Druid's 'Drema's Druidfab Attachments !!

**#1246** » 01:44:38, 02-03-2019

Skru'are skrev:Don't weld or bond !
Women (got t*ts !) don't mean the same as men by "final place"!
Put very strong magnets bonded to the stainless. The small distans can make it even look better.

(Then you can have the birds higher up, making a place for sheep figures in the bottom occasionsly...)

absolutely pissing my self laughing Boyo ..... just spat my coffee over the keyboard .. that is soooooooooooooo funny :thummar:

Know what you mean on the t*ts front .... there is no such thing as a final position :lmao:

I like the magnets idea :idee3:

.. but ........ they're going to need to be ****ing strong magnets :uupps:

I'll see what the boss says tomorrow ..... then start looking for magnets :vissla:

**#1247** » 01:51:03, 02-03-2019

Stridis2 skrev:I have to start with apologise for probably rather strange language, but I hope you can guess what I mean. Otherwise ask and I will make another try to explain.
When I have glued metal parts together I have used an epoxy glue called Araldite. Mostly I have used it on clean sandblasted metal. If you use it on paint it depends on how strong the paint is sticked to the metal if it will work or not.
Mix the two components together. Mount the pieces together with glue in an posision so the glue will stay in place and fix the pieces with spring clamps or what works.
Take your hot air gun (hairdryer on steroids) and warm up the things you glue together to around 50 degree (you can touch it with your finger but not for long). The glue will be thin as water and completely clear. Let everything cool down. The glue will be hard in a much shorter time (a few hours instead of 24) and will be five times stronger.
I have used this methode on front screens and roof on Range Rovers and it have worked for 20 years.
Some pictures when I use the same methode repairing my air hockey table are found here:
Stridis2 @ Airhockeybord, Hyper Taifun de lux
Stridis2 @ Airhockeybord, Hyper Taifun de lux

very interesting Modus Operandi Boyo :cool:

..... have used similar with JBWeld, to aid setting times, but not quite that hot :vissla:

I assume you mean the ordinary two part Araldite adhesive? :???:

, or their version of plastic metal (like the JBWeld) ???

I am very jealous of your air hockey table :mrgreen:

.. great game :thummar:

which part of a RR roof have you had to glue ??? :???:

.... I assume you are talking classic RR, with the bolt on roof ? have had a few of those :vissla:

**#1248** » 11:46:22, 02-03-2019

An alternativ is a springy hook at the backside of the Bird. A flat rather wide. A clip. Paint the ss at the backside.
Excuse me, but I think you have to paint the screen rather often because of rust. The overlay parts eg. So it's not only because of the t*ts you have to make it easaly de- and mountabel.

**#1249** » 13:04:22, 02-03-2019

neodymium magnets n52 strength

**#1250** » 22:26:15, 03-03-2019

V8Druid skrev:I assume you mean the ordinary two part Araldite adhesive? , or their version of plastic metal (like the JBWeld) ???

Right, it's the ordinary two part Araldite I was talking about.

V8Druid skrev:which part of a RR roof have you had to glue ??? .... I assume you are talking classic RR, with the bolt on roof ? have had a few of those

The first RR I glued was from -85. This was -96, so they were still rather expensive. There was a big lorry that ran in the back of this car in 80 km/h. The RR stood still. :uupps:

I bought it rather smashed. I made everything from left back corner to right back door new, and straightened the rest up.
I got my hands on a roof from another car, but there were some holes in it. Made a piece of aluminium that I glued on the inside of the roof.
The same procedure on the front fenders. On top these are bolted with steel bolts against steel. There were not much left of the aluminium in the fenders. :vissla:

**#1251** » 02:11:17, 05-03-2019

Like a cripple yesterday morning :sad:

..... too much time on my knees saturday persuading the cables into their new home in the floor, making connections, sealing and securing everything .... :vissla:

this channel contains our oil line from the tank (now in't black shed and the boiler in the house ....

