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Onoff

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  1. Absolutely. Galling is a thing to be very wary of. Use copper slip or aluminium anti seize. A bitch if they gall. Another trick is to use A4 nuts on A2 studs as well as an anti seize medium.
  2. "A far better mix is to use 100gm citric, 40gm of washing soda (tesco green bags) and a squirt of fairy liquid per 1L of water. It is reusable many times. Doesn't turn the metal black. And doesn't etch the metal so much. It is a similar solution to Evaporust".
  3. Aluminium foil and water.
  4. No tow bar. A mate was going to get the same as mine but decided not to as he wants to tow. It feels funny only going into garages now for Ginsters and wine gums mind.
  5. EV. Skoda Enyaq x 85 SportLine. AWD, 175kW DC charging, 82kW battery, 0-60 in 6.6 seconds etc.
  6. All run in separate cables culminating in this on the drive:
  7. Again, J bolts hooked under reinforcing mesh or some similar design of holding down unit with plates and long studs. Windage against a gate and offset loads will just worry chemical anchors out over time. With something locked into the concrete you're trying to "worry" the whole, large concrete footing.
  8. I'd cast in J bolts for that as a "holding down unit". Hooked round mesh going down into the concrete. Don't get me wrong I love chemical anchors.
  9. Try this before cerium oxide: https://www.ungerglobal.com/uk/products/rub-out
  10. Jewellers rouge aka cerium oxide works a treat to bring up scaled glass. We used to use it to get cement stains off glass. It comes in different grit sizes. We once used coarse to fine getting burn marks out of glass that some lad had caused with angle grinder sparks.
  11. Plus you can look back to that point where you had perfectly flat, boarded walls and think "If I'd have "turned right" and accepted a mate's proffered help on the tiling..." Guess who turned left and had a go himself? 😡
  12. Can I just clean out and fill these mortar gaps?
  13. Well it could do with being a tad tighter but it won't come off in a strong blow:
  14. Getting there. Hopefully fitting it in a bit:
  15. More gone east than West then?
  16. Big in Japan apparently.
  17. Yes. Fit stainless screws and black screw caps. https://www.screwfix.com/p/timco-4-9ga-100-pack-black-plastic-screw-caps/378kf
  18. Fantastic! Can we see some more pics.....maybe close ups of the locks and security measures? 😉
  19. You have absolutely no idea how close to the truth you are. Buildings either side of that street have seen a fair bit of Police activity over the years. For what you're getting at is a couple of streets over.
  20. Butt welded:
  21. Hasn't A4 80 roughly the same tensile strength as Gr8.8 mild steel?
  22. I spy a huge box of tissues on the right... 😉
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