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To be serious, enamel can be polished with a fine abrasive and a sponge mop - this is the same process as you use to cut back the haze on car paintwork. The abrasive would need to be something like 3M Trizact or Farecla G5/G7 and the mops are special sponge mops sold for use in the car body...

"Honking" being the operative term :wink: Lord help the hampsters, I say.....

that'sobviously the successor to the Erika. Metabo (a hand power tool firm) bought out E-B (a static power tool firm) a few years back and have rebadged most things, now. Nice to see the Erika concept is still alive after 25 or more years Scrit

Elu used to make one before B&D (DeWalyt) took them over, but that in turn was a copy of the Elektra-Beckum (now Metabo) Erika. Festool also make a machine with a similar action Scrit

In softwoods the water-conducting cells called xylem tracheids and are tapered in shape. In hardwoods these cells are tubular-shaped and are called xylem vessels. These are analagous to the species from which they originate, hardwood trees are angiosperms (plants that produce seeds with some...

Dreadful stuff! The only thing I kno which works for certain are resin injection fixings - and unfortunately the aren't cheap: Scrit

Integrated ovens are often fitted in 2 ways - they sit in a special backless cabinet or they sit on angle brackets between two cabinets, but without any cabinet around them. Open the door of the oven and look around the edges of the oven for black headed screws securing the oven into the...

:roll: :lol: :shock: Yes. Silly isn't it, really? Scrit

So how is the monkey these days? That's what you call the mayor, isn't it? :wink: Scrit

Surprising, isn't it? The oft maligned composite laminate top is really quite a good bit of industrial design, and much lower maintainance than any other type of worktop :lol: Scrit

:lol: In a garage I'd try to use more uprights and I'd use pine shelving sealed with something like polyurethane varnish or gloss paint. Garages are unheated and in winter tend to have soggy cars parked in them :roll: . Over time MFC and plywood shelves will take on moisture from the air...

500mm will still sag somewhat. If you want to calculate how much then use the Sagulator. For bookshelves or anything carrying weight I'd stick to spomething like 300mm centres as then cheap 15/18mm MFC (Contiboard, etc) can be utilised Scrit

The certainly work, but they are hardly dust free! Still better than an angle grinder, though. They are used "freehand", not run down a guide Scrit

sales piffle! What defines a softwood is mainly that the timber originates from a coniferous tree. If you want a better definition which looks at the structure then I'd suggest going off and reading Bruce Hoadley on the subject....... From Encyclopedia Britannica: "Timber obtained from...

Errr, so is rubberwood (Hevea Brasiliensis)........ :? Scrit

April 2002 was when the Building Regs changed. All windows installed after that date are supposed to be certified. Scrit

Q1 - Ring around and get quotes from glaziers - ask them if they make-up their own DG units. If they don't, move on. Prices for DG units can vary tremendously Q2 - There will possibly be plastic glazing packers in there as well. I'd just get new ones as they cost pennies Scrit

Here we hava a post by "Baff", then there's "needlotsofhelp" sasying thank you so much for helping. Strange :roll:

I've not seen it used in that context and think you must be looking at a very old text. The process of rip cutting is just that - ripping. The only conceivable process which makes sense described in that way would be the rip sawing of waney edges away from waney edge stock to create a...

Bevelling - the process of putting a angled flat edge between the side and face of the material, either by sawing, other machining (such as routing) or planing. Removes the arriss (sharp edge). Deeping - the process of deep ripping material on a rip saw where two rip cuts are made, one from...