Tuesday 26 January 2021

These Products are for the Birds 🐦

Lehman s poultry feeders - segue into a FB friend who keeps chickens and posts their pics

And back to Lee Valley and me. When I kept the bassboat at a berth for the summer, the boat cover would not stay on - wind etc. I had a flood one time and barely got the boat pumped out. The mechanic nextdoor at the marina added a float valve bilge pump - water gets to one inch and the pump starts.

However, I needed a way to cover the boat even in the strongest wind. Yes, MR LEE came to the rescue. The item was a plastic screw top for 2L torpedo bottles that say Coca Cola comes in. The screw top had a clamp attached to grip say a boat cover. Fill the torpedo w/ water and a heavy weight that could clamp to a tarp was formed. The torpedo bottle was heavy but wouldn't scratch the hull. Several months later, the dock owner and customer were watching me cover the boat, the customer said to the dock owner ' waste of time that will never work in a wind '. The dock owner turned to the customer and said ' that system holds even in storm '. I felt so good about the idea and that it was appreciated.

After the first trial of torpedo weights, I added tarp clips from Lee Valley. The long adjusting clips pulled evenly on the boat cover, so that the cover didn't ride up in spots but stayed tight to the hull. BTW, the other solution was to drill holes and add button down snaps to the hull and sew the coresponding snap covers to the boat cover. Cost for the snap boat cover was $ 1 200 c.f. the clamps and long clips for $40 < oh, and 6 torpedo bottles, but you got to drink the diet Coke >

Segue into research in natural cola recipe. I have a soda stream machine. Make the flavour and feel of ' coca cola ' and carbonate. There are copious recipes available. Surely a by - product of CV 19 ' delirium and mania

Lee Valley continued. LV sells quality products and frequently offers deals. Thus, I'm flipping through LV on line and see " lifetime supply of utility knives '. The doubter in me says ' fat chance '. But ! The price was 12 for $ 20? that was 7 yrs ago. I'm on # 1 set <large and normal > and 5 more to go. Maybe ?????


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