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awemawson:
Glad to see that you got there at last Pete. Proof is moving stuff back !

Have a good Christmas

Andrew

chipenter:
had to buy a tarp today to cover my roof I would have dried one of yours for you .

awemawson:
I have a large, old, 'resaw' band saw with 24" wheels sitting on my barn loading dock waiting to be rebuilt, and last nights storm ripped the tarpaulin right off  it. Amazingly the tarp itself was only slightly torn, and in this mornings calm the wife and I wrapped it all up again. Only needs the prezzy label now and we can put it under the Christmas tree  :ddb:

Andrew

Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,

Have your floods gone down yet?

I don't have a loading dock but I do have an old machine behind my big shed - an aged Myford capstan lathe, I think it's a cousin of the Myford ML2.  It's something of an embarrassment!   :(   :(   :(   :(   :(   :( 

I bought some other machinery from an eBay seller and he pressed this lathe on me, saying that he'd sold it to someone else, 'buyer collects', but the buyer had defaulted and would I take it off his hands.

The friend I thought might have a use for it didn't and I don't have any under-cover storage for it so it has sat outside under a fast-disintegrating tarpaulin for several years.    :(   :(   :(   :(   :(   :(  It's sitting on a couple of big concrete blocks so it's off the ground but, even so, I guess it's kind of rusty by now.

I can't decide whether to weigh it in at the local scrappie's or list it on eBay 'for spares or repair'!   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch: 

I've seen lathes listed on eBay that look worse!!!!!

Pete W.:
Hi there, all,

Well, I reached the stage of tidying up the front and rear edges of the roof.  The basic plan was to slide and fix some plastic damp-course under the metal flashing.  Along the rear edge that would help the rain water into the gutter while along the upper edge it would cover the repair plates and shield the old fascia board with it's legacy of felt nail holes.

A friend had given me a length of damp course (thanks, Tom) that proved to be a couple of inches longer than the shed roof but was 12" wide so I decided to cut it in two down the middle.  I could have cut it down the middle with scissors but it's black and my trusty Sharpies wouldn't show up too well.  I'd just received some new blades for the bandsaw and wanted to try them out so I decided to combine the two tasks.

Here's a picture of the tightly rolled damp course and the band saw:



Here's another:



Here's the result:



I hadn't set up the band saw blade as well as I ought so one cut edge was a bit fringy so I had to use the scissors on it after all.

The next stage was to feed the lengths of damp course up behind the lower edges of the steel flashing and secure them with some more of the 'self-drilling' screws and caps.  That was accomplished with a bit of help from my lovely but shy assistant.  Here's the result:

Lower edge:



and the upper edge:



I still have to trim the ends of the damp course.  I've deliberately left the lower edges of the damp course unsecured so I can fold them up and get at the wooden fascias with a paint brush and wood preservative when needed.

Now to decide how to finish off the end of the roof over the door.   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch:   :scratch: 

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