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Beats me. But I'd say its a matter of being caught. The authorities will chase a note forger quicker than a small coin forger. A forger can get a lot of coins into circulation quicker than large denom notes Here's one for the UK readers. Did you hear about the Belfast coin forger? He was making 10p coins. He was cutting the corners off the 50ps

If you've never had occasion to shop with them then you wouldn't know about them, We all can't know every shop everywhere,

I'm with Nationwide Building Society. According to them it costs them 2% of the price of whatever I buy using my Nw debit card. Same as when I draw cash out of any hole-in-the wall except their own machines. Their savings interest is pathetic but Nw doesn't charge me for me to use my money. Just after Ikea in Belfast re-opened I went in to get an item. Then I stopped at their bistro counter for a hotdog. I totally forgot that Ikea said it was totally cash-less. I placed a £1 coin on the side of the till for the hotdog. The lady serving on it, literally jumped back about 3 feet and screamed, at almost the top of her voice 'No!, no money!, card only! card only! take it away now or I call security!' I took the coin back and as soon as I stepped back the lady sprayed the whole till unit and the surrounding counter with disinfectant, She was not a local person. Contrast with a local person in a shop t'other day. I paid with a £10 note. As we chatted slightly without demur she dropped the note onto a porcelain dish on the counter and sprayed disinfectant on it. No fuss, no screaming. I think it was early last year the banks approached the UK Government suggesting that all coins under 50p, ie 1p, 2p. 5p, 10p & 20p coins should be done away with. After about 3 weeks the Gov said no, too many people rely on cash. And the Royal Mint then put out more of each coin. No.1 son only accepts cash on pick up or bank transfer in payment for car parts or servicing. There are a great number of businesses here like that

also clean the nozzle cups at the nose. You should have two; an outer and an inner one. One of my airbrushes was splattering and I got out of the inner one a speck the size of this . which was the problem. Get a a set of the fine airbrush cleaning brushes. They are worth the couple of $$ they cost

eh?? they're an England based company. Not similar to Aldi. Close to a Spar or Co-Op type shop. Or a a smaller version of a Tesco/ASDA https://www.google.com/search?q=home+bargains+in+kent&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB883GB883&oq=home+bargains+in+kent&aqs=chrome..69i57.8874j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 and. https://www.homebargains.co.uk/products/18230-accelerate-slimline-dash-camera-audio-video-recorder.aspx

I've seen a motion activated camera for cars in Home Bargains for £15, Some times they have them, some times not and not all branches have them

Our shops used to loose a lot of trolleys. Some were stolen, others, people just used them to take their shopping home and left the trolley laying about. But after the introduction of the lock people are too tight not to want their £1 back, or their cheap plastic trolley token Sort-of back to the lead topic. My #1 son had a case where a guy saw a car my son was selling listed on Gumtree. The guy phoned my son and arranged to buy the car. A couple of days later a guy calls and #1's garage. He's not the buyer. He's just delivering an envelope. In the envelope was 3/4 the price of the car, in cash. The verbal message with it is the buyer will call in about a week to pay the rest and collect the car. The week goes by. No buyer. My son tries the phone number he has on record. Its no longer in use. Months go by. Still no buyer. Son has cash, car papers and a car, but no buyer. The buyer never gave his full name, just first name, never gave an address. My son puts the word out through the car clubs as this car is a specialist car. The buyer can't be traced, no one recognise him from what my son knew of him. Jump 2 years on. Still no sign of the buyer so my son decides to sell the car again but he makes a note that if the buyer ever turns up he can claim his money back. Due to the nature of this specialist car guys buy it, use it for a while and then my son gets buying it back, fixes it and sells it again. He told me two weeks ago this car is back with him for the 4th time. But no-one has ever turned up and said -'thats my car' PS. My son does some Church out-reach in our prisons (all two of them) and he's even asked in them if anyone, a newish prisoner, ever bought this car Where's Sherlock Holmes when you need him?

Its ok. We use a £1 coin or a token the same size just to release the lock on the shopping trolley. Each trolley has a short chain which locks into another trolley when they are pushed together. We get the £1 or token back when we return the trolley to the trolley parking bay. Some shops use it to stop people stealing the trolleys. Some shops use a special wheel lock which automatically locks one or more of the trolley wheels if you take it too far from the shop.

Ingots are possible but prior to the heavy Industrial Revolution (about 1740) blacksmiths in Britain used 'bog iron'. Iron ore rocks found on the ground surface in boggy areas. They smelted them in their own small furnaces using charcoal. The quality of the iron and steel varied quite a bit and it was regional, ie the iron a blacksmith in the north of England used was quite different to the iron just 20 miles away in Scotland. Archaeologist specialists can place an iron/steel blade to a region by its iron compound.

