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For balancing I use the Oregon blade balancer costs about £6 from Amazon or eBay, it is basically a stepped cone on a small spike, simple and works well.

I think I asked you before but what transformer do you use, is it a microwave or neon sign one per chance?

Good offer but we are at the opposite end of the country. Think I have shown some of his work on here before, wait and I will have a look............

Yip this is a reject side table I took from him when he wasn’t looking😀 last year. Sorry for distracting on your thread.

Nice work.

My mate who makes tables (likes to use resin) was wanting to get into Lichtenburg burning but I managed to put him off the idea as electricity and him don’t mix, if he had gone ahead with it I would be one pal less.

They haven’t moved for a while so:

still too dear

13 hours ago, MattyF said:

Keep an eye on the big dealers websites for trade ins , they will need a bit of work but I picked mine up from carsbilington, spent what it needed on brakes ect and don’t think I’ve lost anything in 8 years looking at current prices. 
Definitely get 4x4 for crawling out of forest ditch’s you’ll probably unintentionally find ! 

Looks like a dear one to me

Ohhh that looks good

I use a bright spray paint usually blue or red band on things like axe handles, 7lb hammers etc that I take into the woods

My mate has made T light holders if he has left over whisky barrel staves, usually either 3 or 5 T lights per stave depending on size of stave. He tends to give them away as pressies.

Noticed our local garden center is selling very similar for about £35 each.

1 hour ago, Jzarty said:

Hello, 

I hope everyone had a good Xmas and New Year,

I have bought some carving tools and made some pieces but they are not great.

 

Will keep on trying

Let’s see the pics, well done for trying, they will only get better as your hand skills and technique get better. Everyone is the same learning a new skill.

I had a ply floor down fo best part of a year, purely because I hadn’t bought the laminate to go on top of it as other things kept getting priority.

Must admit I liked it, think it was only about 6mm thick to even out some wonky floor boards, as above I would put some of Screwfix own brand water based floor varnish just to seal it, I didn’t bother as I knew I would be covering mine eventually.

Just as a by the way, I got one of the particle meters for Christmas and I have had it on since then.

When the fire isn’t on it registers about 1.

When the wood burning stove is on it goes up to between 8 and 25.

The surprise was when my wife put on the tumble dryer today it went up to 250.

I’ve been watching “diesel creek” recently mostly about an American bloke who buys diesel plant at a near by auction and sorts it up. Been good.

Can’t answer any of questions but one comment re pumps.

I have a 16kW multifuel stove, thermo siphons the hot water to a 200L hot water cylinder directly above in loft, pipe stat on return pipe that puts on a pump to feed 5 rads once the return temp reaches 55deg C, switches back off again at 35 deg C.

The point of the story is, the fire was going full tilt last night and was at 50 deg C and rising fast when we got a power cut, I immediately throttled back the fire by closing the vent and it held at 51 deg C for the next 3 hours until the power back on when we restocked the fire and opened the vent back back up.

PS to answer above:

F and e is feed and expansion tank, this means it is not a closed pressurised system and there is a small header open header tank with a ball cock which will top up low water.

In industry we called them spider couplings, usually between electric motors and gearbox’s, noted I am not the first to mention spider coupling on this thread.

I have a MIG welder and an inverter stick welder, I use the stick 95% of the time, for the same reasons mentioned above.

Gave 3 or 4 lumps of rhododendron to a friend of a friend who is into his wood carving made me a serving spoon out of one of the lumps, well pleased with it.

This is one of the few things that bring a tear to my eye.

Poor dog, and heart breaking for the family.

As above I use the 3M Peltor Optime 3, recently misplaced them (left at my arse) and used a cheaper pair, noticed the difference straight away. Since found my Optime 3 and all is good in my world once more.

15 hours ago, pleasant said:

Whatever you do DON'T start tapping out the holes! Stihl offer oversized bar studs, as this is a common issue. All you need to do is remove the existing spinning studs from the body and simply screw in these oversize studs. Ensuring the new stud is lined up square with the existing hole, and use some locking fluid. Use two nuts locked together on the new stud to allow you to wind it gently in. If you cannot remove the nut on the end of the original stud that's spinning, then with a hacksaw or dremel cut a slot in the end of the stud and hold in place with a screwdriver whilst you use your spanner to remove the nut.

 

Part number of stihl oversize studs for the ms250 is:

 

1123 664 2405

 

I have done this repair loads of times and last longer than original

 

 

That’s certainly a handy one to try and remember.

20 hours ago, HDAV said:

How did you on with the fix?

Good question, and I am searching my memory banks, from what I recall I offered to make him some studs on the lathe but fairly certain he just epoxied the old ones them back in, I was talking to him earlier on today as well. He doesn’t use the saw much so his repair will probably last a while.

We have a large chicken farm quite close to us, in fact not a million miles away from you in Ayrshire, at regular intervals, last week it was 0630 to about 0900 we get a quite a high pitch noise which does stop briefly during that time, think I have sussed out what it is.

Whenever the noise is on and I look over to the farm there is always what looks like a tanker there, I can only presume it is grain deliveries of chicken feed and the noise is air blowers used to blow the grain into the silos. They certainly sound similar to the air blowers that have helped give me tinnitus and partial deafness after 30 odd years in heavy industry, but we digress😀

2 hours ago, GarethM said:

or doing a radioactive boyscout, it's all relative.

 

Is that in ref to the 100’s of smoke detectors he was stripping down in his shed?

Yip both shoulders been fine in the last 15 years, touch wood.

1 hour ago, Haironyourchest said:

 

Curious to know did the operations "take" or did you ever have to go back? You mentioned it was 15 years ago?

 

Weird how some people's joints blow up and others not. Saw a thing on YouTube about an 80+ year old guy who still does big wall rock climbing every single day.

Both operations worked a treat, I remember before my 1st I went to lift a fuse of the bench, probably weighed only about 1/2 kg but because of the angle I was at I couldn’t lift it. Anyway after the 1st op the main physio exercise was to lie on my back and just push my arm back as far as possible, day 1 I could get my arm up vertical but after that I was getting my arm back an extra 2 or 3 mm every day, after 3 or so months I could get my arm fully back with my hand touching the floor. Coupled that with some light dumbbell work and I was able to go back rock climbing after about 9 months.

2nd shoulder / op because the op was a lot less invasive the rehab time was a lot shorter, a few weeks instead of months.

Found this info on the web which I think must have been my 2nd procedure:

The hydrodilation procedure involves injecting a fluid into the joint space which expands the space breaking up scar tissue and loosening the joint.Imaging studies help guide the procedure.

To perform hydrodilatation, the skin over the joint is first cleaned and local anesthesia administered.The joint is then injected with a small amount ofcontrast substance to help visualize the joint. Under image guidance, a needle is inserted into the capsule that surrounds the joint and a fluid mixture consisting of saline, steroid and an anaesthetic is injected. The entire procedure takes about 15 minutes.You may experience some discomfort during and after the procedure which usually lasts no more than half an hour. You are advised not to drive or operate heavy machinery for at least 6 hours. Somepatients have immediate relief from pain with improved range of motion but it usually takes about 6 weeks for the treatment to takefull effect. 

Hydrodilatation is generally a safe procedurebut carries a small risk of infection, bleeding and failure to relieve symptoms.

Before I had the ops as well as physio I also had the cortisone injections they didn’t work, so I was a happy man when the two ops worked.