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    Outhouse Project

    just rebuild the end wall and do it properly..... plus u could make it bigger.....
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    Corded Drill

    cetainly look into rebuilding it....very good drill for it's size.....
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    LED lighting advice for carving?

    two lamps, one at each end like Spectric and one of these modified for led....
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    Wallpapering

    does anyone remember the paper triming machines of old..... my dad sent me back to the "ironmongers " for another roll..... had to stand and wait while he trimmed of the ends with some old rattly machine.... the good old days....hahaha........ I did it prof for a while, but refused to use...
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    Do any of you sharpen your own planer/thicknesses blades? How?

    I managed to buy one of these Kity sharpening machine for lit just a couple of Euro's.... they are no longer made.... it was in bits and they guy had no idea of what it was..... wife and I played good cop bad cop and reduced it down from 15euro's.... the tubes can be replaced with a like for...
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    Clamps upgrade

    some on here hate pipe clamps but they are cheap, strong and infinatley variable in length.... even the pipe is cheap.... I was gifted 2 record x 8' clamps, hardly ever use em...... I do have a few Record clamps that uses a hardwood frame..... frame a has a load of measured holes......quit nice...
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    My Bee Hive i made from all recycled Timber,

    just need bee's now....hahaha....
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    Building a shed in Finland

    very nice job..... what about the guttering....kourut....... thought it would be fitted with all the rain........
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    Stupid injuries

    not quite a cut .... was wearing leather gloves to unload a pile of euro pallets.... didn't notice the split wood.....dohhhh.... went to A+E here but to busy for nearly a week...they wanted surgery.....!!!!!. hard to work with this in ur hand....so after a few days could wait no more.... a good...
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    Crumbling cement floor in workshop

    A German company thats based in France "Weber" but worldwide.... www.ukweber make products just for that job as well as screed and cement plaster's....Render..... they have an excellent websight and are happy to talk over the phone.... I'm just a happy customer....
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    Middle of Lidl

    well for all the doom sayers..... some of their stuff is very good...... I can never buy enough of their 125mm dia thin metal cut off blades/disc..... and for rough work their carbide saw blades are a treat at €8's..... even the packs of 4 metal stepped drils n countersink are v/good....have 2...
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    Stupid injuries

    a young freind of mine was never allowed a pocket knife........ so after he left home he bought one..... you guessed a trip to A+E shortly after......hahaha...... teach em young I say.......
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    Scroll saw recommendations

    just an ask......may be of interest to others...... just days before I left France a lady asked me to take away her husbands scroller...... I'm sure it's a simple cheapo machine but what the hell..... Question, as it's a low HP machine is it easy to make it variable speed with a reostat...
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    Hunting masonry drills

    been a long time since I heard of Spit drill's.....was it an overnight wonder....? I always bought Hilti for the tougher jobs....have 4 diff sizes..... to old to go the battery route now..... ever thought of brazing a new drill top to ur old dill shaft.....???? if it's a junker not much to...
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    Dimensioning by hand

    plus, if it all gets a bit much try out Jacob's ice cream.....n scoff the lot..... learn how to do it by hand then buy a decent thicknesser... early modern machine are really good.....Electra Beckum, Makita even DeWalt.... I still have my ELU from years ago... luckily I have a monster prof...
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    Hard to know whats wanted

    MAN....ur good.... I had a photo of my best friend hanging onto one of the skids (Huey ?) getting out of an overun camp in Vietnam...scary stuff.... Inspector, those little choppers used at the end of Korea for inj soldiers .....were they Robinsons....? When I was 50 my wife bought me a...
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    Car electrics. Anyone here any good?!

    is the wiring connection onto a hard pcb board or it it a flat flappy wire kinda thing.....either way those circuits /connector connections are very delicate.... had a similar prob in the past and just solderd a hot wire or two, by-passing the individual connection to get em working...
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    Shed build, many many questions...

    I've built steel sheds n workshops all over the world..... Here in Crete the go to sheeting is double skinned steel with 40mm of high density foam.... It is self supporting at 3m between joist and thats exactly what I use for my caravan and new shed build....plus on my caravan roof there is a...
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    Most Useful Discovery for Online Woodworkers EVER EVER EVER

    Inspector, u lot...... how do u know all this [email protected]..... I could never find out to add a photo to an email for years.... my mate stayed with us for a bit and I got his 5 year old daughter to show me how.... hahaha......I'm just dumb I guess.....I was about 60 then..... mind I wasn't...
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    The cheek on some people!

    we need a national conscription again....for those 35 and under...... it'd do a few things in one go..... the naughty boys will learn how to behave.... and the rest will leave the country ASAP.... so that's the housing, schooling and health problems sorted..... EASY.....
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