what I have learned today.

[TheLurker]

What Keith Flett looks like.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Today, in fact this evening, I have learned about Watkin's Folly. A tower that was to have been built in Wembley to outdo the Eiffel Tower. It never got beyond the first stage. One of the early designs, unfortunately not chosen, had a railway ascending a spiral to the top of the tower.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50628714

[Mrs Pingu]

While looking for bags to put herbs in (you know, like bouquet garni) that you can buy a 'smell proof discrete bag with combination lock' on Amazon. Presumably for transporting one's, er, herb.

[Wowbagger]

What Keith Flett looks like.

Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page? I don't usually get to see the letters these days because I don't buy the paper version (I haven't for about 25 years) and it's not obvious where they lurk.

What I have learned today is that Geoff Capes' most recent world championship is in breeding budgerigars.

[Mr Larrington]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Flett

Edit: today I are mostly learning that the original artwork of Axis: Bold As Love is banned in Malaysia.

[TheLurker]

What Keith Flett looks like.

Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page?

He was the letters page.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are mostly learning about the squirrels in south London [that] could have become addicted to crack cocaine.

If they are not launching themselves at you in drug-fuelled desperation, their bloodshot eyes are searching for their next fix, pink paws scrabbling in the ground. Sometimes they seize upon a rock of crack hidden in front gardens, and scarper to feed their addiction.

This explains a lot.

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Admit it: you were expecting THAT picture of Jurek, no?

[Cudzoziemiec]

What Keith Flett looks like.

Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page?

He was the letters page.

Letters from "Keith Flett, London N17" are regularly published in the press, literary and political journals, advancing his favoured causes of socialism and the Beard Liberation Front.

He may be at the front of liberation, but he's a long way behind Wowbagger. Call that a beard! Doesn't even reach his collar!

[barakta]

Research Councils (UKRI but they still all use their old names) Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) is available for overseas students. Unlike ANY OTHER DSA type and indeed not mentioned in the shitty unclear 'framework' where they dump all the legwork onto universities.

Good news for one of my students, but how many students have been missed out cos this was NEVER made clear. I've only been working in this area for 15 years, with special interest in postgrads for 12yrs.

[Regulator]

What Keith Flett looks like.

Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page? I don't usually get to see the letters these days because I don't buy the paper version (I haven't for about 25 years) and it's not obvious where they lurk.

What I have learned today is that Geoff Capes' most recent world championship is in breeding budgerigars.

He is also a friend of Michael Rosen...

[rafletcher]

What a Hofmeister Kink (or Knik) is.

[Regulator]

What a Hofmeister Kink (or Knik) is.

When you've got a thing for bears in lederhosen...

[chrisbainbridge]

What a Huck bolt is.  The subject came up on social media so I googled it.  Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works

[JefO]

What a Huck bolt is.  The subject came up on social media so I googled it.  Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works

That's pretty cool. Never seen that system before.

[robgul]

What a Huck bolt is.  The subject came up on social media so I googled it.  Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works

That's pretty cool. Never seen that system before.

It's a very similar fastening to a "rivnut" as frequently used to fit bottle cage bosses bike frames.

[orienteer]

But how is it removed?

[robgul]

But how is it removed?

Sorry - I meant that fitting concept was the same as a rivnut, but that it's for a permanent fixing.

[chrisbainbridge]

But how is it removed?

I read that you either grind it off or use a torch

[JefO]

But how is it removed?

How is which removed? The huck bolt simply unscrews, if that is what you meant.

[Tod28]

What a Huck bolt is.  The subject came up on social media so I googled it.  Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works

That's pretty cool. Never seen that system before.

Look at the next lorry chassis passing you, used on at least Volvo truck for more than 25 years.

[rogerzilla]

The actress who played the tearoom assistant in "Brief Encounter" is still alive.  She's 97 and was 18 when the film was shot.

[chrisbainbridge]

But how is it removed?

How is which removed? The huck bolt simply unscrews, if that is what you meant.

No they don’t unscrew. That is the point of them. You apply a known compression and then the “nut” compresses and locks into the grooves but the nut is round not hexagonal and so will not undo.

[readingjohn]

Then why are the grooves is the groove helical as shown in the graphic in your original link?

[Kim]

Easier to machine that way?

[readingjohn]

I guess so. (I'm not arguing, just mildly curious.)