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Hello, I have a pneumatic bench top press that I use to press picture hangers into frame backing board. It works really well but in an ideal world I would like to increase the speed of the piston stroke as at the moment overall down and back takes about 5 seconds. I am attaching photos of the...

Hello. I'm buying a small bench top pneumatic press for my workshop It comes with a foot pedal to operate it but want to connect a two hand button control so that both buttons have to be pressed together to make sure that both hands are out of the way of danger. Is it possible to buy these for...

Hello, We have had an area of external render repaired and I will need to paint it. I have put two coats of stabilizer onto it. Normally I know that it would be necessary to put a diluted first coat of paint on first to soak into the pores but as I have stabilised it is this still necessary...

Hi, I posted a message regarding how to replace a cable in machine I have . Got some helpful advice. I'm posting this under new heading because I didn't want to confuse the issue and hopefully reach out to more people. I am going to replace the old cable and fitting on the end with a new one of...

Hello, I have a framing machine that uses two micro switches buttons that have to be pushed at same time to operate. This keeps hands out of way of blades. They are faulty and I need to replace. I have located where the two wires from each micro switch go and these look like push in connectors ...

Hello, I have a shipping container that I use as a workshop. I based it on solid 1m3 concrete blocks on each corner for extra stability. Up to about a month ago the door closed fine but now it won't and there is a wider gap at bottom on opposite side of hinges than at the top. Basically it seems...

Hello, I'm looking to buy a woodworking machine that comes in both three phase and single phase The one I am looking at is three phase ( secondhand) and comes with large converter box as per photo. I don't want such a a large unit , is it possible to run this machine using another method ? My...

Hello, I am in the process of buying some threaded steel pipe from ebay. The 3/4" pipe is advertised as 26.9mm of( outside dimension) but surely should be 19.05 mm.I thought this might be a mistake but their other measurement seem to not tally as well and other sellers have the same thing. What...

Hello we have wooden double glazed doors ( internal) that have these hinges on them. Each hinge has a threaded screw going into the door as shown in photo and two going into frame. The left hand door is rubbing at the bottom and I want to raise it a few mm. Is it possible to adjust these hinges...

Hi, I want to fit a shallow incline roof onto my shipping container worshop. I am going to fit joists about every foot spacing going back to the back edge from the front. These will be gradually reducing thickness to achieve the sIlope . I need to fix these to the roof and had thought of using...

Hello, Earlier on today we had a delivery and lorry wheel broke through driveway surface/ hidden concrete cover. I have removed all the broken concrete (about 4 inches thick) and shovelled out loads of sludge from the chamber and am left with what is in attached photos. There is as seen an inlet...

Hello, We have a toilet in upstairs bathroom but it constantly gets blocked. I think that the cistern in photo is about 6 litres ? The waste pipe on outside wall is not at a great angle in fact hardly any angle at all. As seen in second photo the waste pipe is above the front door and not by...

Hello, I am fitting some coving on our landing ceiling but as you can see from photo here there is one spot where the ceiling dips down for a very short length .( It is solid over a beam) From experience would it be best to let the coving follow that dip around or cut away the coving so that is...

Hi. I have a ride on mower with a Briggs and Stratton engine. With a fully charged battery and plenty of fuel when I try and start using the starter motor it turns over strongly but won't kick into life. After doing this I can then do one or two pulls manually and it starts. Has anyone got an...

Hi when siting a container do the supporting blocks have to be directly under the corner feet or can they be under the outside "girders" that stretch the length of the container. I ideally want to put them under these girders just inside of the feet. One in each corner just inside feet Thanks

I want to level four corner supports for a shipping container using a laser level. My question is if I am using one particular corner as the "start" point and levelling the others to it I assume that I measure from the levels laser lens to the ground ( concrete) as it will be on a tripod and...

Hello, Just wondered if anyone knows how much it would be to get a company to transport a container/ site office in UK. For example Kent to Dorset. Thanks

Hello, I am going to be using a site office as added space to my existing workshop. It is 20ft X 8ft and I've been told weighs about 2 tons. As you will know all of the weight it put on the four corner feet and nowhere else to stop rusting or water ingress. I have some old sleepers ( 6 inches...

Hello, My son has an Oset 20 electric trial bike that runs off 4 x 12v lead acid batteries. Great little bike but doesn't last long on acid batteries. I know many people have used lithium batteries on these for much longer run time and they are lighter. My question is per title . A lithium...

Hello, I have a two wire Briggs and Stratton rectifier as shown in photo that converts AC power from the alternator to dc to charge battery while the engine is running. The 11.5 hp Briggs and Stratton engine has one wire coming from the alternator. Can someone tell me please which wire ( yellow...