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Today I received a Fakita multitool for which I paid £36.40 on Banggood. No major issue there as I wanted one and was happy to pay that but seeing the value stamped on the box it came in as USD 17.70 was a bit of a kicker! No accessories or instructions with it, just came in a clear plastic bag in a plain cardboard box. Has quick tool change etc. Seems really well made and works fine. No label on it at all ?

Can you guess what he's saying? ?

Just scored 29 same size pallets:

Repeated in bold from your anchor bolt & packer thread. How bad are the scratches? If real tears in the coating then you'll have to rub down and try and feather the edges, maybe even a smear of body filler, prime and paint. If you don't want to go the route of proper PPC touch up stuff then probably easiest to zinc prime and spray with an aerosol from your local car paint factors. They'll make to any RAL, BS colour and do touch up pens too. If you can give the approx gloss %age for the finish. Your minted, get a magic man in! You can have a word why they nicked your stage name ? https://www.magicman.co.uk/ Is it painted to a particular RAL number? Best start is to get some polyester powder coat touch up pens or better a pot of touch up paint from whoever did the PPC. The use the same paint powder in a solvent so it matches exactly. You can get it from 3rd parties online but they expect you to have some powder. Some of course will sell you the powder. The touch up paint pots have a little brush in like for solvent weld. If you just want to get on and do it then drill your hole, small brush, zinc rich primer and let it dry for a bit. If you go brush then any anti corrosion primer ideally with a zinc base. I see TS do a Rustin's one. At work we'd use Galvafroid generally on steelwork or Zinga sometimes. I say brush rather than a spray but I use the Pro-Cote Cold Galv Spray from Toolstation a lot for my various mad projects and garden repairs (at work too tbh). If you feel you can spray in the holes accurate enough without overspray (or mask up). I'd still probably spray. For this I might even splash out in some Zinc 182 spray (Halfords do it). It's good stuff. Let it dry in the hole. The Pro-Cote stuff dries real quick btw. Slap some grease in there, nut it up with a smear of anti seize on the threads. Go round later and wipe any excess off if it annoys you. For ongoing protection around the fixings a squirt of ACF-50. Periodically check the torque too.

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Chris would have done it on his own whilst you sat and marvelled at his honed physique! ? Always remember him teaching me to spring over / under formed RSJ bends with a Spanish winch...

2 blokes, diesel, crane wear and tear, bung the bloke at the council. Seems fair.

Story of my life sweetie!

I dread to think how much!

I'd have thought you'd be a dab hand at banking.

There are crane owner's children getting private school educations because of your frivolity with money!

What with no handrail and a complete disregard for WAH? I'm sure he'll be fine. Are there special requirements for working alongside harbours, best take your lifejacket!

You can lead a ? to water...

You have an email ref this.

How much does the whole thing weigh?

Christ on a bike...even when facing certain death you're still at it!

Serious suggestion... Lower all bits into the pit. Part build on the floor. Fit one step down the bottom Fit bracket at the top. Reposition that abortion of a "crane" and lift the end up onto the wall. SECURE THE TOP TO THE WALL!

Is that stringer now down in the pit? ? Stop before you hurt yourself perhaps? This lifting game doesn't appear to be your thing. That should not have happened! Thought you had tethered the top securely...I did say! Keep on like this and I'll have to come and "look after" Mrs @pocster when you're in traction or worse! ?

If that were me...I'd stand on the scaffold, have a couple of bolts or a podger ready. Turn the stringer by hand and get a bolt in loose to that top bit.

Got any big long clamps?

At the mo I guess your nice new steel is resting on that algae covered concrete? ? It'll scrape all the paint off the corner and rust. Also it might dig into the concrete as you're twisting it around or it might slip! Get an old rubber car mat under the bottom corner, carpet tile or rough bit of timber at a push. Rubber best as you know! Or did you mean the bit I've drawn, clamped on? To act as a lever. ?

On those lines yes. Clamp a long timber etc. Get a helper would be best!

Didn't I send you the Basic Combat Engineering book ages ago?

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world" - Archimedes Bolt or clamp something to the stringer that sticks out like an arm at right angles then you can carefully rotate the load. Even one of the treads maybe. Sit the bottom of the steel on some timber too or a rubber mat even better. To try and stop it slipping & protect the paint. As you say it'd be easier if you had any friends! ? Mind that thing doesn't slip off the top. Tie a strop on it.

@pocster has a fwend! ?