roblane65
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I'm in Newcastle could possibly pick it up for you and send on if its a too good to miss deal.
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The chap selling it is working at Derby next week which is about 150miles each way for me, so better than 200. But he has a mate who drives a truck all over the country but typically he's in Scotland this week so hoping I can work something out next week. But thanks for the offer.
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If you do, dismantle and clean them one at a time. The sides are not always interchangeable as the roll pin positions can vary. If you mix them up, sometimes the only way you can get them to be square and flat is to drive the pins back flush with the face.
150mm cubes are less popular these days. For some strange reason, 100mm cubes give higher crush strengths for the same concrete than 150mm ones. 100mm ones take less concrete to fill, so the cubie has to carry less weight about in his/her bucket . They are less weight to cart around when the test lab's van calls. The only advantage of the larger ones is they withstand harsh treatment a little better than the smaller ones.
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My first ever job on a building site was making these up every morning before brewing up for the paddy's! £15 cash in hand a week for an hours work a day after my paper rounds! £35 a week, I was rich I tell yis, rich!
I then started my apprenticeship and only earned £28.50 a week full time on a thieving Thatcherite YTS scheme!
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It's bad ATM with stock levelsI know that fact all too well. Handy, until the time you forget which shop you placed that online order with.
Last week I collected orders from 2 Toolstations and 3 Screwfix on the same morning.
At least they were all In mk.
Next day collection is a joke right now. 3 to 4 days usually
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You're another one who had the misfortune of leaving school in that rather brief period then? We got royally shafted for apprenticeship opportunities.
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Today I picked up one of Lidl's 240V heat guns [had to try 2 x stores the one I was successful only had 3 left so can't see them making it to their 'Reduced' bin 
] and sets of their wire brushes and "locking pliers".
Also, while in the Inverness branch of H.I.S looking [unsuccessfully
] for other stuff, picked up one of these from a bin - and @The_Yellow_Ardvark will love this - marked "FREE".
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/27433642...o3NKJm-XXrulVWrhesZmh6KumMCUs_lEaAuwdEALw_wcB
I won't use it on the car but it could do on the windows, when God neglects his/her duties and I'm forced to clean them myself i.e. when it gets too dark inside.....
Had I managed to buy what I was looking for I would have asked for another but I didn't have the skin on my face....
And, as an aside, a good clinic report where the para-protein level has fallen yet again, down to 2.0 from 2.5 from the last bloods. Only have to attend monthly from here on in as long as the readings hover around that level or [being positive (greedy?
) 
] drop even further. 
] and sets of their wire brushes and "locking pliers".Also, while in the Inverness branch of H.I.S looking [unsuccessfully
] for other stuff, picked up one of these from a bin - and @The_Yellow_Ardvark will love this - marked "FREE".https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/27433642...o3NKJm-XXrulVWrhesZmh6KumMCUs_lEaAuwdEALw_wcB
I won't use it on the car
but it could do on the windows, when God neglects his/her duties and I'm forced to clean them myself i.e. when it gets too dark inside.....Had I managed to buy what I was looking for I would have asked for another but I didn't have the skin on my face....
And, as an aside, a good clinic report where the para-protein level has fallen yet again, down to 2.0 from 2.5 from the last bloods. Only have to attend monthly from here on in as long as the readings hover around that level or [being positive (greedy?
) ] drop even further. 
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And, as an aside, a good clinic report where the para-protein level has fallen yet again, down to 2.0 from 2.5 from the last bloods. Only have to attend monthly from here on in as long as the readings hover around that level or [being positive (greedy?
Glad to hear
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That takes me back a bit, when I was an apprentice at RMC if I’d been bad I‘d be given a slumpie’s van to service instead of a truck, they were animals...
They had Escort vans, got sent out to one broken down in Guildford with clutch failure, was just a snapped cable so told him to drive it back to the workshops in Yateley - him: ‘I can’t, it’s got no clutch’. Me: you take my van, I’ll drive it; still had most of the gearbox when I got back
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over the weekend I was gifted this
from a pal who works at a hospital , he said a few of them went in the skip
I'm thinking welding cart. It's very well
made but a bit wide also aquired a couple of pairs of wheelie bin axles and wheels
and finally a rotabroach 19mm hole saw for very little of faceachemarketbook only because it was on me doorstep.
from a pal who works at a hospital , he said a few of them went in the skip
I'm thinking welding cart. It's very wellmade but a bit wide also aquired a couple of pairs of wheelie bin axles and wheels
and finally a rotabroach 19mm hole saw for very little of faceachemarketbook only because it was on me doorstep.
Any bodyshop supplies place will have the scotch pads. Worth buying good brands like 3m, the cheap ones don't hold their 'edge'.
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We use 150mm cubes for concrete and 100mm cubes for grout.
You don't ever want to make a grout cube without oiling the form
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Not today but recently swapped 3D printers with my BIL
I had a Copymaster dual extruder and he had the Ender 5 Plus
Liking the Ender lots, not sure if it's my imagination but pretty sure the Copymaster was slightly faster.
One thing that was a definite, the stepper motors on the Ender are really noisy, so after a week I splashed out on a silent board upgrade which I fitted tonight. Difference has surprised me, stepper motor noise reduced to nothing
Water cooling next so I can get rid of the hotend fan
I had a Copymaster dual extruder and he had the Ender 5 Plus
Liking the Ender lots, not sure if it's my imagination but pretty sure the Copymaster was slightly faster.
One thing that was a definite, the stepper motors on the Ender are really noisy, so after a week I splashed out on a silent board upgrade which I fitted tonight. Difference has surprised me, stepper motor noise reduced to nothing
Water cooling next so I can get rid of the hotend fan
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Also splashed out on an Axial Jeep XJ, been out of stock across the UK for ages, guessing the slow boat has arrived as suddenly everyone has them in stock
It's a rock crawler so 4WD and locked axles, had a play tonight and am liking it lots
It's a rock crawler so 4WD and locked axles, had a play tonight and am liking it lots
You can buy those consumables a whole lot cheaper from shoprivers shop on ebay. Just look for PT31 consumables.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PT-31-Ai...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
A lot of those sets are not a very well thought either, unless you are very clumsy you'll rarely have to replace the ceramic bits! And the inner copper bit is double ended so you only need half the amount compared to the outer copper bit!
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Thank you! It is still cheaper than the £51 I was seeing. I don't understand why, but sometimes the same search on my Mrs phone can show different item prices than mine
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The set I got was only a tenner so about the same price for the amount
