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Forum: HINTS & TIPS

This forum is open to all comers with hints and tips on anything at all to do with renovating and allied crafts, trades, skills, techniques, etc.

  1. Angry Sticky Thread Sticky: Please Read This

    Started by Neil, 24th August 2003 02:15 AM
    administrators, agree, bit, board, bulletin, business, button, clicking, denigrate, eye, fight, forums, information, law, material, message, messages, moderators, odd, owner, person, post, posts, prepared, read, register, slander, spirit, time, woodwork
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 8,875
    24th August 2003, 02:15 AM Go to last post
  1. water level

    Started by rat52, 7th September 2007 08:57 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    accuracy, blowing, blue, bubble, clamp, corners, datum, devices, eye, hang, height, incorrect, level, mark, mixed, pencil, readings, reservoir, sanitizedcool, staining, stick, stop, tape, taps, thisrolleyes, toilet, top, tube, vacuum, water
    • Replies: 33
    • Views: 7,993
    14th September 2007, 01:48 AM Go to last post
  2. Sash clamps versus Bessey K series clamps

    Started by zelk, 6th September 2007 11:58 AM
    1100, 2000mm, 30mm, bessey, blackwood, clamps, glueing, normal, sash, series, table, tassie, thick, top, versus, zelk
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 5,979
    6th September 2007, 10:24 PM Go to last post
  3. Epoxy filler powder- DIY tricks (red colour)

    Started by hansp77, 24th August 2007 08:17 PM
    10x, bench, bit, colour, colour-, cured, deep, diy, epoxy, failed, filler, final, fine, flour, hans, heard, immediatly, match, nice, nicely, powder, powdered, red, stain, suprised, talc, tricks, turmeric, woody, yellow
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 4,084
    24th August 2007, 08:54 PM Go to last post
  4. Paper storage

    Started by wheelinround, 4th August 2007 02:26 PM
    antislip, arthitis, block, cares, chipboard, cut, fed, glued, grip, hated, inside, intend, jar, knob/handle, matting, paper, paticular, plastic, round, sand, sanding, situation, size, slip, storage, straight, througheasy, time, top, unravles
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,496
    9th August 2007, 12:45 PM Go to last post
  5. Competitive Plywood Prices?

    Started by zelk, 3rd July 2007 01:25 PM
    boards, cheers, competitive, competitively, furniture, grade, marine, ply, plywood, priced, prices, sydney, zelk
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 10,378
    29th July 2007, 02:20 AM Go to last post
  6. Problems using # 2 Phillips head screws

    Started by lateral, 22nd July 2007 10:50 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    18volt, appreciated, bit, bits, bog, breaking, chipboard, correct, difficulty, drill, fill, flooring, greatly, greg, guys, head, joists, laid, laying, level, paint, phillips, plywood, problems, process, sand, screw, screws, tips, top
    • Replies: 21
    • Views: 5,397
    26th July 2007, 12:43 AM Go to last post
  7. Loo roll dispenser.

    Started by Alastair, 24th July 2007 06:28 PM
    8year, base, cardboard, centre, core, couple, cut, daughter, dispenser, electrical, feed, fit, fron, height, inside, lasted, loo, paper, pull, push, remove, roll, school, secure, simple, slits, solves, tape, top, wrap
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,046
    25th July 2007, 09:42 AM Go to last post
  8. Workshop tips show and tell.

