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  1. And an open black sack folded back on itself. Wipe the bin, wipe then bin etc.
  2. Still working on his erection I heard.
  3. I imagine on the back of a grant via the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme but I didn't think the grant covered the installation costs? Guess the installer pockets the 7 year tariff to cover the install? Same as when PV installers were doing free installs and taking the FiT.
  4. @PeterW, morning. Seem to recall you saying you've a mate or something who uses the Anycubic printers at work (for prototyping?) The recommendation being the main reason I went for it. Half thinking you might have an Anycubic as well? Printing PLA is pretty much a doddle with zero adhesion problems due to the special, dimpled, Ultrabase heated bed being so good. It sticks like the proverbial then once cool a light breeze will release the print it comes off that easy. Printing ABS though is proving an absolute pig! Don't want to use any adhesion promoter on the bed for fear of damaging it. Having it in an enclosure as we now have and at the sort of temperatures we need to print ABS (and stop warping) we risk damage to the electronics. Trying to source a 220 x 240mm glass bed to fit instead. This so I can use Kapton tape, ABS slurry etc with abandon! The FB group I've joined hasn't really helped as I hoped they would either! Wish I'd gone for an Ender 3 tbh. Do the people you know print ABS on the i3? Cheers
  5. Looks excellent ? Will you stain the deck? Fit handrail? Second picture down, don't now how tall you or your friends are but there's no chance of catching your head on the pointy end of that fascia board is there? I did exactly that on my dwarf nephew's shed. On the third or so occasion I got his jigsaw and rounded it off! Fascia just above the oval wooden sign: (I am a bit taller than most mind).
  6. From Sunday 2nd August.
  7. Just gave a mate £50 for this. Wish I'd said no to the saw and waited for the Lidl one! ?
  8. Coming up at Lidl: https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/diy/scheppach-254mm-table-circular-saw/p33704
  9. @MarkyP did similar and I think @oranjeboom too...
  10. My magnetic catches cost more than the doors they're fitted too! As likely do the stainless steel hinges... Seriously, these catches are superb. Never catch yourself again! Video:
  11. Meant buy. Cash job made up from old poles etc.
  12. Erm...YES. I meant if he fits a ladder beam he still needs to stop that twisting. Wot I said.
  13. Why not just erect a quick build steel tower and use that as your "lift shaft"? Strap to the walls rather than use outriggers. Your're so off piste with this in terms of H&S and probablyy LOLER and PUWER if you have any trades using it. https://www.toptower.co.uk/classic-scaffold-tower.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqpuo55zj6gIVVeDtCh0Odw8KEAYYAyABEgJgffD_BwE
  14. Yep. Still need to guard against twisting. A local scaffold co would likely knock you something up quite cheap.
  15. I think it's more usual to lift from a scaffold "ladder beam".
  16. IBC cage with a few mods? Ply floor, cut the front out etc. https://hambleys.co.uk/product/1000-ltr-ibc-cage-steel-frame-and-steel-or-plastic-pallet-base/
  17. Either an up and over central stirrup or 4 wire slings to a central point. Most man lifting cages that go onto cranes, even fork lifts are steel, aka heavy. Most dedicated one man cradles are aluminium. https://www.google.com/search?q=man+liftjng+cage&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiswZ38-OLqAhURhhoKHbTADn0Q2-cCegQIABAC&oq=man+liftjng+cage&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIECAAQDVDhzgJYktQCYOrfAmgAcAB4AIABRIgBggGSAQEymAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=1EgZX6yHCpGMarSBu-gH&bih=612&biw=360&client=ms-android-samsung-ga-rev1&prmd=siv
  18. Go for it. What do I know after 40 years working in the access game? ? Anti spin ropes are shite too btw. Strategically placed wall rollers can help with preventing spinning. You DO NOT want this thing catching as you hoist up. It'll overload the lifting jib unless you guard against it. Similarly, snagging on the way down is bad, they can snag, pay out rope then suddenly drop. All sorts of considerations.
  19. Have a scout round temporary access yards for a "one man cradle" maybe. Even a Solsit (powered chair) would have all the gubbins to adapt; 230V winch, secondary safety device etc. Then "all" you need to worry about is the jib up top! ? A platform on a single suspension point may have a tendency to spin. I'd be looking at guide rails...like a lift. https://www.tractel.com/en/product/solo-platform-for-temporary-access/14156?pimcore_request_source=staticroute&controller=Product&action=default
  20. Erm...no. My photo shows the batten ROOM SIDE. If you read the text I wanted a battenless fix top side so I affixed my disc of pb with a batten either side which I removed afterwards. I could get to the top side of course. Yet another way, you just have to be a bit clever getting a screw up from underneath into a loose batten above that is going to spin a bit.....if not then put the batten up first and pull it down on some no nails . Let set, then screw or just stick your disc in. Or just stick your batten to the disc without any screw and let it set. Once set, screw a long screw in and use that to pull it down into the blobbed no nails on the edge of the hole.
  21. I do know and have told you as has Peter. As long as it grips by just enough the no nails will do the rest once it goes off. The round area gets filled by the filler (odd that, eh?) you're going to smear over it once the no nails has set.
  22. 1.5cm is fine. Stop wasting your and other people's time.
  23. Hot weather...plaster type products will set quicker because the moisture evaporates. Additives such as Cream of Tartar, aka tartaric acid, aka used in commercial retarder products, delay the set. This is not a wind up. 0.75mm or a good 1" long ears won"t matter a carrot. Stop over thinking and get on with it.
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