07-03-2011, 05:34 PM
Hi,
You are most welcome Mark; I'm just happy to add the thread in the hope that it is of use to other members.
Good luck with your 2 woodies Rob (Bushbaby), I only dream about summers now as last years was cancelled unless it came and went when I blinked. I spent a terrible six weeks during July & August last year trying to paint the exterior of our bungalow, it was 6 degrees in the morning freezing me to death then rose to a mighty 25 degrees in the afternoon burning my legs; we suffered high wind and rain as well. I was most annoyed after working so hard to see very fine dust had settled onto the new gloss paint (Bakelite brown) and assumed it was ash from the then erupting Iceland volcano? During one of the rare sunny spells our neighbour popped across and as we were talking he said "did you see that?" I looked at where he was pointing to and the breeze was picking up dense clouds of pollen from the large Scots pine tree to the side of our bungalow and it was this that was settling on the wet paint. The day after I was at the top of the tree in pouring rain with a log saw removing branches as I descended; I then borrowed a friends chain saw and dropped the trunk in two sections; I then spent three days taking all the rubbish to our local tip in car loads and my friend collected the trunk which I cut up into logs for his stove. That is one Scots pine that will never mess my work up again.
I have two large compressors and an assortment of decent spray guns including one HVLP gun but gave up long ago trying to use them because of the weather hence I now French polish and the weather even makes this almost impossible to do; I've not done any work in the workshop for many months as it is like a five star freezer compartment and the garage is not much better although the central heating boiler is in the garage and I can work in reasonable comfort by putting the heat on; I do however feel extremely hot when the gas and electric bills arrive.
One day rob t you just might decide to have a go at restoring a woody and really surprise yourself but please be warned because French polishing is addictive;once the first French polishing job is completed and you stand back to admire it others will surely follow.
It was a pleasure to meet you Steve when Mike and I collected the Ekco T311 and you made us both very welcome; I hope to meet you once again at the next Golborne meeting in April as I plan to attend.
I've moaned long and hard about the weather; this morning it was perishing as usual with frost and right up until dinner time it was very cold; after dinner a miracle happened as the sun came out and for the first time since last year I removed my coat and rolled up my sleeves to start flatting the T311 cabinet down working outside; WOW!! is this what global warming is and if so can I please have a lot more?
Kind regards, Col.
You are most welcome Mark; I'm just happy to add the thread in the hope that it is of use to other members.
Good luck with your 2 woodies Rob (Bushbaby), I only dream about summers now as last years was cancelled unless it came and went when I blinked. I spent a terrible six weeks during July & August last year trying to paint the exterior of our bungalow, it was 6 degrees in the morning freezing me to death then rose to a mighty 25 degrees in the afternoon burning my legs; we suffered high wind and rain as well. I was most annoyed after working so hard to see very fine dust had settled onto the new gloss paint (Bakelite brown) and assumed it was ash from the then erupting Iceland volcano? During one of the rare sunny spells our neighbour popped across and as we were talking he said "did you see that?" I looked at where he was pointing to and the breeze was picking up dense clouds of pollen from the large Scots pine tree to the side of our bungalow and it was this that was settling on the wet paint. The day after I was at the top of the tree in pouring rain with a log saw removing branches as I descended; I then borrowed a friends chain saw and dropped the trunk in two sections; I then spent three days taking all the rubbish to our local tip in car loads and my friend collected the trunk which I cut up into logs for his stove. That is one Scots pine that will never mess my work up again.
I have two large compressors and an assortment of decent spray guns including one HVLP gun but gave up long ago trying to use them because of the weather hence I now French polish and the weather even makes this almost impossible to do; I've not done any work in the workshop for many months as it is like a five star freezer compartment and the garage is not much better although the central heating boiler is in the garage and I can work in reasonable comfort by putting the heat on; I do however feel extremely hot when the gas and electric bills arrive.
One day rob t you just might decide to have a go at restoring a woody and really surprise yourself but please be warned because French polishing is addictive;once the first French polishing job is completed and you stand back to admire it others will surely follow.
It was a pleasure to meet you Steve when Mike and I collected the Ekco T311 and you made us both very welcome; I hope to meet you once again at the next Golborne meeting in April as I plan to attend.
I've moaned long and hard about the weather; this morning it was perishing as usual with frost and right up until dinner time it was very cold; after dinner a miracle happened as the sun came out and for the first time since last year I removed my coat and rolled up my sleeves to start flatting the T311 cabinet down working outside; WOW!! is this what global warming is and if so can I please have a lot more?
Kind regards, Col.
