[modeleng] Re: Sale of Deceased ME's workshop

It certainly does - Dick passed on early march 4 years ago.

> Hi ,
>
> Doesn't time fly. It does not seem that long ago when Dick and I used to
> E-mail each other about Jaguar cars.
> Will keep an eye on E-Bay.
>
> Regards
>
> Clif
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Of The Above" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:39 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Sale of Deceased ME's workshop
>
>
> > Some of the longer in the tooth may remember me. Some of you may also
> > remember Dick Clements who died of cancer about 4 years ago.
> >
> > His widow is planning to move to a smaller house and has asked me to
> > dispose
> > of his workshop for her. I don't want to see it go too cheaply. Dick
> > didn't
> > have nasty stuff so far as I know. I shall be selling it on ebay in lots
> > over the next couple of weeks. Please look out for it and make some
decent
> > bids for some decent kit.
> >
> > My ebay user name is plmokn321.
> >
> > I shall also be selling some of my own stuff. I will identify which is
> > Dick's although feel free to pay excessive prices for mine too.
> >
> >
> > Oh and displacement reactions. You can plate a less reactive metal onto
a
> > more reactive but not the other way round. So stick a bit of copper wire
> > in
> > some silver nitrate solution and it'll get silver plated. Put some
copper
> > wire in some iron sulphate solution and it won't.
> >
> > You can find which is more reactive by looking up something called
> > standard
> > electrode potential or redox potential. You need a decent gap between
the
> > two to make the reaction work well.
> >
> > I don't have the redox potential for Ni -> Ni2+ but I'd be a bit
surprised
> > if you could plate iron onto nickel or vice versa very well.
> >
> > An old boy I knew used to swear by copper sulphate for marking out
steel.
> > Blue vitriol I think he called it. He'd degrease the steel pretty well
and
> > then paint it over with copper sulphate. The copper would plate out and
> > he'd
> > then mark out on the plating when it was dry. I reckon a big fat marker
> > pen
> > is a better way.
> >
> > And horologists silver plate brass clock dials using a displacement
> > reaction. The silver plate sticks really welll and can last years.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
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