<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hahaha, this made me smile. Battering down is certainly what is happening to us right now. I am sure you really meant  to type 'battening down', which is securing ship hatches with battens and wedges to keep the tarpaulins in place on top of the hatchcover boards. The best pic I can find is the top one on this page: <A href="http://forshipbuilding.com/equipment/hatch-covers/">http://forshipbuilding.com/equipment/hatch-covers/</A><BR><BR>
<DIV>Regards <BR><STRONG>Nina Baker</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Was wanting to come along, but it does look like battering down the hatches is the way to go at the mo! <BR><BR>Vote?<BR>-- <BR>Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<BR><BR>Blair Thompson <<A href="http://uk.mc866.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mail@justblair.co.uk" ymailto="mailto:mail@justblair.co.uk">mail@justblair.co.uk</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>Hi All. <BR><BR><BR><BR>Is anyone planning to go to the group tonight. I am minded not to as I am<BR>guessing that the public transport will be sketchy at best. But I have the<BR>plastics and the saw required for the Reprap printer. <BR><BR><BR><BR>Whats others plans?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Blair<BR><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <<A href="http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20111208/f6cdbde7/attachment.htm"
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