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  1. Mike Dempsey
    I use watered down pva glue. If I cant do it the same day, I tend to trim the board to straighten up the end a bit and then apply it with a brush. Due to the fact the newly exposed surface it wet, the pva soaks in a bit and wont fall off, which sometimes happens with candle wax.
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    If you are going to buy a 240v single phase motor to replace a 3 phase motor you are also either going to have to buy a new contactor or a 240v coil for the 3 phase contactor that started up the 3 phase motor. I have converted many 3 phase machines in my workshop to single phase over the years. My mate runs an industrial sparkies business and also a motor rewind company. Very good for free advice and also second hand motors as well. Some of the older machines had imperial sizes for the mounting hole psitions and also the shafts. Motors with imperial fittings are still available. Getting one of these will also save you having to buy a new pulley or getting the pulley bored out to fit the spindle. For things like lathes the best way to convert it is to buy an inverter, which will then give you variable speed by just turning a dial.
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    Here a link that some folk might find interesting. Gibson in 2012 were fined in court 190k dollars for illegal use of imported timber from Madagascar depite being told 2 years earlier that it had not been legally logged.....Gibson settles discord on timber - BBC News
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    Be brilliant to beat Man U and win the title at Old Trafford. Fergie would blow a super gasket!
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    Hi Mark Course I can do you one. The cost is £72 and I will send out for free. If you can PM me I can arrange for the details to to engraved and the running time etc if you want it included. Mike
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    Was asked by a customer to a London Marathon wall hanging for her sister who was running. This was the test piece with the final version having her name and time added and then a coat of osmo oil on it for a finish. It measures about 440mm wide and 240mm high on the LHS. Mike
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    How about Mary Berry or Merry Berry as we call her as I believe she likes a tipple or 2 Mike
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    As much as I admire what Leicester and Jamie Vardy have achieved this season against all the odds, I really hate diving. The more cards handed out for cheating the better in my opinion. It is totally ruining the games these days and is being copied by young kids learning the game who think if its good enough for the EPL its good enough for me! Another season or two with a pile of yellows and reds being liberally shown will make top players think twice.
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    If you have problems with the speaker on your phone blow it out gently with an air gun from a compressor. This is what I do to my blackberry z10 about every week or so. Big improvement.
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    You should read the milling sub forum. Plenty of information on there. Mike
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    I dont think they will lose as many players as its being predicted. For a start they are going to be able to pay them huge wages so its going to be less attractive for them to move for big money. Guaranteed champions league footy as well. Man utd wont get that next season! If they will stay with the foxes, they will get a full game in the Euros which if they moved to City, Arsenal, they have such big squads, that they will sit on the subs bench for a good part of the game or not even get a game. The likes of Vardy doesnt have a huge long career in front of him so I think he might be tempted to stay at Leics for at least a couple of years and be the main man. He wont get that elsewhere.
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    My oldest daughter is a student in Aberdeen and works at a funfair at the weekend. She got sunburned yesterday! Mind you she is a ginger like me.
  14. Mike Dempsey
    Been skiing there a few years ago. Absolutely brilliant views from the top in the crystal clear air.
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    I have read the threads here on catching rodents and wound like someone to recommend to me the strongest poison available. I have them in my house attic and also in the workshop. I plan to use the can spread with peanut butter on a cane over a bucket of water method in the workshop. I dont really want to be nipping up the attic everyday to check the situation, so dosing them with poison would be a good method to get rid of them. Any suggestions please
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    You got off lightly, he could have put straight petrol in the tank as well! I would ask him to pay for half the costs of a new bar and chain and once he had paid that sent him down to Lidl to buy his own saw to wreck.
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    I did a 30" dia beech about 4 weeks ago. It had been down at least 4 years but the whole log was off the ground with the top of it held up by a 3' wall. The council had removed all the branches and all I had to do was cross cut it twice to length. Only the top log was slightly spalted and some of the bark was starting to come away. If it had been on the deck I think it would have been well spalted and probably even soft on the bottom half
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    Was asked by my business landlord to make a double sided trophy for a golf club competition, hence the reason for 2 golf balls on top. The hardest bit was drilling the golf ball at 90 degrees to the logo so it was showing in the right place. The wood is steamed sycamore and it stands 14" high by 10" wide or so. The ironic thing about their logo is that they have a tree in it. I remember about 30 years ago when they made the course, that they felled over 5000 mature trees and burned them all on site. Dont think that would happen these days!
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    Till the person who has bought it has nut allergies and goes into anaphaltyic shock after using it for the first time!
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    I'd forgotten about that new development as well. Something to do with being able to adjust the mill to 90 degrees so it does a vertical cut as well I think. Hopefully this might be the spur to get it finished off! Mike
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    I have milled quite a lot of sycamore over the last few months with my alaskan mill. None of the boards have had black metal stains like oak planks get and none of them have had the stains like the above photos do. If sycamore has been down for a while before milling it can get stained like that and also a greyish hue and black dots. All the logs I planked were down a few months before I planked them and were ok. I put them straight into the kiln to dry them. I dont air dry them vertically as a lot of people suggest in order to keep them white. However some of them come out brown which suits me as the timber laser engraves better.
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    I bought a winch from Safety Lifting Gear last year. I needed it for pulling logs that I am going to use my Alaskan Mill on, into a better position. When I am milling up a large log previously I had to cut a 2' section out in order to fit the mill in. Although my mate has got a big winch on the front of his landrover which is very handy, quite often he couldnt get near the log or I was milling on my own. Using the winch has saved me from some back breaking efforts and has been used on at least a dozen logs. I should have had one years ago!
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    Doesnt have to be a mile with trees blocking light into your property, but say a fifty yard radius of the boundary. Make common sense to me.
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    My son is a full time student at University and work in Morrisons on a 12 hour a week contract. Just now he is working weekends only as he has another 16 hours a week job during the week. His Sunday hours are paid at time and a half but that reverts to single time from the end of March. This is due to everyone getting a pretty good hourly wage rise. His hourly rate is pretty good and well above minimum rate just now, as his annual appraisal was very good. He works very hard for his pay and often does nightshifts as well. Morrisons pay better than any of the other supermarkets and dont have issues such as not paying suppliers, reclaiming money from suppliers, selling horsemeat as beef and closing subsidised staff canteens. They also started to sell ugly veg and fruit before asda did as well (that one didnt really hit the media though)
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    I have a Trewhella Monkey winch that is so heavy its yet to leave the workshop. They used these to clear large trees for building works. In the manual it shows pictures of it winching trees over that have a decent size log in front of them so the root plate ends up sticking in the air. This makes it ideal for using it in remote places where they might not have access to large plant for the removal of the stumps as well. I would imagine digging around the roots as well and severing them with an axe would assist in pulling the trees over more quickly. Severing them with a chainsaw would be a bit quicker and if you didnt have to dig around the roots at all it would be a lot faster still. Just my thoughts on it. Ebay regularly has monkey winches up for sale (and has one now, but its not mine!) so you can have a look at one if you dont know what it looks like.

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