As per the title, I'm after a new pair of side cutters for electrical work at home with the odd side-trip into clipping MIG wire, please would you recommend a brand/model based on experience? I've used Knipex at work and they seem OK, are there any better out there? I'm not saying money is no...
Having now been in the world of work for a few years I've come to the conclusion that the 'skeleton staff getting contractors in to do all maintenance tasks' has its shortcomings, one being that you can never get any one to do the one-off or low-level stuff which you really do need to to keep...
Collective wisdom time. Mrs Browser hits 5 decades this August and would like to get a DSLR, which I know nowt about, so any advice on what to buy welcomed. She's used phone, compact and bridge cameras before but not a DSLR. We've absolutely no objection to buying used if we'll get a good deal...
Hi all, a while back a friend asked for wiring advice for pendant lampholder. I advised her she'd need 3 core flex if the holder body was metal, which it was, as it would need to be connected to earth. She's now bought one from eBay which looks like this;
if you look at the lower right...
That's what happened with ours Sam, froze up then I knocked the bloody thing off the wall with the wheelie bin in a frost and it sheared off flush with the bricks!
Hi all, I've currently got a 20 mm bore PVC overflow-size pipe through our garage wall which is the condenstae drain from our condensing boiler. A plumber who serviced it recently advised retrofitting a 40mm dia drain and since the outside pipe snapped off a few months (years!) ago (caught it...
Just getting in on the die grinder part of this thread, the first one I had was electrically-powered and I found if it grabbed it bloody-well GRABBED! changed to a air powered one and I can only assume the lower inertia from the motor rotor has an effect as it's far easier to control. Anyone...
Hi all, I've had a Thermal Arc 175TE for some time now but have never managed to find anyone to tech me how to TIG weld. I got back in touch with an old mate via Facebook who it turns out is a welder and offered to show me how to get started.......................that was last March and the...
Thanks for that Fizzy, interesting read. Funnily enough our insurer is indeed FM Global as mentioned in the discussion and they were the ones who required us to lock the valves with chains rather than leather straps. Looks like it's 'please the insurere and keep schtum' or 'try and convince the...
Hi, dunno whether anyone can help me, but I'm trying to find any industry guidance/rules & regs/legislation about fire fighting deluge systems, particularly to how you secure the isolating valves. I've been ued to the use of leather straps padlocked in place to secure the valves but can't find...
I've used PVC to make a container for the tubes/hoses for my sump oil sucking thingy so I think I'll nick your idea and do the same for rods :)
Thanks for all the replies, I'll take a look at my stock and see which look saveable, which look beyond and separate accordingly :)
Apologies if this has been done to death and back to life again, but whats the maximum pi55-taking length of time an electrode will survive once it's packet it opened? They're kept in an unheated garage and whilst I have a cheapo (doubtless Chinese-made) heated rod quiver I understand this is to...
Thanks for the recommendation Brad, I should have said though I'm a DIY user and whilst I'm planning on stepping up my use I couldn't justify the cost of the drier you've recommended as it cost more than the plasma cutter would to replace.
Goo shout on the auto-drain though, I'm forever...
Apologies if this has been asked before but please can you recommend an air dryer for my plasma cutter (Cut-40)? The air supply is from a belt-drive piston compressor and whilst I've owned the Cut-40 for a few years now it's spent most of it's time idle but that will be changing this year, and...
I will watch this thread with great interest, I've got two 10F's and a Broadway (Clausing re-named and sold in the UK) on the garage floor waiting for me to do something with them. Current plan is to move the two 10F's on and use the Broadway as it's bigger/heftier but we'll see :)
The ones on site already are Sundstrom SR500 fan units with an SR580 hemlet/face shield, but our EHS Manager is pretty good at getting kit if it's needed and s I (a) don't always shave, (b) other lads don't either and have had the correct PPE bought for them and (c) the Sundstrom doesn't fit me...
Hi all, my workplace mandates use of respirators for some tasks, for which we had to be face-fit tested, and whilst I have a perfectly serviceable Sundstrom SR100 half-face mask I don't always have the requisite clean-shaven mush for it to seal to. They've bought others the SR500 full-face...