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  1. 11 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

    That's excellent. Well done you.

     

    May I ask if you have access from the house or is it via the garden/french doors?

    Yes we do, I use it a lot as it means I can keep out of the kitchen and I don’t get in Sheila’s way!

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  2. Good evening everyone 

     

    I’ve now almost finished refurbishing my cellar. Once the woodwork has been painted I’ll have a model railway room. Apart from the plastering, I’ve done all the work myself. Throughout the refurb I’ve kept a note of all big spends and it’s taken me about 5 years on and off, but it’s all come in at under £2500. However, in that 5 year period, I’ve also done a lot of work in the garden and workshop too.

     

    Here’s a couple of photos I took today.
     

    The first one is stood beside the French doors looking into the room.

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    This one is looking towards the French doors, excuse the pile of spare flooring, I’ve not found a home for it yet.

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    The room is approximately 11ft 3in by 15ft 6ft, so not a bad space at all really. 

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  3. A very pleasant and productive afternoon in my workshop, building this.
     

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    I found it a bit tricky at first and it took me a while to realise I needed to file the rails at the bottom, as there was a slight burr, where they’d been cut, before I could get them to slide into the chairs. Once this was done, it was very easy to finish it, taking about 1hr 45 min. The rest will be built when I begin laying the track. There is a burr on the top of the rail as well, this was also removed. 

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  4. I also don’t were my wedding ring when doing any sort of manual work. When I was an apprentice, I almost lost a finger due to wearing a ring, thankfully, it was one that I’d made from a piece stainless steel strip, so there was a small gap underneath it. When it snagged on something, I was jerked backwards and the ring came off, leaving me flat on my back. I never found the ring. 

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  5. I can still remember the smell that met you as you entered the main forge where small steel ingots were formed into railway wheel blanks! 
     

    Something like this,

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    I know many folk who think that metal doesn’t smell, well it does when it’s heated up! 

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  6. Well, despite having all my notifications on and not ignoring this thread, I still can’t get it to show on my followed list. I don’t know what’s going on there at all?
    Even clicking on ‘content I’ve posted in’ doesn't show this one! Very strange indeed. 
    This post doesn’t even show up on my list of recent posts! 

     

    Hoorah, I’ve finally sorted it, it was just as Jamie had mentioned, I’d inadvertently pressed the ‘ignore this topic’ button doh! 

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  7. Back to the school year’s discussion, I also hated school, I couldn’t wait to leave. Once Easter had /even an gone, us 5th years (year 11 in modern speak) could stay at home to revise and just go in for the exams, which is exactly what I did! I hated school so much that I didn’t even go in for the last day. 

     

    I didn’t do much revising though, although I did get decent results, instead I spent the next 4 months trying (unsuccessfully) to teach myself to play the piano, which had been given to us by a neighbour, but I could play (term used very loosely) a couple of tunes by the end of the summer. The ability to read music properly might have helped! The piano was given away when we had to move house. 

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  8. 19 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

    Apart from doing some essential admin for my trip back to France next week, I was forced to attend the garage and build a laser cut wire, tube and rod rack which had been purchased at Stafford last Sunday.

     

    I could not have designed and built it for anywhere near the cost of the kit.  Well worth the money.

     

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    I'm going to invest in one of their plastic sheet storage units as well.

    I’ve got several of the storage units by this company. For the price, they are all well planned, we’ll made and easy to construct. 

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  9. On the subject of nuisance parking, some neighbours of ours from across the road came home to find a car parked across their drive. Tony knocked onto see if it was anyone’s who was visiting us, it wasn’t so he did the same to several houses down the street to no avail. The car in question wasn’t a very big car, so he, me and several others moved the car lifted the car up and moved it about 200 yards down the road and left it parked with the drivers door right next to a lamp post. We know they could get in via the passenger door, but with it being a small car, that would be very awkward. 
     

    We did think of turning it over, but that would have been criminal damage, this was we just made it known that we weren’t pleased with their selfishness.

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  10. When I worked in the gas industry, we had a guy on our team who was always in the office and very rarely went out.
    We all called him ‘pilot light’ although others called him Velcro, as I couldn’t get his @rse of the seat.

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