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It's what spectre mentioned above, yerba mate. The cup is called a mate and the beverage is called mate (mahtey) haha. Pretty decent caffeine level. It's drunk from a small gourd (mate) with a straw, the bombilla, which has a filter on the bottom end. The gourds can get quite fancy, leather clad, with artsy metalwork and such. Nowadays you can get plastic and silicone ones too, but old Argentines despise these. I use a silicone one at work and have a nice leather one at home. I can always get an eye roll from my daughter when I point to my mate and say,"that's mate (mah tay [my tea])". It only works since tea is pronounced "tay" in French which we both speak. She'd also contest the idea that the joke works, hahaha, but I'm a dad so it's a dad-joke.

I don't suppose you see the winning lottery ticket numbers? This is the big set it has everything but the smaller set that's cheaper works just fine for most people. There are few items out of the set that would be nice to have liked the jewel plate or jewel gauge. But for the most part you don't need everything here although it would be nice to have it.

I have a Lulzbot Mini. The 3D community is really high on the Prusa which is sourced from Europe. If I were to buy one today, I would start my research with the Prusa. I like my Lulzbot a lot, but it is becoming a bit dated in terms of capability. I have printed battery inserts for my Wittnauer Electrochron, custom boxes for my electronics, stand to hold a pocket watch, replacement handles for my oilers (my dad would put the broken ones in a drawer and buy new ones), custom threaded bulkhead for my water collection system, on and on. When I bought it, I had no idea how I would use it other than for custom boxes for my electronics.

My experience is only with FDM style 3D printing (where you feed a filament into a nozzle and it is melted and added to the whatever is below it.) SLA printers start with a liquid polymer that is selectively cured as the image is pulled from the liquid. I hear that SLA printers are more accurate. I have been 3D printing for about three years and I wonder how I ever lived without it. Super utilitarian. The software I use is open source, so there are no costs or licensing issues.

These kinds of things are certainly possible using 3D printing. I just threw this together as an example. Can be far more complex lines if needed. Lots of 3D print shops around that will print your stl file too. You don't even need to invest in the printer. Just an idea.

PG Tips, Yorkshire, Tetley, co-op 99, whatever I could get in the suitcase on my latest visit to the UK (long time ago now), or whatever my parents send over. 3 bags in a 1500 CC pot. Mashed for anything from 5 minutes to half-an-hour (shower, shave, get dressed), then a little bit of milk in the biggest mug I've got (the one with Homer Simpson on it), and pour in the tea up to the brim. I don't think it makes any difference If the milk goes in before or after, but MIF saves washing a teaspoon.

Just Earl Grey for me - no milk, no sugar, just tea ? (the same way I like my coffee - no frothy milky latte mocha etc, just pure coffee)

I like my tea very strong. I have 3 large mugs before breakfast. On average I drink around 9 mugs of tea a day.

I have been a coffee drinker since grade school but, do enjoy an afternoon green tea with honey. Here a picture taken at my work desk some years back. A morning cappuccino, a Timex watch and behind it a remembrance of a visit to Assisi back in 2000 (a Franciscan Cross).

Hi A single pot of ground colombian medium in the morning then tea/decaff coffee as the misses drinks it but will drink anything but tap water full of purification chemicals so I have to filter that out.

I don't.

I've been an enthusiastic coffee drinker for decades. I had pretty much every device known to man for making coffee, and had perfected the ritual for the thickest, blackest, muddiest coffee going. Sweet, and faintly chocolatey. Then my allergy doctor realized that my chronic cough was actually silent reflux; acid reflux, without the heartburn. It had gone undiagnosed for a long time because of my severe allergies. The biggest contributing factors are drinking black coffee on an empty stomach (which I did every. single. day.), alcohol (the only non-coffee, non-water thing I ever drink), and spicy foods (the only kind of food I know having grown up in Texas and being an avid fan of Indian and Thai food). Fortunately, my alcohol consumption is very much a quality over quantity routine, and I don't drink but maybe once a week; even that seems a high estimate. So that didn't have to go. Food... I can tone it down. I eat spicy at a level that makes the Indian/Thai waiters concerned; that can be tempered to a significant degree without too much effort. But the coffee... Every single morning since college, I had a whole pot of super thick black coffee before breakfast... That's a hard habit to break. So tea... I've been working on a coffee substitute blend that doesn't suck. The most naturally caffeinated tea I'm aware of is yerba matte. Then a blend of things to get it coffee-like and palatable. Traditional (smoked with stems and aged) and roasted yerba mattes and chicory are the main ingredients, then I'm working on carob/chocolate and leaning toward chocolate, and stevia. This steeps for 10 minutes in a french press. It's tannic as hell, and not at all drinkable... unless you clarify it to crash out the tannins with milk (though I recently discovered also that I may be lactose intolerant, so I've been experimenting with milk alternatives). Then you get something vaguely coffee-like (strong, a bit of body, slightly bitter), caffeinated to a similar degree, and altogether pleasant and drinkable. It's still a work in progress, but it's way better than any of the coffee substitutes I've been able to find on the market. Not exactly coffee, but close enough and still it's own thing. Nothing that isn't a minimally processed plant part is nice too boot.

