“Help protect your delicate bits”

To protect and stop vibration on those mechanical or electrical items I use as shown in the photographs below.
Easily obtainable from your local double glazing outlets they are normally placed on the outside of the glass units to stop them rubbing together in transit.
They are plyable and one side is tacky so they will adhere to your components without leaving any residue.
I also use them for Engine block mountings.

Certainly at my local store they are happy to give them away.
Take care and stay safe.
Regards Bill.

Edit.
They are very easy to cut with a good sharp model knife or scissors.

Great tip Jacko Thank you.

Martin555.

Prefer the hands and knees fingertip search with high LED worklight. Besides would be killed if I pulled the net curtains down to use as a filter.

Geoff

alignment tool well 2 bits of 90 deg angle and a load of tape

Should not have mentioned the laminate flooring!

"I’ve got Lino in my boat shed .."
A Boooaaat shed!?😮 Plutocrat!

Folks, Bill is actually quite versatile.
Apart from scratching together his super boats outa almost nuthink,
he also plays the linoleum!
WITH HIS FEET 😁😂🤣
😎
OKOK ... I'll get my coat ... and join Robbob outside ... Again 😉

Good idea Martin.
I’ve got Lino in my boat shed .....remember that?
Re the hoover,can’t afford to let she who must be obeyed see me using one of them 😂😂😂😂..Only joking 😬🤐
Bill.

JB,
Your lucky Paper bag!----- no i better stop there.

Martin555.

Luxury,!! we didn't have laminate flooring, or a floor to put it on, we used to live in a paper bag 😁😂

JB

And for those of us who can’t afford carpet, only cheap laminate flooring.........?

Just a quick little Tip.

When your workshop carpet monster decides to devour the little bit that just pinged out of your tweezers think about putting a bit of fine mesh/net curtain/fruit bag on to the end of your vacuum cleaner hose with an elastic band.
Then vacuum the floor and that little bit dose not disappear in to the vacuum bag never to be seen again.

Martin555.

Nice one Martin.
Bill 👍

Hi Guys,

Just came across this on Utube.
Might come in useful to replicate some Chrome fittings.



Martin555.

You can actually buy a centre finder from most hobby shops the aircraft boys use them to putin hinges

i got this from my local tool station (screwfix ) in the uk known here as sanding drums cost £10.99 box has a gap underneath to collect dust all mounter in my tower drill i have 2 tops 1 for the two larger drums and 1 for the rest

Can you tell me how you built this. Ie The sander part not the box.

Hi Jacko.
Very clever.
Great adaptation.
Bill

Great idea shipmate.
Cheers Colin.

Hi Jacko,
That is a great idea.
Thank's for sharing.

Martin555.

I need to sand some of the ribs on a boat i am building and not having the correct sander i built this as the sander was over £55

" in environmental terms the aerosol propellant still ends up in the atmosphere, filter or not,"
That's why air brushes are best. Propellant is compressed air 😊 so all the filter has to worry about is the paint particles floating about👍
Using acrylics on a water base also eliminates any nasty solvents getting into the atmosphere.
Snag is finding just the colour you need in acrylic🤔 Although LifeColour are pretty good.
Happy 'emitting' Rob 🙊
Cheers, Doug 😎

"Hi Doug.
I might have expected that from you 😆"
Would hate to disappoint you Rob😔😁
Cheers, Doug 😎

"Over here they call those 'Vollkörper Kondome'"

I expect you look very fetching in yours Doug 😂.
Now there's a first for this site !!!

Hi Doug.
I might have expected that from you 😆, in environmental terms the aerosol propellant still ends up in the atmosphere, filter or not, the pong dissipates very quickly and is considerably less noxious than some of some of my own emissions 😉
Rob.

