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Yes, you're both correct. N4.38, the 1.5 litre 38 horses. We also put in a N4.50 this week, but that was craned in straight through the roof. Marine engines if your wondering what I'm on about.
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Nice peaceful job then ;-)
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Ideal thing for that is the oxy-acetylene gas-axe, it would walk through it.
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DAPPH
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I too went the filter route
Once I discovered how much crap I was throwing in the direction of my multipurpose welder via the angle grinder & ( inch grind stone i took steps to stop as much as possible being sucked in .
I've used a worn out 600 thread percale double bed sheet , folded it in half then gently arranged it around the welder & used big crock clips to hold it in place where needed .
I'm thinking of making a bespoke cover like you on our over-locker machine . So it has two velcro flaps to access the front as needed but this time to make it in a 1.5 metre length of a darkish fleecy sweatshirt material so it has a bigger surface area to filter crap out . An alternative is to do the same but to insert a simple bolt up plastic frame out of plastic chopping boards to take three of four fine panels of reticulated filter foam that can be taken out washed & reused many times .
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I remember cutting mine with a 4.5" grinder & many cutting discs! Haha
Used a straight edge & it was fine.
Now have the joys of Oxy Propane!
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Got my bench top 700 x 850 cut from cold rolled 10 mm steel plate by the stock holder , done on their big plasma bench , lovely clean cuts, lightly ground off on all edges by the time they delivered it to me all for £94 including VAT .
Best of all it's nice & flat indeed .
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Not much with metal (at all actually) and I don't even like my tools painted...
But today I spent the day painting tools and sewing this tool roll for a friend who doesn't have any tools but does have a broken bike. The idea is it rolls up then a cover folds over and I'll see if my mum's sewing drawer has any poppers in to fasten it shut.
And then onto the sewing. I hate sewing. It always goes wrong for me! We have an old Singer machine and I can never set it up properly, always manage to balls-up something and get a huge clump of thread at the start... so I used a needle and thread and it's taking forever! Still, it'll be tough and that's good. Give me a machine rebuild over this any day...
@The_Yellow_Ardvark I feel this is a similar project as you embarked on with your camp stove - hopefully my friend likes it instead of what happened with yours! We shall see...
Practice makes perfect , Practice & practice .... it's not difficult ..... even some women can do it so I'm informed
..First Run a 60 mm long test stitch on some doubled over material .... to see that you have the thread tension correct..... no strange looking loops in the stitches on either side of the material .it should cross over in the middle of the two layers of fabric.
Make sure the little up & down saw type looking feed teeth in the bottom plate are gripping the material enough to effectively feed both layers of material to rear of the machine to the needle , changing the spring pressure on top of the machine above the foot is how to alter this pressure grip you should not be able to freely pull the material out but there should not be a lot of grip either .
The thinner the materials used the less foot pressure is needed in most cases .
Start your sowing run by putting the presser foot about 15mm in from the edge ... lower the foot on the material , make sure the tails of the threads are correctly in place ....one under , the needle thread out the needle & going under the foot .. don't let it drag itself through the foot as this is a major way of getting the bundle of threads you mention & bending your needle . Gently pull them back to one side , lower the foot then sow with the machine in reverse , just before the needle reaches the edge of the material let it run forward for the actual sowing stitch run .
When reaching the ends it's almost the reverse of starting .. Press the reverse lever as soon as the needle gets to a stitch over & off the end of the material . Now run it back along the stitch line for 15 mm or so before stopping , raising the foot & letting off thread to cut it off .
I'm now turned 66 years old , learning how to use a sowing machine effectively when I was 13 / 14 has stood me in good stead , not only for making all sorts of covers . But for making some of my own clothes , bed linen , . curtains , kiddies clothes for my my two children after my first wife cleared off and also for doing paid for alterations curtains cushions etc . for friends & neighbours too .
We now have a straight lock stitcher and a four spool over locker machine .. This has greatly opened up what we can sow .... me , my much younger than me wife & my 16 yr old daughter .
Good luck .
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It would be and I do have the bottles and cutting gear but running very low on oxy and not sure where my next bottle is going to come from so saving it for now
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Get an SGS one! Always need more oxygen than fuel.
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Handy thing to have, that inspection pit.
Wouldn't want to be without it, having had one in my Dads garage back in my late teens was determined to have one when building mine
Took a fair bit of digging out, we are at the bottom of a valley and the river is about 100yds away, some of the boulders that came out were huge
Shovel is for scale, not what I dug it out with
One of the wee beasties that was dug out
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Shovel is for scale, not what I dug it out with
'er indoors just asked what I was laughing at :-)
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Wouldn't want to be without it, having had one in my Dads garage back in my late teens was determined to have one when building mine
Took a fair bit of digging out, we are at the bottom of a valley and the river is about 100yds away, some of the boulders that came out were huge
Shovel is for scale, not what I dug it out with
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One of the wee beasties that was dug out
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Sisters father in law has a pit in the garage, he lives right on the coast about 3ft above high tide level and he could only manage to get it dug out to 5ft deep which isn't the best. He would dig like mad when the tide was going back and try to get deeper but it just filled with sea water
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Sisters father in law has a pit in the garage, he lives right on the coast about 3ft above high tide level and he could only manage to get it dug out to 5ft deep which isn't the best. He would dig like mad when the tide was going back and try to get deeper but it just filled with sea water
Sounds familiar
While I was building it, if we had heavy rain this is what would happen. Its not from the rain falling from the sky but the water table rising from the nearby river when it's in full swing
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@ronan
Yep, hole was lined with HD DPM (you can see it in the build photos), concrete base laid on top of the DPM and then dense block laid flat to build up to ground level, DPM pulled up the sides backfilled on the outside
But when doing this I must have punctured the DPM as when we had heavy rain the pit used to fill with water
The puncture must have been about 3' up the walls as we would need a few days of heavy rain before any water came in and then it filled up quite quickly as the water table rose
Solved by having the pit walls rendered, 2 coats of tanking slurry over the render and floor then skim over the top sorted it out, been dry for 2 years now
Yep, hole was lined with HD DPM (you can see it in the build photos), concrete base laid on top of the DPM and then dense block laid flat to build up to ground level, DPM pulled up the sides backfilled on the outside
But when doing this I must have punctured the DPM as when we had heavy rain the pit used to fill with water
The puncture must have been about 3' up the walls as we would need a few days of heavy rain before any water came in and then it filled up quite quickly as the water table rose
Solved by having the pit walls rendered, 2 coats of tanking slurry over the render and floor then skim over the top sorted it out, been dry for 2 years now
