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  1. Onoff
    Those who can't, teach?
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    M14 isn't particularly standard. You won't be getting nuts and washers for that down Screwfix.
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    I still don't rate a STANDARD compressor blow gun attachment or a vacuum for cleaning out resin holes. Generally not long enough. A compressor forces debris inward where it lodges, forced into tiny cavities. Likewise a vac just sucks out dust but again some lodges in cavities in the side. A proper puffer is THE tool. It sucks and blows agitating the debris and clearing the hole without having enough force to lodge bits. Try it. Drill your hole and blow out with the compressor. Then use the puffer. I g'tee you'll be shocked at how much more dust comes out. https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Screws+%26+Fixings/d90/Chemical+Fixings/sd1960/Fischer+ABK+Hole+Cleaning+Blow+Pump/p45501 Fisher do though do a blow gun attachment that goes on a compressor but it has a special tip that directs the air I think against the walls of the hole rather than straight in. I have, when desperate at home, duct taped a resin nozzle to the vac hose (take the plastic mixing screw out of the nozzle). That at least gives you reach to the bottom of the hole. Handy to have the data sheets with the shear and pull out forces for the stud size to hand if anyone asks.
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    Must have been the late 80's when a mate decided to convert the double height, double length "garage" attached to his end terrace and put bedrooms above. It was an old shop c/w wooden doors in the gable ends and iron davits with pulley wheels. (I think he just had the windows made to suit to door holes). Anyway the original mezzanine floor had long since rotted so he had a local guy drew up some plans for PP/BR. The spec was continuous angle iron down each side supporting floor joists spanning across. The angle iron was duly aquired from our fabricator on the back of a job. Ditto the glass resin capsules but he rapidly ran out. Neither of us realised the capsules were just falling into the cavity! Off he went to the local motor factor and bought the biggest tub of Isopon ever. Newspaper was duly screwed up and shoved into the holes followed by a good slug of body filler and the studs. BCO was happy and it's still there!
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    @jack http://hobcoversdirect.co.uk/hinge.html Got my lad a very basic hob cover (not from above, some place in Hove). To protect his hob at uni and give him much needed space. Really well made.
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    Not hopeful of getting a spare glass top if I drop something on my Electra Elecheib induction hob. I guess that's the problem with these well known makes!
  7. Onoff
    Stainless trim to hide it?
  8. Onoff
    We're they tested or just failed when you tried to nut them up? We use a rig like this:
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    Safety harness points, abseil points, safety wire systems.....
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    We use this at work for man riding applications, Fischer FIS V 360 S: The piggy back cartridge is imo superior to the standard mastic gun type.
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    Tbh out of all I've used I used to find the Rawlplug catalogue easiest to navigate. Helpline was good too. Nowadays I use Fischer but that's only on the back of work and I can score the odd slightly out of date tube as we daren't use it for our man riding applications. I helped somebody a while bavk and they were using DeWalt stuff. Nowhere near as good as Fischer imo.
  12. Onoff
    I found digging /lifting with a fine tool between the fins and vacuuming around the heatsink worked best. I did take the back off the old 42" tv the other week and got the compressor and a brush on that. Amazing how much "sticks" and has to be helped with the brush.
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    Worth cleaning the accumulated dust from between the heatsink fins above the CPU if getting into an old pc. Often it's so fine and compact it's easily missed. Toothpick etc is pretty good for digging it out. Things can start getting hot and shutting down for no apparent reason.
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    Two wheel barrow wheels etc & diy one.
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    Raise a "Stage 1 Complaint" (based on incompetence) against the council for quoting the wrong information etc and the stress it's caused you etc. Their internal mechanism kicks in by default and fur flies. Successfully done it myself with advice from my barrister brother.
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    We used to happily shift 6m long 178x102x19kgm I beams around roofs between two of us. Around 254x146x37 and we would just design around 3m lengths Probably explains my disc problems now! Why I only carry one 25kg test weight at a time now. If 4 of you lifting it can pay to use 2 strops with one of you either side each end. Sometimes we would use a beam trolley: http://www.bakerfabrication.co.uk/beam-dolly/4567731201
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    Might have been my place as the smells still there when something dies under my floor!
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    Many years ago it was nicknamed Bidonville (shanty town). That only applies to my plot now!
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    Try it of a weekend, packs of the morons clogging the road up and not wanting to pull over.
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    Erm.....no, not really. Still got to cast the wet room corner, do the mitred corner boxing in and the pockets, fit the shower...... I was joking to the missus (as we drove past St Michael's prep school) that most round here probably pay £600 per square metre for their bathroom tiles!
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    I can't believe nobody spotted the deliberate mistake when I posted up this photo of the model previous! Anyway...Union Jack cuts in 330x330x8mm ceramic floor tiles. On a loser? Possible? I can probably get some water jet cutting done.
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    £600 on tiles last night. Walls, floor & mosaics.
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    Every time I have a good idea someone nicks it!
  25. Onoff
    Descent as in lowering the tone, bringing people down to his level...
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