I’d been in Harefield a matter of moments when this beautiful cat appeared. She’s some sort of Persian with lovely blue eyes, and struts around like she owns the place, I’d like a cat. Sigh.
Something else I spotted was this amazing boat, no idea what it is, or who owns it, but it looks like some piece of military kit with fold down wheels!
Here are some various pics of the hull, after grinding,treating and re- blacking. This was hard and dirty work, especially as I did it on my own(!).
I also killed 3 grinders in the process. First up was a Ryobi grinder, £34 from B&Q (reduced from £40), I like Ryobi, have a drill from them that has been brilliant, also a chainsaw that is also very good, their grinder on the other hand, lasted 3 days, not good. Next up was a cheapie from Argos, a £23 Challenge Extreme. I normally don’t buy tools at the lowest end of the quality scale if I can avoid it, but my friend has a grinder from this brand that has been great. Four hours later the Argos grinder had given up, I really wasn’t ready for the challenge, as the name had implied.
So I bit the bullet and bought a Makita, it has worse specs than the others, lower wattage, less rpm etc., But WOW!, it just works, it finished the last three quarters of the hull off without skipping a beat.
Makita, the king of grinders!
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