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Tell her talk to my wife and she'll realise just how lucky she is!

3 year rtb warranty on this one from a known seller. Bought following good comments over on the mig welding forum. Back when I was first looking it was the XTS 160 I was looking at but as I take so long deciding things it's evolved into the 162! Nice that it'll cope too with an input voltage of +/- 15% so should be alright off a gennie. They do a dual voltage version the XTS 162 DV but that's limited to 130A on the 110V setting. Also a big brother 200A version available. As I said I stuck a blue plug on the actual welder lead & made an adapter lead up so it'll run off a dedicated 16A socket for heavier duty or a normal 13A for light stuff. Trouble is, is I borrow it this weekend the bathroom won't get finished!

Shout if you want to have a play with it and I'm sure I could sort something (I'm near Sevenoaks). Going to be borrowing for a play at home. Done loads for work over the years with my tools so only fair. Tbh it's easier bringing stuff home sometimes so I don't have to faff with hot works permits. Maybe I'll finish the wacker plate!

Just got one of these to play with for work, not mine per se but the one I was angling to buy for myself: https://www.weldequip.com/parweld-xts-162.htm Light as a feather and smooth as a smooth thing to use. Only welded some stainless with 316 rods so far.

You saying that and I'm wondering if this floor of mine is in fact wood fibre board rather than chipboard?

How about artificial, expandable hedging. Link picked at random but plenty out there including artificial box hedging. http://www.wilko.com/screening-trellis/wilko-expanding-artificial-leaf-trellis/invt/0406461?gclid=CKib_tL9rtQCFVVAGwodKMcJNw&gclsrc=aw.ds Or tba a good old decent camo net supported by wires from the boundary on the left to a single post on the right.

Lad I know went to Vietnam recently. Came back all loved up and we started with all the Mr Dudley / Ting Tong jokes. He was jacking his job over here, selling his performance car and moving out there, life was so much better, blah, blah. Saw him the other day and things seem to have cooled off a bit. Don't make any rash decisions.

In what are now the hip ends, acres of pallet wood that had been used to ROOF the various old flat roof extensions that had then been felted over. The (current) lounge floor is done in ordinary 5/8" chipboard. One corner of a sofa or one of us will still occassionally disappear down a hole, saved only by the carpet a la The Money Pit! Same lounge, the walls are hardboard on 1" roofing battens with wood chip over the top. Various cables wrapped around vertical copper runs for "support" in place of clipped direct to a structure. All gone now thank Christ:

This "correctly sized" boiler. My oil Bluebird is 43.7 / 48.4kw. Suitable for the same TS? Cheers.

I remember these moulds were all the rage years back: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/GARDEN-WALL-SCREEN-BLOCK-MOULD-/322537910800?hash=item4b18c1f210%3Ag%3AQloAAOSwJH1ZLxoP&_trkparms=pageci%3Ab81c0fb7-4a82-11e7-8c1a-74dbd1804045%7Cparentrq%3A7c2010e315c0a8605d46ee6cfffb166f%7Ciid%3A1 & http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Screencast-Screen-block-Mould-still-boxed-/352078769259?hash=item51f987ac6b%3Ag%3ABCIAAOSwfRdZNGTp&_trkparms=pageci%3A9c204b49-4a84-11e7-8762-74dbd1805feb%7Cparentrq%3A7c2c74f515c0aa12e886e806fff883bf%7Ciid%3A1

Positively light speed compared to some.....

Top top.....if you want to mask things like TRVs then don't faff around with tape and newspaper, just use kitchen foil and scrunch it around the object you don't want sprayed. Works a treat on under bonnet wiring too.

Tree house roof tomorrow...maybe!

Well that works...bored now:

Best I think if I let the tank do it's work. It'll just be grief if I mess with her tools! Not that I've ever; melted down pots of Trefolex on the hob so the swarf sinks to the bottom or dried out motors in the oven...

Back then with £85 worth of two ply, dark green lorry siding 5x3m, 3 sheets of OSB3 from Wickes where it's just over £16 a sheet on offer. This plus a can of dark brown No Nonsense wood treatment. What screws are best to affix the OSB down with? I've got either S'fix Gold screws or some A2 stainless ones again from S'fix? Don't want it coming off in a gale! The 4"x2" rafters are at about 500mm centres.

Like it! Maybe sling a shovel of pea shingle in for good measure.....

Yep. Fished it out just now. I had it going for a few hours last night then turned it off around 11pm. Just put it back in. The handle is better than the business end as I had it head down in the bucket and the head was below the level of the electrodes. So some of it was out of line of sight. Back in now head up. Comes out covered in black "slime" that washes off easy enough with help from a brillo pad. Not bad for something you can set up and forget. It's self regulating I believe as in once the thing is de-rusted the process stops. SWMBO's taking the kids swimming so wondering if the dishwasher would remove the slime better?

More a cauldron in the case of my one!

Just avoid acrylic baths though!

I've been collecting the gas coming off too in an upturned bottle filled with water. The gas is displacing the water nicely. Not sure if I've got the guts to put a match to it though.....

I thought as the bathroom was nearly done I could afford to slacken off a bit:

And "scum" forming:

The "test piece", one of many things found clearing the stable block out: The intelligent car battery charger I first tried didn't want to play, I think it knew it wasn't attached to a battery. Now using an old homemade CB power pack which funnily enough started life as a car battery charger about 35 years ago. Hugely unsafe, the back's missing , plugs old etc Had to flap disc some rust off to make good contact on the test piece, using a bit of cable armour to suspend it: But we have "bubbles!

A support thingy: