Lancs Lad
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What is it ? I need to sort my garage roof if you get good at it
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Monkeybusiness
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Alutrix 600 - this little collection (enough for 120m2) was over £1600!
I have somewhere between little and no interest in doing this again, it’s very hard on the old knees!
I have somewhere between little and no interest in doing this again, it’s very hard on the old knees!
hiluxman
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Following on from the drilling, it now has 4 new tyres on it and a quick wash to get rid of the green bits
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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Monkeybusiness
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I took myself down a real wormhole of warm roof design last week… I wasn’t even going to bother with a vapour barrier until I spent an evening googling it!it had better be bloody amazing for that level of investment
It’s a minefield/nightmare and a world of pain if I get it wrong as the roof structure could apparently rot away - I’m doing what I can within reason to avoid that eventuality as plan on staying here for a long time!
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Cal919
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Vapour barriers are important. What you using above?
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Monkeybusiness
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EPDM, overlapping and bonded to the vapour barrier all around by 30mm. Hopefully……
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DaveDCB
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I hate flat roofs! Did a reasonable sized one with fibreglass , horrible job!!
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Cal919
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Stroppymonkey
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Pleasant Saturday spent on my own in shed sorting out a broken gatepost for some security gates. Got the little Ajax saw cleaned up and set up. Coolant belt was off and tank gormed up. Cleaned up and washed out with Kerosene. Repaired the pipe with some 10mm copper. Need to get some proper coolant.
Taking me back to childhood using the saw.
First time welding in 20+ year and first time using a stick welder since I was a teenager. Quite humbling to be starting from scratch. Final result is clearly pretty s**t, but will hold up to the job hopefully. Need some bigger rods as I only had 1.6mm which wasn’t helping. Much more practice required.
Taking me back to childhood using the saw.
First time welding in 20+ year and first time using a stick welder since I was a teenager. Quite humbling to be starting from scratch. Final result is clearly pretty s**t, but will hold up to the job hopefully. Need some bigger rods as I only had 1.6mm which wasn’t helping. Much more practice required.
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DaveDCB
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What’s the stainless tie thing doing in the middle?
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Monkeybusiness
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My roof is just a big flat rectangle with sides, so am covering it with a single piece of rubber (ie no joints) as I would like to think there is less chance of us cocking that up!…
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DaveDCB
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That’s the way!
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Cal919
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Its called a mansafe have to put them on so if anyone was ever doing maintenance can harness on.
doobin
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Shakedown of the new grab combo on the E19.
I’ll be the first to admit it’s still cumbersome compared to a 2.7t but it’ll fit where that won’t and it’s about as good as it gets.
I’ll be the first to admit it’s still cumbersome compared to a 2.7t but it’ll fit where that won’t and it’s about as good as it gets.
Bri963
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Nice paint job.
in all seriousness, bin the 1.6’s. I’m reasonable with stick but anything smaller than 2.5mm you need to be Yoda to get a good weld without slag inclusions, especially on anything that isn’t spotless. 2.5 at around 75-80 amps will do it. What welder do you have.
doobin
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About the limit at full reach cross track. It’s yew though so very heavy. On a slope too which doesn’t help.
CPS
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So, question? With the micro and 2.7ton do you think you could do wirh out the 1 9 ton now?
Lancs Lad
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Get it on the mill
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Stroppymonkey
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Jefferson 160amp. Chinese I expect but a well reviewed from local AG supplier
Picked up some thicker rods this morning .
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