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In the process of re-modeling the kitchen and have stripped out all sockets and intermediate cables. I'll re-run the new stuff in 2.5mm T&E, but the existing ring is 4mm copper clad alu. And it sucks. The ring impedances measure fine for the rest of the house, insulation is in good condition...

Managed that not with a tape measure... But with two of these... They were tangled together, so I wrapped the tangled threads around my fingers and sharply jerked them apart Tensile strength of stainless : 860MPa Tensile strength of skin : 20MPa Enough to say that there was a lot...

Actually, yea, quality and delivery were fine. I would recommend as a credit card purchase though just in case (Can reclaim money if they mess up). Fubar

As much as I love pie. I'm not sure I follow.

A lot more energy in a disk than a chainsaw blade. Just not as much input power. You can easily store a kJ of energy in a grind disk. About twice that of a .45 bullet, which is why they kick so hard if they catch. I'm somewhat happy they don't stop instantly as god knows what damage that...

*shudders* angle grinder to the shin would be a bit nasty. I had a workshop bod at uni who used to work in a steel shop. Someone dropped their 9inch grinder once on the blade and just hid it back in the tool cupboard. Next person to use it got a piece of blade through their leg when it...

Welding gloves would be mostly impervious. But then you start to loose the feeling of the tool and the risk of it slipping / cutting the wrong place can increase. I do keep the guards on (half guard for 4", full or half for 9") depending on the job. But yea, got my finger trapped in the...

I'm not a big glove advocate. For one, my history with machine tools taught to never, ever, ever wear gloves as they can get caught. And I carry that through to anything spinny. My finger got a bit chewed up without gloves on. If I had gloves on, they could have got caught, pulled in and my...

It's good to be reminded on occasion just how squishy the human body is. And how the loss of concentration for a fraction of a second can instantly change your life. This one, thankfully, isn't bad. But after 3 hours of grinding a floor, I was tired and the goggles were getting a bit fogged...

Injuries that I've had that should make you think twice.

Valid point Ninja. As a single stand of racking, I would agree. However, with sufficinct cross bracing, they could be strengthenged to counteract that. Also bear in mind, that 3000kg is the rating per shelf, and each vertical member has a SWL of 15,000kg. So from an engineering stand point, they...

2 light systems will be run. One for game purposes (interactive, can be shut off, dimmed, strobed... etc. The other will be for emergency lighting and self powered from batteries. If power fails, lights will immediately come on. Fire is my biggest concern. But there will be a number of exits...

I'm entertaining the idea of building an indoor paint balling arena. Basically, rent a warehouse and then build a self contained structure within it. I would like to make the structure out of pallet racking. Imagine Wickes with it's huge 3000kg rated shelving, but there are floors spanning...

So, biting the bullet, I chiseled off the bitumen from the concrete floor (not a DPM). Not a fun job. Floor is unlevel... Really unlevel.... like 25mm dips over 2m un-level. I then put down a 1:4 PVA primer (as I've read to do in the past on several sites) and the back of the PVA container...

I'll try and get some pics to make this clearer. But the situation is as follows: Used to be an oil boiler in the kitchen tied to an external brick chimney. Boiler has been removed, flue liner ripped out and bottom of chimney blocked up. I want to install a BBQ area just outside the...

American: Color GrAy (A for american) English Colour (Not lazy and dropping letters) GrEy (E for england) Not helped by the fact most default spell checkers and pretty much all programming languages use American spelling. :|

As far as brown and blue goes. The UK has been using it in appliance flexes since around 1985, so the change wasn't totally new for us. But the more I read into this, I would have said that JBR was correct in his 'it was a ruling that came from Brussels' as it has little to do with the UK...

Also, brown and blue should be known to most people, even per-harmonisation as the flex colors in a plug. And if you can't wire a plug, you shouldn't be touching wiring installs :|

The only way for people to stop acting thick and/or ignorant (or a more polite way to put it is misinformed, or naive). Is education, not insults. From experience, there's only one reason I've found for people to prefer to mock the naive, rather than educate them. And it's to keep them naive...