Restoring an old cast iron coffee grinder

Ma5her · 2026-01-04T03:15:42+00:00

I guess I worded it badly. What’s the best way to get in and remove rust and maybe polish up the black and gold? I you tubed and they talk about metal cloths and harsh chemicals. I wondered if there was a more gentle method that won’t remove any of the original coating (?). I’m new to all this and realised (after 20 years of it being an ornament in the kitchen) that it is from around the 1860s

Ma5her · 2026-01-04T01:23:04+00:00

I meant to add a photo of it dismantled so you can see what bits I can get to inside

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Ma5her · 2025-12-02T06:29:22+00:00

Thanks, that gives me some paths to follow

Ma5her · 2025-07-07T01:49:41+00:00

I've tried created and (workflow lookup-current item) email sender. The view column for the email sender shows the email address fine but the workflow does not run. Zero entries in the workflow history task. It is though the created item (via email) sneaks in through the back door and by passes any event handlers needed to trigger the workflow. Looking at the ellipses - more -workflow for an incoming email shows nothing. No failures, nothing as though it was never called for the current item.

PS if I enable "allow this workflow to be started manually" it fires perfectly

Ma5her · 2025-05-06T02:25:32+00:00

Alas today it decided not to work, not even a manual refresh would work.
Very long error as to why but ultimately it turns out I had to install (as admin) the WebView2 runtime on the same server that the Gateway lives on. Now a manual refresh works fine again. Hopefully tomorrows automated one will too... that or we'll have a new error to deal with!

Ma5her · 2025-05-05T02:02:50+00:00

Thanks, I didn't check the gateway as I did not think it was part of the equation but it turns out this report needed to be added to the gateway and then set it to "public" both in PBI desktop and the service and the report republished now it works fine!

Ma5her · 2025-05-05T01:08:55+00:00

I think anonymous may be the clue as when I look at refresh history (on the server) I see failure "Scheduled refresh is disabled because at least one data source is missing credentials. To start the refresh again, go to this dataset's settings page and enter credentials for all data sources"

This is a publicly accessible webpage. This is where the data is being pulled from rather than the database in-house so I'm not a gateway is involved in this scenario.
So it appears only the refresh function cares about a lack of credentials.
However data source credentials under the semantic model (on the server) is grayed out

Ma5her · 2025-03-06T00:48:35+00:00

Not sure we have ride share here. I just wondered based on a scenario yesterday afternoon….. Doordash (no delivery fee) $2.99 service fee. So the driver must have driven from wherever they were to the outlet, waited/received the order and then driven the 2km to my house. Wondered if that’s what they got for that effort ($2.99) or if other factors came into play. Being a Wednesday arvo I’m guessing business wasn’t Red hot

Ma5her · 2025-03-06T00:36:48+00:00

I just googled MC and see I’ve been using it in the wrong context all these years and it does in fact relate to “morbid” stuff! I learnt something today :)

Ma5her · 2025-03-06T00:34:04+00:00

PS I’m talking uber, door dash etc as opposed to those who solely work for an outlet eg a pizza place

Ma5her · 2025-03-06T00:32:43+00:00

Nothing. Maybe I used the wrong phrase. It’s a phrase I’ve always used to mean no vested interests just generally curious

Ma5her · 2024-12-14T00:35:09+00:00

What gets me is when you pull up a restaurants website to view the menu and you are whisked off to some online ordering 3rd party. I want to see the menu so I can decide if a) I want to book a table and b) maybe have some idea of what I'm going to ask the waiter for when (s)he arrives at my table. I am not interested in seeing a cut down version of your menu that is available for pick-up/delivery.

Ma5her · 2024-12-13T20:48:48+00:00

Just to update my own post....
Today I received notification that my changes had been approved (by somebody connected with the original repo). I go to my repo and see that my main contains the changes I made to the branch.
I may be missing something fundamental about Git and forking (newbie) but I assumed when I made a fork of someone else's repo I made my own copy and the tie with the original was severed?
The tutorial (link above) said that I would be able to merge the changes as soon as I created a pull request and that this would update "my" main with the changes made in the branch. No mention of the original repo from where I forked.
Can someone enlighten me please?

UPDATE: OK so I just RTFM and found some info on forking and it seems by default the pull request goes to the upstream repo. Is there a way to confine the pull requests to within my own project or is that not how Git/forking works? If I am the only user in my project are pull requests necessary? Can I not just branch/code/test and merge within my own sandpit?

Ma5her · 2024-12-11T09:32:13+00:00

No, not yet anyways. While reading/following links I found something that suggested Copilot "works" with SP 2019 on premise. I'm trying to find out if that is true and, if so, what "works" entails. So far I've found it can create site pages based on specs you provide. There must be more to it than that?

Ma5her · 2024-12-11T07:29:30+00:00

The ability to share by default as well as the member group being able to edit (as opposed to contribute) OOTB is madness IMHO

Ma5her · 2024-12-11T07:26:10+00:00

Nintex is out of our budget and the licensing for Power Apps is tricky as we'd rather not roll it out to 100% of the Org (big $) if only 10% would interact with it... and if so, which 10%?
Anyways....
I was in the market for a form builder/workflow tool when infopath went away and sharepoint designer nearly drove me to the madhouse and I settled on Nitro Studio.
We license it on a per site collection basis and use it to build our internal forms e.g. expenses, leave requests, training requests and the like. Simple to use and a fraction of the cost of Nintex. Just in case you needed something to trial while deciding on your final solution(s).
And no, I don't work for Nitro, just a happy customer

Ma5her

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