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Best electric Random orbital sander i have ever had is a Sealey ER150. I bought mine 30 odd years ago & its on its third switch & second set of brushes. Bearings are huge & it just wont die. They are 350 watt but feel a lot more powerful. I used it for boat repairs & fairing & it would often...

Loks like a slab ofsome sort of pine to me. Like no Yew i have ever seen, not orange enough.

Epoxies are usually a fixed mixing ratio & you mess with it at your peril, temperature will speed setting & curing and large masses will go off quicker too. With polyesters the catalyst ration can be varied but there is a point below which cure will be affected. A runaway exothermic reaction...

I have had exactly this problem with sectional garage panels, they have 1/4" steel reinforcing rods running around the thicker outside of the panels, You simply wont drill through there. The flat centres of the panels arent usually reinforced. Also the concrete is extremely hard & what usually...

Standard angle grinder fiber sanding discs are quite adequate, Use 24 or even 16 grit for heavy grinding & sanding, we used to use these by the boxful for GRP repairs. Also used in the boat trade for trimming parts even wooden trims inside, in this guise the angle grinder was known as a Canvey...

Well as the turkey we ordered from the butcher has grown to the size of a baby T rex our christmas will last to march anyway, it will take us that long to eat it.

Just saw this on fb Oxford fire service called to a fire in an extraction system, I guess this is why metal ducting is a better choice. ,Facebook,

I just finished installing extraction in my workshop, this is for laser cutter & welding fumes. Centrifugal fan off ebay that says 1200 m3 per hr, I decided on 150mm pipe as there was room for it & it drops the velocity & noise by a large amount, result is a very quiet system that works really...

I bought my first Racal Airstream respirator back in 1984. Working in the boat trade doing general boat repairs both wood & grp dust was a constant issue, many of the timbers we used were not healthy & grinding fibreglass is the poxiest job in the world. Extraction was often used but couldnt...

I just fitted extraction for a laser cutter, all stuff bought from ductstoreuk.co.uk, 150mm spiral duct was £18.04 a 3m length, 100mm £11.25. Screwfix price for grey pvc 110mm pvc soil pipe is £15.89. So its actually cheaper to use the proper stuff! As for static that can be proper fun, i was...

How old is the roof? are you sure its not asbestos? I just re roofed my workshop. It is a standard double garage that was built in 1973. Twenty years ago i extended it & simply added 6ft on the back end. New fibre cement board matched in perfectly on the new bit. By this year the old part was...

I never realised that, at my last school the circ saw had two vacumm cleaners coupled to it with 35mm bore ducts, this when the machines lower port was 100mm & crown port 63mm, It was completely inefectual. However every year it passed its lev test! The lev engineer also stated duct size was...

I spent my working life as a boatbuilder, a trade that is immensely safisfying but notoriously ill paid, most of the self emloyed blokes like me that managed to stay in it for the long term had a good woman next to them in a steady public sector job! Teachers, environmental health officers...

look on the bright side they could have planted a row of poxy leylandi.

I just had a massive clear out in the workshop following a new roof, extra storage racks etc, All tickety boo then set about refurbing a mig welder, now where did i put that spare gas valve & hose......... you guessed it it went in the scrap last month! But on a slightly different note re...

Here you go, Imoca 60's (Vendee Globe) at play, I would love to have a go but definately Not singlehanded! ,,

I bought one of the Racal Airstream powered respirators 30 odd years ago, I wore one out & bought another, that one was getting worn out when i managed to pick three more up secondhand & bought enough spares to keep two of them going till i finally pack it in! Very good bits of kit & the fan...

Staying with friends in Norway a few years back, every morning Radio Norge played Dolly partons Jolene followed straight after by Frank Zappa's Bobby brown "I can take an hour on the tower of power as long as i gets a little *************". Always made us laugh.

I am in the final stages of a workshop refit, Started with having to replace the entire roof & this was finished about a month ago. All replaced with insulated steel sheets & also insulated the doors etc (walls were done some years ago) The difference its made is phenominal one small oil filled...

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