No,MY structural engineer,as in the one I use regularly.
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Hood
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There you go @slim_boy_fat , much better than citric acid on the rusty old chain. Would have been better stainless but only had galv.
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Hope you have moused the shackle, we don't want it coming undone.
Hood
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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Good enough master bates.
Sorry that should have read "£120 bill to the council" I certainly wouldn't be sending them £120!!!!
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Contact your insurance company, they will be able to give free legal advice.
Plus find out who is responsible for the up keep of that road.
Expect a fight, but stand your ground and they will pay.
Don't rush to go into the press, but go through channels. I have and have had success.
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Never tell insurance anything, any excuse and they will put your risk up for next time. £££ for them.
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I did that, Unmarked, unfinished ramp on an open road, got in touch with the council who put their own solicitor on the case to support me!
Got compo pretty quick for damage to my car - didn't involve my insurance at all.
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In the late 1950's next doors Anderson shelter was a working shed with a small pot bellied stove & stove pipe going through the back centre I notice your shelter sits on a stub wall I seem to recall theirs was in a footing of 300 mm deep of concrete where a six foot tall man could stand upright in the middle and not get scalped with the top nuts bolt protrusions.
Were there different models ?
DAPPH
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The edges were not razor sharp on any I've seen /been in , the metal is about 1/8 inch thick ........ that was sorted before the galvanizingJust imagine the risk assement with all that sharp corrugated iron - no you can't use it until the HSE police have vetted it even if there ARE bombs raining down
DAPPH
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Yellow Poly Prop hard foams wheels don't puncture or deflate over a few months . I changed all my 8 pneumatics over to them about four years ago once they became eBay cheap & available ..but I did have to put all new bearing in them as the crap they were fitted with was rather crunchy at 50 kg loadings .Got some gas today and wheeling it round to the workshop from the van it felt strange.
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I had a spare sheet of 5mm alu from a cancelled job so quick design in fusion then onto the plasma with the sheet and cut some bits.
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Hauled out the mig and tacked it up.
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Fully welded
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Popped to B&Q for some wheels, made a stainless axle and tested it out, perfectAlso the pneumatic tyres don't play havoc with the finger joints as I pull the cylinder over the cobbles, last wheels were solid and it was bloody sore on the joints. Just need to get a wee bit chain now.
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Robert’s shelter is slightly taller than standard at about 6’6” the stub wall is there to achieve that and because like a lot of them the curved sheets he bought first were cut off at ground level when they were removed. Standard height was just slightly over 6 foot I believe.
Your neighbours one sounds like a nice little nook. Although I must admit that having constructed this one and going down inside it, made me realise that they weren’t built for a holiday. Actually a little sobering.
As for models I think there was only one standard pattern made in several places throughout the country I believe. If you had a large enough family you could have an extra pair of curved sheets to make room. And you sometimes see them widened in the middle with a flat sheet on top but I don’t know if that happened much at the time.
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Cool! For practising on or do you leap on your horse from it?
