Category Archives: Workshop Other

Turning fence palings into dressed timber–part 1

Posted on 29/04/2022 by AlanM52

Turning fence palings into dressed timber with the ALDI WorkZone Planer/Thicknesser. Dressed pine timber is expensive – very expensive. Wherever I can I use cheap fence palings for my projects and… if needed (like here) I can dress my own … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming the 3.7V 18650’s from a dead 18V battery pack – part 2

Posted on 08/01/2022 by AlanM52

Cell 5 charged OK; so did the whole pack. We now have a handy 18V@2A power pack for powering projects

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Reclaiming the 3.7V 18650’s from a dead 18V battery pack – part 1

Posted on 08/01/2022 by AlanM52

Note: The electronics in these things commonly monitor the individual cells and for this one (from top) cells 2 & 5 are not being charged correctly. The batteries should come up OK with individual charging. Cells 2 & 5 are … Continue reading →

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Nice timber off hard rubbish

Posted on 23/08/2021 by AlanM52

Arrived home after the usual Monday shopping run with the shopping and – a bed As posted annual council collection is this week and that bed was only a few doors down so ran back in the rain to grab … Continue reading →

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Melbourne lockdown extended for another week!

Posted on 11/08/2021 by AlanM52

To help soften the blow I have posted this video of Al sharpening a chain saw blade Best viewed on a large screen TV with decent home theatre system and volume turned up.

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Workshop CCTV DRV not recoding – again.

Posted on 25/05/2021 by AlanM52

We have two home security systems and both of them are from ALDI; the main house system and another one in the workshop. The workshop DVR has HDD failures from time-to-time so it’s become a familiar routine to pull out … Continue reading →

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ALERT – ALDI Workzone 4ah batteries. Bought one reduced from $40 to $30 a week ago for the Workzone cordless mitre saw (needs 4ah not 2ah) so I don’t have to keep nicking one of the 4ah batteries from the … Continue reading →

Posted on 09/03/2020 by AlanM52 | Leave a comment

Workshop updates

Posted on 05/03/2020 by AlanM52

Workshop updates Nice inside hobby weather – made some improvements to the dust extractor for the planer thicknesser machine and then did some computer stuff.

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Workshop activities curtailed for the next few days…phew.

Posted on 30/01/2020 by AlanM52 | Leave a comment

Workshop tour – Feb 2018

Posted on 04/02/2018 by AlanM52

Spent some time over the last few days cleaning up and reorganising the workshop.  The motivation for doing this is to find a parking spot for the latest nearly completed project – the 14” bandsaw !!! This is the big … Continue reading →

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