Hey European & American friends who use tools and do building, repairs, DIY – are Robertson screws common in your area?
Are Robertson screwdrivers common in European toolboxes?
In Canada I suspect that 99% of people who have tools would have Robertson screwdrivers in their toolbox. At least the red & green (#2, #1) sizes. The more intrepid will have the yellow and black (#0, #3) sizes too.
Lunch break, more progress building a DIY 19 inch rack, question for the IT folks out there: inset mounting rails, yay or nay, or should I mount the rails flush in front? Exactly 19 inch gap. #diy#networking#carpentry
After a trying couple of weeks, I completed a personal project today. Posting as therapy.
It's an #electronics#workbench, replacing a crappy folding plastic table I'd been using. Surface is #birch#plywood, with #cherry#hardwood for edging and a back lip so I can't push stuff off the back by accident. The shelves/racks for equipment are made of the same plywood and cherry.
Computer on arm for reference materials, and swings out of the way.
I sent some of my staircases to a potential client today; I forgot about this one. I enjoyed doing this one too. Oak treads and open risers with a glass balustrade give the open/floating effect.
I'm pretty sure this was one of the first jobs I completed after the lockdown.
What I've been doing the last two weeks (whenever the weather was benign):
Building a straight terrace on completely wonky foundations. In hindsight, it might've been faster to build a new foundation, but also messier and less fun!
The old terrace had been built haphazardly and from untreated wood and rotted away in a few years until someone crashed through it.
I re-used much of the surviving parts for the frame and the handrails.
Conclusion: using green copper #wood preservative: yuck. Way too smelly... three days later after using a small amount on ground contact wood, the entire backyard still reeks. Going back to the hazmat reuse store! #carpentry
If you are getting someone in to do some work for you check out their credentials, see if they have photos of their work and just be a bit more weary before parting with your cash as you may end up with this and your building inspector will not like you.
Been fun, although my back and knees have been aching at times.
Not bad for a first timer, I think. Hope they like it and the company installing the wheelchair ramp don't make a mess of things. They have certain norms that make the ramp absolutely ginourmous - 7m plus a platform, longer than the entire terrace.
#Woodworking time! Made a new mallet to fix the old mallet with.
Head is simply cut from a birch firewood log with some planing. Handle I split out of another log and then chopped roughly to size before planing.
Then spent ages carving and chiseling the hole until I remembered I'm not a snobby hand-tool purist and did recently buy a cheap router. Finished soon after!