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....and maybe modify it if you feel game, to use the commercially available dies. One can learn a bit from the detail in Rorty’s plans - simple but show pragmatism from experience. He was...

If you need to put together the whole bender, you could do much worse than the plans from Rorty.net

Rorty was the nickname of a guy who built off-road buggies and sold plans for them then sold...

If you chase up some 0.6mm wire, welding down to 1.2mm metal with MIG isn't too scary. I'm another less talented welder as I use it so seldom that I need to practice for a couple of hours before a...

Pete, I see you understand the heritage bit! They will let me use the cast angle clamps for gutters, so the interesting stuff is in odd steps in gutters and in downpipes.

An old plumber recently...

Galvanized is what is specified in the heritage planning overlay that applies to just our block. It's currently unpainted and so I'll not bother asking to change that - I have already got free...

Thanks all for the comments. I think I'll have a bash at soldering with gas - later. I have found the sticks cheapest at bobthewelder online. Time will be the thing that constrains me most. I...

I've got a house that's on the Victorian heritage register, where one of the constraints on me is that I have to have galvanized roofing and guttering.

What is the best soldering iron to use for...