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

Yes, Tim, you are remembered, as well as Dick
Clements.  I hope that you can help hie widow get a
good price for his tools and above all, I hope that
you can see that it will go to some "good homes" that
will appreciate it.

Al Messer

--- Tim Of The Above <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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