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Some wiper blades have spring steel running along the length which would be perfect for this.

The idea of a technical file is check you are manufacturing to the Standards and hopefully nothing will go wrong. Sometimes, you have to be prepared to compromise your artistic flair where parts you use look great, but don't meet the requirements.

Sometimes it's genuine ignorance of the requirements . Homes have ELCB's now, so it's more difficult to get killed by faulty appliances, If there were lots of deaths it would be seen as a problem. Even all the uncertified junk from Asia is built to a reasonable standard. What is really unfair is...

oops!! I'll get done for stealing their lyrics :ROFLMAO:

I think it will make you look at what you have made and see what might need to be done to improve the safety. Technically, the product is very simple, so it's not going to be difficult. I am happy to help out where I can. I have done a technical file for a lamp before. It was a modified...

Just for information, even if every part you use is fully CE compliant does not mean that the thing you are making then is compliant, That's like saying I wired my own house using only compliant products, therefore it meets requirements. PAT testing is a production test. Every lamp should be...

This is a difficult one. Product safety standards exist to prevent people manufacturing dangerous products and selling them to the public, but the big down side is that it makes it very difficult for an individual to make hobby type products and sell them 'legally'. I always sound like a real...

When I were a lad, I would get up at 1am, walk 100 miles to the local docks with my £20 and buy a tanker full of oil, drag it 100 miles back to the farm and spend the afternoon heating it in an old hot water tank, but I got 8 million gallons for my £20!

Well my sheets aren't the Colorcoat HPS200 ultra, but the coating is still shiny, so that's encouraging.

Thanks, a great write-up. I used the plastisol coated from Tinman Steels. It's been on my garage roof for almost 10 years now and still looks OK. I hope it's one of the good ones. If it lasts another 5 years at least, I'll be gone from the house by then. What are the first signs of failure...

a bushman (bow saw) and a bit of exercise would do that easy.

I have the Oregon CS1500 with a 18" bar. I have cut felled trees of about 3ft diameter by cutting full depth of the bar all round. The saw is amazingly good, much better than my petrol one. Self sharpening works very well. Only issue is it can cut green wood faster than the outlet can clear...

What kind of lamp?

My new 'bargain' was to make some home made chain lubricant for my bike. 1/3 candle wax. 1/3 liquid paraffin, 1/3 Xylene. Was quite simple to make, but as always, finding something to use as a dispenser was the problem. Luckily I had an old 300ml oil bottle. I did the mixing, it seemed to be an...

Even Jimi Hendrix got in on the argument!!

I just did this in my house about 6 months ago. It worked very well. I used part threaded wood screws so that the tread is pulled down on the the riser. I also prepared every hole by pre-drilling and countersinking. I used Sctew-tite screws from Toolstation. They have a very well formed deep...

I was going to say, buy a used larger machine, but I can understand, you just want a no hassle purchase of a new machine. I can't really advise which to get even though I have the Record BS350 and I really love it. I have no experience of other saws or the Lumberjack. I'm not sure how similar...

My friend had a wife like that as well, she still has 2 years left on her prison sentence ;)

Many ovens have a auto cleaning mode, pyrolytic cleaning at 500C which is supposed to burn everything off the oven. We have a Smeg oven which has liner plates on all sides., they seem to stay fairly clean. I have used Oven Pride on another oven and it seems to work reasonably well, but messy. I...

I love this one, especially with that lovely Irish accent. Probably have to turn the sound on