get an old moped and tune it up, most expensive cost for mine is the mot, tax at £17 insurance at £26 you cant go wrong...got 58 out of it in the end.
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turn your speakers up first.
there looks to be 2 types, one based on a bottle jack and the other on a hydraulic ram, theres a big difference in price too so do i presume the ram type is better?
I'm wanting to buy one for my shed, i see all the usual suspects make them, sealey, machine mart etc, can anyone reccomend a particular make, i want a floor standing model
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Mart, sorry for the delay, you need a bolster chisel and a big hammer, you put the bolster about 3/4" in from the top edge of the face that will be the finished face and whack it angling the bolster slightly to encourage a flake to come off, work your way along the block and then just turn it to...
Sandstone and limestone are sedimetary rocks, they are formed in layers, you have to look at them and work each piece individually, its not like steel its a more tactile medium, once you understand it you can work with it, its not hard, well actually its silica which on a molecular basis is...
i taught myself to do it off the web, you need loads of patience and to be methodical, also a jig in which to do it that you can fix a reference point to, it can be very frustrating and very rewarding too, welded seams in stainless rims gave me a problem when it came to trueing. i have some...
well for £5.50 on a free drill with a free motor it'll do me fine for the occasional use it will see, mine is a star wound motor so i dont think the power loss will be noticable, best thing about it was just how easy it was to make,
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OK, i have to confess now that my earlier posts were just testing the water to see if what i have come across and just copied was common knowledge, i certainly have never seen it done before, i just built a simple device using some common, readily available components which are regularly thrown...