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Isn't finish work so much fun? So easy to ruin, so time consuming to fix. At like 18 or 19 I chipped the nose of a C3 Corvette fitting the hood working in a shop. Of course they painted the car before doing panel fitment. I wound up paying for that fuckup for like 6 weeks.
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rehung the doors and they're a ton better, plus the repairs are completely unnoticeable. Doors are still slightly warped but I'm hoping some 6kg pull magnetic catches will solve that to a standard of good enough. Slowly starting to feel like a finished space finally.
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Jul 11, 2020 19:00
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I love label makers.
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Jul 12, 2020 16:14
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Where the hell did you find an embossing label maker in this day and age?  fake edit: wow, just checked Amazon, had no idea you could still get the drat things. Dirt cheap these days too. You'll probably want to use some wood glue on the back of those, otherwise they're gonna peel pretty quick from the unfinished wood. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 16:17
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Yeah they're super cheap and easy to get. The wood is sanded and varnishes so they may stick, and if not I'll glue them. Not a big deal to stick a dab of adhesive on the back.
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Jul 12, 2020 16:22
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Tell me more about the Fairy system
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Jul 12, 2020 17:55
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There's hardwired 12v fairy lights.
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Jul 12, 2020 18:23
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taqueso posted:Tell me more about the Fairy system You rang?  (serious talk tho, "fairy lights" is a non-US way of referring to string lights elsewhere, generally tiny ones)
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Jul 12, 2020 18:40
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Are they not called fairy lights in the US? I had no idea.
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Jul 12, 2020 18:46
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Blacknose posted:Are they not called fairy lights in the US? I had no idea. Nope, Christmas lights or (outside of Christmas) string lights.
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Jul 12, 2020 21:25
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Every day is a school day.
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Jul 12, 2020 21:34
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Blacknose posted:Every day is a school day. Yeah fairy lights aren’t a thing here but I own many sets of now known fairy lights when they go stupid cheap on my deal sites
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Jul 12, 2020 21:58
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Blacknose posted:Every day is a school day. Homophobic US has a problem with the word "fairy", even when but clearly refers to the winged pixie sort. More like a fixation with gay and gay-related, really. We're dumb.
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Jul 14, 2020 18:53
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That hadn't even occurred to me. I'll be sure to avoid the word next time I'm in the US. Spent the whole afternoon cutting two sheets of 8ft ply down into a huge number of small, fiddly bits of ply. Should mean I have all the various finish pieces ready for varnish or paint tomorrow. No photos cos it was a) uninteresting and b) a death march. Blacknose fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Jul 14, 2020 21:51
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Blimey, I don't think I've heard "fairy" used in that sense in decades! If Blacknose is a bit younger than me it's entirely possible he's never heard it used that way at all. For cutting large sheets of wood, although not always practical if some tweaking is going to be necessary, I usually get them from B&Q and have them cut them to my sizes on their saw.
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InitialDave posted:Blimey, I don't think I've heard "fairy" used in that sense in decades! If Blacknose is a bit younger than me it's entirely possible he's never heard it used that way at all. I dunno, I call my boyfriend that all the time. On the other hand it's been forever since I unironically heard "blimey".Between this and CSB's renovation thread I have a serious desire to build something for mountain bike holidays. I've always hated the idea of a full-blown camper but "bike van ++" is looking more and more attractive as a way to actually go out and do stuff in hell world 2020.
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jammyozzy posted:On the other hand it's been forever since I unironically heard "blimey". *Dons flat cap*
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I'm vaguely aware of it being used like that but I'm not sure I've ever heard it used other than by old folks.InitialDave posted:For cutting large sheets of wood, although not always practical if some tweaking is going to be necessary, I usually get them from B&Q and have them cut them to my sizes on their saw. Sadly getting it cut wasn't an option due to not a single piece being a plain old rectangle. Everything has curves, cutouts, notches etc. Jigsaw makes fast enough work of the cutting, it's more the constant measuring that's a faff. Blacknose fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Jul 14, 2020 23:00
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No progress today due to the substation on my road blowing its transformer last night and doing electrical damage to 200 houses in the area. Being close we got it as bad as anyone, about half our electrical goods are dead and a breaker is toasted in the consumer unit. Going to be a fun few days of electricians fixing everything plus people picking up and dropping off white goods. Fortunately not out of my pocket. This plug started off in the socket behind.  And the socket.  You get the idea. Blacknose fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 23:26
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Good luck with your insurance. I had similar issues (lightning strike) and it sucked. My appliances were all fine but I had to fix or replace everything else that was plugged into the mains or a network cable.
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Fortunately the distributor responsible for the substation are 100% covering it all. They had a squad of almost 50 electricians out today going house to house doing safety checks, getting power back on (I already put ours back on but in a very hamstrung capacity due to the damaged consumer unit), fixing boilers and inventorying damage. Over the next day or two appliance engineers will be out to fix white goods and all the small electrics will be fixed or replaced. They're also replacing any damaged sockets and fully fixing damage in the consumer unit. So far I've actually been super impressed with how they're handling it.
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I'd love to know exactly what happened - obviously it was an overvoltage event but "transformer exploded" is probably an oversimplification. Fault events happen all the time, it must have been combined with a massive failure in multiple protective devices. Good luck and be careful.
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Yeah I fished around but couldn't get any more details. The most I got was that the transformer failed and 'the fuses didn't blow'.
