Precious Plastic 10th Anniversary

An organisation I've been following (and wishing I could emulate, or at least start an affiliate here) for what seems like ten years - has turned ten as of yesterday. In fact, now that I look back, I was following them from nine or eight years ago. 

That organisation is Precious Plastic, and you've often heard me refer to them by that name, or PreshPlast, or PP. The reason I appear to be late in posting this is the tyranny of time zones, while it's 22 Oct to me it's just past midnight and the start of 21 Oct as our time zone is GMT+10 here normally and GMT+11 during daylight (boo! hiss!) saving which is now on for us here. 

Dave Hakkens, founder, Kat, Mattia, and a few other PreshPlasters have been around from the beginning. Dave conceived it as a graduation project I think. Look - I'll link the video they made here. Just promise to come back to here in 26 minutes okay?

Welcome Back!

So now you have their backstory. This is their website, where you can now find all manner of recycling related, PreshPlast-related, and useful information. So you can build their machines because the plans are available. They have a Community forum on there so you can join in and chat and get involved. They have a Marketplace where you can buy ready-made machines, and their Youtube channel that you'll have already found and subscribed to if you watched. 

I'm not sure if the video mentions it but Dave's first project before PP was some kind of mobile phone which was modular and replaceable part by part. But luckily for us, he went on to do the PP thing instead. 

I definitely wanted to do this but you still need money to make the big V3 and V4 machines. You need physical mobility. And you need sponsors. I had none of those things because I was pensioned with disability almost a decade before PP was even a glint in Dave's eye. 

The Corner

For me, I turned the corner in 202... - 2020 or 2021 I think - when I bought Brucely the Ender3 Pro 3D printer. (See the note down the end of this article for the Story of Bruce. Since this has become a nostalgia article now...)

I realised that while I can't build a $10,000 V4 shredder or sheetpress, I can still innovate a bit. While I don't have a lathe to turn manually-recycled bottletops into fine pens, I can still do some small, inexpensive, but basically effective things. These are things you too can do right now and I'll put together an article or three in the future with the titles beginning with "PlastiHack #...:" and a description so you can find them. Please be a bit patient as I'm backlogged by real life demands that are currently hectic for a pensioner that can't even afford to hire someone to help (part of the issue is house/workshop/rental related things moving and changing and the landlord having had issues themselves, most is down to me not being able to physically keep up the sustained burn of energy this is going to require, two months with a worker, six to ten months without) and also some personal reasons. 

Dave's Corner

Dave Hakkens also turned a corner of his own. At one point the brunt of the PreshPlast expansion was going to be borne by another organisation, One Army. 

Dave and the PreshPlast crew spawned this to do other recycling / ecofriendly / sustainable / etc work. Rather than confining itself to PP, One Army also provided the launching of Project Kamp. 

That's a little plot of land in Portugal which is where you can find Dave right now, and which the Army (I think?) bought in 2020 / 2021 and started looking to find ways to live sustainably and with low footprint in smaller communities. Project Kamp has its own Youtube channel where you can see some of the downright amazing things they've done with majority recycled materials, local food, etc. 

All in all, the guy at the centre of it all has literally moved mountains. There are thousands, if not tens of thousand perhaps by now, of organisations and projects under the Precious Plastic umbrella. There are another group of thousands that don't declare themselves affiliated with PP but whose founders got their inspiration from the suite of websites. And who knopws how many millions have watched a random video from them, and then another, and another, and another...

That's A Lot To Accomplish In A Decade

Anyway - to that Note:

NOTE: Brucely Printer

Okay so I know I posted this somewhere but I can't find where. So you lucky people get the story again... 

When I wanted a 3D printer to make new devices and parts for recycling machines, I had some money saved from survey filling work, Banggood were having a birthday discounts sale, Creality had knocked a few more percent off their Ender3 series, and in the end I got Brucely for the princely sum of $240 delivered. Some things immediately caught my attention. 

Creality is a company based in China. The logo for the Ender printer series is a dragon, a creature that features large in Chinese lore. I also read that the name "Ender" came from the Ender dragon in Minecraft. My printer was named after Ender The Dragon. It was now in Australia, so by default, an Aussie. A little light began blinking annoyingly above my head. What was the name that Monty Python based an entire sketch around? And who starred in a movie called "Enter The Dragon?" 

