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"George.com" wrote:

Foam peanuts are light in weight and don't ever rot...
That's what makes styrofoam so bad in landfills. :-(

I've used them as well, a bit of a pain to seperate from soil when
re-potting mind.

rob

Dump them into a little water.

They float. ;-)
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Peace, Om

good tip, glad you didn't expect me to think of something so complex
though.

rob

snicker

Don't worry, I suffer from that too.
It's often the simpler things that we just don't think of!

A good example is when I was at Lowe's the other day. I have a stainless
steel sink in the kitchen and it'd developed a pin sized hole somehow.
I decided to repair it rather than go thru the expense of replacing it.
It's a double.

I was searching all over the store for a small steel disk that I could
use metal epoxy to attach to the underside to cover the hole from the
bottom. They had roofing disks but I had to buy 500 of them!

I talked to one of the sales people...

He said to just use a pair of metal shears to cut a small circle from
the lid of a can and use that.

Duh.

I spent 2 years trying to correct the filling on a toilet cistern.
Eventually I stuffed it, went to the plumbing store and found a simple
adjustable piece for $30. Had I gone in the first place mind I would have
denied myself 2 years enjoyment of cursing and endless mucking around.

rob