    Started by Wongo, 9th June 2007 05:07 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    3mmx3mm, block, blow, broken, cheap, corner, cross-cut, damaging, don’t, drop, dust, easy, edges, extension, floor, knee, kneel, laugh, lead, leave, pencil, picture, rebate, rubber, sharpener, sled, stop, times, tips, workshop
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 7,657
    19th July 2007, 06:21 PM Go to last post
  9. Hanging doors

    Started by Jedo_03, 16th June 2007 10:32 PM
    cheers, chisel-out, door, doors, hanging, hinges, jedo, novices, yur
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 3,722
    19th June 2007, 09:25 PM Go to last post
  10. Empty Berocca tubes

    Started by Black Ned, 12th April 2007 09:48 AM
    advance, berocca, blades, compartment, empty, fretsaw, liner, pot, quantity, secret, shame, stick, storing, suggestions, throw, tubes, walking, weed
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 9,740
    1st June 2007, 08:15 PM Go to last post
  11. Dead TV

    Started by masoth, 10th April 2007 08:16 AM
    bird, bits, box, cistern, collect, correctly, dead, decrepit, died, frame, giant, hmmm, isolating, magnets, mail, metal, nesting, opportunities, plant, planter-box, recycle, replaced, roller, set, single, soth, spacers, strips, ther, usable
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,807
    1st June 2007, 01:32 PM Go to last post
  12. Organizing your woodwork tips and info

    Started by Wongo, 27th September 2006 05:10 PM
    buying, cell, characters, choose, click, column, data, enter, entering, entry, excel, fine, hope, ideas, info, list….”, organizing, quick, recall, records, report, router, row, search, simple, specific, tips, tune, woodwork, “pick
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 4,334
    25th May 2007, 12:45 PM Go to last post
  13. Cellar flooring

    Started by Brasso, 15th May 2007 01:05 AM
    begun, cellar, cheap, crushed, digging, flooring, granite, house, ideas, option, possibly, simple, thinking, workshop/storage/wine
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,303
    22nd May 2007, 08:52 AM Go to last post
  14. Smile A novel source of T-track

    Started by Knurl, 20th April 2007 03:32 PM
    70s-vintage, blinds, closely, collection, council, curtain, easily, fences, free, noticed, people, recent, recycled, router, source, t-track, table, throw, tracks, ttrack, venetian, workbench
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 3,740
    1st May 2007, 09:01 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 39
    • Views: 17,628
    7th February 2007, 05:24 PM Go to last post
  15. Unhappy Removal of sandy composition

    Started by MICKYG, 7th February 2007 04:51 PM
    accomadate, board, building, carpet, chip, clean, composition, discovered, floor, flooring, floors, glue, glued, idea, ideas, intend, laid, layer, leave, masonite, mike, nice, process, removal, renovation, sandy, shop, suggestion, type, wink
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,396
    7th February 2007, 04:51 PM Go to last post
  16. Electrolysis - removing rust from ferrous tools

    Started by Shedhand, 16th January 2006 08:44 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    abuse, aim, and/or, antique, appearance, article, character, cleaning, collectors, desirable, easy, effects, electrolysis, electrolytic, ferrous, form, htpaa, iron, method, moving, neglect, outline, oxide, removal, removing, restoration, rust, surface, tool, tools
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 14,962
    7th February 2007, 03:58 PM Go to last post
  17. Exclamation Scroll Saw Blades Help !!!!!

    Started by harts, 11th January 2007 11:34 PM
    blades, confusing, direct, explains, harts, scroll, site, system, tpi, understand
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,415
    12th January 2007, 04:56 PM Go to last post
  18. I need some hints and tips!!!

    Started by Wild Dingo, 17th December 2006 01:34 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    acre, beds, bloody, cheers, clue, converting, creek, eek, free, garden, gardens, generator, gotta, heard, heavy, highness, hints, kids, liftin, nope, planted, pump, set, sort, stuff, supply, time, tips, water
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 5,555
    11th January 2007, 12:33 PM Go to last post
  19. Thumbs up Layout Optimization and Cost Estimating Software

    Started by Roberto Perez F, 17th June 2005 09:53 AM
    actual, calculate, centimeters, cost, cutting, demission, diagrams, dimension, estimating, foot, generate, hardware, layout, list, lists, lumber, materials, metric, nominal, optimization, plywood, project, quickly, requirements, software, switch, system, thickness, version, wood
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 4,016
    22nd December 2006, 06:41 AM Go to last post
  20. Installing a Compressor

