Recent content by Mike13

Dow corning MS4 is a silicone grease, more usually used on vacuum gear, but perfectly fine for plumbing.

I have a full stave solid wood worktop, it was designed to be an L shape, so a breakfast bar stub and a longer worktop against wall. It was fully sealed and made shiny with osmo top oil top and bottom. It was then laid flat on the final resting place where it will be screwed down later. I was...

yes, maybe it has got scale on it, or it was not greased when assembled. I still have a bit of a tube of Dow corning MS4 that always helps with leaking at o rings

Just use a metal drill bit to get final size, it is only going to remove 0.1 or so, wont harm the wood or the drill. Mechanics jobbing drill in small increments wont be as expensive as the wood ones.

According to Osmo themselves, https://osmouk.com/product/topoil/#instructions look at the instructions tab, 120 for oak or beech, 150 for pine,and 240 as the finest grade to use for just before the application.

Look on the osmo site for instructions, use the right medium grade of sandpaper to take off the high spots. It needs a certain amount of roughness to allow the oil to key in properly. It does need many thin coats. I used a squeegy to do mine. Dont forget to use fine sandpaper between coats to...

As JohnD says, the cheapest ebay etc "stainless" screws arent stainless at all, the marine grade ones stand a chance of not rusting. I bought some "stainless steel" wirewool for outside use to stop mice entering, it rusted in about 2 days... so got a refund.

By the smell, exposed to lots of it in a previous job a while ago. the 0.5% and 0.22% are some of the active ingredients. the C10-C13 means it is a higher boiling point than pure natural gasoline though. Alkanes means it is the saturated oils, not the more volatile and reactive alkenes.

The solvent is "natural gasoline" fraction, quite a variable mix, it does take a while to fully dry,especially as it has been put on unheated timbers under the floor. The smell while strong usually is unimportant, unless someone in the house has bad asthma for example.

No, but that was in response to just an aside into them being a large us outfit

yes, the rigid pipe wrenches go up to 60" long

use an old paintbrush to put it only on the brick faces, when depleted it will not attack the mortar much at all.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Markers-Plastic-Digital-Colorful-Multiple/dp/B08W31QWJ4? this also works, you can give them multidigit numbers, also letters are available too, at least they used to be

Well the sink comes with waste fittings that take all the pipes down to a single G1-1/2 threaded connection, looking at screwfix, toolstation and googling some of the plumbers merchants I do not see anything suitable, I found one close to what I need but the minimum drop was about 200mm, I need...

It does seem flaky, but it does seem that it can reduce the amount of calcite in the lime that does drop out, as I have not tried it myself I am not yet ready to say it is actually snake oil. Might as well try it for a few months, they are only quite low powered.