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Best finish for MDF

Started by garfield, 6th May 2008 10:21 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

achieve, cabinet, finish, geoff, hoping, line, low, mdf, pine, products, shiny, smooth, steps, tossing, wondering

Replies: 19
Views: 6,396

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th May 2008 11:16 PM; by garfield

Forum:
FINISHING

HELP with Polyurethane

Started by philcav7, 4th May 2008 03:05 PM

350, additional, advice, affected, chemist, coat, coats, compatibility, epa, feel, flaws, floor, floors, hoping, humidity, marks, omu, poly, polyurethane, pretty, prior, product, regulations, ridges, roller, sanded, smooth, surface, total, voc

Replies: 4
Views: 2,385

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th May 2008 01:28 AM; by philcav7

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Hardwood floor cleaning

Started by jimj, 1st May 2008 10:47 AM

canvass, cleaning, coating, covered, easier, faster, floor, forum, hardwood, hoping, issues, jim, method, mixture, mop, polyurathane, warm, water-metho, www.restore-a-deck.com.au

Replies: 2
Views: 1,885

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th May 2008 04:28 PM; by 123

Forum:
FLOORING

Sanding between coats

Started by namtrak, 30th April 2008 06:56 PM

1045, 400, ahead, beech, benches, brushed, building, coat, coating, coats, floor, gloss, guidance, gurus, hardwood, hoping, job, left, northern, poly, reference, reject, sand, sanding, specific, studleys, study, super, tin, website

Replies: 2
Views: 1,807

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st May 2008 05:39 PM; by Dusty

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

flooring

Started by ccjt, 14th April 2008 03:58 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$5000, 56sqm, 8yo, budget, childern, choose, clarity, confused.cool, confusing, difference, differnce, experts, floorboards, flooring, forum, hardwood, hopfully, hoping, house, huge, laid, options, products, quality, questions, slab, stubbled, suggest, timber, time

Replies: 21
Views: 4,330

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st May 2008 03:46 PM; by ccjt

Forum:
FLOORING

Deck Sealing - Big Mistake

Started by LotteBum, 27th April 2008 04:30 PM

apply, avice, big, buy, cheers, cleaner, colour, containers, couple, deck, decking, gear, hoping, ironbark, left, lotte, mistake, natural, orange, plastic, pressure, product, remaining, sealing, sight, spa, spots, stand, strip, sunnier

Replies: 4
Views: 2,738

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st May 2008 12:02 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
DECKING

Electric motor problems.

Started by wannabe, 28th April 2008 09:01 PM

bit, bottom, broken, capacitor, centrifugal, clamp, closed, contact, due, electric, hoping, mill, motor, moved, notice, planning, position, power, problems, receives, rotating, shaft, slide, start, switch, tension, thinking, toy, wear, weights

Replies: 4
Views: 2,331

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th April 2008 07:58 PM; by wannabe

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Permit for removing wall, or not?

Started by noideamad, 7th April 2008 09:30 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

$550, bearing, bit, builder, called, cost, council, expecting, hoping, internal, job, kitchen, l-shaped, load, local, neccessary, permit, planning, professional, remove, removing, shocked, sort, spec, structural, told, wall, wondering, wrong

Replies: 22
Views: 7,956

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th April 2008 02:55 PM; by atregent

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Moving to Port Macquarie Backloader Recomendations

Started by WillyInBris, 28th April 2008 07:25 PM

2tsup, backloader, bit, challenge, deliver, dogs, earlier, frame, fun, hoping, hospital, house, kids2, lol, love, macquarie, money, month, moving, port, provided, recomendations, rental, sale, starts, store, tenting, tight, untill, wife

Replies: 1
Views: 1,922

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th April 2008 07:43 PM; by boban

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Advice needed on regs - property lines, fence

Started by Kaiser Soze, 22nd April 2008 01:47 PM

advice, built, cheers, council, family, fence, garage, googled, height, hoping, huge, lines, live, ltrs, matter, needed, neighboring, neighbors, pees, property, regs, reply, shared, sky, specific, structures, tank, terms, touching, view

Replies: 4
Views: 1,740

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd April 2008 10:05 PM; by China

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Told my floor can't be sanded

Started by jackyswan, 2nd March 2008 04:02 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, appreciated, baltic, black, boards, called, centimetre, costly, floor, forum, glue, greatly, hoping, jacky, joined, kitchen, love, months, plea, professional, reason, remove, removing, sanded, sander, shallack, spelling, told, unsure, wishing

Replies: 17
Views: 4,928

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st April 2008 12:35 AM; by DNL

Forum:
FLOORING

Is shop safety required?