" I have a full 'hazmat' suit for that 🤣"
Over here they call those 'Vollkörper Kondome'! Rob.
😎

"No filter, the fan exhausts through the outlet vent in the workshop (garage) door to the outside world."
Tush tush Rob😠
So you're dumping all the 'pong' outside!
My booth has the entire back wall covered with a first stage filter.
Replaceable with the same fibre stuff you can buy in sheets for cooker hoods.
Behind that is the extractor fan with it's own carbon filter.
THEN the pipe goes out the window.
Cheers, Doug 😎
BTW: I use FFP2 masks which don't make me look like a mutated insect!😁

It's been said that I look so much better with the mask on, and no, I don't wear it to go shopping, I have a full 'hazmat' suit for that 🤣
Rob.

Hi Rob,
Do you use the same mask when you go out shopping LOL!!

Martin555.

Great spray booth. You look really nice too.
👍

Hi Mark.
No filter, the fan exhausts through the outlet vent in the workshop (garage) door to the outside world. I always wear a spray mask so what I'm breathing is filtered.👍😁 and there's an old shower curtain so that I can spray 'inside the box' with the curtain behind me to exclude any over-spray from the workshop.😎
Rob.

Nice booth Robbob does the expelair have a filter fitted?.
Cheers Mark 👍

That's a very nice spray booth Rob.

Martin555.

Hi Martin.
I made mine from a Lazy Susan ring with a ball race mechanism and an old circular chipboard table top, total cost including the square ply base of about £15. It's proved to be an invaluable accessory to the spray booth along with the ventilation fan 😁
Rob.

Hi Robbob,
I use a cake decorating turntable that i got from a car boot sale for 25p.

Martin555.

I have adapted a 'Lazy Susan' for use in my spray booth, it makes spraying a hull so much easier. Mine is on a square base that I can just pull forward to allow me to rotate a large hull 180 degrees.
Rob.

I use the ironing board and a revolving platter intended for mounting a TV on.
The latter also being very useful in the spray booth - so I bought two.😉
All round access, adjustable height and a good excuse not to iron me shirts😁
Cheers All, Doug 😎

Hi martin same sort of idea I bought the revolving bearing for a lazy susan table attached it to a piece of thick ply hey presto 360 degree.s of access.

Hi Guys,
It Me again with another little tip.
I use a small camera tripod with a turn table attached as a work bench.
Ideal for working with small bits and pieces and is fully adjustable.
You can even work on it standing up or sitting down.
Is i am working on this plastic submarine kit i find it extremely useful.

Martin555.

Now that's worth knowing!

Thanks, for sharing Martin555!

Cheers, Ed

WoW! what a great magic trick Martin.....😁


Cheers, Pete

Hi Guys,
I have just seen this on utube, i have not tried it yet.
If anybody dose try it then i would love to know if it works as good as it looks on the video.



Martin555.

Same here Martin, wife got me a packet from a
£ shop, but only four in the packet, but they look a little larger than the one's Marky got.😊

Cheers, Pete

I am beginning to worry about this hobby now.
We have eyeshadow for weathering.
Finger nail blocks for sanding.
What's next ???

Martin555.

Martin ,their handy in that you don't need to splash out on reams of wet and dry if your only after a wee bit , and you can always buff up your nails if you feel inclined 😂

Hi Marky,
That was lucky my wife went shopping this morning and picked up a packet.
But i only got four in the pack!
Thanks again.

Martn555.

That's a good tip Marky, i have put in a request with the wife to see if she would get some.

Martin555.

there it is, right in front of me the hole time 😊

Handy for rubbing down,polishing small areas ,originally designed for finger nails four different grades of paper, file, buff,smooth and polish on a soft block , 5 blocks for £1 from a well known pound shop (where everything is £1).
Cheers Marky

Love your Cervia Tug, looking very realistic on the water, and if you ever get a cold day in Oz make sure you get out there and get some photos taken, so as I can see the steam which is not a problem here in the U/K as every other day is cold. Regards, Gary.

Fine Detale Sander.

Hi guys another little tip.

If you have some old scalpel blades that are blunt and you normally replace them with new ones, how about gluing a small piece of fine sand paper or wet/dry paper on to them.
Then trim to the shape of the blade.

It then becomes a nice thin sander that will get into those little awkward places.(especially if the blade is a long pointed one)

Martin555.