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I would avoid felting if you can. I don't know anything about epdm, but used Onduline over osb on 3 of my sheds over 20 years. The relative cost of doing felt properly - 3 layers - plus adhesive is little different from Onduline but the installation time is relatively zero in comparison and...

Spectric - your post appeared immediately after Phil Pascoes and I got a laugh at your thinking about the 'modern house'!!!!

My brother is an extensive user of wood - professional cabinet and external wood products maker. I'm currently helping him make a 40 x 15ft wooden shed. Having seen how much movement there is in the redwood he's bought in for the window frames, I would advise avoiding that. And again from my...

Having visited NZ for a short time I share Ozi's enthusiasm. I was trying to remember the source of this story and then remembered a BnB host and a book he had. Seemingly there really was a giant eagle in NZ up till the 1800's (?). Seemingly sometime after after they went extinct (due sadly...

Ian - you are clearly too young for this forum otherwise you would have known!! :D :D I hadn't thought of looking for replacements that way but I might be lucky to get something. I'll post back when I get an answer to the unexpected wear. Bod - many thanks for the link. Rob

I was about to chasten Spectric for being rude and assuming that you, dickm, are running close to the age of a number of us, but then saw how long you have been here and the number of posts, and thought better of that. The trouble is that once you get to the point of finding that something...

Some years back I obtained the clock mechanism, weights and pendulum from a Vienna style clock. Sadly like many projects one particular element stalled me and it got set aside - I would like to be polite and admit to that as a personal weakness but suspect that I am not that unique! The...

My father was killed by failing to have an effective fire escape from his garage converted to a workshop. He just continued with the up and over door, and when a fire crisis occurred he couldn't escape. Please bear that in mind in your conversion. Build the stud framing flat on trestles on...

Well done guys - that was all a good laugh. My wife died 4 years ago and I can't really remember any specific examples but it was the ones where you say something totally innocuous........ and the world comes tumbling down! And it is "what the 'f' have I said now?". I would like to think it...

I have an even bigger elm burr I paid £25 for - and then wondered when I did manage to get it home "how the hell am I going to use it?" Eyes bigger than ... etc. There was a bit of hope that I would get some realistic suggestions in this post ! Ian, I'm wondering how you got such a good...

AlphaDave - add the vintage railway world into that list too. And that is not just steam but early diesels too. Rob

PaddyR70 - if that is an up-and-over garage door to your workshop, please get rid of it. My father's workshop was much the same and it killed him! Unfortunately due to sparks from metal cutting, wood shavings caught fire and he couldn't escape; OK easy now to call stupid but the ability to use...

I was involved in laying a chipboard floor recently in an attic conversion. The plumber had laid his pipes for the bathroom. Stud walls plus p/b then went up and the bath in only for the customer to decide that that the layout would not work and the floor had to be cut and lifted to re-route...

I'm surprised from my understanding of the sanding process that no one has picked up on the OP's comment about 'lathe..super speed'. That, in my opinion, is where this is going wrong - sanding does not occur at high speed as the grit just bounces on the surface and does not cut, and if it does...

When I retired 15 yrs ago, my wife had a mid life crisis and bought a Mazda MX5, so the garage had to be modified to accept the car plus my timber storage. And I built a new workshop 5 x 4m on the back. So mini strip founds - build up with dense concrete blocks rather than bricks (quicker!)...

I've made sloe gin for quite a number of years and have nevr pricked. What I do do is to put the berries in the freezer and then allow them to thaw out slowly which reults in the skins breaking - as you would do if you pricked. But then if you are real traditionalist you take home a thorn of...

I can't really make too much comment other than I find that the batten lights are fantastic when they are effectively out of your immediate eyeline, and I would recommend them if you have high enough ceilings, but in a low worlshop they are just too invasive. For my main working area in my shop...

Umm - please change 'judgement' to 'convenience' and then that makes social sense.

I am surpised that no one has point out that wood turners are advised to turn the rotating speed down to 500rpm or less when sanding as anything higher results in excess heat and loss of effectiveness as the sandpaper just bounces on the material. This must apply to all sanding I would have...

Jitter - you are local to me. PM me as I may be able to help - there is a drum sander in Broxburn that is not currenlty being used.