Easily store your paint brushes in a bucket I was always taught to store paint brushes ‘upside down’ to protect the bristles, trouble is, they always fall over in the bucket for me. So I had a think about how I could stop the brush handles sliding around on the bottom of the bucket and came up with this tip… Keeping chickens means I always have a few egg trays handy, so I cut one up to be a tight fit in the square bucket I use to store my ‘paint brush …
Don’t throw away your old wire brushes, restore them Does your wire brush look anything like the one above? Pretty useless huh? And yes, yes, I know you’re not supposed to put too much pressure on the tip of a wire brush, but hey, I’m a contractor, time is money right? So if you’re like me and you let impatience get the better of you and you’re lifting up the rear of the brush for that little more ‘oomph’, prematurely wearing out the tips, then read on… This quick tip …
The perfect small wood fired pizza oven… I’ve wanted a wood fired pizza oven of my very own since I was in Rwanda back in 2007. Many pleasant evenings were spent eating delicious pizza made in the roaring hot oven in a little pizza place a stones throw from the Novotel Hotel (now the Umubano Hotel I think) just outside central Kigali. And to be honest there was a healthy logic to eating food which had been heated to around 300C (570f or so), if you understand what I mean….. …
Introducing the Splitting Maul and the Log Splitter These two new tools came into the ‘armoury’ this week and not before time because I always end up with 2 or 3 big logs that laugh at my normal axe (as it bounces off). But now I have two sure fire ways of splitting those difficult to break logs. Logs become difficult to split usually because there was a large branch joining the main trunk, which makes the grain real gnarly. No1: The Splitting Maul OK, tool No.1: the splitting maul. Now I’ve been hanging my …
Using the ever so simple centre punch… If you’ve tried drilling holes in metal before you’ll remember the drill bit ‘walking’ all over the metals surface instead of starting the hole exactly where you wanted it. This is because metal is hard (I know this is free advice but Duh! Of course metal is hard, when are you going to tell me something I don’t know?) OK, so you know that metal’s hard, but did you know that if you make the tiniest of dimples in the metals surface, the …
And avoid paying for repairs or replacements Picture the situation where something works just fine one minute, and then the next minute it doesn’t. Or maybe a situation where the item in question was working fine when you put it away and then the next time you go to use it, you get nothing? Sound familiar? Then you might have a broken solder joint on a printed circuit board (or PCB for short). Broken solder joints (don’t worry they don’t hurt…) A cracked, fractured or broken solder joint is sometimes (erroneously) …
And I’ve bagged a world record pallet on my latest hunting trip. This has to be the daddy of all pallets I reckon. All the way from Poland to Norway it came, carrying a huge staircase. What better end for this pallet other than to recycle it into something that will give us years of comfortable pleasure. It’s difficult to get a sense of scale from the photo (I know I got caught out when I went to collect it without the trailer!) but the ‘slats’ on top are 2″ x …
