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Apologies, this is part of a scatter bomb of posts pertaining to a project (tiny home on wheels, in project forum) im ordering about 50 sq metres of aluminium cladding, through the metalworking firm next door. i have the choice between 1050 (standard) and 5082 (marine) grade - with a...

yikes, did not know that. its pretty sticky tacky stuff, it certainly doesnt pulverise on impact, so hopefully ill be ok?! definitely good to know before i send it all through a band saw though. ill do some research before doing any more.

sorry, boring quick question, got about 14 sq metres of parquet to put down for a project where i need to lose as much weight as possible... the tiles are currently 15mm, if i could get away with resawing off the back 5mm it will obviously reduce the total weight by a third and probably take...

Tend to agree with you TN, and i intend this to be my full time home at some point so I dont know about a bed that takes too much effort to make use of. Finally started this week with refurbing the windows while i wait to finalise shell design, with a hope to get the shell done before i go away...

sorry to tangent here, but did where did you get that tasty looking control unit Doug? or did you make it...

if not sold id be interested

Hahaaa well thats a very enthusiastic and content heavy post for which I am very grateful, many good ideas! On frame and weight. I see what you're saying about building down the weight, of course. I haven't ever used metal stud frame so thats one reason i haven't been considering it I suppose...

Just reviving this to say that I am about to begin. Life has happened as it does so its taken longer than i'd have liked to get going but im looking forward to making a start, with phase one being the outer shell and interior cladding. I am going more or less with the original design for the...

Thanks Custard, as I would have thought. I mainly ask because in the reference photos they sent, the tables seemed to be constructed that way, so it made me wonder exactly how ill advised that might be...

:oops: (hammer) Yeah there we go... easy peasy to find the bearing. any ideas on the wiggle still welcome...

Ha ooooopsie shoulda known to use old money thanks Trevanion!

Im just putting together a waney edge oak slab table for some clients. The legs are designed to be simple and linear to contrast the table, wide uprights with a rail at the top and another few inches up from the floor. I am wondering whether I can get away with making it so simple that the two...

Last week my floor standing meddings M2 rather suddenly (after cutting quite a few 100mm holes to be fair) developed a lot of play in the spindle, about a 1/5th of a turn. In a bid to find the problem i have wrestled all the parts from the front belt wheel downwards out and apart, and found a...

Dont know if hes been mentioned, had a scroll through the last few pages but just ended up engrossed in totally irrelevant nonsense (noticeably more of that recently, bit of a shame, thats what the mail online is for surely... thought this was a sanctuary) so ill mention him: Theres an aussie...

Biggish should do it! Apparently the mass of medieval beams were referred to as 'la foret', though i also heard that its been built and rebuilt and extended a few times over the last 850 years... there was also talk of this being an opportunity to do something new with it rather than just try...

Im building some of my dear mothers kitchen soon and we have been toying with various material options, one thing that has come up is i have found a supply of western red cedar on ebay. wonder whether it would be suitable for the interior joinery, its going to be pretty simple country style open...

as this has been revived i'll just report back that i succeeded, took a little while but a simple block-o-wood jig and a pot of water for regular cooling, went slowly but was happy with the result, just dug out the photo on my phone oh and err... yes that is nail polish!

Hi J, thanks very much though nothing has come through, perhaps try again? Cheers! and to you fergal, thanks also, ive had a couple of offers now so ill see what comes about but ill keep you in mind, sounds like a good shed

+1 a friend of mine was given one of the round ones by her mum, who is an art teacher, i couldnt help myself after seeing it... its great and a very satisfying weight and size. seems insane to spend five pounds on a pencil sharpener, but if its something that gets that much use its well worth...

that looks great too, now theres no excuse! i dug out my lump of metal, its was a mechanical part of something. youll see what i mean that it lends itself to the router plane form. ive got some spare time tomorrow, so ill see what i can transform it into. Needs a v-groove for the cutter, im...