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Stand is fecked and the drum needs welding...can't complain as it was free!

It's all good, got regular dust. I'm ready to go pretty much. Just got to lube the mould and find a mixer that works:

That'll be the AAs...

Find me one, over here, please! 550x550.

The write up for this says it can be used as a release agent. https://www.toolstation.com/action-can-dry-ptfe/p57723? Tbh I like the idea of vegetable oil, a bit more environmentally friendly etc. Once the caps are on I imagine it'll just degrade and wash off.

Finished my capstone mould...I guess. For tomorrow we cast! Made up a square of 15mm copper to give a drip recess. Currently got the copper glued to the timber with some blobs of CT1 and cable tied on whilst it sets: I'm going to put a square of galv mesh in halfway through the pour. Got one piece of 25x25x2.5 enough for just one cap. Then some 12.5x12.5x1.5, enough for two. Not sure if the smaller mesh will be strong enough? I was going to line the mould with say plastic sheet DPM. Just couldn't get it flat. Even tried ironing it with SWMBO's iron. I did put a fillet of silicone on all the internal edges and took it off with a 5mm radius Cramer Fugi tool. Guess I'll just brush the internal faces with vegetable oil? Seems preferable to engine oil etc. Another thought was lining it with duct tape.

Weird.....buildings I work on have different facades termed EWS1, EWS2......EWS6 etc. That's going back 20 years. Often exactly the same curtain walling system on different elevations. Never thought to question what "EWS" stood for but guessing something different.

Have you turned it over? ?

Only thing rising at your gaff will be the water level! And yes it'll still be higher than my bathroom temperature before you say that!

A strong, SBR laden cement/sharp sand mix will be pretty dark and maybe slate esque. A little infill bit I did:

Cement! 3 bags of it.....in Wickes! Mind you I had to travel. The website says that Erith has 120 in stock. When I got there they had precisely NONE. I'd clocked going in, an abandoned trolley by the tills with 6 bags on. As I'm standing looking at the empty shelves a Wickes guy brought the trolley back and said "That's all we've got, do you want the lot?"

Any mileage in printing one in copper PLA filament? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noulei-Printer-Filament-Printing-Materials/dp/B07RFM26MF/ref=asc_df_B07RFM26MF/?

Find a few of the big names you'd might go with and write a strongly worded letter to their CEO asking their stance on environmental issues etc. State that on the assumption they're supportive of reducing climate change blah blah then wtf won't they give you a mortgage. Play the shame game.

Every day a school day! ?

A bit late but shouldn't you prime the concrete before tiling? Proper tile primer or watered down SBR at a push.

Beady beady, what's up Buck?

Do you reckon a square of 15mm copper pipe will be OK? .....because that's what I've made! ? Thought I'd check back here and saw you'd said 10mm.

I've heard it said in the past that if you flatten say an existing outbuilding you can be prevented from rebuilding. Better to do it in stages.

All they had in Wickes was this rapid set cement: https://www.wickes.co.uk/Blue-Circle-Extra-Rapid-Setting-Cement-Mixer-Bag---12-5kg/p/149006 Can't see it'll be a big issue to use that?

With just your right hand?

Hire a rough terrain pallet truck?

Couldn’t believe my luck when I found this covered in dust in a barn - 2 full sheets of OSB - kerching £££ (Shamelessly stolen from another forum).

The BiL worked on the Chunnel. Bagged cement a day out of date was binned. Let's say a lot came home...

Bloody speculators! ?

Still no bloody cement in Wickes! ? At this rate I might have to take my chances on a bag of old stuff I have here.