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  1. Dark blue is your 320mm wide bit. What will dictate whether you start with a full board (light blue) on the left is what the end of the board sits on. You MUST ideally have the right hand end of that board on the centre of a joist. Again, imo you want a line of noggins between the light and dark blue:
  2. That size is no issue at all but better with two of you putting it up. In answer to your earlier questions. Plasterboards are shown blue & green, joist bottoms in black. Without noggins, shown red, there is no support under where the edges butt up to each other.
  3. No @pocster, dont get exited: https://passivdom.com/home/ & https://haus.me/
  4. Well...the repaired mower deck is good but the mower gearbox isn't well. Factory filled apparently with (mega expensive) Bentonite lubricant and then the casing sealed with "Permatex 599 Ultra Gray". It changes up/down OK but it feels like something is slipping in the gearbox, it's SO slow. Belt is not slipping. Went off to a neighbours yesterday to rescue the seemingly good gearbox from an abandoned mower that hit a stump and has the front end all bent up. (Social distancing on a 5 acre plot is not an issue btw ?). There were in fact two similar mowers there. Both in a very sorry state. I had permission to turn both over on their bonnets. The salvaged Peerless (American made) "crash" gearbox c/w wheels/tyres removed and back home sitting atop my mower after a cursory jet wash and attempt to pump the tyres up. The nuts and bolts that attach the gearbox have been put in an open topped plastic bag and lowered into the citric acid barrel for it to work it's magic. Of the two salvaged wheels one pumped up OK to 10psi the other is all cracked and leaking like a sieve. Typically as is the case with these mowers the n/s rear wheel was seized solid on the shaft of this salvaged gearbox/axle. (People will bin them just for this). Lucky tbh it's not both wheels stuck as was the case with my mower under the tarp. I managed way back to get the o/s wheel off as it's that you have to remove to access the brake caliper. I still have to get the n/s off of mine, not done as its a mission but I'll have to now. Sods Law the stuck wheel on the salvage axle had the perished tyre. The stuck wheel on my mower has the good tyre! So that was one problem to sort. Sat it upright with copious amounts 3 in 1 & penetrating oil on the end of the shaft hoping it'd seep down. Left it a couple of hours then the stuck wheel came off after some persuasion involving a pair of trestles, two pieces of 4x2, a drift and a hammer. Actually easier than with the gear box in situ. Shafts all emery clothed and lubed. Bosses in the citric acid bath. Next problem: The gear change rod attaches to this lug atop the gearbox (yellow gearbox filler bung just behind): That won't move for me to check the gear changes until I can un-seize the brake which is solid.: It was this that stumped me for a while on mine until a mate in the States kindly sourced me a new caliper from over there. That's on, working a treat and all lubed up on my mower with the now suspect gearbox. Needs to likely come off and go on this salvaged one. The problem is the aluminium caliper and two fixing bolts etc become "one" through the corrosion. Last time I sheared the heads of both bolts I'm pointing to. Again I've lubed it up with penetrating oil and I'll come back to it. Just waiting for the brake to free up! Might end up barrowing it to another neighbour and trying his oxy torch on it if MAPP gas doesnt help. Tried getting the rusted pulley off the gearbox but the circlip just disintegrated and the pulley wouldn't budge. More penetrating oil, more waiting, can't find my really big gear puller either!
  5. Very popular in gay nightclubs.....apparently.
  6. What genre out of interest? I'm betting Hi NRG.
  7. Hello @Kirk, welcome to the "I wish I'd found this site before I started" club! ? I know I do!
  8. @Bitpipe's cheapo build out of IBC tanks makes interesting reading:
  9. There was a Linux Beta version on the Hikvision download section a while back...
  10. Found this from the States that might be useful for people who like working in Imperial still: http://www.geberitnow.com/resource/html/install-technical-installation.html
  11. Multitool? ? I can't imagine he wont be able to get a similar sized TV a few years down the line that will fit. 65" Sony in the picture.
  12. Scored a sheet of 2mm "perspex" today for nowt! A bit thinner than I'd like but beggars can't be etc. And ripped the start of the legs up from some scrap: Will all be sanded, filled, painted black etc. Plan is double doors on the front. Sides fully removable with wing bolts and penny washers. Just printing some "feet" up. These will be screwed to the base board and the legs will slot in allowing the whole top to be lifted off. Front feet will incorporate hinges for the front doors. The base board will hopefully become a top for a bottom storage unit on castors, later on.
  13. Not and waterproof it fully I don't reckon. Needs to get round all the pipes/cables. 5 Star grout might do it as much finer. Then you still have to bugger about with a board on the underside to stop it falling through. I'd intumescent foam it then tank.
  14. They were the other day, 17ppl if I recall.
  15. Surely the hokes should be filled anyway to comply with Parts B & E. Maybe part C too? Wouldn't take much to tank it up a couple of inches off the floor after foaming the holes up. Just some of the tanking tape then liquid tanking membrane. Foam on it's own is useless against water coming thru.
  16. Have you tried a Selco near you? Tile battens alright. Whack it up and give it a sand over. Put the worst face towards your neighbour.
  17. Cheaper than my local timber merchant by a little bit are your prices but same ballpark. @daiking needs to shop around I guess. Ex VAT: Oddly enough, the other yard, 10 miles away, prices include VAT:
  18. PMSL! ?
  19. Pretty sure I've just seen Angel in a cherry picker wearing a full body harness but with a fall arrest lanyard incorporating a rip type shock absorber.
  20. Where I live, bottom of a valley and a seasonal watercourse, the common practice years ago was to put a layer of broken glass, lots of it, under the oversite. Either sheets laid down then broken or bottles smashed up.
  21. Could you introduce an ozone generator at the MVHR intake?
  22. Thanks. Have seen this one. At the moment SWMBO is the biggest barricade to a full height enclosure moaning about "Where's it going to go?". The printer at present takes up I guess half to a third of her desk next to my lad's bespoke gaming one. Plan was to make a full height, wheeled enclosure, printer on top, storage below and site this in a corner of an adjacent room. She'd get her desk back. (Venting outside still an issue, as in where). She didn't like that idea. "Why can't you make a box and sit it on "a table"?". Go figure! Irrational? Oh yeah! I give up! ?
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