Recent content by imageel

I'd go with electrolysis -12V battery charger, bucket, piece of sacrificial steel and some washing soda. Works pretty quickly/controllably but as others have mentioned, use outside as it gives off fumes and you do end up with some pretty horrid looking scummy liquid afterwards - so rinse...

Those look good and are quite cheap too! I have used Starret both their cheaper bi-metal and tct-tipped hole drills and found them to be very good, albeit a tad more expensive than those Amazon ones. Last time I used them in anger I was cutting solid stainless 22mm dia rod so as to create neat...

In similar vein I remember back in the day we introduced some network security devices that performed 2-factor authentication and each user was issued with slightly thicker then, but credit card sized token generators that produced a rolling set of 9 digits every 20 seconds. I referred to them...

Not looked in detail but the side hung rails used in the IT industry for rack mounted equipment are pretty sturdy since the physical density of kit these days is immense, I'm sure way more than most folk would need

I've used pallet truck wheels in a steel L section frame with cantilever hold downs at the rear and an eye at the front so that a similarly wheeled ~5ft dolly can be hooked under to allow moving a heavy old cast spindle molder around my workshop. As others have stated this requires a very smooth...

Forgot to add - natively I am predominantly left handed but years of having to cope with things like scissors/can openers have encouraged my learning to perform these acts using my 'dark' side ...:)

Being more or less ambidextrous I don't even think about it -I can hand plane with similar dexterity (or ineptitude) in either direction... But then again maybe I'm in a permanently confused or perplexed state of mind.....

I've never knowingly worked with ipe but it looks similar to sapele but maybe more even grained however they look good! The Adirondacks I personally really don't like the look of them even though I know they are incredibly comfortable to sit in - it's weird I find the look of them somehow jars...

Yes that's the stuff - I've only used it in fair weather and outside since you need otherwise to have full protective extraction since the fumes are highly toxic. The upside is you can re-coat within ~20mins and sand after about an hour, so super quick to get close to a final finish pretty...

I forgot to add - if you have access to someone who can spray 2-part catalytic paint (2k) you can get the same finish way quicker..

I've used it and as @niall Y mentioned if you need to build up a reasonable thickness with multiple coats then this can take a while as it is quite thin, however the upside is it can be smoothed easily and using wet-n-dry you can easily achieve a piano depth finish if you wish. It also as Niall...

This actually happened and is I think amusing for all the wrong reasons - After watching the YT recordings of the Horizon Inquiry I went into my local Waterstones to buy the Nick Wallis book 'The Great Post Office Scandal' having checked online that they had a copy in stock and I searched high...

That looks like a useful and solid saw, can't offer any insight as to the manufacturer but am sure others will

I too remember one summer holiday job when a teenager labouring on a site that was building up an out of town supermarket and they used these cap guns for attaching the block ties to the RSJ superstructure. As others have mentioned these were frightening - they easily pierced the central section...

I have a couple of the Linkwitz subs in a twin folded horn design 'Wicked One' by Decware that with little input power will shake concrete floors. I built a half model for my flat-living daughter using an original Dayton sub drive unit a mate shipped back from the USA. In her living room only...