Boys and Girls,

 

Another “Operational tip” posted on LJ and copied before my ban.

 

Being a cask-o-vino drinker, I’m surprised I managed to learn the art of decanting… note the deliberate avoidance of the word master… hopefully “decanting”, will make sense if you bother to read on.

 

The prattle below is what I unleashed on the unfortunate LJ wrecked members…. what makes you think yazall are immune to that?... though I have taken the liberty to update that 4 yo post.

 

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Boys and Girls,

During the C19 Pandemic, I treated myself to a few new Fe$tool tools. This post has nothing to do with them, though I may do a review later, they dragged me down to the workshop and make me do some "workshop kinkies" that SWMBO might deliver a moon-slap for in disgust.

For once I will avoid powered tools and turn my back on hand tools. I will crap on about those workshop incidentals that most just tend to ignore.

To minimise cross contamination I decant most of my chems/paints/stains/shellac, into glass jars. I wrote a tip on how to undo jars.

With this PITA C19 putting a dent into my activities, I found that my venture into "traditional workshopping" has taken a back seat to my puzzling laser work... (sorry, gotta spruik my financier… ME).... you've all been following my puzzle mania… haven't yazall?

Returning to the workshop needing to use some old chems, I hit some jars with the 2 strap method (undo jars)... I had more OOPSIES with "horizontal orientation" spills than glasses of vino consumed in the last 10 days.
 
Faster curing tung oil and a traditional mix of shellac, has the tendency to glue the lid to the jar… not to mention all those contraband chemicals that invade a majority of sensitive noses.

 
 If you are bored so far (as I've been known to crap on… but, the goods are about to come), there are many more interesting LJ threads to satisfy your druthers…

This may seem obvious to the psychos (or is it psychics) out there, but I have found two ways to prevent those spillages while I used to battle with the two straps on a horizontal jar.
1. Fully graduate to square jars. 

If I detect an item in a square jar, 

I buy it, and only then determine if I like it... (noticed the picture sooo... PO, Pottz and Moke about your anti-Vegemite phobias, which hopefully, hate speech will be verboten here in Aussieland, and spread to you Philistines in Yankeeland).  
If I like it, I have a great source of square jars and if I don't, I hold my nose and try to eat the stuff without proclaiming disgust of the stuff, and wear my badge of abhorrence with nose-held, pride. They can be inserted in a vice, and with minimal pressure, stabilise them for use with a 1 strap wrench, 

2.  If You're no square, and claim rotundness, get some rubber padding,

I got this from Clark Rubber, however, if it's a tad too far to shop from Yankeeland, Google its local equivalent. I use the semi-soft 6mm x 100mm (to length) rubber strips to grab round jars in my vice

I can crank it up to a reasonable force without fear of mega sweeping, and cuts in the base of my thongs (flip-flops), of glass shards.

 BTW: Shellac (liquid) has a limited shelf life, however, expired shellac mixed at 1:10 (depending on your cut) with metho (DNA), make a brilliant sanding sealer…. So don't throw out that non-tackie shellac (test used for determining expiry). Aren't you glad you didn't stop reading…

  

 

 

 

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