Argh!

[Pat]

Dummy Spit Mode ON!!!!

I have just spent an entirely aggrovating morning trying to install my new drill press on an existing bench. Mounted the base plate easily, got the post verticle easily, mounted the table easily, mounted the head easily. Now all I have to do is mount the motor to the head, swing it around so the head faces the front and Bob's you uncle. So attach the motor and swing it around, clunk, the motor hit the brick wall. Spit!

Ok regain composure, remove the press (Estimated weight 70+Kg) and start unbolting the Dawn 6" Offset vice (50+KG). MBGitW comes out and asks what I an doing and offers to help move the bench. We move it a good 3" out from the wall. MBGitW asks if the bench will be stable with all the weight to the front? "One step ahead of you my dear, I am going to bolt the bench to the brick wall."

So Off I go, bolt the bench to wall, remarkably easily. Then I start bolting the vice back on, the the base etc. Mount the motor to the drill head, swing it around, clunk!!! ! Checked everything, belt tensioned, bolts tight.Swung it around again, Clunk! I checked the wall of the 1950's built brink garage, the blessed wall inclines in:mad:

Time for a break, before I totally lose it and break something in frustration:eek:

Dummy Spit Mode OFF:)

[martrix]

http://www.ubeaut.biz/banghead.gif...........http://www.ubeaut.biz/gonnagetit.gif....................http://www.ubeaut.biz/violin.gif

[kiwigeo]

Beer o'clock Pat. Leave the b****d and take care of it tomorrow.

[ozwinner]

Ya just have to love Brickies.

Al :p :p :p :p

[Pat]

Yes Brickies????? Alot of other explanatory words were used about the Brickies, not "Love":D

I moved the bench another 2" from the wall, everything is good now. It's a pleasure to watch the 25mm bit bore thru Tallowwood like butter. The Forstner bits are different too:)

An entirely new word of Boring:p

(Don't worry, MBGitW brought me a Bosch Router yesterday, a little POF 400A for $50 from Gasweld. So I will be annoying the router forum for a while:D )

[Daddles]

My Dad likes to talk about the housing trust house we had in Berri years ago. We were the first ones in there and they actually built it for us (he had a public service job that included provision of a house). When it came to the roof rafters, the chippy measured the room at the floor, made his rafters, lifted the things up, and they fell through - the walls had a substantial outwards lean. :D

Richard
well, that's the story he's always told ... and Dads never make these things up do they :rolleyes:

[scooter]

(Don't worry, MBGitW brought me a Bosch Router yesterday, a little POF 400A for $50 from Gasweld. So I will be annoying the router forum for a while:D )

Have to get peed off more often, Pat........... :D

[Markw]

Ahhh - Pat your a boofhead :D

[soundman]

Big bro was doing some work at mums old house getting it ready for renters.
I turned up with some gear for him.....( didn't need my help just my gear)
In I trots with a level and a straight edge........ "You can turn round and put them right back in your van they're of no use in here".

cheers

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I reno'd my folks' place, knocking down a few walls and building a new kitchen.

The cabinetry was old colonial style, fully framed out and solid as a brick sh/house. One long wall was 2" longer than it's opposite, with a long double-s curve along it's length where studs had moved over the years. I thought I'd be cunning, so made some templates to allow for this and the lower cabinets fitted snugly in the corner, a perfect fit, no scribing needed. :)

After a few minutes patting myself on the back for a job well done, I recruited the neighbour and his son to help me with the overhead cabinets. An hour or so later, with many a blue word as we negotiated the carcases through the house, we heave 'em into position and... a 3" gap?? :confused:

At one end the walls leaned in by an inch, at the other they leaned out by 2"! No amount of scribing or ogee would cover it and not a chance in hell the cabinets would fit without a rebulid! Or was there? :rolleyes: While the neighbour and son held the carcase in position I fastened the end that did sit flush, with 3 or 4 times the usual amount of fittings... then used a stump-jack (you know the beasts... oversized car jacks used to lift a house for restumping) on the diagonal from the other end of the cabinet's front down to the floor and pushed that sucker into place. :eek:

Amazing what a couple of tonnes of lifting power and a tin of bog can let you get away with, eh? :o As a bonus, the neighbour stopped asking me when I was going to build his kitchen... :D

[JDarvall]

Great photo there skew....brilliant. Bout time someone did that.

[scooter]

...As a bonus, the neighbour stopped asking me when I was going to build his kitchen... :D


:D :D

[Iain]

I remember when Nissan used to build cars at Clayton, they used similar priciples:rolleyes:

[soundman]

Well why do you think there is such a big market for the various gap fillers?:D :D


cheers

[ciscokid]

It's no different here in the States. They build so much so fast here that they frame the walls with green timber. Everything looks great !!! For six months. :( After that, you better be good with tape and plaster.

[old_picker]

We been building with green framing timber here in oz for many years. It shrinks around the fixings making a very tight job. I doesn't shrink end to end.
Methinks it's shoddy foundations more than green framing timber that makes cracks in walls.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Methinks it's shoddy foundations more than green framing timber that makes cracks in walls.

Most framing is done with radiata now... which not only shrinks but warps, bows and twists to a shocking degree. That makes for a lot of cracks & problems, even on perfect founds. :(

Not that I can complain... it's one of the things that keeps me in work. :rolleyes: