Recent content by Antoin

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Needed a phone as my current Moto G4 is just shutting down for no apparent reason. Battery always still shows sign of life. Anyway I am a cheapskate so went with a cheap Chinese mobile phone which seems to have good specs and was £90 cheaper on Black Friday. It is a Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro. Should do...

Currently in the process of buying a mid rise scissor lift for my single home garage. Its a lot of money for me and it is definitely a "want to have" rather than a "must have". I don't spend much on clothes, dont drink or go out often, don't gamble, don't have fancy cars so this is my treat to...

My dad and his mate were putting in timber posts up at our football pitch one evening. My dad on the sledge and his mate holding the posts. For some reason my dads mate thought my dad had finished hammering and set his hand on top of the post with my dad in mid swing. Queue one badly broken/...

Really like this build. I appreciate all the new builds that are on here but I really love seeing the older sheds getting rejuvenated.

Timber/lumber material over here (Ireland) still going up. Had another prive rise email in on Monday... 20% increase for September. Madness! Same with most other building materials as well. Last year we were buying sheets of a393 mesh for £38. It's now around £100 a sheet.

I use this type which I have made up a stand for; https://www.drapertools.com/product/60981/Coil-Spring-Compressor-Kit I have never seen full struts available new over this side of the atlantic so we are generally always disassembling struts to do broken springs/ laky shocks/ rough top bearings.

The renter should be banned from ever driving again!

Prices are going crazy over this side of the Atlantic as well. Covid and Brexit are being blamed. Everything is going up in price except my wages! More people not being able to go on holidays has led to them spending their money on upgrading their houses, adding extensions, building extra...

Gabion baskets. Galvanised wire baskets filled with rock/ stone. Water wont erode the stone away but I am not sure if the galvanised wire basket would fail after a while.

Havent touched my air impact in about 4years I reckon. I am only a hobby/ DIY user so anytime I need an impact wrench its always the cordless as it means i havent to fire up the compressor, pull airline out etc etc. If i was in a professional garage with constant air then it would probably get...

Do standard sockets/ outlets in the US not have a switch? I've never seen/ heard of anything like this happen personally over here. Not that it ever hasn't to someone. Also very hard to dislodge a plug from our socket even by yanking on it due to the wire coming in at the bottom of the plug...

Some people just have too much time on their hands or else they are just not all there in the head. I live in a quiet coastal town, a lot of OAPs settle here and with all their free time all a lot of them do is write letters objecting to planning permission. They need some ****** hobbies...

I have a second hand set of Kamasa 3/4 drive sockets. It gets used the very odd time but when its needed it is needed!

I use tyrolit. Never had one explode that wasn't being abused. I have in the past cut through suspension springs under compression and that caused them to explode but that was when I was a young idiot [emoji1787] Sent from my Moto G (4) using The Garage Journal mobile app