I painted an old balcony railing without removing all the rust. It looked fine for about three weeks, then little orange spots started pushing through the paint like pimples, and I had to redo the entire job. Take rust back to solid gray steel, wipe the surface clean, and prime it the same day. Paint … Read more
Three controls run this drill, and one missing feature explains every mistake it lets you make. Speed and mode by material, plus the ten-year maintenance list.
Your eye cannot judge vertical as well as it believes. The fix is never to try harder – it is to give the bit something physical to follow.
I burned out an angle grinder on this railing. It was a 650W Black+Decker small grinder, clamped into a cutting stand, and I did not think about what an angled cut does. A 45-degree cut makes the disc travel through far more metal than a straight cut, and it has to do it 232 times. … Read more