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And as converters go 25kVA is a beast, not that common and if you do find one I bet it will be pricey. Plus that is roughly 100A which is BIG for a single phase supply. This has got a 30 kVA genny required written all over it and they are fairly common.

Remind us Mark, was it a 10kW unit you were after?

Good answer @Nopedigree, Think that one has been tampered with.?

Think that is a top gesture

Spit hoods on either driver, passengers or both.?

Is that some bee hive frames under bench?

@se7enthdevil pic of end grain sanded to 400 grit. Thanks again for your thoughts.

Thankyou for the info, I will get a bit sanded today and post a pic up.

Cheers gents.

Did a deal a while ago and acquired this hard wood sports floor that was getting removed as payment, though I would use it on a house renovation project that is now in its last stages, needless to say the floor didn’t get used so I am going to advertise it and sell it on. Problem is I don’t know what type of wood it is, anyone like to hazard a guess from looking at the pics and the value. I have about 45 square meters of it. The piece I have taken the pics of I have sanded the line markings off it and put a wee of wax on it, and it has come up well. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Cheers gents, good to know.

Just thinking out loud and sorry for the slight derail, you are making say a resin river table or filling the hollow round with resin for a table, you get it all perfectly flat and polished in your workshop and it looks great. What happens when it has been in someone’s house for 6 months with the central heating on? Does the wood shrink move a bit giving a ridge / step at the resin wood join? Cheers

Yip ?

It is certainly a dangerous diy system especially with the microwave transformer, still dangerous with the neon transformer but it doesn’t kill you quite as badly.

BSA Ultra I have, apart from the gauge diaphragm rupturing and having to replace it, it is a cracking gun. @Lazurus did you use a microwave transformer or a neon sign transformer to get the tracking pattern?

I will speak to him tomorrow ?

He probably would be but you are a little far away, we are in Central Scotland?

Cheers gents

Mate who makes tables was wondering what these slabs were. Thank you in advance

No it means that connecting the 3 phases in delta (instead of star) it will draw 12A. Simply put the star and delta refers to how the 3 coils / windings of the motor are connected to the supply, so in star one end of each winding is connected together, in delta you could say they are daisy chained with the end of one coil getting connected to the start of the other.

My Stihl chainsaw did this, I stripped it down cleaned carb, bebuit, still the same. Changed the spark plug and it started working perfectly. Spark plug must have been breaking down under load.

Basil’s wife? 42?

A wee happy story in these times of doom and gloom. Helped my mate at the weekend sort out a wind blown sycamore and remove a scabby conifer from his drive, nice wee catch up and a couple of hours graft. Wasn’t looking for anything as he helps me out loads, but he has just dropped this off for me. I am well pleased.

I keep the small air wash vent fully open all the time. The main vent I start with it fully open then vary it down to about 50% depending on logs and wind draw over the chimney. I never shut air vent fully off to try and smoulder a log over night, just put a couple of logs on before I go to bed with the air vent set at what it has been at all evening.

Time for my confession. I was a 1st year apprentice 39 years ago, as a 1st year apprentice I was sent with the “battery” man for the day, we went to his workshop which is about the size of a double garage where once a week or so he would get a sort of sit on battery driven road / floor sweeper in to give a battery service to. This consisted of scraping of the white furry stuff from the hundred odd terminals on the battery bank, then check and top up the levels. Well anyway, It was my first time on this job (my defence), we both went to the workshop, sweeper waiting outside, he opened up and drove the sweeper in, lifted the lid on it showed me the mass of furry terminals, told me he was away for a shit with the Sun newspaper under his arm and would be back in an 30 minutes and I was to get battery cleaning. My ppe consisted of my overalls nowt else, I looked about to see what I could use to clean the fur off with, ahh a wire brush, perfect, mmm, these batteries are about 6” square with copper bars between them, when I started brushing a wee bit of sparking occurred, but they were cleaning up a treat. Well 5 mins into my excellent cleaning job, boom, felt my face wet, no idea what had happened, but fortunately there was a sink in the shop so I washed my face, and had a look at what had happened. I was surprised to be able to see the plate tops on one of the cells, looked about the shop and abviously by design the top had blown neatly off in two halves on one of the many cells, so I gathered them up and clicked them back onto the cell top. Continued my cleaning with a cable tie end, which was not nearly as effective. My tradesman man came back and was well impressed with how clean I had got the battery bank. Fast forward 3 weeks when my overalls came back from the wash, and I couldn’t work out why they were full of holes, took a wee while to twig the events of 3 weeks previous and how acid effects cotton overalls. Oh how we laughed.