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  1. Woodworks
    Bare in mind if you make it of wet wood and screw down the cladding as the wood dries and shrinks the screws may need a slight tighten to keep the mastic seal on the screws firmly sealing against the cladding. No big deal to do though.
  2. Woodworks
    Interesting little piece BBC World Service - Witness History, The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson WWW.BBC.CO.UK A tree in Kew Gardens survived the storm of 1987 and changed gardens across the world.
  3. Woodworks
    For the sharpening off the machine a spare bar works fine IME but sounds like your spare is badly worn. There shouldn't be very much wobble
  4. Woodworks
    If you are making a retort use fireproof bricks where you can and protect all the steel from the worst of the heat. It will get very hot and it will distort if exposed to the full force of the burning gases.
  5. Woodworks
    It all seems a bit confusing. I asked for LPG and have had a bottle of Calor Propane delivered? From the Calor site "LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is a hydrocarbon gas that exists in a liquefied form. LPG is a colourless, low carbon and highly efficient fuel. Supplied in two main forms, propane (C3H8) and butane (C₄H₁₀), LPG has a range of uses – from providing fuel for Autogas vehicles, leisure parks, crop-drying, BBQs, heating homes and much more. "
  6. Woodworks
    We will see. This is what the instructions for mine say "For short periods of running any size of cylinder may be used, but for long term running particularly in cold conditions smaller cylinders may start to freeze with consequential loss of power. For reliable operation use a cylinder of at least 19kg net capacity. In cold weather it may be necessary to use 47kg cylinders"
  7. Woodworks
    Cant find any problems in theory so I am going to order the kit and will report back on how well it works
  8. Woodworks
    I use them when it's cold and wet but only ground work. They are thick but you get used to it.
  9. Woodworks
    I can get the gas for £68 delivered and from what I can find out that should be 92 litres of propane. What economy figures do you think I should get with propane in comparison with petrol? I was working on the fuel economy being 20-25% less on propane
  10. Woodworks
    Price! I get through 16-17 litres on a busy day so that would be around £70. From what I can work out gas is going to cost around £16 a day
  11. Woodworks
    Might be feasible. Thanks
  12. Woodworks
    No problem with fuel density when working from home but might switch back to petrol when doing contract work The Gear GB kits instruction do recommend the larger tanks to avoid over cooling but should be fine with the 47kg tanks apparently. Also its the cheapest bottled way to buy it. Good to hear
  13. Woodworks
    I run my business on a personal account so no charges. Every few years they call me in and say I must get a business account. I say if I have to open a new account I will shop around then it goes quiet for a few more years. Only a sole traded but this has worked for 30 years so far
  14. Woodworks
    Here you go LPG Kits | Honda Engines and Generators | Gear GB WWW.GEARGB.CO.UK LPG Kits | Honda Engines and Generators | Gear GB
  15. Woodworks
    Getting a bit fed up the fumes from my GSX390 Honda on processor. I have been looking at ways to improve this some of which get bonkers expensive like electric motors run of a generator. Then a chap in the local hire place says just run it on propane. Seems that its a very cheap conversion and cheaper to run. Anyone done this and what are the drawbacks?
  16. Woodworks
    A COP of 5 would be very good but I guess newer models with scroll compressors might do that well. COP is very dependant on the temperature lift you require. A badly insulated house with rads might require high temps so poor COP and properties like this are where the horror stories come from. This page explains it far better than I can What is the COP? - John Cantor Heat Pumps HEATPUMPS.CO.UK The energy efficiency of a boiler is usually quoted in percentage terms. e.g. If a boiler is said to be 90% efficienct, then 90% of...
  17. Woodworks
    Split asap IMO. Ash is slow to dry so sooner you get it all cut and split the quicker it will dry
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    Wood DIY

    Woodworks replied to Trauma's topic in The Lounge

    It was PC pony with no genitalia ? Things I did notice was the blank just left the legs and hooves in profile but 2D not 3D I added some extra fill out the knees and a full hoof with a frog carved into the bottom
  19. Woodworks
    I thought the same but apparently this is not the case
  20. Woodworks

    Wood DIY

    Woodworks replied to Trauma's topic in The Lounge

    Na 80 grit ? I did make one many moons ago but cheated by buying a wooden blank from some maker in Cornwall. He was selling a large mahogany blank all made up for little more than the cost of the wood! I had never carved before but something so big was quite a good way to learn. There is so much excess wood to remove you get the feel for it before you get to the critical bits. Next door kept ponies and I would pop over and study them then then come back and cut more bits off.
  21. Woodworks
    But that is presumably the idea with mixing it with natural gas. We already have the storage infrastructure in place. Whats your take on the best storage of energy?
  22. Woodworks
    I would of thought the idea with Hydrogen is when we have an excess of renewable energy (which has happened a few times lately and will only happen more) the excess can be used to split hydrogen from water. Why not use what is basically free energy
  23. Woodworks
    Expensive to instal well yes relatively but ours wasn't anything like the figures you hear banded around these days. When we first had our GSHP I worked out in the summer we were using 2.38 kWh a day for hot water. At 15P per kWh thats just 35p a day
  24. Woodworks
    Well insulated yes but age does not matter. Our GSHP is in a 200 year old barn with IWI.
  25. Woodworks
    Not a million miles away by the looks of it. Image below from government figures and quick google suggests 85% of heating is provided by gas

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