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Well I might as well join in. get ready with your risk assesment forms... according to RoSPA - in the uk in 2004 more people were killed or injured at home by: taking off their trousers (5,310), taking off socks tights or stockings(11,788), peeling the celophane wrapper off of...

lol sorry gcol - assumed you were psychic for some reason. well in the end used an abrasive disc in a drop saw and got used to the angle of drift in the cut, so I could adjust my cut to take it into account. got squareish cuts but appalling burrs - these i removed with a file on the outside...

thanks for the replies. I have got about a hundred to cut, and cant finish them on a lathe as the tube is rolled to a curve - in some cases a 4metre radius curve. the problem is that i have to cut them exactly on the radial of the tubes curve - so a hand tool is no way accurate enough. so far...

sanding clear perspex never gives a uniform translucency, the scratches always show. the process that would be equivalent to etching it is to apply a solvent, ideally you would use ether as a solvent but it is very hard to get hold of nowadays, cellulose thinners works, but again it is not...

from the horses mouth: SDS-Plus ist ein von der Robert Bosch GmbH im Jahre 1975 eingeführtes Einstecksystem mit einem Schaftdurchmesser von 10 mm für schlagende und drehende Werkzeuge. Es ermöglicht – im Gegensatz zu vielen Spannfuttersystemen – einen werkzeuglosen und schnellen Bohrer- und...

That isnt such a bad idea. ALL silicon is heat resistant beyond the melting point of solder, even the clear stuff that you use for glazing and to seal baths. so I suppose in theory you could smear a thickish layer on something (like old fibreglass curtain fabric) and make yourself a soldering...

I've had a dewalt 743 flipover saw for at least ten years (well ok it was made by elu then, but dewalt rebadged it) and it has always done everything ive asked of it (including converting 6" oak to planks, along the grain in two cuts). I got it because the cabinetmakers where i worked had it as...

could always resin anchor in some good old threaded rod. that way you'll only have to drill holes the size of the stud. m10 at a guess.

was going to say my estwing hammer, a gift from an old friend, had it years and It feels like an extension of my hand. but thinking about it - the most used tool is my toolbox, the small portable one that goes everywhere. and to be quite honest it is bolleux, a broken catch, a nasty bit of...

ok new question for any engineers out there. I need to cut a load of 32mm o/d stainless steel tube, and i need to cut it all square. (wall thickness is 1.6mm). Now I know there are loads of ways of going about this - all seem to have serious drawbacks. ie. tube cutters dont do s/steel that...

I need to support a series of steel frames to the ceiling of a multi-storey car park and have been told that the reinforced concrete that the slabs are cast from are quite a lot harder than usual, and that most existing fixings have needed diamond core drills. As all the work will be...

when i was a student, behind with my rent, my landlord said he would let me off the debt if i agreed to paint the outside of the house, if not I would be evicted. no brainer really. a few days later this guy turned up with some rusty old scaffolding and put it up in the sliver of front garden...

Not sure if these count as near misses, but none of them have affected me that I know of yet. As a kid I used to like to taste things, one of my favourites was to pick the fibres from the decayed asbestos roof of the shed and chew them. then a while later my sister got a job as a radiographer...

a good friend of mine, a blacksmith, was working with my wife - he was showing her how his power hammer worked. suddenly he dropped the peice of steel, put his hands in his overall pockets, said sh*t and then went very quiet. she asked what he'd done and he said "I dont believe i just did that"...

I've been doing some research recently into the sustainability of building materials and have hit a sort of impass. I wonder if anyone here has any ideas. let me explain. looking at the damage that cement does to the environment (see note below) I have been looking at alternatives and find...

God bless you weargas, and all the others that regularly post here (breezer springs to mind). My potterton puma 80 decided to report a low pressure light a few days ago, even though nothing had been done to the plumbing at all and the guage showed 1.5 bar as always. so i dutifully checked the...

Well i went and bought a diverter valve, the whole assembly (just the wax capsule end wasn't significantly cheaper to cost the extra time it'd take to get one). and guess what - it is like having a new boiler, it heats up quicker than ever before and is quieter. for the record I only fitted...

Have tried to search this but no luck so im going to ask in the hope of some kind soul giving time. small two storey house three rads downstairs two rads upstairs potterton puma 80 combi heater without any external controls/thermo's combi is quite old rads are cheap and nasty - one...

creosote is a proven cancer inducing substance and its use in almost any situation where it is possible that it will come into contact with skin is now outlawed. for more info see the dti's web page about creosote at: http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/facts/creosote.htm

not sure what you mean by 'ducal' but i do know a way of getting heat rings out of varnished or french polished wood. mix some cigar ash with water to a thick paste and smear it on the ring, it works a bit like a stain - will make it almost invisible. then if the polish is damaged use a...