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would've been happier to see it a few inches deeper, but I wasn't gonna disturb the oil line and it's only two to three inches wide so doesn't suffer much in the way of loading :thumme:

the 'python' and a.n.other conduit, for lighting control, took some wrestling into place . :uupps:

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especially at the house end .... :aaargh:

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was pretty rough here saturday and we were getting rained on by this point, so it got strung out/coiled up out the way (that barge board's looking a tad ropey) :vissla:

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Was gonna run them both along the bottom of the wall in a similar gulley, to the oil pipe's one, between the wall and the flag stones, then up the wall in the corner ..... but ..... couldn't get the buggers between the drain gulley and the wall ...some one'd gobbed a load of mortar in the gap :sad:

......so a rethink is being had :coffee:

did manage to get the shed end trimmed, glanded up and terminated, ready for its box, :thummar:

before the light beat me :sad:

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Sunday was seriously wild here .... horizontal rain and howling winds .... couldn't put anything down unless it's bloody heavy ...
got the box onto the shed end ..... :grin:

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a feed up to the consumer unit laid in ready, for when it arrives .... :vissla:

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I love Anaconda :grin:

.... much easier to wrestle than pythons :cool:

...... everything got terminated ..... :hurra:

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and 'buttoned down' for the night .......

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any suggestions for capping that duct off? :???:

..... but'd need to be able to open it again if need be .. in case ---- expanding styro foam??? :???:

the second gland and duct is to allow a.n.other cable up the patch to provide a new leccy feed to me boxes, as and when they get relocated ... soon hopefully :thummar:

**#1252** » 22:54:48, 08-03-2019

found some of these LED type 'fluorescents' earlier in the week .... :smile:

Non Corrosive LED Batten Striplight

LED
4000K (Natural White)
Integrated LED module
lamp type 51W LED Module (SMD 2835)
IP65
240V - 25,000 hours life
Not dimmable
lumens per watt 5750

need summat to go in the roof of the black shed and these are no dearer than HF fluorescents, :thumme:

so took the chance after being told they're pretty damned good light from 'em and having had a conversation with the suppliers :vissla:

will be interesting to see how they perform :huh:

.... they'll be 12 ft in the air ..... give one a boot up, 'fore they go up ... if they don't cut it they'll Ebay again, no sweat :grin:

did ask 'em if they have/had any more, but don't expect to in the near future :sad:

Been into the local leccy emporium earlier in the week for some back boxes for some MK metalclad socket fronts I have sat :vissla:

- got loads of 'em :smile:

.... took a pattern with me and showed him what I wanted .. he produced a box of five and I left armed with them and a load of trunking .. :thumme:

got some of the trunk up

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and a few switch back boxes :vissla:

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outside floods switch box with a second two way one to go in the house :thumme:

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then pulled a socket box out to get a couple up and ......... :screwy:

..... why after 50 odd years of production have MK seen fit to change their Metalclad range of gear FFS new ones are 'smooooooooth' radius-ed corners ..... :aaargh:

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with a swaged back box, to achieve this :huh:

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there must be millions of the old raised edge type that you will still see everywhere .... and of which I have many faces, but the back boxes have disappeared from my stocks, over time :sad:

would not believe the fun and games I've had sourcing some of the original system's boxes -- even though they still produce them !! :aaargh:

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sorted five (all they had) coming yesterday :smile:

... if they were right :???:

... as for the new style, well .... they'm way too big and the faces drop inside them :myzsko:

WTF fix summat that ain't broke ??? :aaargh:

well Vicki picked up me box of five Metalclad MK back boxes for me yesterday .... right ones they were too :thummar:

My 8 way consumer unit arrived this afternoon with the posty :cool:

.... very pleased with it .... will do nicely :thummar:

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shudder to think what it'd have cost me locally :eek:

.... a damned sight more than Ebay's 32 quid for sure and plenty of room in the IP65 enclosure for all I have to do in there. :hurra:

LED strip lights arrived late this morning, but not had a chance to open those up yet :vissla:

... been a long 'Clara day' !! and no chance of opening up the 6ft+ boxes with her marauding about :huh:

.... and it's been some bit wet here today :???:

pretty sure I have all other items required to get the job wrapped up, bar a few new IP67 placcy cable glands, which'll take a few minutes to install at their positions, in the end of two lines for outside floods :vissla:

.... local place didn't have any with a small enough bore, :sad:

so had to order 'em ... you guessed it ... the place with everything :grin:

Hoping for a dry day tomorrow .... got our water system to service, before I can get on, after our UV lamp decided to die , earlier in the week. :sad:

Always keep a service kit sat for it .... forecast was looking good - ish for tomorrow - dry at least, 'til the evening and not too bad Sunday either :cool:

**#1253** » 00:13:38, 09-03-2019

Don´t you need any three-phase outlets? :klia:

**#1254** » 01:38:59, 09-03-2019

lagun49 skrev:Don´t you need any three-phase outlets?

Not in the mower shed Boyo :vissla:

..... would also need the genny to power them :huh:

..... I don't have 3ph on tap here :sad:

Domestic supplies in the UK are 1ph - 240V only :sad:

I do however have plenty of 3ph extension leads :grin:

**#1255** » 10:40:59, 09-03-2019

...desperately trying to find a crack at "phase" but went belly up on that one :ohnej:

I guess it´s just a phase in life :vissla:

**#1256** » 11:02:06, 09-03-2019

**#1257** » 03:42:22, 11-03-2019

magirus skrev:...desperately trying to find a crack at "phase" but went belly up on that one
I guess it´s just a phase in life

Lol .... not like you to lost for a Quip :uupps:

well me strip lights got a try :smile:

..... these are flat strips / arrays of LEDs on a flat panel .... with some sort of driver unit behind the panel .... forgot - - yeh, I forgot :huh:

- - to take some pix of the guts .... I'll rectify that again :smile:

Jeeeeeeez they are 'kin bright .... :eek:

without diffuser .....

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with diffuser ....

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camera doesn't do it justice TBF ..... it's a 'clean' light if that makes any sense ..... sharp and bright. :cool:

I now have a dilemma
me 40ft tool box has 5 x 4ft twins - 20 ft of lighting and has a decent light level ......
do I replace them with these 24ft of 4 x 6ft eye schorchers ??? :vissla:

seems a waste of awesomeness, putting them in't mower shed, which'll only get switched on occasionally and stick the 4 fts in the mower shed ... nigh on same output from these HF fluros, just not as sharp ..... or 'bright'
got enough wiring going on already though :vissla:

......................... but ???? :???:

having found a label inside one of these units today ... been trying to suss a source for more of them .... :thumme:

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seem to have some connections with Screwfix???? but are a
" dormant company incorporated on 26 March 2007 with the registered office located in Yeovil, Somerset. Powersmith Limited has been running for 11 years 11 months. There are currently 2 active directors and 0 active secretaries according to the latest confirmation statement submitted on 22nd June 2018." :???:

https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/06182952-powersmith-limited

Most odd? more research required !! :coffee:

got on well yesterday with the equipment installation for the wiring .... :thumme:

Consumer unit mount ...

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with conduits into the trunking for more cabling

rest of the sockets (for now) up .. need some more square trunking to run further back into the shed .... do it while I'm 'in the zone' :grin:

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and turned my attention to getting the light units up in the ridge .... the 4 fts'll have to stay in the box .... can not be arsed to strip and refit that !! :vissla:

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managed to get the second one up by the end of play today :thummar:

.... between everything else ... one more to do tomorrow, perhaps .... been quite a battle getting them up :sad:

.... balanced on a few planks spanning my high level shelving.... ridge is an uncomfortable height above ... not tall enough to be good stood up and a bit too high off yer knees .... been an interesting, uncomfortable day :sad: