Anyone made a deck with galv. rhs or channel framing? Although steel prices have gone up here treated timber has gone up more, and the quality is pants.
It hardly rains these days, but I imagine some impermeable tape or whatever between the wood and the steel would be a good idea to prevent...
DHL works, except when it doesn't......
An outfit called SEUR which takes over parcels from some UK companies almost never works. GLS ditto. Then there's the black hole of customs. Really, just don't do it unless your life depends on it.
I'm here in Portugal, and my experience, and that of plenty of others, is to never, if you can avoid it, order anything from the UK. It disappears into Customs, they decide its value, and it's totally uneconomic. Or, the parcel company (all of them, including ebay's global shipping programme)...
Duh......in fact 'cos two artificial lakes supply (or don't, there's the rub) the massive locks with rainwater. And there ain't enough rain.
It wouldn't be practical to pump enough seawater from either side.
Current problem with the Panama canal is insufficient rainfall and inadequate water for the ginormous locks, but someone will be along in a minute to tell me climate change is a hoax.....
I've just done the over and under dashboard (huge thing in an old Hymer camper) and the bulkhead with Kilmat. It seemed the cheapest option from a supplier on Amazon Germany. Sticks like the proverbial, easy to work with, and very effective.
As a time served cheapskate I'd explored the options...
Oh, I do like the idea of the hydraulic one, I didn't even know they existed. I see, although I haven't found a Europe based supplier, there's a US Pro one at a more reasonable price (£70) available in the UK.
It's more for replacing the rubbers than the joints themselves- the heat (40c today)...
Yikes, £107! I'm off to measure the biggest joint on my collection of beloved old clunkers.
I have used the hammer method in the past, and also a jack under the nut, some heat, and then a tap with the hammer, but age and arthritic wrists/fingers make me favour a tool which involves...
I've got a nice old Sykes-Pickavant ball joint splitter. Sadly it dates from the days of dinky little cars and won't look at the joints on my '97 Isuzu pickup, or my '90 Ducato based camper (things just don't rust here).
Any advice on a bigger one at a reasonable price?
Haha. I've paid my dues. Many moons ago I lived in Hamburg for a while, on -12 mornings I couldn't start my old Bonnie, the oil was too thick to kick it over. If I managed to get it going the guy at the wine cellar where I worked would sit me down on arrival with a glass of schnapps!