Well last night she kissed me but then death was upon her.

[reddragdiva]

• DSM-IV multiaxial diagnosis of conditions demonstrated by the inhabitants of the Hundred-Acre Wood (courtesy en_ki).

We actually got trick-or-treaters this evening: two little girls, who redcountess said looked eight and ten (dressed up, too), with their mother watching from the gate. Liz answered the door wearing her £1 witch's hat from Whitby and gave them assorted chocolates from the fluffy carry-pumpkin we got from Asda last year. The kids were very polite and not greedy. After all the preparation, spreading the gospel of the inner seven-year-old made Liz's night :-) Later we got a couple of teenage girls, not dressed up but happy to nicely accept sweeties.

I should note that Liz's wifi portfolio came with a stick of rock. Seasonal, I presume.

I tried sticking the shower head mount up this evening. Liquid Nails failed to stick to either the chromed plastic of the mount or the tiles on the wall in any way whatsoever. Feh.

I popped over to arkady's and topped up the water for the flytraps. Her next dollie has arrived, without Customs whacking on about twice its value in duty! It looks like the secret is: (1) mark it "TOYS" (2) scrawl the value unreadably. It could have said $296, $96, ¥96 or 96 light years.

We lit a tealight lantern out the back and toasted absent friends. We couldn't get any mead (this is Walthamstow) so we had Waggledance instead. Well, it's honey. I think most of the friends would have appreciated the beer more.

Tomorrow, Liz being well, I shall stop in at not-M:Alice. I shall probably *pint* and feed kekhmet beforehand. Meg, wear as goth as you can to work!

Comments

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Liquid nails is basically pants; probably one of the better ones is GripFill which smells a lot like its based on fibreglass. The only downside is that its kind of hard to remove it after its gone off - you have to "remove it mechanically" as the tube says :)

The alternative to this is mounting the shower head mount by drilling through the tile, but that requires a special drill bit and lots of care to avoid cracking the tile.

[reddragdiva]

I have posted previously about this - the tiles in question are stuck on a sheet of metal! So let's assume no drilling is going to take place ...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

That's the fastest any of my dolls has ever arrived. From Japan to my door in only 3 working days! I'm very impressed with Parabox. :-)

I have been toasting departed friends with a bottle of Tomos Watkin's Cwrw Haf Welsh Summer Ale. It seemed fitting. Strangely, there have been no trick-or-treaters this year; we presume it's due to it being a school night and the weather having been absolutely foul today (though this evening has been fine).

[simonb.livejournal.com]

I sense a challenge....

Especially since I've got DIY equipment which easily makes holes in reinforced concrete beams which most drills just spin on :)

It does depend on what is under the metal though - just the wall ? Or does it hide something sinister ?

The method I'd use would be to careful use a tile bit to cut down to the metal and then use a step metal bit (or a number of HSS bits) to slowly remove the metal itself before going into the wall beyond the metal.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

"which most drills just spin on"

No they don't, they bend the drill bit back on itself and scratch away a small circle in the casing of the drill. Stylish.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Hey you: I'm not too proud for comment-whoring, and besides, I'd really like your opinion on how I spent (http://www.livejournal.com/users/also_huey/21314.html) my Saturday night (http://www.livejournal.com/users/utterlyjaded/237712.html).

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Well, the failure method is going to depend on a number of factors, its granted.

In the extreme cases you can have the drill bit start to work on the wall, snag on a bit of masonary, jam solidly and you end up with the drill itself spinning around rather than the drill bit.

You'll often see this when they use diamond core bits which are designed to make large holes for service pipes (eg 40mm diameter holes for waste pipes from sinks) - according to the plumber I use, its quite easy to break a wrist this way.

[reddragdiva]

We'll get you to B-Movie like that if you come to the UK!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Yes, daneel_olivaw wouldn't let me drill anything except wood in his flat in case my wrists broke :( I think this is entirely unreasonable. It's quite clear I would wussily let go and fall on the floor instead.

[reddragdiva]

You know, I think I'll be trying the GripFill first!

[simonb.livejournal.com]

TBH with what I've heard of those walls, unless you've got an SDS+ drill and suitable bits its not really worth trying to drill into them as the concrete they're made from will trash most DIY-grade drill bits anyway.

I've had a drill try the wrist breaking thing on me when I was using a diamond core bit a couple of years ago and it was my experience then that you really don't have enough time to do more than let go of the drill trigger, then notice that the momentum of the drill is still going to screw your wrist at which point you take the approach of just completely letting go of the thing. However it happens so damn fast that you end up with a slightly tender wrist at the end of it. You can stop most of the problems by being prepared for the inevitable yank against your wrists by the drill, but given how long it takes to core through a wall (10-20 minutes) its bloody tiring.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

*smile*

Its probably the best thing to do. The other trick you can use is to careful scrape some of the tile glaze off from under where the GripFill is going to bond to it - it'll bound far better to the layer underneath the glaze than the glaze itself. You can carefully use a chisel to do this, but you've got to be really careful not to crack the tile when you do this. Alternatively, get yourself a tile bit and make small holes in the glaze which the GripFill can adhere to - note that you can use a normal drill bit for this if you use a brand new (ie sharp) bit and a bit of masking tape to help it get started.