Home DIY

Best way to save the pads is keep the sander moving and don't lean on it! I do like the pad savers though, especially on the RTS400 which is my most used sander.

I feel fortunate to have bought so much Festool gear starting nearly 20 years ago. It seemed expensive then but it's paid for itself by now.

Tp-LC pro pac I think. Was free with the bigger bag (they’ve got an offer on where you get a free product with purchases on until may). It’s £100 on its own, so getting the rucksack and that for free made it a lot more manageable (easier to swallow the expenditure).

For the sake of a test, I'd rather not take the risk of an unknown, even if it is overcautious.

Those toolbags look nice, by the way.

If I was a tradesman, then I'd be erring on the side of caution due to repeated potential exposure, and historically it's been people in construction/building/engineering/fabrication that have suffered asbestos related diseases. As a DiYer, I'd be getting it tested, then suited up and covering it in wallpaper paste before scoring it with a Stanley knife to scrape it off. My local tip will take up to 10 bags or 10 sheets of asbestos from the general public at £12.10 a bag/sheet.
Just curious, does anyone have nitrogen dioxide or radon meters in their house?

Has anyone ever replaced a multipoint door lock on a upvc door? On the surface it looks like a case of unscrewing the old one and attaching a new one (assuming the new lock is specced correctly - this is what I'm looking at https://www.lockmonster.co.uk/item/millenco-latch-1-hook-4-rollers)

I'd rather not pay someone to come round with a big screwdriver and do something that was possible myself!

Not really DIY but this is where the Makita people hang out - their tyre inflator is currently the lowest price it's ever been on Evilzon

Half the price or more than the 12v `Milwakee i bought.

Oh I’d definitely test. I guess part of my consideration is that people show concern for the tradesperson and their exposure to asbestos (which is a good thing to be concerned about) but they also ignore the vast dust exposure that tradesperson will experience. In the case of a plasterer, they’ll be working on dusty building sites or houses almost permanently, where the quantities of dangerous airborne particulates will be massive, and the culture for self preservation with regards to dust masks etc isn’t quite up to scratch.

It’s a bit of a sore point for me basically. As a tradesperson I spend all my time working in places that are savagely bad for my health. I try my best to mitigate these risks, but a lot of the time it feels like every tradesperson is basically exchanging health tokens for money. These places are dangerous and inherently bad for your life expectancy. So while the considerations for asbestos are well meaning, I find it rubs me up the wrong way as it is given such reverence and respect, but the huge amounts of day to day dust exposure aren’t (and I’d wager that a lifetime of working in dusty places will be doing most of the legwork when it comes to killing you with some form of lung disease).

Is there anything that can restrict the opening of kitchen cupboards to about 90 degrees so they don't clatter against adjacent walls and cupboards?

Just for fun.

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Don't forget that on pretty much every site the standard way of removing the dust generated from the work is to hand a broom to the least intelligent person on site and tell them to get on with it. There is no recognition that this just pumps a massive amount of the settled dust back into the air starting the whole process again. When I was working big sites there was talk of HSE making brooms illegal which brought about much hand wringing and cries of "it's 'elf n safety gone mad!". The proposed solution was to send labourers around the site with these strapped to their backs:

But it seemed to quietly die a death. Largely because there were other genuine counter arguements about using them. The one that sticks in my mind was based around manual handling as the unit would progressively get heavier throughout the shift.

Used to work as a baker, was the only one who wore a mask despite the place being completely full of airborne flour.

Bakers lung is another that should be on there,

Seen lots of those backpack vacuums, and weird brooms that look like a squeegee.
I regularly go mad at people for sweeping up tbh for the exact reason you mentioned.
Thanks mate, I’m really glad you’ve just made all that insulation dust airborne again, dead fcking helpful. 👍👍👍👍

poured my first slab today! seems like quite a bit of bleed water but hopefully that won’t be a big problem - just waiting for that to evaporate (please shout if you know i should remove the excess more quickly)

time will tell how level and flat i can get it, but fingers crossed it’ll be alright.

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I've seen these things before. Not sure whether different brands have their own or what.
https://www.locksonline.com/Plastic-Angle-Restrictor-Clip-13474.html

It's interesting (albeit morbid) to speculate how many of these conditions we are only really finding out about now, as the people that would have got them in the past generally wrecked their lungs by smoking before any of these presented themselves.

I always considered my roll ups were filtering out a fair bit of dust.

I shouldn't joke, fortunately I'm still running and I don't have any diagnosed lung conditions but I've mostly never worked on building siters per se. I'm usually working alone so at least I can control the broom.

At the moment I have 4 extractors of varying sizes, 2 of them M class. Mostly I got those to save the people around me from dealing with the dust that my job creates though.

I do agree with @Nef though, it does feel like I am trading my health for a few coins, too few generally. On the other hand physical work can keep you in better physical shape than office based work.

Very happy with Festool warranty experience.

I picked up my domino as an ex demo, knowing it had an issue with a helicoil thread on the baseplate. They knocked £200 off the price which was more than fair considering you couldn’t really buy them new or used at the time.

Rarely used the baseplate attachments so had no need to process for repair.

Had a project coming up so thought I’d finally send it in.

Two clicks of a button on their app and a next day UPS was arranged. 5 working days later and UPS have returned it with a totally new baseplate. All free of charge.

I guess it’s what you should expect from the premium price but still super impressed.

I know a fair few guys who buy festool purely for the theft replacement part of the warranty. This does mean though that they replace their kit every 3 year there or there abouts.

If they are Blum cabinet hinges you can buy angle stop restricters that stop the door at opening to 90 degrees. Just clip on the back of the hinge

Yes, assuming you have a like for like part, it's just a few bolts with a screwdriver. Worth putting some grease in places where the bars slide against each other.

I've linked it before and I'll link it again, first 15 square metres of asbestos gets collected for free in most London boroughs: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/waste-and-recycling/commercial-waste/hazardous-waste-collection

I guess if you’re using them every day, and resale is so strong, there’s actually some sense in that.

I’m hoping these will be useful for me for at least 10 years as a hobbyist.

Is it actually broken, or is door misalignment stopping it from throwing fully so you can't lock it?

If you're sure it's the correct one*, it is just a screwdriver and probably a hacksaw to cut the new one to length.

Mark door with position of latch, so the new one can go at the same height.

Remove handle screws, handles and spindle.
Remove cylinder screw. Turn key to 11 or 1 o'clock position to line up cam. Remove cylinder.
Remove faceplate screws.
Pull gearbox out
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*. The Millenco has unusual PZ measurements between the centre of the cylinder and handle spindle of 117mm.

There's another two options with 4 roller and upwards hook. But both have 92mm PZ
Fullex Xl
Kenrick Excalibur