Mild anxiety……? Nothing mild about it! This is a U-shaped (ish) arrangement requiring two almost full lengths and a short section. It’s the two long lengths that need most of the jointing work….. obviously…. The discovery (after forming the first joint!) that the worktop we have is actually 620mm and template is for 600 or 616 didn’t help and extended the process, though happily it was fixable. PVA. And will silicone also on final assembly. Did this with a small metal screw-top cocoa tin with a little bit of petrol in it.  We (small posse of pre-teen kids) had a small bonfire going, which was completely obliterated when the “bomb” went off. Was a helluva boom. Mum came out to se what was going on “thought you had a bonfire?” Errr…..

I use both 

Cunning sir, indeed a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel (ungreased of course!). A rather nice watercolour of the Spitfire

I have never been brave enough to router a worktop, luckily I had a handy chappie who could and was very reasonably priced (he was a pukka apprentice-trained cabinet maker, got cross when called a carpenter)  I hope you used some nice thin varnish to seal the cut ends.....seems that has gone out of fashion and most use silicone (or CT1 now?) but varnish seems to be the system that works best long term)

Tough job, aside from the mild anxiety arising from the potential of getting things expensively wrong, the sheer physical effort of humping that stuff about is somewhat taxing. Impressive John Ooh err! Going back to things you in your schooldays. Another 'thing' with unopened drink cans, is their ability to extinguish a camp fire. Does a pretty decent job of rearranging the contents of said campfire in the process 

The cans don’t always hold either, though less dramatic than bottles…. Coke (or other carbonated drink) cans blowing up in hot cars is also a thing and makes an unholy mess.  Luckily in our case (Fanta) it happened in a car with vinyl seats and rubber mats, so could have been far worse! Was challenging to return the seats to a truly non-sticky state. The car was unoccupied at explosion time too.

I have done the same, but glass bottles. My outcome was rather worse than yours.....  

On coldness.    The other day, I wanted a beer. but none in the fridge. so a popped a warn tinny in the freezer, intending to take it out and drink it in a few minutes.    I was distracted, and found this the next day.     The things youlearn in school and know, but forget! John

Ps.I think the S in ASD might stand for Swansea 

Hello,I am a new boy,got here through mintylamb cos I enjoy SU needle charts (not ASD I promise) Anyway, DVLA.It helps to understand their reluctance with the mess that is the whole classic car,identity, can I have a V5C or not shenanigans, which is appalling at the moment. Killing the classic car trade as a result. Anyway, DVLA has one purpose, to tax us!!There's no money for them in us thanks to the historic vehicle tax class.If we paid a small amount, rather than free,am sure they might actually start posting the occasional V5C! These things are pointless anyway, it's just the document ref.number that's needed.If you need a new V5C and use a V62,they want a CHEQUE, or POSTAL ORDER!! for £25.Good God which century are we in?? Ooh I love a good rant me!!