Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Ooh Ooh!! Have we seen your photos of said upgrade??? Asking for a friend, ya know like
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What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!
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Gramaisc
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Ooh Ooh!! Have we seen your photos of said upgrade??? Asking for a friend, ya know like
Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
The carer bought loads of lovely foodie stuff 'for chistmas' last week, I was gutted when he hid it & wouldn't let me eat it.......I should have been quicker... I've got the majority of the main meal now, just need a nice bit of beef, then I'll get the potatoes a lot closer to the day. Almost...
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Ooh Ooh!! Have we seen your photos of said upgrade??? Asking for a friend, ya know like
And I 'liked' it! Memory like a sieve....................Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
The carer bought loads of lovely foodie stuff 'for chistmas' last week, I was gutted when he hid it & wouldn't let me eat it.......I should have been quicker... I've got the majority of the main meal now, just need a nice bit of beef, then I'll get the potatoes a lot closer to the day. Almost...www.staffordforum.com
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
Not the case in Stafford, in happy to say. Still treacherous black ice here in this part of Worcester with bits of snow lying around as well. Went to top up my bird & squirrel feeders ( minus another one that naughty squirrels have scarpered off with) and the car windscreen was frozen solid...
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Seriously, there's a mahoosive vacant space where the memory part of my brain should be.Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
Not the case in Stafford, in happy to say. Still treacherous black ice here in this part of Worcester with bits of snow lying around as well. Went to top up my bird & squirrel feeders ( minus another one that naughty squirrels have scarpered off with) and the car windscreen was frozen solid...www.staffordforum.com
Alee
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Yours is fantastic ! I’d love to have something like!
Gramaisc
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Well, I've had a little project that didn't matter much, but kept failing to progress, for logistical reasons.
Lidl has been selling metre-long, self-adhesive steel measuring tapes. It seemed a reasonable idea to mount a couple on the benches in the Shed - but, I decided that, although the tapes are thin, about half a millimetre thick, they would probably suffer attrition much faster if they were just stuck onto the surface, rather than installed in a shallow recess, to be properly flush with the surface.
Doing this shallow groove proved a more difficult manoeuvre than it should have been. Whilst I do have a selection of router bits here, the router itself is 200 miles to the east.
I had decided to leave this task until my next return, assuming that I do remember to bring the router then - or see if I can borrow one here, then I realised that it may be possible, by a bit of a bodge.
A test-run now has proved that a reasonable outcome is possible, though I may leave the real jobs for another day.
By mounting the 12mm bit in the 'spare' cordless drill, then mounting that in the Wolfcraft drilling jig, modified by removing the springs, it was possible to create a cordless router, capable of such a light task.
The tape is half an inch wide, so a slight move of the guide to create the extra 0.7mm of width is necessary, but that is a small price to pay. Although running a bit slow for the job, it made a reasonable attempt, even on the cross-grain groove.
Lidl has been selling metre-long, self-adhesive steel measuring tapes. It seemed a reasonable idea to mount a couple on the benches in the Shed - but, I decided that, although the tapes are thin, about half a millimetre thick, they would probably suffer attrition much faster if they were just stuck onto the surface, rather than installed in a shallow recess, to be properly flush with the surface.
Doing this shallow groove proved a more difficult manoeuvre than it should have been. Whilst I do have a selection of router bits here, the router itself is 200 miles to the east.
I had decided to leave this task until my next return, assuming that I do remember to bring the router then - or see if I can borrow one here, then I realised that it may be possible, by a bit of a bodge.
A test-run now has proved that a reasonable outcome is possible, though I may leave the real jobs for another day.
By mounting the 12mm bit in the 'spare' cordless drill, then mounting that in the Wolfcraft drilling jig, modified by removing the springs, it was possible to create a cordless router, capable of such a light task.
The tape is half an inch wide, so a slight move of the guide to create the extra 0.7mm of width is necessary, but that is a small price to pay. Although running a bit slow for the job, it made a reasonable attempt, even on the cross-grain groove.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
It being an actual weekend and a bit of a chilly day outside, I decided to finally risk doing the inlaid tape on the centre bench.
A guide rail was positioned for the main cut.
Marks were added to indicate the desired ends of the groove. The tape, although steel, could then be trimmed to suit the round ends.
It all went reasonably well and the tape is in place, a touch below the bench surface, so it should survive for a while.
I nudged the guide rail a small amount, to turn the 20mm groove into a half inch one to suit the tape width. This took two goes, but all seemed well at the end.
This is probably the most useful place for the permanent tape, but it was also probably the hardest to do, being a cross-grain groove. The other two possible locations are along the grain and might be a bit less stressful to do.
We'll see - maybe.
A guide rail was positioned for the main cut.
Marks were added to indicate the desired ends of the groove. The tape, although steel, could then be trimmed to suit the round ends.
It all went reasonably well and the tape is in place, a touch below the bench surface, so it should survive for a while.
I nudged the guide rail a small amount, to turn the 20mm groove into a half inch one to suit the tape width. This took two goes, but all seemed well at the end.
This is probably the most useful place for the permanent tape, but it was also probably the hardest to do, being a cross-grain groove. The other two possible locations are along the grain and might be a bit less stressful to do.
We'll see - maybe.