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Wiped lead joints
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Yesterdays fixit was the TV that,without provocation,dropped all video sources and the freeview reception.
Factory reset cured everything except the freeview.
On the clock now as shes googling new tvs,I checked everything ariel down ,splitter,cabling and terminations but drew a blank.
Shes found a nice one on offer for six hundred by now but at the eleventh hour the only thing unexamined was the flylead.
Didnt have a spare so dashed out to Toolstation and got one for less than a couple of quids
It worked.
Not sure how a flylead could fail as it gets no abuse but it was much easier on the wallet
Factory reset cured everything except the freeview.
On the clock now as shes googling new tvs,I checked everything ariel down ,splitter,cabling and terminations but drew a blank.
Shes found a nice one on offer for six hundred by now but at the eleventh hour the only thing unexamined was the flylead.
Didnt have a spare so dashed out to Toolstation and got one for less than a couple of quids
It worked.
Not sure how a flylead could fail as it gets no abuse but it was much easier on the wallet
Sheffield Tony
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Nice idea, but in our house - possibly partly aggravated by very hard water - if you operate the valves frequently, they will then start leaking from the gland. Usually the lime seems to cause pitting in the spindle so tightening does not help. You can replace it - but new plumbing brassware seem to be universally garbage. My rule for anything plumbing related - just leave it alone if you can, only touch with a replacement and blowtorch at the ready !
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After buying reducers yesterday, and a little faff due to them adding a little extra length to the fittings, which the old ones didn't so I needed to faf with shortening a pipe one side of the pump, I got it all sorted and we're back up and running.
My plumber mate kindly told me, after the fact, that he normally uses jointing compound with the reducers...When I fired it all up one of the reducer joints was weeping a little which was frustrating, but it seems to have stopped when everything's heated up... Not 'fixed' as I'm sure if it cools down it will start to weep again, but the reducer works basically like an olive and grabs the pipe inside it, then when you tighten the nut it compresses a sliding part inside the reducer, clamping onto the copper pipe.
This means you can't remove the copper pipe or reducer as they are now compressed together. To remove it and redo with compound will mean having to sacrifice the whole gate valve and put a new one in! Only £11 down the drain, but still annoying and wish I'd have known beforehand.
Ah well, that's a ext weekend job to go back and redo that side, but there's a bowl underneath it for now, and it isn't dripping...
After buying reducers yesterday, and a little faff due to them adding a little extra length to the fittings, which the old ones didn't so I needed to faf with shortening a pipe one side of the pump, I got it all sorted and we're back up and running.
My plumber mate kindly told me, after the fact, that he normally uses jointing compound with the reducers...When I fired it all up one of the reducer joints was weeping a little which was frustrating, but it seems to have stopped when everything's heated up... Not 'fixed' as I'm sure if it cools down it will start to weep again, but the reducer works basically like an olive and grabs the pipe inside it, then when you tighten the nut it compresses a sliding part inside the reducer, clamping onto the copper pipe.
This means you can't remove the copper pipe or reducer as they are now compressed together. To remove it and redo with compound will mean having to sacrifice the whole gate valve and put a new one in! Only £11 down the drain, but still annoying and wish I'd have known beforehand.
Ah well, that's a ext weekend job to go back and redo that side, but there's a bowl underneath it for now, and it isn't dripping...
100% my view now. Literally EVERY SINGLE TIME I touch something un the plumbing, some part of it will break (seal gone, brass/steel crumbles etc) so I have to assume that as well as the thing that's broken, I will also need to replace the ball valve isolator that I need to use to fix it, meaning I'll need to drain the system anyway! Pointless having isolators if they're that sh!t they fail when you need them!
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Your water composition may require the use of dezincification-resistant fittings
Then you have a trust issue with what you're being sold
Then you have a trust issue with what you're being sold
Bungalow built 1996, cold water tank in loft with gate valves, hot water tank in airing cupboard with gate valves, type with a red knobbly wheel. I am damn sure they were all opened an closed yearly, for at least 10 years it was my job as old man couldnt get into the loft. Water is SE London also very hard. I do not recall every hearing about a leak or replacement.
I tool hate plumbing even more so here as everything seems to be not just soldered but annealed.
I tool hate plumbing even more so here as everything seems to be not just soldered but annealed.
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I trust that you have now repaired the broken one so that you have a spare?
Flylead? What is that in this context? Power cable?
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I assumed he meant the aerial as tv was working other than freeview
Edit: tool station call them fly leads
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Yes the flylead plugs into the ariel wall socket at one end then the tv at the other end.
