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I've got this 'low-cost' drop saw which came with an annoying adjustment for changing one of the angle settings. It has a knurled machine screw with a nominal hex opening in the centre. When you want to adjust it you can try an allen key , only to find it slips. Then you'll be off to find a pair of vice grips or similar to grip the outside of the screw, probably slipping at least once and adding to the 'character' of the screw.
I thought about welding a bit of steel bar to a screw to make a lever but before jumping into action I had a quick look on aliexpress. I found this thing which works a treat and looks a lot neater than anything I would have frankenwelded up.
Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
Not long after moving into our current house, we discovered that our downstairs leaked occasionally. Our insurer washed their hands of it saying something along the lines of 'long term problem'.
We couldn't blame the ingress on any particular service but it did leak on the side with the sewer. So, a few years ago on a punt , I broke up the back path and a drain guy replaced the clay pipes with plastic.
This made little to no difference so after much hemming and hawing (few years) we were told to 'tank it'. Steps involved were:
My two lads are old enough to help humping materials uphill but we got sick of that so, part way through the project, I invested in an electric wheelbarrow. It's pretty neat actually and means you can take 50 kilos of whatever uphill, again and again.
Managed to get it all paved by Easter before the wettest winter in Wellington hit us. No more leaks !!
Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
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Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
Whoa, looks like everyone else is having summer off!
Meanwhile, I tackled roof 2.0.
Last summer I replaced my garage roofing iron and purlins. It improved the leaks but the main problem was a rusted out internal gutter which just dumped water inside the garage so that was on this summer's job list.
I read somewhere that if your gutter is wide enough to stand in you need to support it. My builder recommended the gutter be widened so I got a new one made at 300 mm compared to the existing 100 mm.
To do that I needed to cut each joist out to accommodate a layer of marine ply. Cue much skil sawing with the blade depth set just so. I also replaced the worst couple of joists which were rotten or twisted - you can see a new one in the middle photo.
New gutter works a treat and hat off to the gutter and flashing company who made everything millimeter perfect (to my drawings) so it all fits very well.
We've had 3-4 days of rain since I finished and there's no leaks which is frankly unbelievable after putting up with it for ten years.
Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
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