Plastering Machine Required

So, the move is over... So many little jobs have been completed, from wiring, changing switches and today plastering a wall from which the pink finish had crumbled (no idea why the prior owner left it to get in such a state, it only took an hour to strip, brush, seal with PVA and replaster...

Which brings me onto the topic of today's post... An invention... Which mixes plaster...

Yes, this would be a huge money maker, but there must be a reason it doesn't exist on the domestic market.... Now I'm pretty sure there will be a huge hundred grands worth of professional mixing machine somewhere, but I'm talking about the small job, a single wall or room in a home.

What might this need?... Well, it needs some sensors for the mix, thickness/turbidity, water, weight, temperature even?  You pour the dry powder in some hopper, it's tested, you set the mix type (finishing or main coat etc) the water is maybe filled straight from a tap to the machine... and the computer does the rest, mixing and preparing...

When its ready, you can open a spigot to layout out the perfect mix onto your plastering hawk.

All this for say £80... I'd buy one, bet most of it could be made from plastic too, just a single mixing motor, one inlet valve... The sensors would be the key I feel, the better and more accurate the sensor the easier the mix.

The final item would maybe be a high pressure jet attachment which you close into the mixing tub at the end of your task, and which belts out the residue plaster, this time you direct the spigot to a dedicated sluice bucket which you dispose of properly.

I dunno, maybe it's a fantasy, maybe it's a money maker, whichever way, you heard about it here, first and when some other frustrated (more electronically able geek) has the same plastering problem as me (i.e. not being able to actually mix very well) then this may exist, and I want a cut of the profits... 20% sounds fair?

Plastering Prep

I have plastering gear...

I'm going home in a few hours and I'm going to start prepping my walls...

God help me.

WarThunder, 109's & the Plastering Challenge

I spent a good couple of hours in WarThunder on Saturday night, my first long-ish gaming session in days, and I decided to take my brand new Messerschmitt 109's out... So this was the F4 and F4 Trop.

I have five German crews, so I also took out the 109 E-4 and E-1, and then made the final slot one of my Do217's... Anyway...

I got my arse handed to me in massive derision... Flying the F'4, I was terrible and the opposition so good, so this is a seed step up from rank 6-7, where I was comfy, to 8+...

Now, as I've already mentioned my crew skills are particularly low, so I have no considerable skill points here.

But the level of competition and their skill, especially with the Arcade UFO flight models, they handed me my minced ass right up.

I did better in my rank 5 US crews later, making an average of 6 kills per fly out, and in one case getting 4 air kills and all my teams ground kills (11+) but of all these games played, I got not a single win...

However, I got to do no full real battles, this was because phase one of the man-lab conversion started, I've moved the desk out and took the PC down - so I was playing on my laptop, which never helps - and I've started preparing the walls for work.

Unfortunately the father-in-law has thrown a huge insult at me, when he said "so you'll need a plasterer" and I said... "I can't afford one, so I'm going to have to do it myself"... his instant reply, like this reply came from his gut, without any intervention by his brain or morality, his reply was... "Well that'll be fucking shit".

So, I'm now determined to do it, and do a good job and then refuse to do his plastering if he ever asks... Which he won't, but at least I'll just stick two fingers up in his position.

The problem with setting up at plastering of course, it firstly plastering is an art... and secondly, I'm no artist.... But finally, I have absolutely NO plastering gear.