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  1. Onoff
    Seems it's not going too well there: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/brittainladd/2018/07/08/lidl-usa-what-went-wrong-and-what-it-can-do-to-recover/amp/
  2. Onoff
    How about the Roman equivalent Vulcan? He made slave girls from gold to do his every bidding. ...was a very ugly baby too!
  3. Onoff
    You NEVER told us you had a mentor! I had visions of you lashing it together thinking it was great and then grandchidren or such like running into it with disastrous results. I remember the shipping container welding attempts! Go for it then but I stand by my finishing comments. It'll be bloody annoying having rust streaks down your render in a few years time. Galvanize then paint or ppc would be my first choice. Shot blast to Swedish standard SA2.5, zinc flame spray then paint or ppc the second choice. A quick home wire brushing and painting won't last imo. And don't be tempted to have it powder coated over bare steel even if clean, if not galvanised or zinc flame sprayed first. I looked at some stuff I put in 32 years ago the other week. 5 floors up the side of a building. That was zfs/ppc. Still looks good.
  4. Onoff
    +1 to a jig.
  5. Onoff
    How wide is it out of interest?
  6. Onoff
    It's a European thing, they leap up out of bed and throw the doors open then do their morning exercises in all their naked glory.
  7. Onoff
    My flat coated retriever would have been straight in that!
  8. Onoff
    Imho 12 dia verticals are too small and will flex. Something like 16x16mm sq would be better I think.
  9. Onoff
    Hats off to you having a go but if it were me I wouldn't dream of making one unless it was galvanised before painting. You'll regret it when water gets into your crap welding holes and rust streaks. Even worse where it fixes to the wall. At the very least zinc flame sprayed then powder coated. Just saying. https://bearmetals.co.uk/juliet-balconies?
  10. Onoff
    What sections are the verticals and horizontal?
  11. Onoff
    I'm ill and not doing anything so fingers crossed nothing goes wrong! Crazy with thread pitches and I feel your pain. When I changed the two 2-port and one 3-port valves here from Tower brand to the Honeywell ones, only the nuts/olives on the 3-port were the same. I then didn't have a 22mm olive splitter!
  12. Onoff
    Don't know. The tank level drops below the outlet and the burner must suck through what's left in the pipe. The pipe is now empty. I then get +2000L of oil delivered. You'd expect it to flow freely through the pipe (about 25m long). Not a dribble without some help. It's a copper pipe maybe 8-10mm, not coated or anything. Maybe kinked by a root?
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    The outlet on my oil tank must be a good 2m above the (Riello) burner. Guaranteed though if I run out completely I have to disconnect the feed pipe at the fire valve (level with the burner) and "suck" the oil through with one of these:
  14. Onoff
    Oil level lower than the burner? Isn't this is is what a tiger loop is for?
  15. Onoff
    Water bar...who knew, never heard of them before now. Before this my thought would have been, if anything, that there's something in a can you coat the join with before the next pour. Everyday's a school day!
  16. Onoff
    Ok for chipping the old stuff off but a pita to keep moving when you re-render.
  17. Onoff
    That's it, draw a bead on @Onoff! Leave me alone. I'm not well and feeling sorry for myself. Don't even have the strength for a witty retort! Christ knows where this came from, been going downhill all week. At first I thought it was the silicone fumes but I could have just as easily caught something on the Tube.
  18. Onoff
    Scraping the old silicone out.
  19. Onoff
    Can't go wrong with a seefood diet...
  20. Onoff
    Could the previous ploughing have cut the pipe and then blocked it with a sod of earth? Hope not.
  21. Onoff
    Ivor Wood that one: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2016/jan/13/paddington-through-the-ages-michael-bond
  22. Onoff
    It's the same one as mine.
  23. Onoff
    If a job's worth doing it's worth doing 5 or six times...
  24. Onoff
    Only thing keeping me going is the couple of perfect runs. Having a night or two, (three?) off as feeling oddly "rough" or otherwise out of sorts. Silicone poisoning??? Beer? 4 nights sober!
  25. Onoff
    An Ra of 68, that's alright.
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