I grew up in the Deep South USA, so black tea was a daily beverage either hot or iced, sugar optional but culturally many/most take it sickeningly sweet. Usually just Lipton or Tetley. My wife is half Argentine half English, so I drink a lot of mate*, and also a mix of bargain bin black tea and "tea shop" black. My father in law (English) lives nearby, and gets a custom mix from the shop. Never mention English Breakfast in his house hahaha. We pretty much stick to his blend at home when not drinking the cheap stuff, loose leaves in the pot, pour through a strainer in the cup. No sugar, wife takes a little milk sometimes. *if you don't know mate, it looks pretty gross in pics, but is awesome. Luckily it's surprisingly easy to find here in Switzerland.

When time loose leaf or Yorkshire de cafe. The loose leaf is a Kent and Sussex tea named “Pluckley” which I also have in tea bags as well.

I was wondering of there was an data showing the geographical distribution of members. Seems like a lot across the pond from US. I base this on my sense of when people post. I am relatively new to this forum and enjoy seeing posts, but I see long quiet times...guessing a lot of members are asleep!!

Interesting question. I know there are a fair number of us over here in the colonies. My guess is unless someone elects to post their location with their profile, there is no good way to tell. I am an active member on BushcraftUSA and similar questions are often asked with no good answer; no forum map of where people are.

Fixed this last night. Wearing it now to test.

I posted on here but somehow I didn't post. I just got min falcon for 50 bucks said it wasn't running I clicked the spring and it came to life but stops from time to time. Does this mean it needs oiled. I just recently got into watches I have around 20 timex watches and I'm hooked.

The first rule of watch repair is you don't talk about #5 and #8.

The biggest thing would be solvents and cleaning solutions. I'd recommend keeping that stuff away from pregnant women and babies. That said, when my daughter was still a bun in the oven I had my workshop at home, which was a very large loft space. You could definitely smell the solutions when I ran a watch through the machine; wife said it must go. Talked to her mom, an MD specialist in workplace health risks, she said it was no problem so whew I got to keep working. But this was about 150 sq.m. open space with high ceilings and good ventilation. I used to deliver to a small workshop, maybe 40m, with 4 watchmakers cleaning stuff in benzine jars at the bench all day, it reeked and I was glad to leave each time. As my mother in law said, it's about concentration and time. My daughter (now 14) was worried when she got a whiff of acetone one day. I told her her body actually produces the stuff. If she stuck her nose in the jar for 20 minutes that's bad. Drink a shot of it and we're at the hospital. "I know I know dad, it's all about the dose".

I decided to dedicate some money to a complete restore. Found a balance complete for a 248 on ebay and purchased it. Ranfft indicates the 248 is derived from the 48 as is the 51 which I have. Many parts interchangeable. We will see. Next up will be to find a suitable dial and hands. Seen a few on ebay. I have a dial, so maybe have it restored...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Stay tuned!! As noted originally, this is in part to continue to hone my skills before attacking my Valjoux.

Found this in my archives . Bushing Using Hand Tools.pdf.pdf

Seems to me that is a reguar snap back case, no front loader.

I left the mouse damage because it has a little charm. I will replace the 2 broken pulleys and when I'm ready to use the lathe I'll clean ans polish moving surfaces but leave the rest alone. All tools shown came with the bench.

I’ve replaced coils before by soldering, but personally wouldn’t bother trying to wind one as it’s so fine. Guitar pickup wire is much thicker and still delicate. If you are lucky and the break is on the outer, then you can unwind until you reach the break and then re-solder.

e Check this response by HSL. In my neck of the woods, folks rewire watch coils on bench, make a DIY tool , a small motor the kind you see in toys, some sort of adaptor( hand made filed down to shape) to mount the coil core on and a role of wire, which I think most material houses carry. Works even though not as nicely coiled as factory made ones. Happy Christmas