Recent content by Megadodo

Re: The Lone Beech Garage Build Thread (60x46) Knowing your thought process about getting an installer in instead of doing it yourself and what actually happened is both annoying and ironic! I'm glad it all sorted and you have a working lift now. It is one of the reasons I only resort to...

Re: The Lone Beech Garage Build Thread (60x46) That would have driven me over the edge! You have more patience than me (mind you, that's not difficult!).

You should be able to make the door secure enough to deter/delay most casual thieves, even with a concrete garage a determined thief will still get in.

I love a good discussion and this one's pretty good. I, personally, would never pay for an N2 fill (some say that's because I'm tight!) for the following reasons. I run several cars, my daily drive has ordinary air and does 1000 miles a week and I check the pressures once a week. Never have I...

Get more brake line than you need and practice with the flaring tool before diving in on the truck. When building my kit car I bought a small pipe bender to make the bends look neat even though you could easy bend it by hand into quite tight turns. The task is well within your ability, from what...

I've got much better as I get older about putting my tools away after a job or even at night, mid job, and I try and use 5S principles. The initial effort in setting up known locations for you stuff can be significant the long term time saved is much more so! As for cleaning "wet" & "sticky"...

Good point about the breath ability bit Lippyp, I hadn't considered that, although we never had a damp problem despite all our ground floor was in fact stone slabs just laid on the ground, there was no damp course and the house was in wet north Lancashire. I guess it was all draughts in the...

Unless you are really replacing a significant quantity of mortar then you don't need to worry to much if you use an "ordinary" mortar, unless you after a perfect match of course. My Father got in trouble with our local building conservation "hitler" from the local council when he did some...

Oh yes, do it! I've always suspected that design department was anti American when they designed those bumpers! Good work on changing them to Euro spec.

I agree that the temps look good, check the gauge multi-plug, the engine earth (again and is there a battery to engine block connection?) and the actual connector for temperature sensor for corrosion and high resistance. Is the sensor making good contact with the head? Is there sealant or teflon...

Those McLarens are just superb! One for more lottery win garage along with a McLaren F1.

Can you actually see much of the back of the bumper when it's fitted to the truck? I understand the need for rust protection and the desire to having it look good but I would have thought standard silver car paint with a couple of coats of lacquer would do nicely? Or do you think its just a...

Typically a dry cell AA or AAA battery works at 1.5 volts and is considered "flat" at around 1.3 volts, now a standard re-chargable works at 1.2 volts, so the question is will your meter actually work properly at that voltage and will it see the batteries as flat and constantly flash a warning...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Concrete-Grinder-1010W-Planer-Mortar-Sander-Plaster-Floor-Scabbler-Handheld-Tool-/231233635946?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item35d699466a This is the one I thought might do!

I've been looking at how much to buy a grinder, around £100 plus consumables will I'm sure take off the lumps and bumps from your floor!