We use a coin for the £1. A couple of years ago the Royal Mint introduced a new one. Supposed to be un-forgeable. yeah, right, the first forgeries were detected less than a week after the new ones entered circulation. The forgeries use a different metal mix which makes them a fraction of a gram underweight, which is only detected by machines which recognise coins by their weight, but you or me or the shopping trolley can't tell the difference. Yup, our bank notes have all those hologram thingies on them

I believe the likes of Louis Vuitton uses a heat embossing method. A special metal foil is used and the letter stamp is heated and pressed into the leather with the metal foil between the stamp and leather. Then the part of the metal foil not used is peeled away leaving just the letter foiled. One of our Australian members uses this method on things he makes and on their packages

ah, but one must be wary of forged bank notes too. Allegedly there are more forged £20 notes in UK circulation than there are real ones. And the same for 10p and £1 coins. My #1 son checks every note he gets in payment. He says he's never found a forged note but he's had a few customers change their minds and took back their cash before he could check it all. One of the last scams I got was for a speeding ticket. I was caught speeding by a road-side camera in up-State New York. Pay now or be taken to court and then loose my licence. They kindly gave me a link to be able to pay. Very worrying as the last time I was in New York was for a few days about 13 years ago. Enforced lay-over because of flights. I don't remember speeding at all. I don't even remember having a car there.

A. Its not actually the oxygen which is making the glue set. Its the release of the solvent into the atmosphere. With the carbon-dioxide treatment the CO2 keeps the solvent vapour in the glue. b. you can buy small empty tins and jars with screw thread lids. Use the beeswax on the threads. c. consider decanting into a small container just the amount of glue you need for the job at hand

1. get a small tin of the glue, eg 250ml or 125ml. Use that up first then refill that tin with glue from a bigger tin. 2. when closing up the tins, if they have press on lids, take a few deep breaths, then blow into the tin as you close it. This replaces the oxygen with mostly carbon-dioxide. We used to do this all the time with photographic chemical mixes to keep them from going off too fast. 3. On tins with a screw lid, as well as blowing, wipe some bees wax, a lot of it on the tin lid threads each time you open and close it. If you don't have beeswax use vaseline 4. on your bulk supply tin pour a little solvent on the top of it before closing up. Don't mix it in, just let it lie as a barrier. Fumes from that will exclude the oxygen as well and make the tin glue friendly

a. check the needle tip. rub it down with some fine grade wet & dry paper. it may not be needle sharp, it may have a slight kink in the very tip b. clean out the nozzle cups, there maybe a speck in there. It doesn't take much to make a spray brush go wonky.

Its possible that the original ones were formed around wood formers. afair in finds of 'Viking Dublin' several knife sheaths were found which were all about the same size and shape but the work on them was different, suggesting that some sheaths were pre-made and you bought the one which fitted your knife the bestest

am I sooooo obvious??

ah, you can't beat an honest green-back, unless it a $4 bill. Just don't take any wood nickels

I think you were wise. You were on to them. If I may I'll relate a story which came up in my area about 6 years ago. A woman puts a diamond ring on ebay. A person buys it. Arranges to send a 'bank draft' from a UK bank (like your cashiers check). Buyer pays extra because he wants the ring sent to Nigeria by special delivery. Woman banks cheque, doesn't wait and sends ring. Cheque bounces. Also police contact woman for money laundering. She's cleared of that but has lost the ring. Value of ring? over £15,000. Ebay says not our problem, insurance and police say the same. That was a big amount. Very often these scammers get people on the smaller amounts, like yours. But usually they have some clever story to go with it and carry it along

naw, you missed it. I wrote up a to-do but the o/p rejected it so I deleted it.

Its a most unusual one indeed. Is a 'cashier's' cheque like a ready cash payment? I mean, can you go into a bank and instantly get it cashed or does it need to go thru your bank account and the bank system before you get the money? I'd guess it ain't gonna cost $2650 to crate and send a sewing machine half-way across the country. Is it possible the buyer mis-understood the price? eg thought it was $1250, then plus $80 = $1330 ~ but that still leaves $1525, still too much I know of two deals that were just a little bit the same, both became mysteries

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A very good question I should have thought of that one

If you look at the set on the left of this picture, back row, light brown handles, the small narrow blade is the ancestor of the fork

That is nice. Loverly colour combo. Is that front section zipped? and is this your own clever design?