Round the Pole? Making our own! OTB 151
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what a
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lovely pole
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look at that
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homemade
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on the boat
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less than 250 pounds
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for our new whisker pole
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wanna see how we did it
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you'll have to watch the video
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yakob is running this round in the car
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because we've come to here
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to buy aluminium tube for my spinnaker
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pole
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and you wouldn't think it was an
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aluminium
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wholesalers but there we are
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of course
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so yeah they're going to come around on
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friday
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and deliver six meter length
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to the boat and it was 840
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lira which is a pretty good price
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once again i started doing a job and in
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my haste forgot to pick up the camera so
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we're a little bit behind
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but you'll catch up
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let's show you what we've got out on the
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deck
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and of course it's at this point that
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the microphone on the panasonic 4k
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decided it's going to go all wobbly so
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basically what i'm pointing out to you
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is that there's two pieces of tube the
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first the first is a six meter length of
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dural tube which is uh
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50 ml od and about 45 id the second is a
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piece of carbon fiber which i'm hoping
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to use for a future project
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right
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next part of the story you remember when
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we went back to the uk i bought some
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bits
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now i am recovered or recovering
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uh madame will now display
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what it is
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these are our whisker pole ends
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and i have two of those and they are
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designed to fit
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inside that tube
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unfortunately
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the size of tube available here
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drawn or
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um extruded tube here
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is um
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imperial
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and those are metric so what have we got
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to do
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let's have a look well
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and again as i turned the camera around
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the mic decided to disconnect itself so
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i used some
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basic maps a bit of pi
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and some measurements and worked out
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that i needed some one millimeter
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aluminium to roll into some shims which
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i could cut and then put down the inside
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of the tube between that
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and the ends
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so i uh promptly did so uh using some
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scrap that we had on board
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uh in order to make it soft enough to
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beat it into the right shape for the
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shims i annealed it now to a near
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aluminium it's quite difficult but if
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you put a piece of soap on the aluminium
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and then heat it up until the soap goes
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brown that's almost the exact
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temperature that you need to anneal it
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it's now the next day
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it's now the next day
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um i've been at it a couple of hours
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you can see
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i was trying to get some decent light on
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that
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you can see that the
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end there is
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now
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in position
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six meters away
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nothing
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but what we did
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i'll show you how we did this i'm sorry
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about the jerky camera
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not got the stabilizer on
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so
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i cut
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uh 65 millimeters of tube
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as straight as i could it's really
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difficult
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um i haven't got a pipe cutter here
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or a chop saw to cut it square so i had
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to do it all by hand mark it all out put
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a tie wrap around
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get the tie wrap even
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and then mark it and then cut it with a
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axle
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and then i took
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this
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and slid it
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over there
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and you can see that that was slightly
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so you can see that was slightly
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inaccurate i had to file it
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down it's only
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less than a millimeter
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you can see that
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just didn't quite fit
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see that there
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didn't quite fit
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so there's
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exactly one millimeter clearance
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on the radius on that inner
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plastic
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so i then cut some
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one millimeter
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shims out of this uh
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aluminium that's what's left over
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but first i tried curving a piece in
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there but it was just too thick
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so i
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i cut a piece
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radius
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i formed it on a pole
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this pole here
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didn't quite work so now i've had to
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shim it out all the way around
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file all the shims to the right size and
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eventually
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get that in position
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so that it
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is now ready
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for drilling and riveting i've marked
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that up marked at the other side
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and i'm now going to drill and rivet
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that with some stainless rivets and
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that's this end complete
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um i think a chance to uh
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to film it
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basically
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holes drilled
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that's all marked up properly and
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got all the joint absolutely perfect
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there
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half a mil that's for a little bit of
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expansion
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um so
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that'll work
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and the other side's now done
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like so
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just get some spirits and wipe those
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black marks off
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and that will be the job done this end
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and then it's a case of rinse and repeat
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it's now one
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42 degrees out here in the sunset
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it's getting a bit warm
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um i'm gonna have
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an ice cold fanta i think with some ice
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and sit in the shade for five minutes
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because
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even the tools are getting so hot when
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you pick them up they're burning your
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fingers
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i haven't got my big sun shade
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but there you go
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the joys of living near the equator i
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guess so
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1500 1800 miles nearer than i used to
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this program
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so end
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scribed filed
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tapered
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top marked for
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the uh piece to go in
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shims cut
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all ready to go in just got to uh
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put the shims in the right position tap
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it home
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and then
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drill
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and put the rivets in with the big lazy
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tongs down there
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i've had to come in
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out of the sunshine because it's so hot
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that um
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look at that the thinness has evaporated
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there's some acetone just going to take
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the
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the marks off
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like that
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and then
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i've actually got some youtube stickers
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in that coupon
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we had these left over
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from a man in tunisia
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who did us some samples
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and these were the wrong
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wrong size
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so
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that's a youtube logo
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and these
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like that or like that
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what youtube afterwards
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perhaps we could call it rather than
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call it a whisker pole we could call it
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a
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youtube
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yes okay dude yes
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i am on drugs you know
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it's allowed
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look at that
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that sounds like tv it's easy arriving
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right right
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been really busy this morning
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willy grabbed the plastic bag
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about the electric he asked me if the
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electric was on
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here he comes
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it's easy
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last time we saw them was may 2000
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may 2000 when we were deaf for tunisia
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yeah yeah yeah we waved on goodbye when
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we went to tunisia wow
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they stood on the end of the break
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walter like weirdo yeah
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that is a cracking boat it's got real
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it's proper boat shape
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in there and it's a proper boat color
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is linda waving away
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first time we've both been douglas as
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well
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foreign
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foreign
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that's come up all right
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might stick one the other side as well
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so move those um
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black marks on there and then that's it
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job's done so
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talking of job done
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these end caps were 80 something uk
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pounds
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the
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six meters of that tube was
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42 or
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47 euros can't remember i'll have to
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look it up
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the
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same size pole
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from
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one of the reputable
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manufacturers was
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500 pound and an adjustable one from
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someone else
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slightly less guts to it
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was
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390
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pounds so
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i'll put some maths on the screen and uh
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you'll see we've saved ourselves a few
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quid and we've got a pocket job
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lay some lines in there i am now going
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to have another cold drink
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and sit in front of the air con
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there we go job done
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le carter and this piece of music modern
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blues well
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one of my favorites too
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but you know these videos don't just
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make themselves we spend a lot of time
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a lot of effort to bring you information
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and cost saving ideas and a bit of
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your drone tv has to be paid for yeah we
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have to pay for the rights to play other
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work out about five six hundred pound
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each
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and generally we use one of those a year
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they give up the ghost because the salt
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atmosphere destroys them and then
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there's the sound a good microphone for
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500 pound and we're just about to
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upgrade our microphones again this year
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as the ones we've got as you've seen in
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this video i starting to
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go
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