Wobblycogs Workshop

Author: Doozer

  • Garlic

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    Garlic is very easy to grow and is affected by fewer pests and diseases than most plants. Planting The soil should be free draining and largely spent e.g. not too nutrient rich. If the soil holds too much water the bulbs will rot. Varieties Solent Wight Planted: Early 2023, Early 2024 (from saved bulbs) A…

  • Pickling Onions and Calcium Chloride

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    Calcium chloride is used extensively in the food industry and is considered a very safe additive by all the food safety bodies. When it comes to pickles it has two primary functions, it gives a salty taste and (more importantly) keeps the pickles crisp. Without calcium chloride your pickles will go soft fairly quickly in…

  • WNS Motive FX Riser

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    I bought this riser for myself March 2025 and I’m writing this about six months later after shooting a good few thousand arrows with it. Overall I like the riser but I can’t help comparing it to the Kinetic riser I bought for my kid at the same time. The Kinetic was, give or take,…

  • Onion Greens and Crystallised Ginger Sauce

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    I was processing the pickling onions I grew this year and started to wonder what I could do with the onion greens (e.g. the leaves). All parts of the onion are edible, even the roots apparently, so it seems a shame to waste them. I found a recipe that was essentially ginger and onion with…

  • Kinetic Novius V2 Riser

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    Let me start by saying I’m not a professional archer, I’m not even a good archer, so take what I say with a large pinch of salt. Having said that I’m super impressed with the quality of this riser. I bought it for my kid but I’ve shot with it a few times and I’m…

  • Archery Equipment

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    I recently took up archery and I thought it would be useful to record my progression of equipment. I’m lucky in that I have found a really good club and there’s a particularly helpful archery shop a short drive away. At the moment I shoot bare bow but I’ll probably also try recurve in the…

  • Getting Paid by AdSense

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    I make a small amount of money through Google AdSense, just about enough to pay for the server that runs this site if you were wondering. I honestly don’t know if it’s worth it for the amount of hassle it is but I enjoy running a website so I keep at it. Recently, however, when…

  • DIY Tools

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  • DIY Materials

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    I use a lot of different materials while I’m doing DIY and I figured it would be useful to keep a list of what I use so that I can buy them again if I like them and match what I’ve currently got. I’ve tried to group them by project but some don’t fit nicely…

  • DIY Caustic Paint Strippers

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    My tumble down house never seems to not need some work doing on it. At the moment that means I’m restoring the sash windows at the front of the house. They are about 200 years old and probably haven’t been touched in 30 years so they are in a bit of a state. On the…

  • Three Malt and Sunflower Flour

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    This page details items backed using the Three Malt and Sunflower flour from Shipton Mill. This is a premium flour and at the time of writing is £2.45/kg (compared with £1.80/kg for plain white bread flour). The flour contains malted and roasted wheat, barley and rye which gives it a fabulous smell and colour. Additionally…

  • Abus Titalium Collection

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    I recently bought myself a small collection of Abus Titalium locks. The name suggests that these are made from or at least contain titanium but as far as I can tell that isn’t the case. From the weight I assume they are made of aluminium. I have teh 64TI/50, 80TI/45 and the 80TI/50. The two…

  • Gutting a Gege AP1000 Cylinder Lock

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    I decided to have a shot at picking one of my Gege AP1000 cylinder locks (specifically #1 which is 55mm long and snapped.). The keyway and side profile of the lock can be seen in this earlier post. This is a green belt lock and I feel I need more practice at this level before…

  • Various Cylinder Locks

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    The locks below are part of my collection I bought them as a job lot and didn’t know what any of them were. These are my best guesses. Gege AP1000 Cylinders I have three of these, two in brass and one that I think it nickle plated. I found what appears to be the same…

  • Abus E20 Nickel Plate Half Cylinder – Mystery Lock

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    I bought this lock as part of a job lot of snapped euro cylinders. All of them came with keys but none of them came with any information and it turns out cylinders don’t seem to have markings telling you what model they are. Two photos below show what little information I have to go…