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That's a good idea, my granddad used to heat his green house with a straw bale. He would dig a hole big enough for a bale and pour liquid manure on it and cover it over and grow veg on top. Heap wise, why not have a big pipe in the middle of the heap, hot water from top and cold to base...

I once worked for a guy called Bodger. He bought himself a huge Volvo estate, silver and the odd rust hole. He instructed me to fill the holes and paint it with "This silver stuff...".. and handed me a big brush and a tin of silver Hammerite. It was a very hot summer day, Hammerite strings and...

Nowdays "spraymount"... or in the old days "cowgum" (which don't have cows in it just rubber, used as its easy to get off)

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Our local Architect does colour photocopying (to cover the cost of a huge machine) up to A0 (which is pretty big ) and claims they can split a JPG up to make it a poster...might be worth investigating you area.

yep..i gave up and went to B&Q and bought some. cheers.

maybe i should bite the bullet and buy some real crackle glaze.... even cheep skates have to buy things sometimes!

Im making a shelf/box thing for my six year old to place things he's found in, pine cones etc. I want to give it an "oldie Worlde" finish I can knock it about a bit (in fact ive already taken an angle grinder to it!) but i think it would be nice if i gave it a cracked paint finish too. No i know...

just a suggestion but ive seen table/chair height changers in disabled living shops..maybe worth a google.

Ok slabs of polystyrene from builders merchant?

Or use bubble plastic either on inside pinned or glue to frames or draped on outside...I lived on a tiny boat for some time and we "insulated it with cork tiles on inside and old carpet and bubble plastic on outside..

Here's a suggestion, race car seat are made by sitting on a bag of mixed quick setting foam, so moulding to your bum perfectly. Maybe layup over that. Or how about "memory foam" like they make fancy mattresses out of?... or GRP wise... carve a seat out of Polystyrene to your own tastes, coat...

Just to say...i tried a cheepo one a Clarks (i was lent it) and it seemed defective, in the blade tension department, when i tensioned the blade, i could still push down on it taking all the "ping" out of it as the arm seemed to bend! I was lucky enough to find a "shop soiled" (the bed was a...

Maybe sprinkle talc on it then vac it up.

yep...your disks cracked yet?.... great idea of BMW's to drill them like that... cheers for the pointers on fret saws...

DIY CNC!..... i will look into that but its probably too expensive. cheers... hay frank.. wire wheels, single disk (oddly arranged disk with under tank cylinder), breather that clacks loader than the valves! I remember it all so well. i Mis my calls to MotoBins, and the solidity of it.

cheers... twas a BMWR80 1977 and watsonian palma with extra bracing..sigh, now gone for a tiny "microcar" to transport the wife and child..sigh...i still love anything sidecary. Thanks for the tips, cost is probably one of the biggest factors. I make a few automatons and "stuff" made the...

Probably nothing untoward will happen at all. Especially if you have draughty sash windows and a fireplace in the room. Even in the most modern house i don't think anyone claims that anyone has used up all the oxygen and pegged out from suffocation. If you have a gas fire or appliance that burns...

Down stroke as that forces the work onto the plate rather than into the air?..i hadn't considered that.

I know nothing about them. But i do use wood in my "work" and it would be useful to be able to cut intricate shapes etc. Not in thick wood, under and inch thick. On investigation i see they range from £39 to hundreds, Ok so maybe power of the motor is a factor but what else is?..what should i be...