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Best cordless brush-less lightweight sander. I have to do some outdoor sanding and would like to hear from anyone that can recommend one that is not too heavy given that I would need to use it for some time in one go. Thank you for any advice.

Thanks for the info. There are quite a few gappy gaps between pieces of gyproc up in the attic. there was lots of blackened insulation so I can tell there is warm air getting getting in from below. I think they were cowboy builders which is why I thought to seal over them. There was a lot of...

I have to air seal the attic floor and guess I need an open cell low expansion foam to fill the gaps between gyproc pieces first then add my rockwool over the top. It doesn't say on most foam cans if they are open or closed cell and the expansion rate on a low expansion is still about 30% so...

Coating everything to later have to strip it off is going to be a bit of a job. I would only do the big stuff, flat stuff or expensive items like that the rest I would encapsulate with some silica gel. You will likely drop into the storage every now and again to fetch something so you can always...

It's my guess climate change is a bit like driving so turning the steering wheel a bit and you can end up going off road, it happens. To stop climate change and possibly try to get back tolerable weather patterns you would have to stop emitting greenhouse gases altogether and then wait a long...

Well I guess folk can chat all they want about climate changes but that time and energy is better spent working out how to live underground in the end. At this rate we will be joining the foxes and making dens not to mention scrabbling about trying to scavenge food. People should really start...

I always thought that when wood bows it can't be successfully bowed back once it's gone wonky. It won't stay flat even if you get it to be flat again somehow. Try using a hard wood not a soft and or shorter lengths. Oh and ask everyone to do the squirrel thing and plant an acorn, we need more...

Veneer is put on top of a cheaper material underneath to make it look richer for the consumer. Cabinet edges are usually solid oak teak or whatever because if the edges were not solid it would make the structure too vulnerable to damage and be harder to fix/glue parts together so the edges are...

It's true to say people need some protection. If you sell to the general public you soon realise how easy it is to diddle them because many are totally clueless especially because most of them do admin type jobs and have no knowledge about practical things at all. They are unable to make...

To add I think the attitude of uk people to people that work in manufacturing or say factories is spectacularly low. It was often said if you don't do well at school you could end up working in a factory! Attitudes towards people that work in industry or get dirty whilst working is sooo bad in...

Shareholders take the profits though not the community. I remember when my dad said the factory next door was moving all it's production to Hungary where labour was cheaper and they could produce the construction vehicles/equipment for less money. But he pointed out that the objects themselves...

Well we are animals so we are meat. In that respect why not eat dead humans then, recycle them? When you think about it lots of animals die from diseases, cancer etc so it's dodgy eating some of them isn't it but they still don't check it and fill your sausage with it so then you eat it I...

After the second world war German industry had to start afresh with new machinery etc because a lot of it was destroyed whereas in the UK machines were fixed maintained and continued to be used. Industrialists says this gave the uk a disadvantage along with the fact that uk industrial workforce...

To me the practice of selling substandard items is largely created by the consumer who always wants a cheaper item. Uk makers were put on a back foot with cheap Chinese imports years ago so they began making it thinner, shorter or anything that made it cheaper to make and sell at the same price...

There is room for everyone, no-one is special in this life. I see people destroying hardwood items because they are no longer in fashion but occasionally, not that often but sometimes, I see how some have used parts to make something useful and good so it does have some new life instead of...

I need to cut through veneer sometimes so I am going to buy the mafell ( I'm aiming for the cordless). These have the score function so you never get chipped edges. They are expensive but think it's a worthwhile tool when you read all the reviews, maybe watch the video they give out.

Use meths and finest grade wire wool grade 0000 and white lint free cloths ( any old socks will do) to clean wood, then sanding sealer then your top coat to stop ingress again. Use Morrells for supplies. Don't rub down hard else you will interfere with the wood/ veneers surface. Sanding veneer...

It looks like a low pressure gravity die casting. To make a new one you need the die and permission from the owner. Either the company that commissioned the part paid for the die or the foundry had it made from their drawing and didn't sell them the die so the foundry own the die but the drawing...