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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Allen Messer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:37 AM
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [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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