Recent content by Ozi

About 35% over the last 12 months

After the Daewoo Number 1..... some spoil sport told them

And the more there are the more viable (profitable) recycling gets

Obviously they could explode but it is very unlikely, I have inspected some really badly neglected machines, rusted to hell they tend to pin hole then refuse to make pressure. Good practice even if you do nothing else is to check the safety valve is free

I get the impression that wasn't you, who ever it was just used up a months good luck ration. Had a similar thing happen at work. Ordered a cheep (>£200) bench top pillar drill, exactly the same as I have had at home for about 20 years with no issues. Had it cost rejected as one available...

I helped a friend build a very similar sized shed about 4 years ago, as a rough estimate you are using about 10% more timber than he did, the roof was 0.9mm plastic coated rolled steel sheet insulated with recycled plastic insulation (looks like glass fiber but you don't need gloves etc.) very...

Please don't start me - not on the joke thread1

Thank you for posting. I'm only a (very) amateur wood worker, and I know I have taken short cuts I shouldn't. Posts like this may just make me think that one time that matters. I also found out what a wobble saw is and if not the villain in this incident I now have a strong desire never to own...

A lovely piece of work

Internal or external?

My old when I had it Marina Van, fitted with 1800 TC engine, Cortina rear axle with A bars and a lot of body stiffening including a bulkhead behind the seats - Known as "The Shed" - lots of fun in the mid 80s - miss the car and the friends I had back then. Would not want to drive the old wrecks...

Very surprised by those figures (not questioning them), for petrol they are a lot higher than we get in Europe, our ratio between EV and ICE is about 19:1 that's in the 60s I know nothing about the American equivalent of an MOT but something must be very different with their fleet. Hybrid being...

Is it too late - we could have a wip round

It would be interesting to know what went wrong, it could be all sorts of things such as grade or miss grade of concrete that an inspector would not see but which would be picked up on a cube test later - still no excuse for it getting that far. Pity the person who had to tell the boss.

I thought they all did, back in the day they had a pilot light to reignite now it's electric, saves a lot of gas. I once rented a flat where turning off the gas stove pilots cured the damp problem in the kitchen (don't know how we didn't gas ourselves) but you had to keep an eye on the oven as...