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    Tablet/phone charging

    Start explaining free surface effect and watch them head to the liferafts! Funny thing is it wasn't fully appreciated until late esp in roro ferries when the herald of free enterprise went over in the English Channel.
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    New Garage Workshop Advice Needed

    I think your over thinking the damp issue. You gave render on the outside, Osb on the inside, so, so long as it's not on a Welsh peninsula facing south east and your not drying wet clothes inside it you won't have a issue of damp? To could leave the tops open to the roof space by saying a cm for...
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    Beginner tools / timber advise

    Just go to a local mens shed and your skills will soon be diminished!🤣🤣
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    Bench joiner's job

    £11.44
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    Sub £1000 bench drill for wood, steel and aluminium in a tiny workshop?

    For the price these a gvm. Being Korean the quality is a step up from the Chinese rubbish. Then made a milling machine similar so shows the strength of them... But go for the 16mm version...
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    Labour's Employment Rights Bill

    Most voters dot think that far back. For me it was:- HS2 cancelled - so much for leveling up Truss fiasco Legging it on D day...
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    Need some sanity checking on slightly unusual shed floor build

    I D stand some 2x225mm timber on edge on top of your base. If you use long screws it's not going to fall over!
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    New Member with workshop space

    Longshot I know your not Martin Davis with Rover p4s if so I'm an old friend of yours from Southampton!
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    Joke Thread 4 (closed).

    Blonde next to me at petrol station, why if this is a 2L car why is it taking 30L to fill up!!
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    Mitre Saw Station - Site Work

    My entry.... Quick stretch made using 16" wide strips of 9mm ply and approx 8 cls..
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    Joke Thread 4 (closed).

    I'm triggered not my the jokes but the intro! Lucky you!!🤣🤣
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    Timber framing engineering

    Why spruce, why not latch or Douglas fir, I'm sure you can find it locally to you. South of you there are swathes of forest so in sure there are local sawmills. I'd use oak pins and learn the proper techniques, let me know how you get on as I'm due to make a toilet for a stables in similar style.
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    Insulated Roof Construction for Garden Room

    What's your budget on this build. If your wanting recycled panels I know a place in Huddersfield.
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    Incredible project

    As I suggested!
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    Change of career - what too.

    Well went to a woodworking firm and they have offered me work. Full time / part time depending upon what I require. Self employed though so don't know how that would work. I won't mention the firm but I've known them for years and brought wood off them a few times (not timber merchants). He...
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    Joke Thread 4 (closed).

    Because they feel he represents them and they feel disenfranchised by the rest...
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    Incredible project

    Ever picked up a cedar strip planked canoe - very light indeed. Id be suprised if it weighed more than aold svhool aluminium softwood, polystyrene, board, composite, or a bailey alutech...
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    Change of career - what too.

    I could do that apart from the fact that the best area to do that is the village where my Mrs lives so that won't be happening! I have a couple of irons in the fire so we'll see where it goes....
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    Incredible project

    Probably quite lightweight esp if one skin.. It's the other stuff inside that weighs which will be the same whatever the skin..
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    Incredible project

    I think it's strip planked cedar over a mould. Probably about 1/2 thick covered each side the epoxy and cloth.
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