Not sure a continuity issue can be fixed but at £1.49 for a new lead the old one can be weighed in at the scrap yard
Not sure a continuity issue can be fixed but at £1.49 for a new lead the old one can be weighed in at the scrap yard
John Brown
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Tumble dryer stopped working last night. Drum not rotating, smelt a bit hot..
Took the top off to check the belt, all ok. Frantic searching online for somewhere local to buy a replacement...had a thought, turned it on and spun the drum manually and it carried on. Found the capacitor online, ordered it at about 8:00 pm, arrived at 11:30 this morning, everything sorted and working again, and my wife learnt a few new swear words into the bargain
I was ruminating on how this was a thing to go on the positive side of the scales of internet balance, when I remembered that there used to be local shops that might've had, if not the exact part, a 9uF capacitor. In fact, when I used to go sailing in Turkey and Greece, 30 years ago, there still were. You could walk into a Turkish back street shop with a failed component from a particle accelerator, for example , ask if they had such a thing, and they'd say "of course", and take one from a shelf.
Took the top off to check the belt, all ok. Frantic searching online for somewhere local to buy a replacement...had a thought, turned it on and spun the drum manually and it carried on. Found the capacitor online, ordered it at about 8:00 pm, arrived at 11:30 this morning, everything sorted and working again, and my wife learnt a few new swear words into the bargain
I was ruminating on how this was a thing to go on the positive side of the scales of internet balance, when I remembered that there used to be local shops that might've had, if not the exact part, a 9uF capacitor. In fact, when I used to go sailing in Turkey and Greece, 30 years ago, there still were. You could walk into a Turkish back street shop with a failed component from a particle accelerator, for example , ask if they had such a thing, and they'd say "of course", and take one from a shelf.
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I have had a morphy richards kettle since before I was married, replaced the element once about 15 years ago and immediately bought another (element not kettle) cos they were hard to find then.
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Spot welds failed on the stainless steel teapot lid so I drilled some holes and taped some threads and screwed some screws and all was good.
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Used the Ferrex bandsaw today... and the blade slipped off. Checkingit I found the bottom wheel rubber had come off... Ah well! Get it back on and re-adjust to fit the blade - tighten back up to hear a 'pop'? Adjust again with the top know and another 'pop'! Watched as I tried again to see the control drop down slightly and 'pop' again.
Dismantled the top knob and removed the bolt to find thread stripped... Quick trip to 'Proper Job' - just up the road - to find a 2 pack... slightly longer than needed and a bigger head. Will it fit? Give it a try.
Shorten, put back together, refit blade, tighten up... jobs a good 'un
Excluding my time etc., cost £1 for the pack of 2... so, 50p
Dismantled the top knob and removed the bolt to find thread stripped... Quick trip to 'Proper Job' - just up the road - to find a 2 pack... slightly longer than needed and a bigger head. Will it fit? Give it a try.
Shorten, put back together, refit blade, tighten up... jobs a good 'un
Excluding my time etc., cost £1 for the pack of 2... so, 50p Attachments
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It's not a problem only on little cheap machines.
I have a Basato 5-2, a big machine. It was 1K when I bought it, I think more than double that now, so no toy.
I was having trouble adjusting the tracking. I could turn the tracking knob as much as I wanted but to no avail.
It turned out that there was an alloy "lever" that the tracking knob presses on, and that lever tilts the top wheel. But that alloy lever was just bending under the pressure. I've since discovered that it is a known problem.
My friend Stuart tried to patch it up with epoxy, plated sides and bolts. It lasted a day.
So I did what I should have done in the first place - take it to my mate Pete. Pete took one look at it and described in very disparaging terms, made me a brand new one out of solid steel, much better than a replacement OEM alloy piece. Moreover, he didn't charge me (it must have been a good few hours) and it is still sound today.
I hope one day I can repay my debt (but there is not much I can do that Pete can't).
S
I have a Basato 5-2, a big machine. It was 1K when I bought it, I think more than double that now, so no toy.
I was having trouble adjusting the tracking. I could turn the tracking knob as much as I wanted but to no avail.
It turned out that there was an alloy "lever" that the tracking knob presses on, and that lever tilts the top wheel. But that alloy lever was just bending under the pressure. I've since discovered that it is a known problem.
My friend Stuart tried to patch it up with epoxy, plated sides and bolts. It lasted a day.
So I did what I should have done in the first place - take it to my mate Pete. Pete took one look at it and described in very disparaging terms, made me a brand new one out of solid steel, much better than a replacement OEM alloy piece. Moreover, he didn't charge me (it must have been a good few hours) and it is still sound today.
I hope one day I can repay my debt (but there is not much I can do that Pete can't).