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If you have to give them a total for small electronic claims take your time walking round the house and working it out. I was still finding stuff weeks later that I had missed (Like ever single charger/power supply for anything)
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I've checked everything that was plugged in plus every socket etc. They're actually repairing or replacing the stuff themselves rather than paying out compo. Seems like SSEN have a whole other company to deal with this stuff called Haste, which employs some vast number of electricians and engineers who just come and make it right like The Wolf from Pulp Fiction.
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Two big milestones for the van today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1EgCeXpa4k Also started on door finishing the kitchen. 
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Jul 19, 2020 01:25
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Blacknose posted:Two big milestones for the van today. HELL YES!!
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Pretty pleased how these doors handles came out.  On a related note, anyone got any tips for keeping these doors square? They're both warped and so look lovely when closed. A diagonal brace on the back may help I guess but I'm not sure. I'm kind of lacking the basic carpentry knowledge and don't want to start trying stuff and risk loving the doors up.
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Jul 21, 2020 09:53
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Absolutely put a diagonal piece across the back. Like a wooden gate might have. Wedge it fully between the top and bottom rails. 
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That's exactly the solution. Put the brace so that it gets squashed if the door sags, it's better that way.
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Just be sure the diagonal goes from low at the hinge side to high at the latch side, so it's in compression, rather than tension. Though, really, for a door that small, it probably doesn't matter. On my 6' (1.7m?) wide fence gates, it did. It also made a huge difference in rigidity.
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The doors are actually really rigidly, they're just rigidly warped as you can see in the photo. Gonna chuck some diagonal braces in them and hopefully that'll bring them square enough.
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Ooh that probably won't help. Better treesmiths than me will come in but taking them off and clamping them flat (or even bent a little against the twist) for a while might be more what you need.
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Jul 23, 2020 09:24
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This is what I get for using old pallet scrap to make doors, to be fair.
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I think they look great regardless.
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Mildly disappointed it's not bright blue. CHEP can gently caress right off, they're the pallet version of the mafia. https://www.logisticshandling.com/articles/2014/05/07/why-should-you-be-careful-of-blue-pallets-and-what-are-the-alternatives/ We get a ton of CHEP at work, along with iGPS and PECO. CHEP is pretty well known worldwide though. Most of our stuff comes in on company pallets, unless we get full pallets of a single product (normally CHEP). Our receiver gets harassed so much by CHEP over the phone, even though EVERY pallet we get goes back to corporate for them to handle and return, and CHEP knows it. /rant randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jul 27, 2020 |
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Apologies for the lack of updates. I've done a few bits and pieces but also had to get a job due to being at the point of dipping into savings. Not to worry though, I'm still going to be making progress once I get the first week over with. Got some cool ideas floating around involving covering the boards for the doors inners with old coffee sacks. Also finally got booked in for the side window install this Saturday and have someone lined up to help out with the spare wheel carrier.LloydDobler posted:I think they look great regardless. Thanks, I'm pretty happy with the way they look. I'd like them to be straight in the unit but it's not high priority. STR posted:Mildly disappointed it's not bright blue. CHEP can gently caress right off, they're the pallet version of the mafia. The big pallet distros are apparently best avoided for this kind of stuff due to potentially being used for carrying chemicals and/or being fumigated when used for some overseas transport. Also CHEP will loving come for you if they think you have so much as one of their pallets.
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Like I said, they come at my store several times a day demanding to know how many of their pallets we have. We get so many loving trucks a day (some days up to 30 trucks!) that there's no way to really know. We send EVERY pallet back to corporate - CHEP, iGPS, PECO, company pallets, even the lovely "obviously meant to be used for half of a trip across the state if you're lucky" pallets and skids. Our receiver has obnoxious screaming MP3s (think halloween or horror movie style screams) on his phone that are hours long for when they call; he'll just fire one of those up and put the handset up against his mobile phone every time they call and just walk away (we have 3 phones back there... triple the fun! they start calling at 3 loving AM too!). They know we're a large company. They also know we have less than a dozen warehouses that handle EVERYTHING, and that everything goes back to them. They need to call the warehouses. We don't have any process to return pallets to anybody except direct vendors (Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nabisco, etc) and corporate warehouses. We have vendors that come in and stock their own poo poo, and their stuff might be on CHEP or PECO pallets, but that's vendor property if it has vendor stuff on it (i.e. Nabisco products) - we can't touch it for any reason, not even inventory. For retail, this is an insanely tight ship. Any exterior door you pass through that's not a customer door requires either a badge or a manager to turn the alarm off/on for you. I've worked for Walmart, which is by far the most penny pinching brick & mortar company there is - the company I work for now blows them out of the water with security. Enough that "central station" (alarm monitoring) actually called to bitch us out for not going into a cooler WITH A GLASS WALL in a timely manner when a tornado was half a mile away (I was objecting over the fact one wall was all glass... it's been taken up with corporate since then, policy changed to non-glass-wall coolers to shelter in pretty quickly). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jul 28, 2020 |
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Managed to do a few little bits in between Doing Capitalism. Old coffee sacks on the door panels and some boxing in. Plan is for both back doors to be like it and the boxing on the shelves . Only got a few sacks to try it out but a friend has got some spare he's giving me so should have plenty of variety.   Also got it going in for the window fitting in the sliding door plus the gas certificate test tomorrow. First long drive in the van to get there which will be slightly nerve wracking, but I'm reasonably confident it'll be fine.
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