August 2010
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November 2009
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October 2009
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Hey Now Little Mouse ! :)
Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from...
What if all the Large Hadron Collider’s recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson.
The quest to observe the Higgs boson has certainly been plagued by its share of troubles, from the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider in 1993 to...
September 2009
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April 2009
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Finished.
At least for now. What it really needs is each and every last piece to be cleaned properly, and the chrome re-dipped etc. Well, one day maybe, but for now I am happy that it looks and works like a typewriter. I’m going to polish the black paint so it shines, then it will look even more the part.
To finish off, I stripped the carriage assembly and worked out how to wind up the tension wheel...
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The Underwood #5 Project
I shall start with the traditional ‘before’ picture.
My daughter got this lovely old typewriter in a carboot sale the other day to go in her 30s style bedroom she is creating, it was cheap, and broken, so needs a bit of a clean up and various repairs to get it working.
These Underwood #5 models (this one is from 1938) are fairly common but still fetch around £90 for a good example,...