Woodworking joints and machines

[The Medway Handyman]

>>>>> With a 3 stage pendulum, it cuts fast, and the solid cast base plug

Mr Rumm made bullied me into buying one a while ago - its the dogs bollox :-)

[Tim Watts]

Very nice :) 20 degrees looks good. I'd probably use that sort of angle for the top section of a gambrel, or maybe 15.

I had a look at some shed plans online (free ones) and there are a lot that don't bother with the diagonal bracing which seems surprising.

I like the idea of leaving a gap between internal lining and insulation for wiring.

[John Rumm]

To be fair, once the sheet materials are fixed to it, its braced anyway. I ended up fitting less bracing than I designed since it seemed plenty firm enough. Also in reality are are not usually any serious racking forces on a shed!

I suspect if I were doing another, I would go with straight studwork construction, with a temporary brace screwed across it at an angle until enough of the structure is there to become self re-enforcing. That would also save titting about cutting odd angles of insulation!

(might even be worth building the whole thing as a warm deck - frame, cover with PIR insulation, nail cladding through the insulation into the frame. No thermal bridges, much faster construction, and all the structural timber is inside the thermal envelope.

That was more of a happy accident than forward planning. A combination of 2" insulation and 3" timber! (being polystyrene I used trunking to keep the PVC away from it!)

[D.M.Chapman]

Heh, it's next on my buy list as well. You bullied me into buying the impact driver last year for deck building (again, mutts nuts) - decent jigsaw this year :)

Darren

[Jules Richardson]

Mask off the bits you want to keep, and unleash the termites? ;-)

[Tim Watts]

It's a technique - that's for sure ;->

[Perry (News)]

On Fri, 21 May 2010 23:48:12 +0100, John Rumm waxed lyrical about:

>>>>>>>>

Or you can have it for a fair bit less... £109 inc VAT and free delivery here

've used them a few times before and they've always been OK

Perry

[Tim Watts]

>> Or you can have it for a fair bit less... £109 inc VAT and free > delivery here >

> I've used them a few times before and they've always been OK

Thank you good sir. I shall be ordering one of those.