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A friend of mine lives in a converted methodist chapel and has asked me to put some shelves up in his study. Trouble is, the wall in question is old, thin TnG panelling secured to probably structurally terrible battens about a metre apart and not helpfully placed, which are fixed into the...

sorry all, been kindly nudged by mr wuffles and gratefully will still be having the square. got a new baby which turns out is the ultimate new toy, temporarily distracted me from buying tools...

I will message you :)

I know there are a few meddings aficionados and resto veterans on here, and I’ve posted about mine before… My spindle pulley has always had issues, from being abused and made a sloppy fit by previous owner i think. I’ve always made do shimming and knocking the key back in periodically as the...

Oops I meant to say, PM inbound!

Messaging you now, for both :)

Thanks everyone! Have ordered a nice new iron and ive got some plumbing flux now and will give all these things a go and report back.

Indeed, that is exactly what im trying to do, because it isnt soldering easily at all, its solder repellant with all ive tried so far. Ill get some better flux and a hotter iron and see how i go.

ok so decent flux and not an iron... a gas soldering jobby? Ive got one of them but couldnt fill the damn thing up last time i tried

ok i can try abrading more... i got it from yellow to shiny silver though so i thought id be through to bare metal by then. doing a bit of reading now, it seems silver solder and a hotter iron might help? It might be time to invest in a better soldering iron anyway...

Ok but what does quality solder entail... are there different grades or ones especially for trickier applications than just copper to copper? because I can solder copper absolutely no problems with the current stuff i have...

Ive a question about soldering, in case anyones an expert... Im trying to repair some failed electrical joints in some speaker drivers. They have two delicate wires that go into the voice coil under the central dust cap/dome, but they have perished through oxidation i think in damp storage. I...

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I’m gonna DM you as also interested!

Great, think we’re sorted! Thanks for splitting them Steve :)

Sure count them as sold and let’s PM the details and if anyone else fancies half or another proportion let me know!

Great thanks, they would be a bit more than I need to be honest, wonder if anyone would want to split them? But I’d be happy to take them and pass half on to keep things simple...

Hi Steve, I’d be keen but be nice to see a picture if possible to make sure I’m imagining the right thing

Howdy all, good thoughts thanks. Yew is definitely bendy, been doing a few experiments and I can attest to that. I have started doing some of the job, and succesfully reinforced the side members of the bed with 5x50 flat bar, resined into a routed channel and inlaid over. Before i did that...