Started by Check twice!, 16th April 2008 11:23 AM

2008, 28”, accident, bench, day, foot, free, hazard, heel, hoping, january, john, light, march, mishap, piece, potential, projects, reminder, required, safety, shop, step, stepped, successfully, time, times, twice”, wary, week

Replies: 10
Views: 2,114

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th April 2008 10:55 AM; by Check twice!

Forum:
SAFETY

Need easier way to set nails for sanding

Started by larry757, 6th April 2008 06:26 AM

advance, boards, deck, easier, faster, hammer, helping, hoping, huge, job, nail, nails, refinishing, regular, sanding, save, set, started, surface, tool, weekendsroll

Replies: 14
Views: 3,732

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th April 2008 08:59 AM; by 123

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

What oil to prevent red gum sleepers warping

Started by husky, 10th April 2008 02:12 PM

cheers, colour, gum, hoping, oil, prevent, reccomended, red, sleeper, sleepers, slow, splitting/warping/losing, wall, warping, week, weekend, wondering

Replies: 2
Views: 4,057

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th April 2008 12:42 AM; by BobL

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

How to soften Lawn underlay

Started by scoobysteve, 4th April 2008 08:14 PM

added, badly, black, care, centimetres, close, coloured, couch, density, expert, grass, hardened, hoping, improve, inspection, lawn, months, mtrs, planted, seeded, seeds, soften, soil, steve, suggest, suggestions, topsoil, underlay, watered, wondering

Replies: 4
Views: 1,588

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th April 2008 12:48 PM; by scoobysteve

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Spotted gum decking

Started by Curls, 31st March 2008 10:28 AM

advice, allowing, benefits, deck, decking, deserves, deterioration, exposed, finally, follow, gum, hoping, jimjs, lay, lovely, mixed, oil, oiling, preparing, prior, provide, read, recommendations, reduce, spotted, straight, suggestions, timber, tlc, weather

Replies: 1
Views: 2,433

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th April 2008 09:20 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
DECKING

Floorsanders in Canberra (Plumbers/Sparkies as well)

Started by namtrak, 3rd January 2008 01:06 PM

act/queanbeyan, bought, canberra, cheers, connections, experience, feel, floors, floorsanders, free, hoping, house, likewise, move, pass, plumber, plumbers or sparkies, plumbers/sparkies, polished, queanbeyan, sparkie, track, wll

Replies: 4
Views: 2,834

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd April 2008 10:27 AM; by namtrak

Forum:
FLOORING

How long does it take to sand a floor?

Started by bnpenty, 9th March 2008 11:26 PM

1/2mm, 4pm, 9am, boards, combo, day, deal, difference, finer, finish, finsh, floor, fri, hoping, level, long, mon, nick, pay, plan, process, return, sand, sander, sanding, scratches, sheets, surface, tips, w/e

Replies: 5
Views: 8,378

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th March 2008 10:40 PM; by bnpenty

Forum:
FLOORING

Best Lacquer for wax and not flammable

Started by lbae, 22nd March 2008 08:48 PM

absolutely, advance, australia, buy, candle, candles, colour, flammable, forum, grab, hear, hoping, lacquer, lacquers, lbae, locallyrolleyes, love, overseas, question, read, searching, set, shellac, sticky, tinge, varnish, wax, wishing, wits, write

Replies: 6
Views: 2,157

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th March 2008 05:31 AM; by Cruzi

Forum:
FINISHING

merbau tannin stains on hands

Started by dan76n, 22nd February 2008 08:53 PM

bleach, boards, days, decking, found, grinds, guesing, guys, handling, hands, hoping, merbau, nice, pretty, pumice, skin, soak, stains, stuff, tannin, wondering

Replies: 13
Views: 7,492

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th March 2008 03:55 PM; by jmk89

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Replacing cord in sash window

Started by Carcoola, 24th March 2008 06:19 PM

access, accessing, advice, appreciated, architrave, beading, before-, carcoola, cord, fit, found, hoping, located, option, pocket, pockets, properly, replacing, sash, sized, taking, thinking, weight, weights, window, windows, wrong

Replies: 3
Views: 1,748

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th March 2008 07:38 AM; by les88

Forum:
DOORS, WINDOWS, ARCHITRAVES & SKIRTS ETC

Removing Ink Stain

Started by ravlord13, 8th January 2008 10:04 AM

andrew, appreciated, bit, blackwood, coffee, color, completely, fade, fair, finish, friend, half, hoping, ideas, ink, monetary, penetrated, reduce, remove, removing, restore, sentimenlal, spirit, stain, suggestions, swmbo, table, white, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 2,233

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st March 2008 11:36 AM; by astrid

Forum:
FINISHING

Insulating walls

Started by dombat, 7th March 2008 06:44 PM

25mm, air, aircell, batt, coburg, cost, embarking, energy, expertise, future, gap, guru, hoping, idea, insulating, insulation, major, melbourne, mind, normal, nurse, pretty, question, renovation, requiress, shaky, talk, thankyou, walls, wrap

Replies: 7
Views: 2,595

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2008 01:05 PM; by jimc

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Hydronic Heating - some ?s

Started by Beth, 5th March 2008 03:01 PM

$$$, bath, bed, beth, care, cost, cracked, firstly, floor, heating, hoping, house, hydronic, idea, info, kitch/living/dining, laundry, line, melbourne, panels, recommend, renovated, study, wall

Replies: 4
Views: 2,768

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th March 2008 09:08 AM; by Gravy258

Forum:
HEATING & COOLING

Canberra Deck, photos up - help need with nails

Started by PRKLCD, 9th February 2008 06:29 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

building, canberra, deck, decking, decks, fastensers, finshed, forum, friend, hammed, hand, head, hoping, lay, low, lying, merbau, nail-gun, nails, option, photos, post, pre-drilled, reading, ready, screws, site, started, titadecks, weeks

Replies: 53
Views: 11,894

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th March 2008 08:52 PM; by UteMad

Forum:
DECKING

Decking Virgin!

Started by Jacque, 4th March 2008 05:41 PM

30cm, assist, bad, board, boards, cheers, company, concern, cut, decking, experts, expressed, flat, flooring, gal, hoping, inside, jacque, job, oiling, problems-, questions, replace, sanding, sections, solution, timber, verandah, virgin, warped

Replies: 3
Views: 1,881

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th March 2008 08:33 AM; by Jacque

Forum:
DECKING

Retaining Wall Steps

Started by Art Martin, 18th December 2007 12:17 PM

attached, besser, blocks, bricks, build, building, compacted, completely, concrete, fill, heights, hoping, ideas, imagine, increasing, information, knowledge, level, link, pass, pic, retaining, soil, solid, steps, stringers, terraced, trust, wall, web

Replies: 10
Views: 7,760

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 05:45 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

joining roofing battens

Started by gg23, 10th February 2008 06:53 AM

3.2m, 9.4m, 900, 90x45, battens, cts, gable, greg, hoping, join, joining, lengths, lot, meet, putting, roof, roofing, section, simple, sloping, spacing, spec, spliced/joined, started, truss, trusses, wastage

Replies: 5
Views: 1,785

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th February 2008 09:37 PM; by MrFixIt

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Blogs - how about a counter

Started by RobTro, 2nd February 2008 10:05 PM

benefit, bit, blogs, cents, comments, contributions, counter, discussion, forums, hard, hits, hoping, indicator, intent, jumped, learn, mistake, normal, people, putting, questions, reading, rob, similar, talking, technique, theme, topic, worth, writing

Replies: 1
Views: 1,529

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th February 2008 10:18 PM; by ubeaut

Forum:
FORUMS INFO, HELP, DISCUSSION & FEEDBACK

10 years experience in carpentry

Started by matty3uk, 31st January 2008 05:06 AM

australia, carpenter, carpentry, companies, cost, english, experience, fix, hear, home, hope, hoping, jobs, matthew, mind, net, photos, qualifications, qualifications.doh, references, round, site, sites, sponsor, start, tools, travelling, visa, working/holiday, years

Replies: 7
Views: 2,827

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th February 2008 10:01 PM; by rhancock

Forum:
EMPLOYMENT

Looking for a glassy finish

Started by Novice Jeff, 22nd January 2008 10:44 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

