Saturday, 14 July 2012

Broken batten, broken sander, but nearly ready

Spent much of the day in final preparations for glueing and screwing the bottom battens.

Had a couple of set backs, my sander broken so I have been hand sanding. The sander hadn't been working very well all day, and by the time it finally died it was quicker doing it by hand any way.

Then, just as I finished sanding a batten, it broke. Oddly enough it broken in a place were the batten is dead straight. So first job tomorrow will be fixing that. Better it broken now then cracked after being glued in.

I will have to go shopping for a new sander tomorrow. Ordinarily I don't mind buy tools :-), but it will eat into what I have saved up to spend on ply wood.

Due to the order I have to put the battens on, which is dictated by access for my power drill to put the screws in, I won't be able to fix all the battens tomorrow, but I'll do the ones that I can.

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