RE: Homemade Caps are a Health Risk?

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Certainly - but also, at that time, the Maxwells and commercial caps were
financially out of reach so rolling my own was the only viable option. The
beauty of the MMC is that it is so incredibly cheap and bulletproof.

Researching history is a lot of fun and valuable work was done in historical
times but if you are not feeling well, would you want to go to a modern
health practitioner or would you want to go to one whose two treatments were
bleeding and purging and for whom, the cause of disease was an imbalance of
the four "humors" of the body.

Bottle caps are good and stable and cheap to build.  They still very much
have their place as a cheap alternative but trying to make something from
plastic sheeting or containers __will__ fail.

Dave


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Subject: Re: Homemade Caps are a Health Risk?

Original poster: "Jon Danniken" <danniken@xxxxxxxxxxx>


>Original poster: "Dave Halliday" This has morphed into a rant <grin>
>but I see people who say that they
>cannot afford something but when in reality, they could mow lawns, wash
>cars, do anything and within a few weeks have the extra cash to get what
>they need -- spending the same time they would be spending piddling away
>their efforts trying to cobble together something that will be a guaranteed
>boat anchor.

I probably won't build another glass plate or bottle cap for my TCs,
but when I did so I got a hands on perspective of the most
fundamental nature. Such a perspective is impossible to get as
someone who just buys parts and puts them together according to
instructions.

Sure, it isn't the easiest way, and it can take a lot of time to
"tool up" to a point at which you make your own components, but IMHO
the reward is more than worth it.

Jon