Recent content by 114dmu

Try here: http://www.finescale.org.uk/index.php They sell a variety of solders and appropriate flux in small amounts for the modelling industry, worth contacting them direct and asking they have been very useful in the past! Cheers

Mr goodie goodie solo, which planet are you on?? It aint this one.. All two year old kids deserve this them do they? I assume you don't have kids then?, and your reasoning is basically why this country is in the state it is, suppose you want to put people who commit these crimes in the care...

I was quoted in excess of 18k for an simple conversion of an integral garage by one of those all in one building firms. Doing it myself and with an architect producing drawings for building regs, a local electrician, plumber and builder the rest of the work is being done by me, the cost is...

hi, recently did my bathroom and as a percentage of the house purchase it cost 0.37%. Mind you i got all the materials myself, stripped out the old and replaced tiling, flooring, decorated and did the plumbing myself, saved over £3000 in labour charges. looking to do the same with the...

Help, went over to my sisters on sunday and was asked to have a look at her PC. Upon booting up it gets so far and then brings up a blue screen saying 'unmountable boot volume' and then tries to reboot itself again, and so keeps repeating this until your turn it off. The PC is quite new...

Hi, i've just finished doing my bathroom, and the window was fully tiled including the cill. That has all gone, due to a change in layout the window aperture has no tiles and a wooden window cill of 1" thick timber has been made and fitted. Got the wood from a local timber yard and it cost...

Hi, We had the same thing, buying a house with a conservatory that had no planning, building regs etc, our solicitor requested that the seller paid for the insurance policy £169 (if i remember) or the offer was to be reduced by 10k to cover the cost of potentially knocking down and rebuilding...

for the loose rust a wire brush/ angle grinder with flap wheel are fine. Treat the rust with 'jenolite' be careful it is basically an acid that disolves rust, make sure you follow the simple safety guidlines, you know wear gloves and be in a well ventilated area etc.. It works with fantastic...

Hi, I'm about to start the conversion of my garage, although not into a bedroom. Planning permission was not formally required but it was a change of use to an office, a bedroom is a different matter as things like insulation may need increasing etc.. contact your local council and ask...

use 1/3 thinners and 2/3 varnish. Becareful it will be quite thin and run easily so don't load your brush just put a little bit on at a time. Personally i use a good quality yacht varnish, but a polyurathane varnish from Ronseal or similar will do the job as well. Thinners, use white...

My uncle was a tool maker, when he passed away i inherited a few tools, a screwdriver is stamped with his initials and the year he made it "CR 1944" And to be honest as screwdrivers go the quality speaks volumes it is used every week. They certainly don't make them like that anymore!

hi, I assume you have the 1.8 ecotec engine? I had similiar problems with my 1995 vectra. The fault was never curred by the main dealer but my local garage knew all about the problems. The ISCV or the idle speed control valve gets dirty and i found that it started to cause problems after 8000...