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Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: St Paul Steam on May 03, 2019, 11:13:37 pm: that wood will never be right....but on the bright side, water wont get the underside to soggy & it'll be easy to clean under there !
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Jim on May 03, 2019, 11:08:17 pm: Quote from: Nick on May 03, 2019, 11:01:36 pm
Jim, if you're worried about your other wood based engines, I'll pm you my address... I find that it takes twice as long for them to curve here as they are frozen half of the year ;) ;)

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Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Nick on May 03, 2019, 11:01:36 pm: Jim, if you're worried about your other wood based engines, I'll pm you my address... I find that it takes twice as long for them to curve here as they are frozen half of the year ;) ;)
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Jim on May 03, 2019, 10:59:46 pm: LOL Daniel :)
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Stoker on May 03, 2019, 09:24:16 am: Perhaps we should check with someone closer to the Equator and see if their plinths stay flat? ;c)
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Swift Fox on May 03, 2019, 05:30:21 am: Quote from: Jim
LOL with the Coriolis effect it may bend the opposite direction in the UK ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Well it is funny you should say that Jim as the base on my PMR #3 engine has bent upwards slightly!!! :o
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Jim on May 02, 2019, 07:19:49 pm: Quote from: Swift Fox on May 02, 2019, 10:01:40 am
Bit of a bend Jim!, i remember discussing this with you some time back.

LOL with the Coriolis effect it may bend the opposite direction in the UK ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Swift Fox on May 02, 2019, 10:01:40 am: Bit of a bend Jim!, i remember discussing this with you some time back.
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Jim on May 01, 2019, 07:31:27 pm: Daniel & Nick you both have me chuckling this fine Thursday morning :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Nick on May 01, 2019, 07:24:04 pm: I think it just wants to be an overtype and is transforming on its own ;)
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Stoker on May 01, 2019, 07:21:19 pm: Just put foot pads in the four corners and you'll have room for under plank plumbing without doing any routing.
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Jim on May 01, 2019, 06:53:32 pm: If I planed it, I'm pretty sure that it would just eventually cup again the way its been sawn.
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Hero on May 01, 2019, 06:29:24 pm: Still a nice piece of wood.
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Scorpion2nz on April 30, 2019, 10:24:26 pm: 10 minute job with planner/thicknesser will fix it
Title: Re: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Nick on April 30, 2019, 09:38:23 pm: Haha :D I've got a few Jensen bases like that ;)
Title: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's
Post by: Jim on April 30, 2019, 09:37:33 pm: Aussie Hardwood - Banana's

Lifted this down off a shelf after a few years, not surprising that this heavy piece of hardwood turned into a banana considering the way it was sawn.

Job number 1001 to get around to ::)

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