http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:22:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If there's one thing I miss about dear old Blighty it's the late-night kebab - or key-bob if you happen to be an American - run after allowing oneself to get a little too tipsy. Whether you need counselling in the form of comfort eating after being blown out more ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2007/05/04/designer-kebab-shops/ Not too long ago I did a piece on our sister blog, The Tinbasher, relating to architectural stainless steel buildings. If you're interested, you can take a look at my steel building article here. http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2007/03/26/building-stuff-out-of-stainless-steel/ So how do you like the new site? And if you've never been here before......how do you like the new site? I'm still playing around with a few things but this is basically it. If you come across anything that isn't working for you or seems a little weird, please leave me ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2007/03/16/an-improvement/ There's industrial design and designer industrial. I'm quite sure the following stainless steel shower contraption falls into the latter of the two categories. They almost remind me of some lamp fittings and water feature arrangements I toyed with a while back constructed from industrial pipe fittings. You know, flanges for bases and ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2007/01/05/im-like-so-ahead-of-the-curve/ You can ignore everything in this post as all is well. Call on 440-453-6125. Could anybody getting in touch from America please get in contact via email initially. I'm currently changing cable packages and won't be reconnected until next Wednesday (fingers crossed). Now you may think that shouldn't be any of your ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2006/12/08/notice-to-american-folks-wanting-to-get-in-touch/ According to this website: Buckminsterfullerene is discovered by Sir Harold Kroto in the UK and Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl, Jr in the US. These three researchers shared the 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry for their discovery. Buckminsterfullerene's atoms are bonded together into a highly symmetrical, hollow polygon structure ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2006/11/14/welded-buckminster-fullerene/ We're currently on the lookout for a fabrication jobshop in or around Cleveland, Ohio to fabricate some of our planters so we can actually accommodate the enquiries we receive from America. If you're interested you can read a bit more about it over at The Tinbasher. However, that isn't to say we'll ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2006/10/30/find-a-fabricator/ It seems that we're causing a bit of a flutter at The Conference Guide as to whether we'd be suitable new sponsors after Nationwide's pull-out. We might have tinpot in our name, but we're not that tinpot. And besides that, we're Burnley fans. http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2006/10/21/tinpot-alley-in-football-sponsorship-rumour/ In the beginning there was stainless steel, and the stainless steel was good. Tinpot Alley started as a very different beast to the one you see now. Its first manifestation came as a reaction to just one hexagonal planter Matt designed out of stainless steel that all of us kidded ourselves ... http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2006/08/02/learning-pruning-and-growing/ Imagine, if you will, that G-Plan began designing autopsy equipment for your bathroom. Personally, I love it. [via] http://www.tinpotalley.co.uk/2006/07/11/fancy-stainless-steel-for-your-bathroom/