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05-31-2014, 04:35 PM | #10 |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today part II.
Started this morning with painting the rear springs a red under coat...... what a carp job to do.
Tomorrow I will go get some red gloss enamel mixed up to paint them with, I only did the rears, as I am going to Hammerite the front ones in Black. First coat of undercoat on. Anyone remember the office remodel Mickey next door was involved in a few months ago, where I rescued some skirting boards that had been glued onto the drywalls with some serious high tech glues ?? Well, I have been watching Thicknesser/Planers the last couple of weeks, after manually cleaning some of the Oak sections for the resto I did on the cast iron furniture a few weeks ago. Today I was planning on bidding on one on Ebay, but I contacted the seller to go inspect, and then typically, the day turned nasty, and I could not even get away to go look at it before bidding. I did however get a call from the seller, Mat, a Police officer to tell me a bit about him. I told him that the machine was going to make a lot more than I would be prepared to pay for it. As I wanted to use it to remove all the glue and get all the boards the same thickness...... People continue to surprise me with their kindness. During the chat, I had told Mat what I had planned to do with the machine. Next thing he suggested I load up the skirting boards and bring them over to his home about 10 miles/16km from where we live, and give it a go on the machine before it sells. Where do you still get this sort of kindness and consideration ?? So a fast decision was made, Nicola and I moved cars off the drive, loaded all the planks into the back of the truck and I "raced" over to Rochester to meet Mat, and then we got the first, followed by the other 18 planks, each one got three passes through the thicknesser. This is the result.... I am a very thankful and pleased man tonight. Getting on with it. And the result..... Before and after shot. Now I need about 36 meters of 3mm X 15mm ally strips to fit between the planks and create the sliders. This was a good day.
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