S
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Brilliant! We stayed in Coleford, Forest of Dean a couple of years back, first time I'd ever encountered a Proper Job store. Wish we had one locally...Used the Ferrex bandsaw today... and the blade slipped off. Checkingit I found the bottom wheel rubber had come off... Ah well! Get it back on and re-adjust to fit the blade - tighten back up to hear a 'pop'? Adjust again with the top know and another 'pop'! Watched as I tried again to see the control drop down slightly and 'pop' again.
Dismantled the top knob and removed the bolt to find thread stripped... Quick trip to 'Proper Job' - just up the road - to find a 2 pack... slightly longer than needed and a bigger head. Will it fit? Give it a try.
Shorten, put back together, refit blade, tighten up... jobs a good 'un
I’m finding that on some electrical switches and sockets you have to get the cable the right side of the screw. On one side as you tighten up the screw, the very action of turning it acts on the wire and ejects it.
HOJ
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Our upright freezer has been leaking past the door seal for quite some time, I had bought a new seal months ago for £50.00, but hadn’t raised the courage to tackle replacing it, as it could have meant a new freezer, which, to fit the space would be getting on for £1000, if it all went wrong.
The old seal is trapped within the door, at manufacture, and a different profile to its replacement so you have to cut the old one off, the new one is a simple sticky back tape affair which, just sticks, in place.
I was surprised when I ordered the new seal it came in a rather large box:
I had a piece of 50mm thick Celotex left over from a job, so I whipped the door off and jammed the insulation over the freezer opening to try and keep it from defrosting, that worked well and gave me time to deal with the seal, and all said and done, after my hesitation, was quite easy to cut the old one off and then fit the new one, came down this morning, no leak, will use less lecky as well.
The old seal is trapped within the door, at manufacture, and a different profile to its replacement so you have to cut the old one off, the new one is a simple sticky back tape affair which, just sticks, in place.
I was surprised when I ordered the new seal it came in a rather large box:
I had a piece of 50mm thick Celotex left over from a job, so I whipped the door off and jammed the insulation over the freezer opening to try and keep it from defrosting, that worked well and gave me time to deal with the seal, and all said and done, after my hesitation, was quite easy to cut the old one off and then fit the new one, came down this morning, no leak, will use less lecky as well.
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Thanks. I've found Proper Job stores very handy even with a Toolstation a short distance from it and a Screwfix about 3 miles away. Reasonable prices too for the odds and ends...
Well, I tried. Oil CH boiler started playing up. Intermittently running for a while then stopping. No lockout light. No thermal override kicking in. I would do nothing and then sometime later it would fire up. Run for a while. Stop.
All the hallmarks of a dodgy electrical connection. I traced power all the way to the control box for the pump mounted inside the cabinet (it’s an external boiler). Connections could only be tested by removing a black cover. Levered it off but it only would go so far. After much fiddling it came off followed by the dreaded sound of something tinkling as it fell down inside the boiler. Removed the front cover to go hunting and spotted it on top of the burner housing. A wee bit of plastic with a tiny metal bar….part of the pump speed control.
Checked volts. All good. Tried to replace the speed control and cover. Rinse and repeat. Go searching for it again. Find the black bit of plastic but no wee bit of metal. Ah, there it is. On the ground in the crud. Perhaps best leave for an expert.
Boilerman coming today
All the hallmarks of a dodgy electrical connection. I traced power all the way to the control box for the pump mounted inside the cabinet (it’s an external boiler). Connections could only be tested by removing a black cover. Levered it off but it only would go so far. After much fiddling it came off followed by the dreaded sound of something tinkling as it fell down inside the boiler. Removed the front cover to go hunting and spotted it on top of the burner housing. A wee bit of plastic with a tiny metal bar….part of the pump speed control.
Checked volts. All good. Tried to replace the speed control and cover. Rinse and repeat. Go searching for it again. Find the black bit of plastic but no wee bit of metal. Ah, there it is. On the ground in the crud. Perhaps best leave for an expert.
Boilerman coming today
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Heating problem here too, rad in a bathroom not working, it’s a complicated system with 4 zones and asked a plumber to come, think he must be abroad as he’s normally very good. But in the end I was glad he didn’t come as all it was was a stuck thermostatic rad valve.
Pam is very grateful as it was causing a condensation damp patch with mold. But I feel a bit of a fraud as I should have sorted it before.
Pam is very grateful as it was causing a condensation damp patch with mold. But I feel a bit of a fraud as I should have sorted it before.
I was bang on the money. The pump speed switch is a bit flakey in design. He showed me the diagnosis….squeeze here…and Hey Presto pump starts working. So remove the wee bit of brass and bend it. Replace. “It might go now for years. Or it might not in which case new pump”.