600, advice, appreciated, brush, cabinet, cabots, coats, decided, finish, gelclear, gelcoat, glassy, gloss, grade, hoping, jeff, lines, lots, maple, marks.~, mirror, polyurethane, postings, queensland, reading, sanded, sanding, site, solid

Replies: 18
Views: 3,130

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd February 2008 08:50 PM; by Toyboy

Forum:
FINISHING

Very Naked Kwila

Started by russall, 8th January 2008 01:37 PM

apply, bleeding, bloody, brisbane, car, coat, day, days, deck, future, hoping, kwila, months, naked, napisan, park, prep, prepped, questions, safely, spandeck, stop, storm, suffer, times, treatments, wait, weathered, weekend, whilst

Replies: 8
Views: 4,231

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 11:25 PM; by Daren

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Colorbond mini-orb fastening

Started by Chumley, 8th January 2008 08:05 AM

4th, 6th, adam, cheers, colorbond, confusing, fasteners, fastening, fixing, forumites, gazebo, hoping, ideas, lengths, mini-orb, miniorb, ridge, roofing, rule, rule-of-thumb, screw, screws, sheet, sheets, simple, span, tables, thickness, types, web

Replies: 3
Views: 3,328

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 01:59 PM; by totoblue

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Best Nail/Screw for decking?

Started by Waldo, 11th January 2008 09:37 PM

4.5mm, advice, attempt, bell, bit, decking, describe, discussion, doh, gday, hole, hoping, hour, lot, merbu, mud, nail or screw, nail/screw, pic, pilot, predrilled, remember, ring, search, shank, shrug, specific, thread, whatcha, yeah

Replies: 13
Views: 3,248

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th January 2008 02:22 PM; by Waldo

Forum:
DECKING

top plate anchoring

Started by tonee, 5th January 2008 05:43 PM

anchor, anchoring, brick, building, code, company, construction, converting, details, external, flat, free, garage, granny, hip, hoping, information, meet, method, plate, process, replacing, roof, single, standing, tony, top, truss, trusses, walls

Replies: 14
Views: 2,765

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 11:46 AM; by DvdHntr

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Vibernum Disease/Bug/sSomethin worng

Started by Tubby2, 1st January 2008 08:35 PM

$1000, 1-2weeks, business, cheers, close, colour, cost, decided, disease/bug/ssomethin, funny, gardening, guessed, hedge, hoping, leaves, light, pics, planted, plants, pretty, shed, sir, spanking, start, started, story, subject, vibernum, walter, worng

Replies: 9
Views: 2,542

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 09:14 AM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Adapter for Re-Cycled water tap

Started by Tubby2, 8th January 2008 04:53 PM

adapter, click, clicky, cost, double, easier, fit, fitting, gardening, ground, hits, hoping, illeagally, live, lot, option, plumber, prohibitive, re-cycled, recycle, recycled, replace, reverse, screw, splitter, std, tap, thingy, thread, water

Replies: 4
Views: 2,914

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 08:46 AM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Split level deck with spa and pergola

Started by BustedThumbs, 7th December 2006 11:42 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

100, 16th, advice, bearers, build, coloured, december, deck, decking, easier, experience, favouring, holes, hoping, house, joists, level, life, metres, mike, nailing, pergola, planning, post, posts, predrilling, spa, split, stainless, start

Replies: 35
Views: 11,171

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th January 2008 09:18 PM; by Loki429

Forum:
DECKING

Spray guns - nozzle size

Started by jaspr, 27th December 2007 10:30 PM

0.7mm, 1.1, 1.2-1.3, 1.3-1.4, 1.5, 1.5-1.7, 1.7, 1.9, 10-15, 15-23, 2.2, 35-40, cup, feed, fill, ford, formatting, gravity, guns, hoping, mess, nozzle, pressure, raise, sec, size, spray, suction, time, water

Replies: 3
Views: 5,782

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 02:25 PM; by jaspr

Forum:
FINISHING

To buy or not to buy - build in under the house??

Started by kateesc, 2nd January 2008 04:48 PM

add, appreciated, ballpark, bathroom, build, built, buy, costs, decide, figure, flat, floors, found, granny, height, hoping, house, idea, inspecting, kitchen, legal, moment, potential, property, slats, timber, underneath, walls, worth

Replies: 10
Views: 1,833

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd January 2008 08:02 PM; by weisyboy

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Bearer span advice - HELP!!

