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WotEver

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  1. One of my favourites is “I have a 100 Amp battery”. My response to myself is always “Gee, it must be pretty small. I wonder what its capacity is...”
  2. Hmmm... how is amps per day any better than amps per hour, or amps per leap-year? Amphours per day would have been perfectly acceptable.
  3. It depends on the paint. Some has lots of pigment and covers well (I’m a fan of Leyland for that), and some goes on like dirty water (I bought some like that from Wilko once).
  4. Do not. I’ll emphasise that, DO NOT push hard with the Tercoo. Just rest it on the surface, be patient, wear ear defenders, and let the tool do the work. If you push hard the tips will break.
  5. As Iain suggests, can you easily drill a hole lower down on the gearbox lever?
  6. Bear in mind that it is the generation of the power used that needs to be the first consideration. There’s no point in having a bunch of batteries that you can’t fully charge. In general terms your battery bank capacity should be at least 3 times your average daily usage. Bigger is better but you firstly have to know that you can generate something like 120% of your daily usage.
  7. I’m not sure. Do I know you, young man?
  8. There are three things I can never remember... ... er...
  9. Me too. Clean, degrease, remove loose rust, Vactan, Danboline. Looked lovely.
  10. I originally wrote “... third harmonic, fifth harmonic...” but then changed it ‘cos I couldn’t remember if that was right (it was a long time ago).
  11. A cheap mains grinder and the hire of a genny would cost less than 4 decent batteries. And if you have no mains how are you going to charge them?
  12. Ah yes, Bin is only for spot priming. My recommendation was for Zinser Coverstain, not Bin. Coverstain is designed for internal and external use and is a full-function primer. Bin is more for covering knots in pine and such like.
  13. So I guess you could say he was up-cycling...
  14. Where did you read that Mark? It’s specced for exterior use and I’ve never had it fail in my (admittedly limited) experience.
  15. Yep. If you draw a sine wave then add the second harmonic over the top, then the third, and keep going... you get a square wave
  16. He’s right though. Unless the batteries have been recently replaced, budget to replace them. A surveyor won’t be able to check their capacity so anything he says about them is worthless.
  17. Worth pointing out at this juncture that the reason (some) sanders are equipped with variable speed is so that you can select a slow speed such that they won’t heat up and melt the paint you’re attempting to sand. Won’t help an awful lot with already-soft bitumen but it’s worth remembering when keying paint.
  18. Is it just poorly worded or does it really mean that you ‘must not do this, but if you do...’ ? And what does the last sentence mean in the context of the preceding? Okay, so I went to the Gov site to read what is actually written and that makes far more sense: These small vehicles travel at a maximum speed of 8 mph (12 km/h). On a dual carriageway where the speed limit exceeds 50 mph (80 km/h) they MUST have a flashing amber beacon, but on other roads you may not have that advance warning (see Rules 36 to 46 inclusive).
  19. A few years ago the missus was at the building society when two chaps, each on a mobility buggy, were beeping their horns at each other and juggling for who should be at the front of the queue. “Road Rage in the Halifax!” observed the missus.
  20. ^^^^^ This. Greenie given. They're also available in 6" (I have one).
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