If that happens there are a few things I can try first.
If that happens there are a few things I can try first.
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Is it just me or has anyone else found Toolstation on a downward slope?
Our local staff are brilliant but the availability quality and prices have become more often less favourable than Screwfix.
Our local staff are brilliant but the availability quality and prices have become more often less favourable than Screwfix.
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We used to have one in our local town, a 3 storey building now turned into a restaurant. It was owned and run by two old spinster sisters who were as hard as nails and you could get almost anything, a couple of specific brass screws for example, no problem you could have one or fifty out of the box and some of the stock was so old it was priced in pounds, shillings and pence.
A brilliant place but no one to keep it going when the old dears died.We do have a kind of Steptoe and son yard a few miles away owned by a very eccentric bloke in his 50s, his main business being welding and agricultural supplies but he stocks all sorts and as I buy dog food and other bits from him I'm there often. The only problem being what should be 10 minutes turns into an hour as he insists on "putting the world to rights".
Pete Maddex
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Not so much of a fix I ordered a replacement mains adapter for my neighbours outside lights the Earth pin had snapped off their existing one so you couldn’t get it into the socket. I put them up on the front of the house for her as well.
You can get most things from Amazon.
Pete
You can get most things from Amazon.
Pete
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Mike G
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Thanks. They don't have any shops in our area, unfortunately.
Thanks for this. I see there is one in Taunton which is close by.
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Pity that no one took it on - and/or they didn't bring someone (or 2) in to learn about the stock and the services they were providing...We used to have one in our local town, a 3 storey building now turned into a restaurant. It was owned and run by two old spinster sisters who were as hard as nails and you could get almost anything, a couple of specific brass screws for example, no problem you could have one or fifty out of the box and some of the stock was so old it was priced in pounds, shillings and pence.
I've a nuts/bolts/mechanical engineering (?) company on the trading estate that will sell you any odd number of screws/bolts/nuts etc., etc., individually or X number of - stainless steel, brass etc., etc. I don't use it as much as I should. They do have a website under the name of Peter Abbott and ive no objections to sharing the company here IF they can be of use to others:
Fixings & Fastenings Suppliers in Frome, Somerset - Peter Abbott Co. West
www.peterabbott.co.uk
Got to be worth the time to keep him going so able to help you out when needed
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Yesterday finally got round to re-assembling our kitchen table. I first introduced it to the forum back in 2020 here https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/what-do-folk-think-about-this-table.4669/ where it got mixed opinions. Rob's (Woodbloke) comment regarding the strength of the leg joints was prescient.
It's a bit of a fiddle to assemble TBH and not helped by the metal U-shaped brackets being over-bent making insertion of the crossbeam very hard.
The first pair of legs went together OK.
but then when I - possibly hamfistedly - went to assemble the second pair, disaster struck as part of the leg containing the 'nuts' sheared off. A definite design weak spot. Definitely no dragging of the able into position.
So some glue and some clamps and left overnight.
Will shortly be having another go at assembling it. The U-shaped brackets have been opened up a bit to facilitate insertion of the crossbeam.
It's a bit of a fiddle to assemble TBH and not helped by the metal U-shaped brackets being over-bent making insertion of the crossbeam very hard.
The first pair of legs went together OK.
but then when I - possibly hamfistedly - went to assemble the second pair, disaster struck as part of the leg containing the 'nuts' sheared off. A definite design weak spot. Definitely no dragging of the able into position.
So some glue and some clamps and left overnight.
Will shortly be having another go at assembling it. The U-shaped brackets have been opened up a bit to facilitate insertion of the crossbeam.
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I noticed a while ago that all of Toolstation’s prices had become comparable or dearer than Screwfix then surprise surprise they started the Toolstation club offering 5% off if I spent over £75 a month,
duke
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Feel your pain Roger regarding what I call cheap white metal hardware.
duke
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Not fixed but MacGyvered - Me wife wanted a light below the fan so I spliced into the feed wire and white common wire and attached what we call a pig tail fixture. This will due till I order a proper light assembly that will attach to an identical spare fan.
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Repaired screeching extractor fan in the bathroom ceiling. 10 mins to take it down in the dark (it comes on with the light) and remove the dead wasp. 10 mins more to put it all back. Quite satisfying.
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I was looking forward to contributing to this thread, but...
A couple of months ago we got hit by lightning. Everything went off, of course, but not everything came back on again. In particularan LED wall light on the landing no longer works. JUST out of warranty!
I'd checked that there was power as far as the mount, but after that, rien.