    Started by Chris Parks, 25th November 2006 08:28 PM
    bit, collects, compressor, condensate, drain, floor, forget, harm, install, installing, means, pipe, preserve, remove, screw, tank, tip, valve
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,408
    19th December 2006, 11:55 PM Go to last post
  21. Replacing Ni-Cads

    Started by Malibu, 4th December 2006 02:21 PM
    article, chip, cordless, dead, description, drills, magazine, months, ni-cads, nicads, replacing, silicon
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,122
    18th December 2006, 03:18 PM Go to last post
  22. Barrel Hinge Markers

    Started by watson, 13th December 2006 03:14 PM
    5.2mm, 5mm, 6mm, barrel, bastard, bit, breath, centre, chuck, dowell, file, finally, fit, helpful, hinge, hinges, holding, hole, hope, lathe, markers, mounted, noel, positions, set, tested, transfer, usual, whilst, wood
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 3,320
    15th December 2006, 12:42 PM Go to last post
  23. Lightbulb Powersander vibration dampening

    Started by Harry R, 28th November 2006 04:52 PM
    bike, bought, cycling, dampening, days, eventually, fall, feeling, gloves, hands, handyrolleyes, key, light, metabo, mine, mmmm, obvious, pads, palms, power, powersander, reasons, riding, road, sander, thicker, tingling, treatd, undamaged, vibration
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,957
    8th December 2006, 11:40 AM Go to last post
  24. nailing fence palings

    Started by mic-d, 3rd December 2006 05:16 PM
    bent, bottom, cheers, continuing, faster, fence, fiddling, flat, ground, howver, ladder, ledger, line, lot, nail, nailed, nailing, nice, paling, palings, plumb, plumbed, rail, repeat, retaining, stayed, straight, suspect, wall, wobbly
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 5,778
    3rd December 2006, 10:37 PM Go to last post
  25. Measuring blade angles

    Started by BobL, 1st December 2006 02:37 AM
    0.25, angle, angles, atan, bevel, blade, blades, calculate, consistent, degree, determine, diagram, distances, edge, excel, inverse, marked, maximize, measure, measurement, measuring, picture, ratio, read, repeat, shown, square, straight, tangent, x/y
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 2,643
    1st December 2006, 02:37 AM Go to last post
  26. PVC static woahs: be gone!

    Started by Malibu, 19th November 2006 09:28 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    additives, alternatively, bag, basically, blessing, bottle, chemicals, clothes, cuddly, ducting, dust, eek, extraction, helps, hope, inlet, outlet, pipe, port, pvc, rag, sachet, soaked, squirty, static, tip, washing, wipe, wipe/spray, woahs
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 5,185
    24th November 2006, 12:24 PM Go to last post
  27. Post WD 40 and its extra uses.

    Started by Bluegum, 23rd August 2006 12:59 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    brew, car, chemical, clean, cleans, company, distinctive, door, doors, easier, extra, favourite, finish, home, lipstick, lubricates, marks, removes, restores, rust, slide, smoothly, spots, spray, sprayed, stains, tape, vehicles, water, wd-40
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 8,757
    18th November 2006, 06:48 AM Go to last post
  28. Saw Blade Channel tune-up

    Started by Bob38S, 9th November 2006 10:41 AM
    blade, bob, channel, channels, chop, comment, considered, drop, filler, groove, idea, inset, modified, months, night, pass, plan, plastibond, plates, recut, reinforced], saws, septone, slide, table, technique, tuneup, type, untill, [not
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 3,036
    9th November 2006, 11:33 AM Go to last post
  29. Thumbs up Sharing your childhood with your children

    Started by Wongo, 11th October 2006 10:34 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    bit, buy, child, childhood, children, day, emily.o, flight, fly, forward, fun, handy, impress, jasmin, kite, left, park, quickly, real, releasing, retrieving, roller, sharing, shop, spent, string, test, time, tricks, trouble
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 4,246
    13th October 2006, 03:24 AM Go to last post

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