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    Joke Thread III

    Can we haz prizez ?
  2. M

    Well that didn’t go as planned.

    I think your gran must have specced our house, all our plumbing is like that, I'm gradually boxing it( with easy access ) as I insulate interior walls and put on the wood paneling. :-)
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    The “Monmouth” ball bearing drilling machine

    I'd be interested to hear about a ball bearing drilling machine ( I put a . in this thread, but it's gone? although it was in order to be notified of any activity*, which worked ) , I've been trying to work out how to drill and then tap small ( 5mm and 10mm diamtre ball bearings ) for a few...
  4. M

    Zero stretch rope

    just talk sternly to them
  5. M

    Grass

    Good man, that man. :-)
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    Zero stretch rope

    And the rest !! I've charged more than that 20 years ago just to do fake wood ( burr / burl Walnut - to match the veneers in their BMWs ) around the bridge of one motor yacht where veneers wouldn't stay stuck down due to the heat from the sun pouring in through the bridge windows.I had about 9...
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    more advice needed

    I was thinking ( looking at the original picture at the beginning of the thread ) that Jane Fonda should maybe go a little easier on the rejuvenating cream.
  8. M

    Resawn floorboards

    Good name for a band ( jazz or jazz fusion ) :-)
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    Zero stretch rope

    One never knows when a thread is going to sideways ..( with apologies to "sideways" :-) )
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    Salvaged Wood Haul

    Last time I hired a mixed waste skip in the UK, it was a tenner, long time, around 4 decades ago. Ouch !!
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    Zero stretch rope

    Is it possible that the original would have used sinew.
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    Scam warning...

    Penguins are your friends. re the phone scammers, I tell them in 4 languages that they "have reached a Europol fraud detection office" and can they "please stay on the line". They never do..we only get one or two scam calls per year now :-)
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    Salvaged Wood Haul

    Great score ;-) as I said elsewhere ... Free is Best Pony ! ps..might want to look at your pointing.
  14. M

    Zero stretch rope

    So "rope" is the new "sharpening" eh?
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    New toys

    Might have been more judicious to hide the sharpening book. So, you are going to begin turning chess sets ?
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    A Garden Gate

    I concur exactly with Fitzroy. :-) Thank you ScottyT for posting this. :-)
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    Correct foundation for a shed?

    I'm surprised no-one has mentioned re-enforcing the cement / concrete with a metal grid ( can't remember what you call it in english ) not quite rebar ( no "twist" ) but steel grid about 10cm squares of 8 or 10mm steel bar. I use it any time that the concrete slab is over 60mm.Especially if you...
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    Joke Thread III

    True..My neighbour has ordered an electric car ( Dacia Spring ), apart from the obvious drawback that it's range is at best 250km ( with nothing switched on such as lights, heater etc , windscreen wipers etc ) he paid for it 6 months ago, it is stuck at the docks at Marseille , ( 1300 kms from...
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