

Nah, they'll just have to work 180% more.

[Westmarcher]

Milton Jones: Tell me. Does anyone in here own a cat?

Shout from the audience: Yayyy!!

Milton Jones: ...... Your houses stink.

[Last Hussar]

Any one here a student?

(Yay from audience)

Your houses stink. I can't believe you fell for that.

[Orcs]

Any one here a student?

(Yay from audience)

Your houses stink. I can't believe you fell for that.

I think we have to be very careful here. bearing in mind the aroma that you often find at some wargames shows.

[Heedless Horseman]

But MOST wargamers don't wee on the curtains.   

I love cats. Some think them creepily 'inscrutable. But, in fact, they have a wide variety of expression. The Glare, the 'Innocence', the Feed me, the comfortable, the 'I know YOU can't be bothered right now but I'm going to (?) anyway. Etc., etc.
I have just emptied litter tray. Cat jumped straight in for No.1 and No.2...then happily spread litter all over kitchen. You have to Love them...sometimes!   

[Last Hussar]

Watching S3 E8 of New Tricks on iPlayer. Its got wargaming in. Makes wargamers look like a bunch of sad weird blokes...

Looks at board membership...

No, as you were, nothing to see here.

[Orcs]

I have just emptied litter tray. Cat jumped straight in for No.1 and No.2...then happily spread litter all over kitchen. You have to Love them...sometimes!   

And that's exactly why I won't let Mrs Orcs have another cat.