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NOW we wait for the paint to dry! Got my gland in!

Cables entering as in plural? I wonder if the electrics in the lean to are just extensions of the house lighting circuits and ring mains rather than on a dedicated "Garage" circuit? Is there a circuit breaker in your consumer unit labelled as "Garage"?

Never premature like some though! ?

The duct is all run for the downlighters. I just stick my hand up inside, pop the gland through (on the end of the duct) and put the nut on. Another coat of paint to go on before that. Should look nice and tidy.

Or in @pocster's case, like watching pants dry...

Etch primed, now painted black, the drilled out lamp backs:

2 coats...

Ducting all run. First coat of Bedec Barn Paint:

Screw on the lamp base with a couple of M4 screws: Drill with a 20mm Starrett. The hole in the light fitting is a gnats under 20mm: Stick a washer between lamp base and post: Drill just the lamp base with a 27mm Starrett using the 20mm Starrett as the pilot, hits the washer and doesn't damage the post:

Sort of but no plumbing involved! Just got to find/scrounge a 1/2" UNF 20tpi tap this morning... (Not that sort of tap! ?)

Didn't do much tonight, lost my homemade Starrett adapter so had to drive to my mates to get the one I made him. He couldn't find it but did find another obscure bit of steel I gave him years back which has a 1/2" UNF 20tpi thread...that'll do. All will be revealed!

Ordered the lights.

Back on thread... Never thought I'd say it but it's looking like Knightsbridge! ? The fact it's apparently IP65 is the seller for me. Then it appears quite subtle. They'll only come on anyway when the gates open. https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GLWALL1LBK.html?

Aka folds and creases...

Can you get really wide angle, CCTV cameras?

You joke but I did seriously consider running UFH pipe in the sloping bit of the drive to de-ice it.

Can't remember exactly what I've got running to the pillar underground... - 2.5mm2 3-core swa - Duct grade Cat-6 - A multi-core screened cable for luck...can't remember the spec.

I can't decide whether or not to put some small, circa 100mm wide downlighters , on the face of those stubby grey posts that "hook" over the gate The laurel on the right is probably going: Thinking something like this: or The posts will be painted black eventually. If so I need to drill a couple more holes in the steel box and thread some more flexible conduit down in each before I put the cap stone on. Thinking run the conduit and decide on the lights later.

Happier now. Got home, stripped the first one and etch primed: Much smoother.

Get into Linux Kali and **** their WiFi up for a start. If the music is being streamed that'll help. ?

Looks like a right fire hazard if a stray firework rocket got between that fence and the summerhouse... ?

I'm going to roller paint the primed steel with Bedec Barn Paint i.e the same as what's on the gate. Reckon I'll end up stripping and redoing that first one this afternoon. I really must remake these "temporary" rollers I fitted. They squeal like a piggy on occasion. Just some reinforced hose "tyres", on some nylon, on stainless bolts. One side are just worn flat now! The temporary "plates" are offcuts of Buffalo board (with a groove filed in for the box seam). I did way back have some 20mm st/st squares plasma cut for these but the sides are so out of square I never bothered using them. Need to square them up. Tbh the gate only runs on the left hand pair and the hose "tyres" on those are worn flat. I guess where they stopped rolling. Maybe the nylon has swelled around the bolt?

Spent a bit more time prepping the other post top. Cup brush in the grinder. Difficult getting in round the back/underneath so those bits less than perfect. Couldn't get right in either where the post goes into the pillar: Cleaning down with Lidl's finest thinners and the rag just kept coming up grey! Finish is tbh a lot better than the first.I saved the beer until I'd finished this time...

Sony do an OLED like projector. Not that I'll ever have one!

That sounds brilliant ?