So I figured the most likely culprit was the driver. I found a replacement online, not identical in appearance but same spec and ordered it. I have vowed never to use AliExpress again (there is a vid if you want to see why), but it was the only place and the whole sale on cost a couple of Euros.
Weeks ago I got a message to say it had cleared customs*, but it never actually arrived. Yesterday I found it in the garden, quite by accident, under a plant pot. Goodness knows how long it had been there.
So today I set out full of enthusiasm.
The first problem is that the new driver had a different size connector. No problem, I thought, I'd just disconnect the the lead from the old on and used it on the new. Which I did.
However, the old wires were coloured grey and white, the new were black and red.
Hmm.
I guessed that the grey was +ve and the white was -ve, so I soldered it like that. Alas alack, it didn't work, so I resoldered them the other way round. Rien. So it must be the LED strip itself. And I thought I was being so clever.
So am beaten, I think it must be a new light fitting
Not fixed nuffin' today.
S
* There is a call in France to tax small imports at a flat rate of €5. It will make buying small bits like this unviable.
A couple of months ago we got hit by lightning. Everything went off, of course, but not everything came back on again. In particularan LED wall light on the landing no longer works. JUST out of warranty!
I'd checked that there was power as far as the mount, but after that, rien.
So I figured the most likely culprit was the driver. I found a replacement online, not identical in appearance but same spec and ordered it. I have vowed never to use AliExpress again (there is a vid if you want to see why), but it was the only place and the whole sale on cost a couple of Euros.
Weeks ago I got a message to say it had cleared customs*, but it never actually arrived. Yesterday I found it in the garden, quite by accident, under a plant pot. Goodness knows how long it had been there.
So today I set out full of enthusiasm.
The first problem is that the new driver had a different size connector. No problem, I thought, I'd just disconnect the the lead from the old on and used it on the new. Which I did.
However, the old wires were coloured grey and white, the new were black and red.
Hmm.
I guessed that the grey was +ve and the white was -ve, so I soldered it like that. Alas alack, it didn't work, so I resoldered them the other way round. Rien. So it must be the LED strip itself. And I thought I was being so clever.
So am beaten, I think it must be a new light fitting
Not fixed nuffin' today.
S
* There is a call in France to tax small imports at a flat rate of €5. It will make buying small bits like this unviable.
Steve Maskery
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That's not just an appalling double negative,
Not fixed nuffin' today.
I'm building a wall in the kitchen. God what a mess. Dust everywhere. But the main part of the wall is vertical flat, horizonta. All pretty good for a hammer-chewer.
But there is also a small return, and that was not as square as it should be. Unfortunately, I did not realise that a block had moved untill it was too late. It's out by about 6mm over 0.5m, so not trivial.
I started to try to grind it back, but there was too much mess, so I chipped of ffrom the block I had started to grind, then knoked away the two above it and re-laid them. The result is a corner that is a bit scruffy, but essentially square and true and once it is plastered it will be perfect.
The main downside of today's travails is that I mixed a bucket of gubbins, and it went off before I could use it. Bummer.
But at least I do have a square corner. Some sort of fix.
S
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Ok... not 'fixed' as such yet - but on the way to being *partly* so...
Workshop job... left-hand corner... shelf units. Never used French Cleats before but didn't fancy trying to man handle a 31½" x 24" x 11½" unit in place - along with a couple of lesser sized ones (25" x 19" x 6")... narrows previously fixed but then taken down
Time taken up with having to move stuff off the shelves, find somewhere for them, (temp) fix in place, put stuff back - then remove again as decided the narrow ones ain't wide enough! ... blah! blah! blah!
Presently at the stage of fitting (scrap/offcuts stuff) to widen todsy - glued/clamped to existing shelves but yet to take photos... Pre widening...
All that's left to do is... glue srtips to fronts/sides/prime/paint/hang back up... Next year now
... becoming frustrated with time by others taking me away from this - but had a need to post something here
Workshop job... left-hand corner... shelf units. Never used French Cleats before but didn't fancy trying to man handle a 31½" x 24" x 11½" unit in place - along with a couple of lesser sized ones (25" x 19" x 6")... narrows previously fixed but then taken down
Time taken up with having to move stuff off the shelves, find somewhere for them, (temp) fix in place, put stuff back - then remove again as decided the narrow ones ain't wide enough! ... blah! blah! blah!
Presently at the stage of fitting (scrap/offcuts stuff) to widen todsy - glued/clamped to existing shelves but yet to take photos... Pre widening...
All that's left to do is... glue srtips to fronts/sides/prime/paint/hang back up... Next year now
... becoming frustrated with time by others taking me away from this - but had a need to post something here 