Started by n00bie, 31st December 2007 12:16 AM

125mm, 25sqm, 300mm, 90mx90m, advice, amount, appreciated, approx, bearer, bearers, box, checking, column, decking, directly, finally, hoping, image, joist, luck, on-top, post, rendered, size, span, stirrups, tables, understanding, verandah, wooden

Replies: 2
Views: 2,540

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st January 2008 04:58 PM; by n00bie

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Redgum burl coffee table

Started by pepperjack, 22nd December 2007 09:23 PM

120, achieve, appreciated, bit, bought, bring, brush, burl, christmas, coffee, dark, edges, experience, grain, grit, hoping, leaving, merry, natural, piece, pretty, recently, redgum, rougher, round, sanded, stuck, table, wet, wire

Replies: 0
Views: 2,899

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd December 2007 09:23 PM; by pepperjack

Forum:
FINISHING

Waiting for Postal Delivery

Started by Ivan in Oz, 19th December 2007 07:30 PM

alreadyoo, brisbane, centre, day, delivery, family, friends, hope, hoping, mail, medoh, office, parcel, post, postal, presseys, registered, time, told, waiting, worse

Replies: 5
Views: 1,545

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th December 2007 06:45 PM; by ss_11000

Forum:
NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RENOVATION

Slate tiles

Started by wife2handyman, 10th December 2007 09:37 PM

appears, bath, clean, cleaning, dark, desperately, dig, doh, ensuite, grey, grout, grouting, hit, hope, hoping, laquer, late, left, light, redo, resealing, shiny, shower, slate, stubborn, tiles, trial, water, white

Replies: 1
Views: 1,866

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th December 2007 10:59 AM; by Dirty Doogie

Forum:
BATHROOM & TOILET

My bearers aren't tied down?

Started by diy1ab, 8th December 2007 06:35 PM

access, bearers, bowing, brick, btw, contortionist, contributing, disappeared, dry, engaging, expand, explains, factor, fixes, floor, heat, hoping, house, jamming, joists, manouvres, master, piers, recently, replacing, rotted, spell, story;, tied, wardrobe

Replies: 3
Views: 2,185

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th December 2007 09:53 PM; by triden

Forum:
FLOORING, DECKING, STUMPS, etc.

Beginner's paling fence

Started by Sportbilly, 2nd December 2007 12:46 PM

beginner, cheap/quick, clay, compacted, concrete, cut, days, fence, fences, fencing, grooves, held, hoping, leading, mix, nail, neccessary, noticed, paling, posts, product, provide, rails, required, set, setting, soil, sportbilly, suggestions, suppliers

Replies: 3
Views: 8,946

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd December 2007 01:00 PM; by BobL

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Good paver - Perth

Started by Scoofy, 28th November 2007 06:20 PM

disappointing, good, guys, highly, hoping, job, layer, northern, paved, paver, perth, pool, recommend, recommended, redo, result, scoofy, suburbs

Replies: 4
Views: 1,913

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th November 2007 04:46 PM; by rod1949

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

External rendering - Perth

Started by KrYpTiC, 16th November 2007 07:02 PM

80sqm, accurate, advance, afford, business, cheaper, colour, company, cost, duplexes, external, extra, friend, guessing, guy, hoping, hurt, mixed, negotiate, pair, perth, price, prices, quoted, recommend, render, renderer, rendering, total, unable

Replies: 12
Views: 7,906

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th November 2007 06:48 PM; by Brickie

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Cubby Constuction - before I get started, some advice please

Started by JDub, 26th November 2007 11:01 AM

10mm, 600, advice, approx, atop, avoid, build, cheap, constuction, cubby, floating, floor, floorcan, flooring, frame, frames, framing, gday, ground, hoping, main, pavers, pine, posts, roof, sit, standard, started, support, top

Replies: 6
Views: 1,960

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th November 2007 10:06 AM; by JDub

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Tiling over masonite

Started by JontyG, 25th November 2007 09:53 PM

19mm, 25mm, 4mm, 6mm, 9mm, abutting, adhesive, advance, advice, ctu, exceed, feasable, floor, height, hoping, jonty, layers, laying, leave, masonite, melbourne, newly, pan, ply, recommendations, suppliers, tile, tiled, tiling, upto

Replies: 10
Views: 11,135

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th November 2007 05:29 PM; by JontyG

Forum:
TILING

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