The melting pot is completed and starts to earn its keep as I begin the melting and pouring of approx 1.3 tons of lead for the ballast keel. Alanouwoly makes an appearance as Hazel and I do a bit of winter upgrading to get her ready for further adventures.

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Tony

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so
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hi i'm tony this is espio and we are
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building a cruising sailboat
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and what we're building this week
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is a kill
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a steel box filled with lead
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roughly 1.3 tons of lead going in this
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box
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and
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it's very exciting and going well i'm
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pleased to report
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that is the important thing
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let's have a look shall we
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foreign
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yeah it's just going to sit a little bit
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higher
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it's not bad
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it's not there
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uh
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so
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uh
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so
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so
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i'll put something on there just to keep
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that in place
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here's a stop
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that's poured in there perfectly
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so let me talk you through the pouring
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apparatus here it is in all this glory
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we've got these double a-frames that
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take all the weight so the burner itself
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has not got any weight on it at all
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it's just a nice tight fit under the
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pot
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the pot as you know is an old gas bottle
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i welded a couple of hinges on the sides
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with two choices of pivot points but in
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fact i'm only using the middle ones
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happy with that working well and a
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couple of big old 16 millimeter bolts i
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happen to have in my scrap bar
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to go into there
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i put a couple of small washers on a
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small i put a couple of washers 16
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millimeter washers on there that the
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bolts pass through and that just locates
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them stops them sliding to and fro
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and the whole thing pivots nicely
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down in here i had luckily i made one
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too many of the of the long nuts for the
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kill box
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so i welded one of those on there and
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one of my scrap bits of bronze is
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serving as a very expensive handle to
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tip the whole thing
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we ordered a bit of that leftover pipe
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that i had for the front of the gill box
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with a bit of that on the top here and
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cover dip out of the bottle there so to
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get get this pouring spout and the whole
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thing
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just you know
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very technical about it just functions
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like that to pour
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so i'll grab the camera now and give you
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a close-up look around all of those bits
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and you'll see what's going on
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this is the gas bottle obviously
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with the spout on the top
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uh i fill that i generally do about
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half full i suppose
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in one melt
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and it's like a couple of door hinges
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welded on the side get you know shed
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door hinges and these 16mm bolts that
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have passed through those washers there
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the a-frame supports the whole thing
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it's beautifully simple
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when i come around here you'll see the
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long nut on there
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and one very expensive bronze handle
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which clearly could be made out of a
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cheaper material
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but it works very well
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i've got one of these 11 kilo
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red propane bottles which is uh
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where you can take the bottle back get
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your deposit back
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that's doing very well and with this
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burner which is a 10.5 kilowatt burner
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it takes if i only use that it takes
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about an hour to melt a pot full of lead
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which is a bit on the slow side
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so i then
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invested in
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this very beautiful
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here which i use around here for burning
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weeds but you could use for various
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things i suppose but a roofing or
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whatever
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i've got that hooked up to a five kilo
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gas bottle there
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and that when i apply that on the top of
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the melt
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with the with the burner on underneath
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and then a bit of that on the top then
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i'm getting the milk done in about half
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an hour which is excellent
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excellent
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and we're getting on very well and i'll
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just scan over the lead a little bit
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here
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and look here you'll see that we're
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getting
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getting there at the front end
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it's getting close to four unfortunately
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here at the back end
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luckily it sort of damned itself
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midships there or mid keel
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because i'm waiting for some steel that
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i ordered two weeks ago
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i'm going to weld up the back on the
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outside there to give it some location
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for the wood that goes on behind there
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i want to weld that on before it fills
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and that
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steel is getting a bit frustrating it
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needs to arrive
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but there we are
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i've put the ply template on just a
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little while ago and checked everything
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was in line
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had to tweak one or two bolts but it was
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basically right
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and so far we're looking pretty good
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and perhaps i can just share one or two
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other things that i've learned along the
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way with you
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um
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that is so i've got two different sorts
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of lead mainly speaking
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it's not quite true i've got a few nice
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ingots which i
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tend to put in if they're really
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beautiful cleaning as i put in as they
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are and just pour lead around them
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but the lead that i'm melting is either
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roofing lead in a flat sheet red leaf
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flat sheet lid
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or uh old fishing net weights
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and their fishing net weights are much
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cleaner as much less slag on the top of
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the lid
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roofing that's pretty mucky old stuff a
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fair bit of slack
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and then but anyhow it all melts
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and when it's melted you need to scrape
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the
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slag scrape that you know the scum off
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the top and i
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designed this beautiful
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device for that which is a bit of oak
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doweling and
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actually a leftover piece of hazel stove
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when we modded that
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strap to the bottom of it for scooping
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this leg out
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and one thing i've learned with this is
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is that it's kind of helps a lot if you
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warm this up beforehand
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if your lead's at the right temperature
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which is she's you know only just melted
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accord according to the fellow that leo
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had there the expert
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if your lead's at the right temperature
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and you put this in cold it the lead
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solidifies straight onto this metal and
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it's a bit of a nuisance so if you warm
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it up beforehand and yeah you want to
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make sure there's no moisture so warm it
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up beforehand no issue stays clean
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scrapes this leg off
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it's just more little crumbs that float
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on the top
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comes off nice and easy
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and
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it's not a very exciting tool this is a
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stick
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it's just a wooden stick that i use for
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giving it a stir and a poke between
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times and it's uh all you need really
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so
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completely safe
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oh cool huh
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so
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so
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oh
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so
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so
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so
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oh
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so
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so
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so
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so
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so
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so
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so
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more
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so
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ah
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now
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so we've just dropped a couple of
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through holes out it's very noisy in the
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boat yard today
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drop those bronze through holes out the
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ones that were the toilet for hazel's
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boat and that we weren't using since we
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put the composting toilet in
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and ground the back and run the glass
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over them
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the idea
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so
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i think um
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wait that one
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and don't worry about these things
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and look what's just arrived
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the steel
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that's going to be going down the back
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of there
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on
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each side
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i should be cutting that to length now
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holding it on so that i can get on and
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fill
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the rest of the box so uh
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we're about to finish here but next week
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should be filling the rest of that box
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see now the lid fits in there and it
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looks good so far but um and all the
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theory says it should fit we'll see if
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hopefully i'll get all of that lead in
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the box and that fills it up to just
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you know a few millimeters short of the
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top
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plan is then to seal it with some epoxy
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to bring it up to the brim
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we'll find out next week all will be
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revealed
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to both you and me
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we'll see you then thanks for watching
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have a good bye
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hey
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is
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my
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is
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you