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    Most Useful Discovery for Online Woodworkers EVER EVER EVER

    did have a go and now all the writing on this forum is so small I need my glases.. in future it'll be just DEG's..... It'll take days to sort this mess out....OH Bxxger"....
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    New electrical supply debacle

    when I lived in SW France whilst digging footings for a mate..... he said dig a large trench for the service's 750mm W x 1M deep..... the water, electric and phone (no over head cables due to planning rules) turned up at odd times....refused to use our trench....which we then filled in..... when...
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    The cheek on some people!

    we take our 3 Border Collies to the beach nearby.... IT'S ALOUD along with POO BAGS.... Plus one black bin bag for each of us, which we fill easily with the rubbish left by tourists on the beach..... even seen broken glass BURIED..... on the way from the beach there is all the rubbish bins and...
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    thats the end.....!!!!!!

    Sawtooth.... the cap end is the easy part to repair a leather Estwing...making the leather punch would take forever..... knowing Eswing they will prob have a service to provide that very job.....or sell u the leather parts those rubber handles are rubbish.....I had a lot of them (but they got...
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    unexpected hand tool use...

    nice looking floor....... dread to think of the cost of a replacement now.......
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    thats the end.....!!!!!!

    IWW, I like the longer shaft on the club hammer but I've one with a good bit longer shaft..... for me it's less cumbersome than a 1/2 size sledge..... u wont find an exotic like Hornbeam here.....It's also quite rare to see cut Pine of any description other than imports....it's illegal to cut...
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    Such a nice day outside

    glad it worked for u... but watch out the ally can melt and stick to the blade... they make special blades for cutting ally..... I'd love to be working with ally but 2 grand for a TIG is outta my range.....
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    thats the end.....!!!!!!

    well my stock of decent wooden hammer shafts has gone that is..... I bought at least 20 shafts before I moved out of the UK 23-4 years ago as I knew unless I went back to the UK I could not buy anymore.... today I used my last one....2lbs head....I do a lot of metal work and must have at least...
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    Bad habits. I know I shouldn't, but I still do...

    my dad was super tidy.....I'm getting there after 72 years.....hahaha...it drives her indoors nuts.... but he said, wish someone would invent "Sky Hooks" to ease the storage probs...
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    Garage floor levelling

    even for the smaller spaces to be levelled get a friend in to help..... better flow..... even better would be 3 person gang........ one mixing, one levelling and the other person fetching and carrying.... then a few beers or T after, to watch it dry...... it really is so easy to use...try not...
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    simple question...

    only one way to find out.....hand held or saw table.....it does make a difference.... with a table saw the riving nife tends to run close to the blade...... also often the hole diameter could be diff between blades and the adaptor rings dont alway fit..... I have a very old imp saw that now has...
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    Hacks to help cope with the heat

    D_W, I like ur mother already nothing wrong in being tight or froogle....lol.... Derek C. Perth sound like my kinda town..... I couldn't emigrate as I was to old but that was where I wanted to be..... Crete, starts to get hot around the end of Feb....Ideal for sowing out veg seeds...
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    "Well, I woke up this mornin'..."

    woke up at 2am this morning the solar hot water cylinder on the roof burst.......
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    extra adverts

    I know u can join for free to stop em.....but today it was almost the whole page....... nothing is FREE.......where does the info go....? much more of this CR@P I'm off.......
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    motor problem

    sideways, what would be the biggest motor that size of genny could handle on a red basis...... i have genny that size n it'd be handy to know.......
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    Garage floor levelling

    it's brilliant stuff...also available in diff grades....high fill and theres one for constant fork lift traffic..... PhilipL I have never seen damp come thru anywhere I've used it.... I've even tiled over the stuff on a v'rough / crumbly conc patio with no probs.... as for painting if u only...
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    load'sa drilling

    had a job where I needed hundreds of 3.2mm holes to be drilled in 8mm plate..... fine line marking made using Rocol and or suds (milky oily water) a nono..... I did buy a couple of new Cobalt drill bits but they were getting pretty hot.... After grumbling a lot went in for a cuppa........kinda...
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    Boeing B.17F

    cracking job.....
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    Where have all the bees gone?

    nah....I stole it coz it's nice n big....hahaha.... have'nt found a coffee we like yet here..... mostley u could stain wood with it and or dont spill it on yer shoes as it attacks the stiching....lol... there's a new herb, cum coffee, T supplier shop opening soon..... we'll be in there asap....
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    Building a workshop in an old stone built barn

    if u decide to cover the walls use galv plaster board fixings.... wood is expensive and holds damp where the galv will stop the water getting to the new walls.... it's very easy to make a rough wall straight n level.... as for the floor, I understand the difficulty but I'd be useing a damp...
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