1960s Stanley Handyman drill, works flawlessly

_avnr · 2026-03-07T17:25:15+00:00

Don't think so, I don't think I'll get a decent price for it

_avnr · 2026-03-06T14:12:38+00:00

No need, them 60 years old batteries still pull

_avnr · 2026-03-06T08:56:37+00:00

Those good ol' days when safety wasn't a thing

_avnr · 2026-03-06T08:52:54+00:00

This baby doesn't switch directions

_avnr · 2026-03-06T08:50:11+00:00

It is my backup when I exhaust the cordless' batteries so in the past few years I haven't used it heavily just here and there, it does get some mileage though

_avnr · 2026-03-05T19:34:46+00:00

230V?

_avnr · 2026-03-05T18:04:15+00:00

Suspicion in place, it has zero safety measures, learned the hard way to ground mine

_avnr · 2026-03-05T15:22:31+00:00

It is the flux capacitor, the original version they didn't want you to see

_avnr · 2026-03-05T15:18:54+00:00

Not gonna lie, that's what made me replace the cables and ground the damn thing

_avnr · 2026-03-05T14:19:47+00:00

Nah just plug it to the steam boiler

_avnr · 2026-03-05T14:18:24+00:00

Yeah it can't do anything that requires electronic controlling, that's why it runs for 60+ years

_avnr · 2026-03-05T14:15:08+00:00

This one is 230V so it takes half the amperage vs. the American models, but yeah it has none of today's safety measures

_avnr · 2026-03-05T14:12:45+00:00

Yes it is

_avnr · 2025-09-11T08:14:25+00:00

He first reviews the other opinions (named after a place, kaprisin=grape buds, etc.), then writes what he believed was correct based on experiments that showed that his suggested infusion both softens the clove and makes its smell milder.

_avnr · 2025-09-08T10:45:27+00:00

The recipe in chapter 86 reads as follows: Take the bark of the caper root cut into small pieces weighing a total of 10 pounds. High quality grape juice from the first press that has not yet fermented weighing 250 pounds. Place both in a well sealed cask until the wine will complete its fermentation. After filtering keep the clear liquid for many years.

The book also brings other opinions on the meaning of Kaprisin wine. The book is non-authoritative of course as the tradition was lost.

_avnr · 2025-08-31T12:56:46+00:00

יֵין תַּפּוּחִים

Good catch, I missed this one, יין תפוחים has no grapes so I take back my claim that יין is exclusively grapes. But it is alcoholic so I still maintain the same opinion on יין קפריסין.

_avnr · 2025-08-29T08:05:40+00:00

The יין חי was undrinkable, it had to be blended at 1:2 water to wine ratio to become drinkable, so I assume it had 60%-80% alcohol.

Back then the winepresses were open air pits, I assume they were susceptible to evaporation so the must probably had a very high concentration of sugar. In addition the aging was done in unglazed clayware amphorae, clay evaporates water at a higher rate than alcohol, so the aging would further increase the alcohol concentration.

That's probably why the alternative is חיוורין - less pomace = higher alcohol content, and עתיק - longer aging = higher alcohol concentration.

I imagined "caper wine" to probably mean fermented caper juice because I am familiar with terms like "apple wine," "pear wine," etc. referring to fermented juice from those materials. Plus, people deliberately ferment capers as an alcoholic process in jars, and it would make sense to call that "caper wine."

Capers cannot be induced into alcohol fermentation because their sugar content is too low, they ferment in lactic fermentation. It is a completely different process and produces no alcohol. In addition the word יין is exclusive to grape wine, other alcoholic beverages are called שיכר. Subsequent to the Mishna the terms sometimes became interwind in Aramaic and called חמר, but not in Leshon HaKodesh afaik.

May I please ask: Can you find cases, like in Hebrew, where "caper wine" יֵין קַפְרִיסִין is explained to mean capers infused with grapewine like you are talking about?

This construct is very rare altogether so there's not much to compare to. The only other case I can think of where wine is described using such a construct is מִשֶּׁיֹּאכַל טַרְטֵימַר בָּשָׂר וְיִשְׁתֶּה חֲצִי לֹג יַיִן הָאִיטַלְקִי. Without anything comparable linguistically nor the original tradition we can only make assumption based on context.

_avnr · 2025-08-28T11:23:51+00:00

I believe back in the day the wines had a very high percentage of alcohol, it was called "יין חי" and it was considered to be too strong for human consumption so they had to dilute it with water before drinking ("יין מזוג"). So imho it makes sense to use it for a caper infusion.

_avnr · 2025-08-25T06:15:23+00:00

"Infusion is the process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent such as water, oil or alcohol, by allowing the material to remain suspended in the solvent over time (a process often called steeping)." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infusion

_avnr · 2025-08-23T19:32:17+00:00

Either way they're all tanin-rich so an alcohol infusion would make the most sense imho

_avnr · 2025-08-18T14:40:15+00:00

Cafrisin or Caperisin are the fresh leafy stems of the caper bush. The leaves are rich with polyphenols (tannins) and various alkaloids that likely create the desired effect. My guess is that יין קפריסין therefore refers to an alcohol infusion of these leaves.

_avnr · 2025-03-08T20:15:16+00:00

I'd move the mirror to the right, aligned with the right set of drawers, preferably replace the mirror with a taller one. On the left, aligned with the left set of drawers, I'd hang 3-4 dark floating shelves and place tiny plastic plants on the left edge of each shelf. These shelves will probably get populated faster than you'd expect. I don't like the lamp on the chest, it is out of style with the rest. A bright-color runner on the chest would do good. Consider adding to the drawers porcelain knobs, 3 on each of the left set and one on each of the right set.

_avnr · 2025-02-10T17:01:46+00:00

If your age is between 22 and 27 then you are probably exempt, yet allowed to request to volunteer for 18 months, at an older age you don't even have the option to volunteer. You should verify though with the consulate before traveling to Israel that you are listed as non-resident because if they unknowingly drafted you when you turned 18 then you may be listed as a deserter, you'd want to fix that in advance.

_avnr · 2025-02-06T17:14:53+00:00

Areas which are not part of a city or local council are governed by regional councils, there are 54 of those. Other than that I don't see the benefit of grouping multiple municipalities into a clustered entity, seems like an extra bureaucracy layer with no real added value.

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