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| raynerd:
Hello Guys I`ve been busy with family stuff (unfortunately) and work recently, too busy to work on the clock but I managed to get my first few hours in my workshop yesterday evening for about two weeks. I decided not to work with the clock, that needs a clear mind, time and thought and so I decided to do a random little project. I`ve been getting well into GeoCaching for the last few months. It is a perfect excuse to take the dog and family on a walk and my daughter loves running around in the fields looking for treasure! For those that don`t know much about geocaching, visit www.geocaching.com To sum it up in a few sentences, it is basically a worldwide game in which normal people hide a container (of some sort, the more creative the better!), find the GPS co-ordinates and log them on geocaching.com As a user, you can then find local caches and go hunting for them. It is great running around in fields looking for a little hidden container but recently I upgraded to a premium user and started doing some harder ones on my own. Yesterday I came across, what they call a magnetic nano. A tiny container which contains the normal log book (this is so small is it just a rolled up strip of paper) but is hidden in a more urban area, magnetically attached to something. The ones I`ve found were quite small black ones attached to park benches. It gave me an idea to make my own but this time, I thought I`d paint it red and stick it onto a local small post box. I was limited to what I had lying around so the magnet is a bit bigger than would be ideal: I did make a nice job of the paint but it looked too perfect a job when sat on the postbox so I removed it and did a thick second coat which I let half dry and then added some black and rouged up the surface. I`m not going to lie, I`ve still stuck it on the back of the box half hidden, but in a top corner in looks part of the box! There were too many people about to take a picture in situ but I`ll try and snap one in a few days. Anyone else into Geocaching? Chris |
| kvom:
I've been a cacher for the past 7 years (same nick as here). Not done much lately as machining takes up the time. |
| andyf:
--- Quote from: craynerd on October 24, 2011, 05:10:40 PM ---.... it is basically a worldwide game in which normal people hide a container (of some sort, the more creative the better!), find the GPS co-ordinates and log them on geocaching.com As a user, you can then find local caches and go hunting for them... Anyone else into Geocaching? --- End quote --- No, Chris. Obviously, I'm less normal than you and kvom :lol: Andy |
| -steves-:
Yup, also a cacher, and thats a right "sneaky" one :) I have one out in the world somewhere, its a branch from a tree about 2.5 inches round and about 3 feet long, with about 2 inches cut off the top of it, drilled out, a small testube inside with the cache in it, and then the original 2 inches contain magnets along with the branch that line up so its real tough to see the join. Thats then strategically placed at the bottom of a tree that has lots of very similar shaped trunks coming up. Bit of a sneaky too, i had to put lots of hints on it before people could find it, but it gets good reviews from those that manage to find it in the end, lol :) |
| raynerd:
Andy, lol, obviously your not allowed to play then :lol: What I meant by that, is that your average Joe public is hiding the treasure/cache! Steve, that sounds a really tricky one!!! |
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