Bruce. The Bruces sketch. Aussie. Bruce Lee. Brucely. (Which was, for a time, apparently synonymous with "manly" according to legend.)

Okay - I've infected your mind with the Brucely virus. 

Dave got where he is now due to a few volunteers and sponsors. I'm going to ask you to volunteer - by sharin' the hell outta me posts, mate! Fair crack o' the whip ay? Because every share will let others read my posts, and they'll share, and I'll start getting an audience that will raise awareness of all the stuff I write about, several articles a week, and I really hope you too think my messages are worth being seen by more people.

What "messages?" There's a newspaper in the graphic above - it'll take you to Ted's News Stand where you can always see my latest posts across all my blogs. There's also at least one link on that page that'll allow you to subscribe to my newsletter. I recommend it. Share the hell outta that link too please. I'd really appreciate it.

And lastly, the dreaded donation. The coffee mug will take you to Ko-Fi dot com where you can make a one-time donation of the price of a cuppa, or - preferably - a monthly one. I want to not have to pay the cost of the server fees, the domain name fees, the subscriptions to news resources. I'd like to not pay for research materials for the projects I'm trying to get off the ground, for someone to help with the foregone moving of the old workshop, upcoming move of that workshop and shed again, to defray the costs of moving the experimental urban worm garden that I've now had to hire people to help with twice due to circumstances beyond my control, and to make possible a bit faster development cycle because I won't have to constantly wait until I can shake a few bucks out of my pension to buy material just to develop another device or technique for recycling. 

Building A Quick Table Saw - Something I Did Just Now

I guess I never told you about my hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Not that you should probably want to, anyway. But since you're here, I can bore you with a quick story about how I made one of my dreams come true within my budget. Something I'm doing must be all right.

It's a table saw. Most of those in the search images are robust mid-size, ranging in price from probably AUD$600-3000. (Don't look shocked, there are a few professional cabinetry/carpentry table saws that go higher than even that. It's a case of get what you paid for. If you need a hobbyist/home Maker type saw though, I think I've pretty much nailed the range. Here's a fairly good example of a Pro saw with finger-saving SawStop tech.)

Why A Table Saw?

Didn't I just buy a secondhand Mitre saw? 

Well, yes, I did. But it was partly to help me finish the table saw. Mitre saws are great for cutting across a piece of wood at settable repeatable angles, but it's impossible make a long cut with them. You've probably seen Aggressive Arthur's acquisition video, you'll see what I mean if you check it out. The saw is at right angles (and up to 45degrees either side of right angles) to the direction of the wood it's cutting. If you want to cut up the length of a piece of wood to make it thinner, or take long straight cuts through a sheet of plywood or MDF or whatever, that's what a table saw is designed for.

With some table saws you also get (or can make) a sled that lets you 'flip' the wood feed direction and lets you put a length of wood in sideways and make a cross cut without a disaster causing loss of limbs or life...

So - mitre saws are basically crosscut saws and table saws are ripcut saws. "Crosscut" = across the length / grain, "ripcut" = with the length / grain. Sawmill saws are ripsaws, chainsaws are used as crosscut saws. 

And now I have a very small very tiny table saw and a mitre saw. In theory I'm now unstoppable. In fact though I'm probably just unstable. Oh wells... 

Here's How It Went

I'll describe the process to some degree in the next few paragraphs.

So (1) - I drew it up in Tinkercad and printed a model at one zillionth scale. Just enough to get me motivated enough to progress to (2). Which is where I made the legs, half the frame, and just over half the top of the bench.

Digression 1:
I'm as always limited for funds, but with a couple of reasonably accurate and repeatable tools I can make stuff to sell and also do some repair jobs. So I picked the cheapest pine from Bunnings (now conveniently across the road from us) which was 70x39 MGP10 non-structural pine and a few 150x25 "plinth" boards. These are more crooked than a dog pees but all the wood for two benches will be under $90. And I have a plane and some sanding gear so I can make it smooth.

The choice of timber/lumber/wood was "as cheap as possible" and build everything from it. One day I may have the money to make a bigger stronger straighter work table but for now this will definitely work for me and may be all I need. The size was chosen to fit with a plastic fold-up Stanley workbench I scored from an opp shop ages ago, which also just happens to work with some really old folding tables (glorified saw-horses really) which were all I've ever really used as work surfaces before. So everything is just a bit under a metre tall, 70cm wide, 50cm deep. 

