I’ve been happy with Green Flag, I’ve had two recoveries which worked out okay in the end. RAC forklifted my car off the back of one of their recovery trucks and then refused to accept blame for the damage caused. It was one of their subcontractors (elite recovery in falkirk) and ironically...
On a car I acquired recently I’ve had two check engine lights: the first had no symptoms and was a faulty lambda sensor after the catalytic converter: the second was accompanied by terrible misfiring and vehicle recovery. It was fixed by ignition coil pack replacement. So you can go from one...
I have a double fluorescent light fitting on the wall above welding bench and a 50w led extendable desk lamp placed right over the workpiece. Otherwise I can’t see what I’m doing either even with a 3m fancy helmet.
Get as much light as you can on the joint. This applies even more with tig.
Having a similar problem at the other half’s flat: by accident there was a normal bucket sitting in the kitchen with full plastic bags etc next to it. The mice crawled up the bags and fell into the bucket, which because it had another skimpy plastic bag in, they then couldn’t jump out of...
The thin walled Starret hole saws with integral drill sold for use in battery drills give an accurate size in my experience, eg the 35mm one makes a 35mm hole. Heavy use kills the teeth on them without cutting fluid.
Eg...
I saw someone selling a record 23 vice on eBay recently. They’d made a propah plywood enclosure to contain its 25odd kilos of iron in to ship it. Imagine what sort of wrecking ball that would have made flapping about in a van :D
Model kit packing is something I always half expect to see damage on given fragile contents and thin cardboard boxes, often lucky to have a single thin sheet of polystyrene each side. Had a lot come all the way from China with no damage as yet.
Even had a 15kg high pressure compressor sent air...