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Find yourself a rich, uk based Edmonton Oilers fan. They won the National Hockey League in 1988.

He’s like the SAS.

Professional - someone that gets to use the special door at screwfix :) Wasn’t a sub forum suggested some time ago? It could be called “trade talk” or something. There’s something sensitising about the word “professional” for some reason I don’t quite understand. I for one really appreciate...

A local sawmill would be my first call.

The reason I mentioned chemical fixing was when I was considering dowels at an angle, so there wouldn’t be a thread to grip a standard rawlplug. I’m going to try a keyhole fixing on the vertical sections now and hang onto standard screws into rawlplugs. If that’s not solid enough, or it makes...

I am going to be attaching to the vertical sections so that wouldn’t be such a problem.

Sorry, only just noticed this question. I’d say 15mm is plenty robust enough, 12 might be ok, but 9 is going to be too skinny. The limiting factor is the length of the free horizontal shelf at the end. Because I have used halving joints, you only have half of the depth of the shelf to support...

Haha, not the first time I’ve had that. He’s been copying my style for years now.

The shelves are 1.8 by 1.2m . I thought they were heavier, I must have cut away more than I thought. I had to cut two pieces from a second sheet, but I guess there’s a lot of waste when you’re cutting half ellipses . Plus all the cut outs for the joints...and the chamfers of course!

Yup, blasphemous! :D They would be visible from the front. Some sort of keyhole hanger is the winner I think. I’ll probably try to make them myself if I. Can find some brass or steel plate.

Yes, that type of thing would work, but that one is too wide. It needs a 15mm hole and the ply is only 15mm wide

Yes, that’s plan C :D

Yes, I’m coming back to the keyhole hangers I think. Just weighed the shelves on my bathroom scales and they are 22kg

Many thanks for that. I think you are correct about my suggestion, it will be very difficult to get things lined up and will involve a lot of faff, but that seems to have been an inherent part of this project anyway! I think I will try it and if it goes wrong there is nothing lost as I can just...

Been thinking about fixings and I’d really like to avoid a false back on the shelves if possible. I’m pondering if it’s possible to have dowels set into the wall using a chemical fixing. They would be angled upwards and match corresponding holes drilled into the vertical sections of the shelves...

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I just lost a couple of hours watching those coachbuilding videos. Great stuff thanks

Here you go... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43729508

Only got experience with the dyson jobbie (dc35 I think). Had it for about 7 years and it’s been great. I thought it was on the way out recently, cutting out intermittently, but it was the battery getting to the end of its life. I bought a higher capacity replacement from amazon for £20 and it’s...

Milton Keynes area is good for cycling and they have the red route cyclepaths all across the city. I’ll admit that it takes a bit of getting used to, but it’s much nicer than its reputation.