Confession Time

[Ian White]

Then cut it again, and a third time - and dammit, it's still too short.

[mike]

"Eddie G0EHV" wrote in news:h56dneNYM [e-mail]:

That doesn't work for me, pipe, timber etc, it's always

"Measure umpteen times from all directions, cut once - it's still too b**** short"

mike

[HLAH]

My old workmate has plenty of nicks, I think the new ones are pretty much damage free.

Yep many years ago replacing a immersion in a Fortic cylinder, wasn't too clued up on how header tanks work at that time :-)

Always been pretty good with that. Though I was nearly electrocuted by the YTS boy years ago, twice, little prat!

That's next week ;-)

My classic - architrave or coving cut wrong handed, so many bloody times!

H

[Colin Stamp]

The next time that bloody happens to me, I'm going to say "sod it, we'll have the coving running down the wall in that corner."

Cheers,

Colin.

[<me9]

I haven't had water gushing through the ceiling, it was worse, My best DIY beer! I had put a dust cover over the tap but left it turned on. The cover blew off when the barrel pressurised, the first I knew was the amber nectar gushing through the ceiling.

I only did it once, though.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I backed a landrover into mine.

[Guy King]

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

I reversed over my favourite Primus stove.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

What mine was that then? ;-)

[Huge]

I drove over the tyre pressure gauge.

(***Favourite*** Primus stove?!??!?!?!?!?!?)

[bof]

The ply jaws on my workmate split after a couple of years service and got replaced with some nice hardwood from a fire surround that got stripped out, and still going strong after 18 years, though I do need some more of the little plastic peg stops.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Spare parts section, B&D indoor,

[bof]

inc. P&P, but it did get me looking around, there's a few places doing them on eBay for c. £5, search for: workmate pegs.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

I dont use the pegs, I've made some dowling the same diam as the holes and glued&screwed the dowl pegs to a strip of 1'3/8" piece of wood the lenght of the table.

Just dump the wood strip in the holes when I need it.

[meow2222]

{deep denial} whats a mistake? {/denial}{/denial}{/denial}

NT

[dingbat]

Ply? Was that an old Workmate ? 8-) Most of my Workmates have good quality birch ply tops on them by now, partly to reduce damage, partly to replace the crappy MDF they're generally supplied with these days. Fix it decently and you'll have _improved_ the thing.

When I make trestles for big framing, I make them with softwood top members that are deliberately at least a blade radius higher than any fixing metalwork. Now I can just saw straight through the tops, without trying to arrange any dangerous overhangs. They last surprisingly well and it's a lot easier to re-make some more trestles every year than it is to worry about where I'm sawing.

Tage Frid told a nice story of apprentices with a foreman who charged them a Danish kroner each time they put an accidental cut into their workbench. Finally one of the apprentices was leaving to join the army and he prominently gave the foreman a last kroner "as he'd cut the bench". The foreman was pleased with his honesty, until he'd left and he saw the bench -- now sawn completely in two.

[John Stumbles]

There are some deep (and very neat) slots in the ally frame of the vertical circular saw rig at our local B&Q :-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ian" saying something like:

Priceless.

[Guy King]

The message from Huge contains these words:

Yeah. I've got a few. Can't be more than seven or eight.

But I can give up any time.

Just don't look too closely at the collection of Tilley/Optimus/Primus lamps.

[Huge]

Ah, but Tilley lamps are different. I revised for my A Levels by the light of a Tilley lamp (Winter of Discontent, and all that).

[The Natural Philosopher]

I remember as a lad finding what I thought was a spent bullet,. clamping it in the vice and hacksawing off the brass bit on the end..to see what the dimple was..

My father caught it more than me, for leaving live .22 rounds around the place.