Home DIY

The clamp on my work desk doesn't notice irl.

That is one good looking desk top. Chapeau to the effort involved!

@Soul that looks the business. How did you fasten the top it to the desk frame?

I was worried about build over agreements and so on.

It it was a bit more substantial (timber frame, insulated) making an access point might be quite challenging with insulation, vapour barriers etc?

The base is designed to accept your own top so has no fewer than 24 separate screw holes underneath to join the two.

I am rather in awe of some people's crafting abilities. The first thing I remember seeing that really impressed me was Backstop's climbing frame, which looked to me of professional quality. Then stevo_com's garden furniture, and now this. Where did everybody learn skills like this? ('It comes naturally' boast posts to the usual address, please. :) )

Anyway, it looks great.

The deck I built 4 years ago (which someone, I can remember who, said would sink, it hasn't, fuck you, guy) has about a foot drop around the two exposed sides. That was never a problem before mini_com. Now she is crawling and can get up onto the deck from the grass, I needed to reconsider. I'm leaving the grass side open, so she can still clamber up, and if she falls off that side, it's not going to be too bad. The other side is a concrete path so needed fenced off. The Wickes branch I got the stuff from only had 16 spindles, and I need 30. Have the other 14 on back order from another branch.

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'Tude!

She's really eyeballing you there. :)

Each post held on with 130mm M10 coach screws (driven in by hand with a spanner as I don't have a 17mm socket) into the 2x6 joists that form the deck frame. Had to be creative with the top railing as Wickes for some reason didn't have the "correct" railing for these spindles so the top railing is actually two pieces.

"The fuck do you mean I can't nosedive onto the concrete, da!?"

YouTube, practice & patience. Lots of practice.

@Soul that desk is right up my alley! Fantastic work. I love varnished Baltic birch ply end grain. When (if) I have enough space for a workshop, my first bench will be laminated ply. I'm sure nowhere near the best material for it, but I love how it looks.

As @Soul said, YouTube, patience (although I don't have much of that) and practice. Plus, my Dad and Grandad were always making things so I've been exposed to it since I was young. My current stuff is pretty agricultural, but it is a long way from what I started out making.

4700w / 240v = 19.58amps

You need a circuit installed that can deliver 19.58amps. If you have an existing cooker circuit that you are not using and the fuse reads higher than 20amps you can have the hob connected to that.

Otherwise you need a qualified electrician to install a new circuit.

Interesting that YouTube is so useful for that, but then I suppose some of it is a bit like the Open University on steroids. :)

Cheers.

I had some scaffolders in who were trying to take up a bit of the decking, rounding all the screwheads with their cordless drills, cursing the lack of crowbar. So I ended up doing it for them with a cheap ratcheting screwdriver. Took a bit of effort and gave me blisters, but there were only a couple that wouldn't come out. Wrenching the boards up as they were trying to do just made it harder as the screws got bent. It wasn't 500 but it was a decent box full.

The kitchen already has this, labeled as E-herd (electrical stove) in the circuit breaker cabinet thingy. That’s why I wanted to go for three phase, it has three fuses rated for 16A.

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You’ll need to weigh up the cost of moving it. If you were in the midlands I could have a look Do you live on a hill?

I used to feel guilty about looking for ideas on how to solve problems at work by looking on YouTube, or refreshing my knowledge if had to do something that I hadn't done in a while. Then I found out that my brother in law who is a consultant surgeon uses it for evaluating his technique on procedures or boning up on new techniques.

Like with a lot of things on the internet, finding the information is not the problem its being well enough qualified, and confident enough in your own knowledge to differentiate between good information and rubbish. Fortunately with DIY and making videos you have relatively little to lose by having a go, even if you fail you are building up knowledge that will be useful in the future if you want to try again.

Looks like you're not in the UK. I'm not trained in 3 phase but a UK 3 phase would deliver around 415v as far as I know.

Don't have an immediate need for an impact driver

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Nope, Germany. Just moved here and barely speak the language, but I guess I'll see about getting an electrician in and let them sort it.

Near Southampton, not on a hill.

Where are you based in Germany? If berlin, I might be able to help with contacts if needed.

Leipzig! But an electrical engineering friend of mind has cracked it, probably. Just trying to decide if it's probably enough to give it a go.