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Hydraulic hoses have a limited lifespan. If you can't get one easy or the price seems a bit steep try a Pirtek branch. Better to go to them with the old hose than have them come to you.

Purloined from elsewhere but seems reasonable: Square pipes would be inferior to round pipes for several reasons.1. Round pipes are the most efficient shape to have the largest volume to surface area ratio. A square pipe would require more energy to pump water due to more surface area to drag on.

Galvanisers few and far between now. Medway galvanizers do both galv and ppc. These people zinc flame sprayed and 2-pack epoxied my brother's astronomy pier: http://beeverlimited.co.uk Before & after but taken on a crap phone:

Just for reference done in st/st by a guy in Northampton: http://www.paul-holland.com

Quick for me! Pity it doesn't work! Rough and ready but looks alright: The Parkside arc welder came out: The PROBLEM is this: The arms need to be cranked or curved to present the lifting angles flat to the planks. This way it BREAKS pallets that are really well nailed on. Quite what personality trait made me make them like that when I KNEW I needed to (I think there's even a CAD drawing somewhere I did) we'll never know! Give up and consign to the fail bin or try again...

One bonus is untreated steel is cheap as. Start galvanizing, powder coating etc and it bumps the price up. You might want "rubber" feet or strip glued on to stop scratches / stains on the floor.

Could do a bolted connection for transport or take two lengths of flat bar and weld on yourself...

Would just the two legs do it i.e be stable enough? Can't help thinking it needs cross pieces between the two at the top.

You have pm.

Just got a budget price from my fabricator of 30 years - £60 per leg in 70x12 flat bar (guess). The kicker is the polyester powder coating, min charge of £125.00. I would add they are a "proper" firm so the fab should be spot on. They sub the ppc out so have little control over that. Plenty of backstreet places around should do it. I'll keep at it!

So basically a pasting table then?

I downloaded some part dimensioned drawings ages ago to make one but too lazy/stubborn to find them so going for it by gut! Some 32mm round bar last seen on the core drill guide when replacing the water main. A ropey old bit of 1/4" angle last used umpteen years ago for welding practice. A Starrett etc. After a half ar$ed attempt at removing the mill scale: Don't wait up...

Like Ed's got the time! Once the stairs are done he's got to make all the internal doors!

One of the characters on Bluestone 42 was a Scot nicknamed Rocket...significance?

Whiffle Waffle does it for me!

Have a look: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/ There'll likely be a hobbyist / home fabricator lives near you who could knock something up! Maybe in st/st? https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stainless-tables.73668/ They're a nice bunch over there.

There was an Israeli idea a few years back that was a wall made from rotatable concrete columns. The outside was "black" concrete and there was an insulating core. The black concrete heated up during the day and the sections were rotated at night to face into the building. Not sure what they did, if anything about heat loss and air tightness at the gaps between columns.

"Prickstain Cockwomble" was the one that tickled me when I heard it.

Just trying to make reasonable, uploadable shots off AutoCAD.....and failing. Just can't get on with 2010..... The reason being, I need the mosaic tile cut to nominally 124.83mm, we'll call it "125mm" - the yellow bit on the rhs of the screen shot below. This to go floor to ceiling: I can either cut the tiles and use them vertically to get the 125mm but I'll only get one out of a tile. It might look out of place too with the main tiles that are the same size as the mosaics and laid horizontally: Or this way which is probably better. I'll get two bits of 125mm mosaic from each tile. Assuming to keep the false grout line: Having an @zoothorn moment(s)! No actual tiling today, house full of kids from a sleepover. The high pitched screaming and yelling is doing nothing for the headache and lack of sleep! Also, how to best cut these and retain the false grout line, Rubi score 'n snap or wet cut?

Whereabouts are you? I assume the crossmember bolts to the verticals via a plated connection? Can you not just "slip in" short, 300mm extensions? Assuming SE is happy and that they're getting covered up. A local fabricator should eat that in a day if your steel people can't help.

When the site of Darent Valley Hospital was cleared a friend of the BiL got to demolish old tram sheds. Was told he could keep anything he fancied. The top layer of the floor was rough old brick and dirt but underneath were acres of vintage but pristine London stocks several layers deep!

I reckon I could cut a curved sole plate out of say 8x2s. Butted together would form a perfect curve. Would just need to put the jigsaw on a string from a centre point.

Good stuff! You're so NOT sad!

Love the literal translations of Afrikaans: "The man's a box!" Think what else you put something into! "The man's wire a puller!" A euphemism! And my all time favourite, very sexist, lecherous comment muttered at attractive girls by the Boer labourers I used to work with, "Kom gryp my ore!"

Afrikaans is pretty good!