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In part one of this short series on repairing a window sill I showed you how to remove the rotten wood from the window. In part two I’ll begin the repair work by adding new wood and shaping a new…
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Repair a Window Sill
In this article I repair a window sill on a sash window that I removed from an extension we were having demolished. The window is modern, probably only a decade old, but the sill is already in a poor condition because…
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Fixing a Freezer Left Open Over Night
The other day the wife kindly offered to get us an ice lolly while we were watching a film, unfortunately, the freezer door didn’t close properly due to a fault with the handle and it was left all night about…
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Miscellaneous Resources
It can occasionally be difficult to track down a supplier for certain items so, rather than repeat the work each time I need to order something I’ve listed those suppliers here. Hopefully through the magic of Google you’ll also be…
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Draper Hand Powered Shredder Tear Down
We bought this shredder a few years ago now and although it’s broken it’s done all right considering we only paid a few pounds for it. It seems at least Amazon still sell this item but I don’t remember paying…
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Axminster ED16B2 Pillar Drill Review
I recently bought an Axminster ED16B2 pillar drill and I thought I would bang out a quick review for anyone else interested in getting one of these drills. It seems since I wrote this article Axminster have stopped selling this exact…
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Bosch PMF180 Review
As I’ve owned a Bosch PMF 180 E Multifunction Tool for a few years now I thought it was about time to give it a review. I have to admit that the reason it’s getting a review now is because I…
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Makita Drill Driver Repair – Part 2
In part one I opened the drill and took the innards out. In this article I’ll open the motor and make the repair.
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Makita Drill Driver Repair – Part 1
My electric drill decided to start shooting fire and smoke at me the other day so I thought that it was time to take it apart and see what was inside. My experience of taking apart modern tools led me…
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Home Made CNC Resources
There are hundreds of excellent resources out there that will help you build your own CNC machine. Listed here are some that I found useful. I will include other resources as I find them and by recommendation. This isn’t a…
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Splitting Large Stones
When we bought our current house it came with the mother of all rockeries. I kid you not this thing was built to survive a direct nuclear hit. The largest stone probably weighed in at 150kg and perhaps more than…
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Draper 7lb Hickory Shaft Sledge Hammer
Now you might be wondering how someone could do a review of a hammer. It’s a pretty simple device after, all it goes up and down and things underneath it get broken (or occasionally hammered in). Well this review is about…
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Arrow TR550 Review
In order to complete the LED Cube project I’ve been working on I decided I needed a glue gun to hold the LED’s in place. I could probably have used epoxy or even silicon sealant as there was no real weight to…
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Simple LED Cube – Part 3
The previous two articles have covered the basics of LED theory and gone into some of the maths behind designing the circuit that will power and LED. This article covers more complex arrangements of LEDs and the design of our…
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Simple LED Cube – Part 2
The first part of this guide talked a little about the project and gave a bit of an introduction to LEDs. This part discusses the use of LED’s in more detail with a little simple maths which can be used…