Recent content by davidpbo

Would you get an (AA) inspection on a car of a similar value?

I used to use a joggle tube to syphon from into my running tank but might be a bit slow for your purposes.

I put a new backing pad on before using the tool yesterday which was before posting on here. The sheet pad adhesion was better for maybe the first couple of sheets but then got very poor. I was sanding a very thin edge between door frame and architrave, not a flat surface.

I am using a Bosch triangular backing plate with velcro type hooks on a Bosch oscillating multi tool to secure felt back sanding sheets to it. Length of each of the 3 sides is approx. 90mm I am finding the discs become detached ridiculously quickly whatever I do. I am using cheap sheets at the...

+1 for the multi tool. I had an Aldi one which did for quite a few years, then bought a Bosch. Aldi probably do a battery one now, the supplied blades do not last but Bosch ones fitted I don't know whether they still do. The Bosch one I bought uses the Starlock system and the blades can be...

I will buy most things secondhand but that is something I would think twice about ......for climbing. Is there a market for secondhand climbing rope? When we first started sailing a friend of mine worked for a roped access company and had some retired lines in his boot that he let me have. I...

It looks to me as though it is a raised pivot point rather than a tabernacle. I used to raise the mast (10m length) on a Jenneau Tonic 23.5 ft trailerable yacht using an aluminium scaff pole as a gin pole and ratchet straps. One pair as temporary baby stays to steady the mast and one pair to...

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More like an Odin trailer sailers.

Our house's chimney & TV aerial was hit by lighting, we had to replace all electronics that was plugged in at the time.

Having looked at some open turnbuckles on yhe the Jimmy Green website, it would seem that my understanding was incorrect and that the split pins stop the turnbuckle turning and were not end stops. The ones I saw had no lock nuts. As someone who had a 23ft trailerable boat where the mast had to...

Will not, or should not? IMHO lock nuts are a simple additional safety measure, I am not aware that they cause problems. I would have thought there was a definite risk of the changing tension in a twisted wire causing the turnbuckle to loosen without them.

Are we talking at cross purposes folks? The split pins I mentioned go through the end of the threads inside the open turnbuckle to provide an end stop. The locking nuts are on the outside of the turnbuckle top and bottom and used to lock the thread once the correct tension is set in the...

I used a wire cup wheel on an angle grinder. I did not get every last bit of it off.

On my trailerable boat I wish I had gone for open, I would have liked to have been able see the position of the thread. Also open usually have a split pin on the thread to stop them coming out I think. Not such a problem if the mast isn't up and down regularly.