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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Phil » 02 Feb 2020, 13:35

Looking good Roger.

Is that a bit of an echo chamber on the top right of the one pic?
:o :shock: :( :)
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby 9fingers » 02 Feb 2020, 13:57

Glad to see you are beating this job into submission once more rahter than the other way round! :lol:

Incidentally looking at the latter photos, is your clamp rack a cunning design or did you mislay your spirit level that day?

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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerS » 02 Feb 2020, 14:00

Phil wrote:Looking good Roger.

Is that a bit of an echo chamber on the top right of the one pic?
:o :shock: :( :)


Which one, Phil ?

Bob...it was held in by friction. Over-enthusiastic slamming of the Up'n'Over door two years ago made it slip. I never use those clamps.
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Phil » 02 Feb 2020, 14:06

RogerS wrote:
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerS » 02 Feb 2020, 16:40

Being slow on the uptake, Phil...still don't get you ! :)
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Phil » 02 Feb 2020, 19:40

Roger, the gap in the top circle, just above the chamber entrance
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerS » 02 Feb 2020, 19:47

Phil wrote:Roger, the gap in the top circle, just above the chamber entrance



Got you...that was before it was all screwed down tight ! Thought I had a photo but clearly not !
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerS » 10 Feb 2020, 16:56

Glueing the nosing assembly for the top step was even trickier due to the tighter radius. Dominos are NOT the right thing to use...DAMHIKT. Bit stupid of me TBH. I'd thought 'more is best' and daily cut domino slots all the way round. But they are cut along radial lines. So as you go round the curve, the axes of the dominos means that you're trying to fit the two pieces together in conflicting directions. Even with wide domino slots in one of the pieces. If my explanation isn't that good I can make a sketch. It all got a bit frantic towards the end with dominos being pulled out, cut off, shavings mixed with glue wiped off, sweat, cussing. Obvious really in hindsight. :oops:

One of those few occasions when a biscuit is the best option.

And so we're on the home straight and time for the floorboards to go on the top step. Originally I'd wanted them to follow on through in a seamless manner and segue into those that would be laid later in the hall. But then I realised that trying to manhandle and accurately sand the curves on the ends of 2.4m lengths of board just simply wasn't going to happen. So a traditional threshold strip was the way to go.

Not that many boards. I wanted to slot the two outer boards under the existing plasterboard to give me the option of not fitting any skirting board in the door opening if I or CD decided that that was the neater option. Enter the ever-brilliant Fein, slide along on top of the floorboard and trim away.

I'd thought that I'd taken a load of WIP photos but clearly didn't. My apologies. And so without further ado.

Ta da !

Finished ! (apart from making good)

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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Malc2098 » 10 Feb 2020, 18:16

Nice job!
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Andyp » 10 Feb 2020, 18:44

well done Rog,
I guarantee that very few, if anyone, will spot the faults.
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerS » 10 Feb 2020, 19:42

Andyp wrote:well done Rog,
I guarantee that very few, if anyone, will spot the faults.



Faults ? Faults ? :shock:
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Mike G » 10 Feb 2020, 20:00

Well done Roger. It was always only a question of how and when, not if........ :D
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby 9fingers » 10 Feb 2020, 20:02

RogerS wrote:
Andyp wrote:well done Rog,
I guarantee that very few, if anyone, will spot the faults.



Faults ? Faults ? :shock:


They will be "features" surely? :lol:

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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby tracerman » 10 Feb 2020, 20:35

Roger , it took a while but you got there in the end , thats a cracking looking job .
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby TrimTheKing » 10 Feb 2020, 21:15

Very nice mate.
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby Gone fishinf » 11 Feb 2020, 19:39

Roger

That’s a great job, very smart indeed.

You would struggle to find someone to do that

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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby fiveeyes » 11 Feb 2020, 19:39

orphan clamps can be sent to US postal code 94112 ;)


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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerS » 11 Feb 2020, 19:58

Thanks chaps.

I forgot to add that my 'fudge' toolkit for awkward dings in fancy wood was pressed into service. Lots of different shades of wax. A multitude of oil paints and fine brushes. Earth pigments of varying colours and coloured crayons.
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby RogerM » 11 Feb 2020, 21:12

:text-bravo: Jobs a good'un Roger! Looking great. But then it always was going to be fine once the toys were repatriated to the pram! :lol:
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Re: Set of circular segmented steps

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 12 Feb 2020, 17:28

Respect.

You did NOT let that barsteward job beat you. "Ave! Rogerius Maximus Liginius! We who are about to make similar almighty screwups salute you!".

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