I also wanted to make the saw bench able to be converted to a router table and a jigsaw table. So my one expensive piece of wood was a small sheet of plywood. That went in between the planks (where the short plank is laying) in (2). Usually, table saws have 250ish mm blades but I had a small handheld circular saw that I also scored at another opp shop with a 160ish mm blade, it means I can (barely) cut through a 40mm piece of wood once it's mounted under the plywood. There'll be other pieces of plywood with the other machines mounted under them later.

So anyhow - the table would have taken four of the planks plus a narrow strip in the centre but I only used three of them. They're not 150mm anyway, close to 140, and those edges were about the only straight things about them so I scarcely had to plane anything off them. (The pros would have planed those edges almost optically flat and then glued them together. I'm not a pro, I used a sander to knock off the worst bumps and that was basically that, no ceremony, just boards with gaps but this isn't a rocket science bench.)

Turns out that three boards left a 240(ish) mm space and so that became the measurement for the plywood inserts. Also, because the plywood is only about 12mm thick and the planks are (supposedly - more on that later) 25mm thick I had to put some strips in that made the plywood flush with the top. Conveniently, that forms the perfect way to align the inserts as well. 

The maximum of a 25mm thickness also means that the circular saw can tilt all the way to a right angle, if it was any thicker the body of the saw wouldn't have allowed it to get to the full right-angle. This was actually just pure luck and not any clever design on my part. That the saw with the plywood insert attached was able to be finessed into the gap - that too was pure fluke. If I'd had to use any other circular saw I probably wouldn't have been able to make things fit. 

Now back to those plinth boards and the thickness of them. Most of the top was easy enough to roughly plane, but one corner of one board was a good 2mm thicker and took me ages to plane down. One disadvantage of cheap lumber... 

Anyway - back to the picture and item (3) shows the other reason I need a table saw - that hodgepodge of bits is how I got right angles and longer straight cuts. Sometimes. And in any case it turned any job into an exercise. 

(4) is what I've ended up with. I'd been worrying about how to make a fence and then I saw an idea where someone made slides either side of the table and attached the fence to them. I knew my woodworking skills weren't up to that kind of dovetail precision but I could find a matching pair of reasonably heavy-duty drawer slides (5) and now (6) a fence that can extend past the end of the table, effectively making the small table do the work of a larger one.

A closer look at those sliders.

Those sliders... When I found them it was just a case of "wow those could be useful some day, and for five bucks I can't really say no to them." And they finally were. Except that the slides in them were end for end wrong way around. Putting them on opposite sides would have left them upside down so the stops had to be removed, slides (ever so carefully because there are ball bearings involved, LOTS of ball bearings) removed and re-inserted the other way around. One of the uprights on each slide had to be cut off - thank FSM for angle grinders - and some scrapwood from some old furniture made the two rails that the fence support is attached to. I have some aluminium rectangular section that will make the actual fence.

There's already a heap more to update such as that ai may be getting a job site saw as well, and some workshop racking, and there's a long materials rack going behind the shed which will also hold the 250W solar panel in the exact right orientation,  

The landlord has indicated that I'll get the use of that garage in a week or two so stay tuned for that, in the meanwhile I'll keep posting stuff I'm doing out in the wild as it were, and of course also my recipes and recycling and sustainable / climate posts but it's getting ever closer to my goal of making some inexpensive machines that anyone can use at home for recycling, so fingers crossed! Just a few lines down ther's a little graphic I made, if you click on the newspaper you'll get to my News Stand were you can see all the blogs I'm running and even subscribe to a once-a-week newsletter that'll keep you automatically up to date.

Now here's a video I just found to get you thinking about woodworking if you're not doing it already. 

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I scared the shit out of myself with a small router I've had for 25 years but not used for about the last 20, and almost got to the point of getting sliced up by it first time I used it a year ago, but since then I've pushed myself to use it over and over and get comfortable with it again. 

It'd be nice if you clicked on the newspaper in the graphic above and subscribed to my aforementioned once-a-week newsletter, even nicer if you shared a link to this article or others with your friends or on your social media, and totally boss if you could make a donation to help me keep all that stuff juggling in the air! See you next post!

