Are you interested in building yourself a small DIY press brake for use around the home? I’m quite sure some of you are. Anyway, here are some plans from 1958 in the form of a pdf which shows you how to go about it. And here are the specs of the thing as specified on [...]
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TNT: Top Notch Tosser/Tale/Tit [delete as applicable]
Posted on 14, Oct
Well I think it’s only right and proper to end the week as we started it – with a new-lad Craig tale. The poor little bugger has hardly said a word to me all week so it’s maybe time I bought him a pint or maybe a woo-woo. Perhaps an Erasure CD – who knows? [...]
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The Life Cycle Costing of Stainless Steel
Posted on 28, Sep
Here’s a fabulous little article showing you how stainless steel is a cheaper material to use in the long term than mild steel when a whole picture is taken. Or, in other words: Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis is a means of quantifying the choice of materials for a product or construction, with the aim [...]
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Miniature Microwave Arc Welder
Posted on 5, Sep
What would you do if your microwave was on the blink and had a bit of spare lead in your pencil? That’s right – you’d build yourself a tiny arc welder.
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Feed The Pingoat
Posted on 12, Aug
I’ve absolutely no idea whether the goat above has had its face eaten away or hasn’t had a square meal in weeks(then again, on further inspection, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the Antichrist after having had a stroke), but the actual service Pingoat offers has plenty of meat on its bones. Pingoat is a [...]
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Solar Powered Shower Anyone?
Posted on 8, Aug
Do you remember that solar oven I showed you not too long ago? Well it doesn’t really matter whether you do or you don’t as I’ve now found you a solar shower to test your DIY skills on. A solar powered water heater/shower looks infinitely trickier than a little solar oven, but it will stand [...]
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