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I have sap weeping through the wood on our üpstairs window frames. In the summer it was just a gooey mess so I have waited until now to clean it off and varnish the frames. I scraped off the excess and tried to sand it but it just clogged the sandpaper straight away. Is there a way I can...

Looks like fun. :D I've allready seen those photos from when I was looking around the internet at different canoe sites. From what I can understand with the three panel canoes ( bottom and 2 sides ) which are normally tape and glue, it's possible to use a talc/epoxy mix as there's not a lot of...

What type of canoe did you build Crickleymal ? We're planning on building a Eureka canoe from the plans by Michael Storer.

Ladylola that is about what it is but it's made from kiln dried and oil free wood. The slightest bit of moisture or oil in the wood flour can create problems. Also the size of the fibres has to be consistent other wise the apoxy/wood flour mix doesn't dry evenly. I'm just learning all this...

My wife and I are planning to build a canoe and one of the materials we need is wood flour. It is mixed with epoxy to fill the gaps between the boards on the canoe. Reading through boat building sites there are lots of references to wood flour and instructions to use it in boat building and...

I think in your case JD a microscope. 8) We buy freezer tags from the supermarket. They are stick on and don't come off.

What came first. the chicken or the egg ? :lol:

What planet do these people live on?? :o

There was a documentary about this on TV here. It's scary. The figures all add up. They were looking at how many politicians were from ethnic backgrounds with muslim ties. Also the amount of skilled and proffesional people with famalies that were coming into the country, a lot from muslim...

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Freshly cut grass 8) Welsh steam coal. Is that a special coal for steam loco's?

Trapped in a bear trap maybe ... :lol:

Wax :shock:

Oompah. My wife informs me that they have already got the order sorted. Apparently one of the rescuers is going down to help the miners into the cage. Any volunteers ?

The drillers have just made it through to the trapped miners in Chile. 700m in 65 days. This type of rescue has only been done twice before but never this deep. Its still not over, but great news.

"Pole" is that? :lol:

Should've made "rumpy pumpy" a choice :roll:

She's been told :shock: Classic :lol: :lol:

From 16th to 9th place on the league table. Not bad. Mines a pint of Guiness Di :wink:

Oompah. You beat me. I was going to say "Kill it, then skin it" I've heard that sheep skins are salted to preserve them and if there's still salt in/on the skin/wool, it's the salt that is sweating. Might be a case of taking it to the dry cleaners.