Something New And Inexpensive

... other than... Actually, that' it. New and really cheap.

As I mentioned in another post the day, that day started off being a pretty good day all around. I was the owner of a new - and cheap - box of Forstner bits that arrived for the workshop, bits I'd been wishing I had for years and they've always been way too expensive to buy a set of 16 like this. 

But this set has cost less than 4 brand name bits. It remains to be seen how well they'll wear but for my use they'll probably outlast me, and if I find I'm wearing out one or two particular bits I can just spot-replace them. 

As you'll know from this post, I've been lucky enough to have bought and built a brand new 3x3m shed/workshop, unlucky enough to have had to pull it down and totally vandalise it to (luckily) fit it into the spot allocated by the new landlord, and then (luckily) be able to erect a 3x3m roof behind that, and now unlucky enough (again) to have to move everything in it and take it down again. But (luckily) it's due to the same landlord erecting a 2-car garage for the house we're in and therefore I've gone from around 24sqm of space to 48sqm and will have most of that space as the new shed. 

It means I'll finally actually have a "workshop" that I can work in. I never even got to make a workbench, instead using a few plastic and MDF folding tables and two plastic sawhorses - great when you're making a rough surround for a raised bed of a clunky gate in the cat fence but as for anything like a cabinet, forget it. Then when I thought Location #2 would be the permanent spot I started to organise myself but there's been almost two years in between filled with other shuffle-shift-restart jobs involved with the landlords' plans, health issues, all the usual.

But a week and a bit ago I built a small workbench which has removable section where I can put my older electric circular saw upside down to make a primitive but usable table saw, my router to give myself the convenience of a router table, a jigsaw table, and more. It'll be useful (once I get the keys to said garage/shed) to build another multipurpose table to use for clamping and setting the drill press or just as a general infeed/outfeed table. 

Also note that these aren't BIG workbenches. For one thing, I didn't want a bench that's too tall. I have to lift stuff onto and off of it, and I'm not my younger fitter self anymore. It's not too deep either, same sort of reason. and then also if I made them too wide, I couldn't fit many in the space I'll have. Also, all my premade workbenches are around the same dimensions. The Stanley multifunction foldable one I have was 70cm wide, 50cm deep, and around 81cm tall so that's what my workbenches are made to.

This collage is roughly to scale. Sorta. Kinda.

As you can see, the gear I had was never bought for quality but for price. One of the tables on the left is over ten years old, the other about eight and bought secondhand, and believe me they are stuffed. Swollen from moisture damage, one of them has a somewhat repaired chipboard panel, and never made for accuracy.

The sawhorses on the right were bought to assemble my original 3x3 shed in 2018. And the Stanley worktable wouldn't be in my collection if we hadn't stopped in  a little seaside town and visited their opp shop. It seems to be a genuine Stanley table, identical to the worktable in the centre, just a bit more beaten up. Okay - a lot more beaten up. But it's the 50x70x81cm one and it was one of the most useful so it became the standard. 

The reason it was at the opp shop was that someone had broken the crosspiece that kept the front legs (to the right in that picture and hidden because of the angle of the shot) stable so I just screwed a piece of 70x35 across them and it's been in use ever since. But none of these has been what you'd call stable or conducive to making straight carpentry. 

Anyway - back to these.

This lot cost under $25 landed in Australia.

As you can see - they seem to be usable (I might not use them in a hand powerdrill until I've checked how they perform in a speed-controllable drill press) and should let me work out which sizes are the ones I'll tend to use most. 

As I said in the photo caption they cost less than 2 or three more mainstream bits but that's also partially because I do tend to hold off and hold off and hold off until a reasonable price comes along. Call me a "hardware hodler..." 

The only fly in the ointment's been the weather - yesterday the report for today mentioned 17C and a clear day so I started a load of washing. What an idiot... Of course it's barely 15C and with wind-chill feels like 10C so working (outdoors, unluckily) on the new bench to make it actually useful is not gonna happen. (For one main reason, three quarters of the conditions that have me disabled are worsened by sudden exposure to cool/cold, and secondly because I just can't work bundled up in "Kenny layers.")

