Much as they get stick they are worth at least checking out before automatically assuming online is better/cheaper/the only place. Most of the smaller auto-factors have gone nowadays so they are the next best thing.
Can't find the ones I've got on the web any more - not overly surprising as I got them cheap when they were being discontinued. But they aren't that unusual...
I've got a set of sockets the same from Halfords. Actually come to think of it I've also got a dinky little quarter drive socket and bit set from either Aldi or Lidl and the sockets in that are the same. They are surprisingly versatile in what they'll get a grip on and they get a good grip so...
A tenner at Halfords or less if you have a trade card. I've managed decent repairs on stone-chips in windscreens. Temperature is key - too cold and it won't creep into smaller cracks.
DIY but not welding related (well not unless I go for a REALLY industrial look in the bathroom).
There's a load of wasted space under the sink in my bathroom and I'd like to fill it with a cupboard. I've seen the add-on ones designed to go under an existing sink but I would like the top to be...
Yep - engage the diff lock and leave that where it is. So long as there isn't another bit of the broken prop flailing around under the car it'll drive almost as normal.
One of the things I like about older Land-Rovers - whilst I'm perfectly prepared to admit that things go wrong and maybe even...
My grandfather was involved in an investigation for Leyland trucks where vehicles sent to South Africa kept dying with all the apparent symptoms of low oil but the people over there swore that they were putting the right amount of oil in at the specified service intervals. On going out there to...
Some years back the local park was closed down when some scuba divers doing a charity event found some unexploded ordnance in the bottom of the pond. Apparently at the end of WW2 un-used stuff was shipped to disposal sites by squaddies in trucks but the controls weren't quite what they should...
The runway denial system was one I always thought was cool - in a sort of morbid way. It was a bomb that would blow a hole in a runway but as the main charge went off it blew a bunch of bomblets out the back end. These things were a mixed bag of delay fuses that would go off after a random...
Yep - well it depends on the trusses that you've got. On mine in it's existing form they are welded angle iron frames cross-wise. The original roof was held on with hook-bolts that just hooked under the frames. I found that 3x2 is a tight fit in between the flanges of the angle so shoved a piece...
Looks like I should have done a bit more digging before I hassled the collective. I appear to have found the answer to my own question.
Not like I've got anything else useful to do whilst sat at my desk.
Bit more Google-fu and it would appear that there's a local place that sells Compton garages so I might wander in and ask some questions - they might even sell individual panels for not silly money or have some second hand ones. Come to think of it their name is familiar and part of my problem...
@gaz1 None of it is set in stone which is why I'm trying to find out the numbers so that I can plug them into the various equations.
If some come up close enough then I might be more prepared to risk a guess and/or multiple trips but if some panels come up 30 miles away I don't want to be...
I'm looking to extend my garage by adding more sections - or at least this is one option I'm considering. You can usually get the sections relatively cheap second hand but you've got to move the things and I'm quite aware how these things can quickly add up weight wise so I'm trying to work out...
We had some wicked ones in the defence industry - even from a few years ago I'd trust them to remove any data far beyond the ability of the most determined and skilful Chinaman to retrieve......... but they took so long to run it was cheaper to just throw the disks into a secure destruction bag...
Possibly a bit after-the-fact but a mate and I went to the Anderton Boat Lift open day the other week.
Given that it was an open day we got to go "up-top" (a tad windy and chilly the day before Ciara hit but interesting) but interesting having a nosey at all the double helix cogs (Mr Citroens...
I've got a 150t-something or other so should be largely the same. It'll weld 5mm andgle to 5mm plate with the HAZ visible on the other side with no probs. I use a pub sized CO2 bottle.
Duty cycle.... never timed it but. It will hit a thermal cutout eventually and stop play until it cools down...
Probably still not going to be possible for some but you don't actually go cross-eyed to see them but the opposite - "wall-eyed". I find the easiest way is to try and look through the things. If you've got it printed off then look at something on the other side of the room and then bring the...
I used to have a program for Windows (3.1) that would create these from pictures - from memory it used the shading to apply depth so greyscale images of fairly simple shapes worked best. The resulting images were just black and white dots that sort of looked like a still of the "snow" from an...