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I love my nuts, I keep them in the bag trapped between me and the chair arm so the dog can't get at them. If we have company the wife makes me put them in a bowl.































Cashew's are my favourite............what?
 
Cilla the Pillar Drill. I like that. She can drill a lorra lorra holes.

The rest of you are very naughty indeed.

I've not done any work down there today. This morning it was piddling down and I wasn't in the mood. I've done shopping and ironing instead. Don't like doing that either, but I was completely out of red wine, so needs must.

But I promised you some better photos, so I've just nipped down there.

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I'd filled all the drilling pits with car body filler when I did the original refurb, when I first got it.

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This is the handle I was derusting.

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Some of the paint is coming off, though :(

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And some of the handles are plated and not faring too well

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I'm wondering how much it would cost to have them done. There is a platers just round the corner, I might enquire. Has anyone had such work done before? How do I know if they are chrome plated or nickel plated? What's the difference (apart from the obvious)? Does it matter? There would be the three arms of the handle assembly and the head clamp.

But isn't she beautiful?

I have a q about electrolytic derusting. I put a chisel in overnight and it has stopped working. There are no bubbles and the chisel is not done. A bit, but not as I expected. The charger is still buzzing quietly. Any ideas?
 

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Hi Steve

I would change the water and soda solution for a fresh start, and a clean anode.

I generally change the solution for every different part I clean.
 
I hate having to do jobs twice, it means I did it wrong in the first place, I also know from bitter experience that it's better to redo it than ignore it and carry on regardless. So it is with my window trim.

You will remember that I left it looking like this:

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Those bottom rails are cut from 4x1, just like the rest. But by the time they are bevelled, they are well under 4". The bottom rail can be wider than the others, but not narrower, it just looks wrong. And I also have that awkward gap underneath to deal with. So there was nothing for it but to put it right.

I'd worked out that I needed to remove only the bottom and side rails.

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and trim off the caulk

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Then cut and fit a wider, replacement, bottom rail

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So after re-caulking and fitting a few more pieces of cladding, it looks like it should have done in the first place.

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BTW, I've rebuilt my TS guard, but forgot to take a piccy. Sorry.
 

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Even just in photos, that looks better.

And with the rest of the build looking so magnificent, I'm sure you made the right decision there, though I do agree on how annoying it is to redo a job you thought you had finished.
 
if my new box looks 10% as good ill be happy
fantastic job and i need a "RAY" not sure i have one but im sure as hell going to try find him

this post is addictive
 
The day started badly. I woke at 4am with a sore throat and didn't get back to sleep. So I've been waiting all day for the cold to manifest itself.I was not in the mood for working, but there is no hanging about with Ray, so I had no choice.

The first job was to set up a string line, setting the left hand end first

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and then the RH end

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And then putting up the brackets

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Put the outlet and and cap ends on

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and test it out

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After lunch we turned our attention to the rest of the drainage

Most of the trench had already been dug, but it wasn't quite right yet, so we got our levels right using a water tube. The red food colouring trick works well to make it all more visible.

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Some of the fittings were very difficult to put together, but a couple of minutes in boiling water and they stop fighting

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The drain pipe is not the only one we need to bury. We are putting in a water supply for use at some indeterminate point in the future. It's not going to be operational yet, but as we have it, it is easier to put it in now than later. The pipe is hard so a hair-dryer makes it a bit softer for putting in the inserts.

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So now we are all done apart from the backfilling

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I'm glad the day's over. I feel miserable, despite the progress, and although the sky looks blue in many of the pictures, in reality we have had a lot of wind and rain. It changes in just a couple of minutes. I'm cold. I think I might just have to have some medicine from north of the border.
 

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i think you earned the fire water, enjoy we await the next installment.
brightens up my day in the office
 
As a newbie to this forum, i have been catching up with your progress and it is very impressive. Makes me very embarrassed that i still haven't fixed the felt on my shed! What is equally impressive is remembering to photo each stage. The number of times i have even failed to take before and after photos when i wanted to is absurd.

Looking forward to the next instalment.
 
I woke up feeling grim. Sore throat is no worse, but no better either. I went back to bed after the crossword. That was a big mistake, because although I slept another 3 hours, I had a horrible dream.

I never used to dream. I can't remember dreaming since I was a kid. But I watched a Horizon program about dreaming a couple of months ago and since then I've been dreaming. Not every night, but fairly often. I do realise how ridiculous it sounds, but I assure you it is the case. I hate it.

Anyway, it meant I didn't see much of the morning, but when I did finally get going I took a car-load of stuff to the tip. Bags of clay and rubble we dug out of the soakaway and trench, plasterboard that was covering the windows until I put the glass in.

Then I filled in the trench. How Ray does this digging lark all day long is beyond me.

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Then it was back to doing some trim, this time the door The framing is a bit out of true, but I was able to shim some of the door lining trim to make it much closer to vertical. With the trim in place and caulked, you'd never know there was anything wrong with it.

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I need to remove the cladding from the sides and back of the building. There is a couple of metres of it on the sides, a bit less on the back. But the nails were not designed to be pulled out easily. I have removed one board and damaged it. I hope it does not mean that I have to scrap it all, I was hoping to re-use it for the rest of the front and the soffits. The one I did get off I was able to use for a bit more on the front, round the door, though.

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It looks a bit scruffy really, some parts painted, some not. Some of the bits that are painted have got dirty since being painted. It's only one coat, so I need to do the whole lot again, anyway.

No more dreams, please.
 

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Steve I often have vivid dreams when ill. Recently when I had my 6 week flu bug I went through a few days of sleeping for ten minutes then waking from one dream or another. I think it's to do with infection, older people (yes there are some), hallucinate when they have infections. My mum went through a terrible 3 week period with it in her 70's all down to a chest infection. She was seeing all sorts of people and things, at all hours too. I imagine it's the same thing but in a lesser form.
 
I was hoping to get the front trim finished today, but the weather has not been very nice, so I worked inside instead.

It's great having my saw and P/T back in use. I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.

In over the top

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out from underneath

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Then it was ripping time, having fixed my TS guard

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Some nailing and caulking

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And all the foamy gaps are covered up and it looks neat.

I did consider using architrave to match the doors, but I would have a problem with the muntins. Had I had my RT set up I'd have at least run a small bevel, but as it was I just used it all plain. Simple and neat.

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I'm stating to get a bit worried, progress is good and the end is in sight. You're in danger of actually finishing this build, with nothing left for when you get around to it.
I don't think it's supposed to work that way. In fact according to SWMBO all my jobs have been taken to a state of near completion, never knowingly finished.
I think you should consider overlooking or forgetting something, for the sake of men's reputations everywhere.
 
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