So I sat with a few sheets of drawing paper and sketched wiring diagrams for the new shed when I finally get access, some possible floor layouts, etc. It's coming along. Stay tuned...

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See you on the next post!

That Time At (Garage) Band Camp

Just some news on the horizon. Landlord has been finishing up some details around the back yard.

One of the things in that backyard is this:

It's a 6m x 6m garage, required by the Shire for a 3br house.

Some Recent History:

It was only being erected in that shot, in mid-August. In fact the shed guy's ladder is the one in the shot. That house to the left is the second house that the landlord split the block for and that's been another thing that's caused huge amounts of chaos in our lives, but the returns have been worth it. One of those things was that the local Shire required a lot of stuff that's required under their new building code.

Aside from shrinking our yard space by 96% (which has been a bit of a squeeze but also now he looks after all the rest of the block so we're spared a burdensome expense) there have been a lot of other things that came of it - roof got replaced after leaking for years, electrics got replaced as they were so old that rooms had actually lost power, and the most recent, the bathroom got a complete makeover to find a huge leak. 

And the other thing that came out of it is that a 3-bedroom house must now have a 2-car garage. . . We have a car, and a mobility scooter. The scooter's been kept in its own shed, but the car's probably never seen a garage in its 14 years of life, and definitely not in its last three years since we've had it. 

Here's the bonus: The "shared driveway" is fine for me to park in, and it's back from the highway far enough that road debris and dust isn't an issue there. On. The. Other. Hand. If there's ever a storm or hail, I'd like to put the car into the garage. And I'd like to garage the mobility scooter permanently because my wife really likes the freedom it provides so it really needs to be kept secure and clean.

On. The. Other. Other. Hand. I'll be losing my 3m x 3m shed and have already lost the old "garage" which had rusted-shut doors but was still good for storage. I need that. And the landlord has I think been very aware of it. I had (approximately) 24sqm for all of that, the new garage has 36. Plus another 6sqm behind it. 42 is the answer to LTUAE. . .

But I Still Want To Garage The Car Too. Okay - it's a mid-size SUV (embarrassed cringe) but it was right in our price range, our old car had failed the roadworthy, and the new vehicle is 10 years newer than the old Hyundai. We barely use it anyway - shopping, medical appointments. We fill the tank once a month or sometimes even longer. And if I could have a hybrid or full EV I'd jump at the chance. So - suck it up, we're at the time of life when we need wheels. 

I also want a workshop again (I did have that in my 3x3, briefly) and space to keep all the workshed and yard paraphernalia and materials - and the mobility scooter, and, occasionally, be able to garage the Buttercup. 

I'll be posting this immediately, unscheduled, because I realised all the disruptions lately have put a dent in my scheduled blog article posts. 

Bring on - Tinkercad:

The software that lets you CAD when you can't CAD.

Using Tinkercad lets me design things that I can't do in CAD packages. (I really am shyte at CAD - I got spoiled by Second Life's methods of building, and no amount of me cudgelling my brains has ever been of use.) So a few hours running around with a tape measure and notebook and then drawing cubes and cylinders and you have a workable alternative to the old "graph paper and cutouts" way of doing things. And as a bonus - it's a bit twee, it's free, and it's 3D! Do that with graph paper. 

So you have the end of our house on the left, the laundry outbuilding in white in the centre, and the neighbour's garage wall in battleship grey on the right. You can see two panels of fence across the left and across the old driveway between the laundry and neighbour's garage. Close to the centre you can see me if you zoom in - you'll know it's me because of the "T" on my pocket. behind me is the garage and the "shared driveway." The orange cones are to stop me walking off the grid. 😸

Behind me is the Buttercup beast, and the jet fighter (don't hate - I just looked for two vehicles in the shared library because I thought two big featureless slabs were just too boring for a blog article) is the mobility scooter. The two black prisms and the two yellow/orange prisms are some warehouse rack shelving for storage. The grey prisms (one behind the jetplane scooter, one further right of that) are the cheap tinplate shelving you used to be able to buy for a tenner a unit but I think they've been discontinued due to the amount of customer they sliced up or something. 

