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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Andyp » 04 Jun 2018, 17:40

just noticed the mini bar in the background. :)
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 04 Jun 2018, 17:43

Andyp wrote:just noticed the mini bar in the background. :)



LOL....and at the other end I do have a soil pipe running through. Plenty of room for a bog ! And talking of creature comforts, since the central heating boiler is inside the workshop, I guess I could always stick in the odd radiator or two !
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Malc2098 » 04 Jun 2018, 17:46

Nice.
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Andyp » 04 Jun 2018, 18:42

RogerS wrote:
Andyp wrote:just noticed the mini bar in the background. :)



LOL....and at the other end I do have a soil pipe running through. Plenty of room for a bog ! And talking of creature comforts, since the central heating boiler is inside the workshop, I guess I could always stick in the odd radiator or two !


Go for it Rog, I know a chap around here who has an Aga in his workshop. :)
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Rod » 04 Jun 2018, 19:02

Nice space

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Phil » 05 Jun 2018, 07:06

Looking good Roger.

Huge transformation, well done that man, give the man a Bells.
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 05 Jun 2018, 11:25

A run of kitchen cabinets ready for my new toy - arriving today :D

Still very much a 'suck-it-and-see' approach as to what works. probably change it all again in a couple of months when I've used the place for a bit.

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Rod » 05 Jun 2018, 12:33

Mitre saw I guess?

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 05 Jun 2018, 16:26

Rod wrote:Mitre saw I guess?

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Got it in one, Rod. I splashed the cash and treated myself to this little baby.

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It's the baby Kapex. It means that I can leave it set up in the workshop and take myo ld Bosch inside to be used from room to room when doing the floorboards. The design of the Kapex means I don't need to have a huge amount of 'wasted' space at the back to allow for the sliders.
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby StevieB » 05 Jun 2018, 17:40

I have radiators in my workshop as it is an annex off the side of the house, but while they add warmth, they don't half take up wall space - depending on how much you have, this might require some slim vertical panel radiators rather than standard flat ones - worth planning out in advance before purchasing I would say.
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Jun 2018, 22:02

Nice.
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby TrimTheKing » 05 Jun 2018, 23:11

Looking great there mate, almost operating theatre-esque!
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Andyp » 09 Jun 2018, 17:20

Those things vary immensely in price. Just found one here for 439 gbp

https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/product/Fes ... -Mitre-Saw

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 09 Jun 2018, 17:29

Andyp wrote:Those things vary immensely in price. Just found one here for 439 gbp

https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/product/Fes ... -Mitre-Saw

Too good to be true?


Bu**er. I wish you hadn't shown me that :evil:

As it happened FFX were about £30 cheaper than the company I bought from but then I looked at their feedback and although they have a lot of positives felt that there were too many negatives ...especially so when you read the feedback. I can't fault who I eventually bought from (Brighton Tools) ...I didn't realise my initial purchase wasn't the 'set' and emailed them that evening. They called back first thing and we agreed the price difference, they sent it that day, I got it the next day, they had already registered my ownership with Festool. All tickety-boo.
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 22 Jun 2018, 08:26

Finally managed to get the rest of my Festool gear tidied away ;)

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Malc2098 » 22 Jun 2018, 10:12

I'm sorry, Rog, that's just showing off!! :D
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby 9fingers » 22 Jun 2018, 10:17

Must be easy to find items. It will be in the grey box with green handles! :lol:
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Rod » 22 Jun 2018, 10:36

A bit like my Veritas collection!

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Malc2098 » 22 Jun 2018, 10:58

Right, that's it!

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby 9fingers » 22 Jun 2018, 11:08

Malc2098 wrote:Right, that's it!

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Malc, you could always counter with your magnificent display of 13amp outlets? :lol:

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby TrimTheKing » 22 Jun 2018, 11:19

Rod wrote:A bit like my Veritas collection!

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I've got one you don't have on 'your collection' there Rod. :eusa-whistle: :P
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 22 Jun 2018, 11:36

Was it this one I saw in your partly-constructed workshop, Mark ?

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Re: Garage conversion

Postby Malc2098 » 22 Jun 2018, 11:41

9fingers wrote:
Malc2098 wrote:Right, that's it!

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Malc, you could always counter with your magnificent display of 13amp outlets? :lol:

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:lol: I'm back in the game!!!

Yesterday, they were brilliant when I was moving so much stuff around, was able to put the chargers, radio, extractor etc wherever I was working. Soooooo convenient!
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Re: Garage conversion

Postby TrimTheKing » 22 Jun 2018, 12:09

RogerS wrote:Was it this one I saw in your partly-constructed workshop, Mark ?

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:lol:


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Re: Garage conversion

Postby RogerS » 22 Jun 2018, 20:21

Got the mitre saw and bench all set up...excuse the junk in the photos...I seem to be spending all my time moving stuff from A to B and back to A again.

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It's dropped into its own well to bring it to the right height for the two benches on either side. In my last workshop I had the main support on the left..

..an early photo

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It had a straight edge running down it with a ruler on top and one of these from Axminster..

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A good idea but never worked that well as it all depended on the width of the kerf in the saw blade and if that changed ....

So I usually ended up just using the stop to get consistent lengths between pieces. But that often relied on having the support bench to the right clear of stuff. And so anyone who knows me knows that given a horizontal surface I will fill it. So that idea didn't work as well as it should have.

Anyway, I've lost track of the Axminster gizmo...it's in a box somewhere..so we'll just have to suck it and see.

Of more interest to me was the dust extraction. The mitre saw does create an awful lot of dust..much more than some other machines. In my old workshop I had it plumbed in to my main extractor but as I always had to plug in the pipe, switch gates etc I never did it. So the sawdust just built up. So this time I wanted a dedicated extractor for the mitre saw. Or semi-dedicated as I had the Nilfisk in mind to double up as the shop vac. It's got the power take-off which was essential in my book. Trouble was that, nice thought it is, the hose is very stiff and the outlet on the Festool Kapex is proprietary.

I faffed around for ages but eventually came to the conclusion that the hose was too stiff as it kept pulling out any adapter that I came up with. I also came to the decision to have a dedicated vac for the saw. I saw this cheapie reduced Einhell and so went for it.

Turns out to be a good buy for around £60. The hose is super-flexible.

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And now here's the 'magic' bit

Wrap a lot of turns of duck tape round the Kapex dust outlet. Take a 40mm 90 degree waste pipe bend

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Then add one of these

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and connect them all together

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