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I'm fully electric RC, but digging about in my shed discovered these: If i ever bothered i might try them out... Some other bits and bobs as well, power panel, 12v spinner starter motor...

Getting a free 72x2 belt sander, but no belts. Will need to get belts that go beyond your standard woodworking grits. For beveling and polishing edges of marble plaques. Generally need from 50 to 6000 grit. Who can supply in UK ?

Been doing some marble house numbers, plaques, and its going swimmingly (laser engraving). Granite, however, is a bit tricky...in a sense that i cannot get it bright enough. Marble engraves very white and stays white in the wet (rain), granite engraving is much duller and just plain disappears...

I'm in need of advice on painting exterior wooden door. It looks like the door is mahogany/sapele solid door, but been painted several times. Dry scraping inside side looks like its some sort of vinyl paint. Absolutely no idea what kind of paint is on the outside. Brown and flaking. Not planning...

How does one go about drying freshly cut tree rounds without them splitting ? Neighbor felled a tree that i might want to use for projects, specifically slice it into 1-2 inch thick rounds to use for side table tops and such ? Diameter is 30-50cm. Planking is a no go, neither drying the whole...

Thats the thing,its laser engraved and pretty rough (well kinda like sandblasting), but i still cant seem to put down a nice looking fill on it. My wife had tried hand in this yesterday with tiiiinyyyyy brush and it kind of works. Takes for ages to paint though. Soft but big brush ?

Anyone have any tips on painting glass ? Having trouble with uniform filling back engraved mirrors, takes many layers to fill in gaps left by the brush. As if paint just wont stick to glass (duh... right)... Whole back has been washed in isopropyl alcohol to clean it. Tried brush...

Anyone here work with LED lights (on component level)? I need to find out if my idea is possible. I need to figure out if there exists rgb led package that i could press into a piece of acrylic to edgelight individual letters in a sign. For idea to work led package needs to be with...

I need to find a compressor thats about 50L and quiet as that will be constantly on for laser cutter air assist. Depending on pressure i use it will be kicking on once in a while (for multi-hour glass engrave jobs) and having oil-free brushed monstrosity is a definite no-no. At the moment using...

How is the noise of that compressor ? Is it the terrifying old whiney brushed thing or good induction goodness ? I can deal with leaks (if not the fittings themselves)...

Oh my god the carbide stories i could tell :D One eye, 5 fingers between 3 guys, windowless greenhouse, ton of broken bottle glass flying, accidental rocket (small metal co2 bottle, carbide+water and a cork)... woof. We lived near a biiiiig building site, which was our primary playground...

One of the games that stick out to me is original MotoRacer on pc. At the time i was working in PC sales (assembling beige boxes, pentium mmx's, pentium-II's) and we had a demo of motoracer. We would do record runs with beer as a bet. I did on occasion got some beer out of it. Me and one of my...

IDDQD, IDKFA, IDSPISPOPD ... :D still remember by heart. Doom/Doom2/Heretic/Hexen is on my "replay annually" list :D

Funny story, Diablo3 was the one and only game i was in the queue for, ever. So much anticipation i had to go to 24h tesco 30mi away to get it after midnight embargo lifted. There were all of 5 people waiting for the game :D ... And what a let down it was - disappointment of the year, and still...

If i lived in UK at the time i'd have hacked saves in no time. We were a DIY enthusiast group, making our own clone speccy's (as in buy pcb+components and build it ourselves), so debugging, poking in code, savestating, etc was all in days work for us :D ... I bought elite as a backer, paid...

I just checked my Path of Exile hours on steam... my god......... 2000 hours played. Which means overall i spent at least 3-4k hours on single game since 2013, as i started when it was in alpha/beta at the time... oof. My brother still plays it, but i'm scared to go back to PoE - its my single...

Been playing vg's since zx spectrum was a thing. I'm more of a story over sports kind of gamer now. That and Path of Exile/Diablo/Torchlight/Grim Dawn... Havent played competitively since q2 and original unreal were a new thing, was quite good at railing and rocket jumps. Tried playing fps on...

Haven't seen adverts for years on YT, thanks to APB and now uBlock, my main issue is smart tv's not able to use such blocking facilities. There's PiHole for blocking ads before it even hits browsers of any kind on the entirety of your home network - PiHole. I really need to look into it as my...

Pickled beetroot is disgusting, boiled/sweet is delightful. Anything with vinegar is a definite no from me, the smell alone turns my stomach (salt and vinegar crisps, bleagh). Only exception is well done chicken/pork aspic cant be eaten without vinegar. Go figure. I do love pickles though. And...

I just bought a usb POWERED bluetooth to 3.5mm jack adapter (~£5) and hooked it up to an old SONY amplifier with JBL speakers in the shed. Power sorted by using standard phone charger that has a usb plug on it, connection by RCA to 3.5mm jack cable. All up cost about £8 (sans amplifier and...