Anyway. I've had those units for the best part of ten years, pulled apart and reassembled when we moved or our needs changed, and I still have all my fingers and body parts. The pale green, blue, and light blue prisms are the four workbench sub-units I've either already built or will finish in the next few months. (The top green one and the dark blue one are already made, the pincushion and light blue are in waiting.) The pink thing next to it is a trolley I made from two plywood sorters I found at some secondhand shop for five bucks apiece and some scrap wood and castors I had laying around. It's gotten older since 2020 but it's still as useful as it ever was. 

Made from junk sorting-bins and scrap wood I had laying around.

The two dark grey prisms below that are some metal Brownbuilt workshop cupboards that I'll probably use for epoxies, paints, and solvents, and perhaps abrasives and other dangerous materials. Gas bottles for torches etc. 

And the green thing - now that is  a surprise. Landlord was in the new garage the other day and I was daydreaming about where I'd put things and he has a workbench from another tenant that skipped at some point in the past and I can have it. He doesn't know it yet but if he won't accept payment for it I'll make a donation at the charity of his choice. 

And if he doesn't, well - I have enough small utility workbenches and gear that I can build myself the same bench. It'll take me longer but I'll still have it. If you help out with the graphic below and donate a few bucks, I'll have it all the sooner and will be able to post new projects here.

Back to the plans. As you can see, if I put the benches away in the rough locations shown, I can easily reverse Buttercup in. At all other times, it'll be parked just outside on the garage apron. And the observant and curious will have noticed I still haven't described a few other things, so here we go into bonus territory:

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Extras.

Doing Solar

You may have noticed a transparent-y(ish) violet thing at the extreme right. Since my old shed had to be - for lack of a better word, bastardised - to fit into the (not quite, alas! Missed it by 30mm...) 3m width of the old driveway between our laundry and the neighbour's garage, I have an $800 pile of  cheap glavanised tin and pressed tin ribs and struts which at the moment are still assembled but aren't going to be for very long, as they're not really in the plan for the place. In a word, it's scrap in a few weeks. And I can use some of that to make a lean-to roofed area between the garage and the fence. 

Landlord's given his blessing, and so I can put up a short skillion roof  the 6m length of the garage as long as it's not a permanent structure, which this will not be, being set atop concrete slabs and stabilised with (strong) ties to stakes in the ground. Now - I have one 240W solar panel atop my old shed, charging an old car battery, and it will fit on top of that temporary roof just fine. (And may be joined by another one or two, if I come across any bargains.)

It's currently only used occasionally to power 12V gizmos like a small tyre pump compressor, lights, and the occasional project I'm testing. But with a decent inverter it can already power our freezer via an extension cord if we have one of our rare but inevitable power outages, and it could already do this for 6-10 hours. With more panels and batteries I think we could keep our frozen food safe for 24 hours. It's a project among many. 

And you'll also have noticed the timber trees in the three posts holding it up. Those will store almost every bit of my longer timber supplies, all the "scrap timber" half my projects end up being made from. So that takes care of 95% of longer materials including PVC pipes etc. 

And One (Two!) More Things

There's also the blue cabinet and the orange cylinder outside the garage. Hmmmm.....

Orange thing will be my dust collector "cyclone" where air from the workshop tools gets drawn in along with chips and shavings and sawdust, swirled around, drops to the bottom, and right at the top, hopefully much cleaner air gets sucked into the lower left side of the blue cabinet where for the moment is a Homelite shop vac but I'm aiming for making a lower flow but more powerful turbine someday and then I'll be safe enough from workshop dust to make me happy.

The lower RH side will be the battery compartment for the solar panel(s) - and the shallower upper section of it will hold charging modules, power modules, control modules, inverter, etc. 

All that's missing is to get wifi out to there. I have some old routers I may be able to press in to service, may need to make a longer range antenna for the garage end of it, but once it's there I'll be able to manage all the workshop power and also be able to check information as I'm working. 

And there's a grey cross over the top. No I haven't set a demon trap (too much "Supernatural"..) it's just that if I'd drawn the two crossed wires to scale they'd have been invisible. And what they're up there for is to hold "curtains" (probably old sheets or old tarpaulin pieces) to keep workshop dust off the scooter and shield off the rear part of the garage if needed to contain dust from working. I know it seems I'm a bit gung-ho about dust but I'm pensioned with several respiratory issues and so working with masks and dust collection/extraction is pretty important. 

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