Recent content by DMF

Thank you all, much appreciated - Robin that could well be the perfect shovel for the job! Will PM sizes / lengths we need and if you could do it then no not to far away, it would be a perfect excuse to pop in and see my Nan for a cuppa while I'm that way. I can borrow a focus estate and it will...

Hi all, been helping a mate redo the garden for them and we have reached the pergola / shade sail support thing stage and could do with some help please. We have got a number of galvanised box section steel lintels and we are going to build the frame out of these, three questions for you...

Maybe just because it's a insurance requirement these days for any site so if you want a job stick it on ya head, for any folks on site working with people dropping things on their heads from above I just wouldn't have that even if it was just crayons! The last time someone asked me too it was...

Don't please, forge is banned from the wants list for now! I've just got past the bench drill stage so I have a few steps yet and I have many points to score before I can mention such things, def best if I don't start telling her about forges. Especially as she knows that wouldn't be allowed at...

Thanks for that link, had a proper go at it hasn't he! Obviously a clever bloke and I'm sure I could learn many things from him but he does need a shuttering lesson from me! From what he used though for the shuttering and the fact its quite a complex shape I think it was a sterling effort, as he...

Hi Grayorm, there is a huge amount spent globally on concrete research programmes for the obvious reasons, many requirements for it in a lot of industry's and of course fire safety where the are primarily concerned with structural integrity and stability when exposed to high temperature changes...

Hi, I'm sure it is / will be but can we extend that to us lot as well please?! :lol: Please don't be, a unhappy chain of events shouldn't affect the future especially when Santas involved! As someone who has seen far more of the HNS than I would of liked lately I hope that this years one...

Thanks guys very interesting. Chas, I hadn't thought of that so will bear in mind any long sessions try to get to the required speed using the belts and like wise if it struggles on anything then there's some choice there too to get more torque. Does seem to have quite a bit of go though and a...

Hi, it would help if I knew how to ask the question properly so bear with me please! Just got a Naerok GP 13 bench drill that runs through a MTE Sprite inverter / controller, my question is basically am I better to leave that on its top setting and still change speeds with the belt or adjust...

Hi, looks like an ant got the tyres dirty on the Rolls! All the good, and it's clearly a massive wallop of it, makes this hard to give any time too really, not that I don't acknowledge it for who it affected including Santa Waka for the unnecessary hassle. Sounds like you have already been...

Rodders none needed :) Sounds like a plan! Put one up for my old man in a similar fashion recently, extended the existing base to match same height, i had some rebar to drill into the side of the existing and chucked a bit of mesh in so that didn't cost him but base done. From there I got...

Always great thinking Rodders maybe I'm just pants at writing it out loud :lol: You have lost me though, didn't mention cover for a membrane? Message with membrane from me was not to spend money to try to make existing sticky and then cover it with plastic basically if that's the plan because...

Hi, Excuse the chopped quotes please! Is this between the bit you want good adhesion on? Not worth prepping something and then covering in plastic dpm if that's the membrane? As it's just a garden shed, without knowing ground levels what your doing with it etc is it not worth pouring at...

Hi, apologies for not having the time to say thanks for some great tool posts lately (as per normal!) but re hot things I have spotted an ad that may interest you? "One sitter kiln - old but working One wired in kiln - not currently working but someone who is handy could get it going Second...

Hi, with the link above I was looking at the same kind of thing and I do think they are good value, I just didn't have it! For the earlier post no I will not be heating although we'll see how full the window sills are mid may but it is surprising how much heat you can lock in by closing the...