Bosch MAgazine 01 | 10 It’s time to come out of hibernation! Prepare your patio and balcony for spring with Bosch. NEW! Spring is here. You can use the powerful Bosch tools to restore your winter-worn garden furniture to its former glory. Or better still, you could build some new furniture yourself. Construction plans and tips can be found in this magazine and at www.bosch-do-it.com. You’ll be amazed.
It’s time to come out of hibernation 2 Spring impressions Spring-fresh ideas for your house, garden and patio Hurray, we can enjoy the first rays of sunshine in the open air again. Now the radiant spring light exposes many of the traces of months of winter weather. We recommend arranging an outdoor spring clean with the whole family. You will surprise each other with your fantastic results. Our spring tips, ideas and construction manuals are intended to inspire you and to help you choose the right tool.
Contents Pages 4–5 Life is colourful, so why can’t your house be colourful too? A new coat of paint for your balcony and other surfaces. 6–7 Do you want to eradicate the traces of winter and straighten everything out? Cordless helpers for your house and garden. 8–9 Do you want build something new and maybe make a bit of an impression as well? A new patio with built-in lighting. 10 – 21 And now the fun really begins! Even more DIY projects that are fun to do.
It’s time to come out of hibernation Sanding 4 Sand before spraying! Colours have a positive effect on our well-being. Give your balcony parapet, window shutters or garden furniture a completely new look this spring. Think of a colour scheme to create a refreshing, eye-catching effect. But before the fun of applying the new colours can begin, you will have to remove the old paint. The belt sander is the expert tool for rough sanding – it removes thick layers of paint from large surfaces in no time.
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It’s time to come out of hibernation 6 Cordless helpers! It is quite conceivable that the idea for a cordless tool originated in a garden. To work outdoors without a long cable could have been the vision behind it.
Cordless Working Screwdriving and Drilling An ingenious, all-round tool like the Uneo is sure to delight every do-it-yourselfer. This lightweight tool even hammers into the hardest concrete, drives 100 screws with one battery charge, and drills in the smallest of corners. Everybody will need it for work in their house and garden at some point – so take good care of it! Small, lightweight, powerful when driving screws and drilling holes.
It’s time to come out of hibernation 8 Plan, drive screws and build! DIY could actually pass as a wellness programme – working with your hands has the effect of counteracting excessive stress. It calms you down and stimulates your creativity. Give it a try! For example, by designing and building a new patio deck yourself with spotlights in the platform to create atmospheric lighting.
Screwdriving & Building Cutting To Length and Cutting The hand-held circular saws from Bosch are the masters of precise rip cuts. They cut wood and plastics with an exceptionally high level of safety and convenience, and they can even cut through the hardest decking wood. Precise mitre cuts are also no problem for the Bosch circular saws. The drilling and screwdriving work here is also taken care of by the reliable PSR and Uneo cordless tools.
It’s time to come out of hibernation 10 Side table | Beginners Project No. 1 Side table We have designed a side table to go with our garden lounger – Project No. 2 – so you can have your drinks and reading material within reach while you relax. After all, there’s no point in getting up from the lounger unnecessarily. The table is made of small sections of glued laminated timber. If you cannot have these cut to size at your local DIY store, use your own (jig) saw.
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Project No. 1 5. Tip 1 for sanding: Make sure that the sanding paper is sharp enough to remove the wood fibres properly, not just flatten them. 5. Sand the wood surfaces Tip for painting: 6. 6. Varnish the surfaces: First read the manufacturer’s Spray guns instead of paintbrushes! safety and handling instructions thoroughly. Make sure the room you are working in is well ventilated and not used for smoking, eating or drinking. 7.
It’s time to come out of hibernation 14 Garden lounger | Advanced users Project No. 2 Garden lounger Teak loungers: nice to look at, but you might want to take a seat when you check the price. We offer you an economical alternative: a stylish lounger made from spruce timber that we have varnished in a teak colour. The lounger is assembled in two stages. In the first stage, you assemble the base frame with legs and casters. In the second, you assemble the lounger section as a slatted frame.
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300 Project No. 2 40 Length 1.5–2 days 260 200 84 76 60 100 18 6 80 3 mm 10 1850 1250 1 The following machines are especially well suited to this project PSM 80 A Sander PEX 270 AE Random Orbit Sander 45 176 PST 800 PEL Jigsaw PSR 14,4 LI-2 Screwdriver 12.5 116 18 39 45 120 PSB 850-2 RE Impact Drill 1900 1936 10 1900 1936 80 80 5 80 80 620 140 80 100 12.
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It’s time to come out of hibernation 18 Sandpit | Experts Project No. 3 Sandpit We’ve added a new dimension to a children’s classic: Our sandpit comes with a sun canopy that you can lower and tilt as required, thus providing optimum protection from UV rays. You can also lower the sun shade completely to keep the sandpit clean. The sandpit consists of two parts: the pit itself and the awning on two canopy supports.
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Project No. 3 5. 5. Prepare the canopy supports and join them to the sandpit 6. 7. 6. Cover the canopy frame with canopy fabric 7. Sand the wood surface 8.
Tool Overview Tool Overview Orbital Sander Fast and fine sanding on flat surfaces. Smooth sanding or paint removal – Bosch orbital sanders produce the best sanding results on wood and metal. They do so without tiring you out and without the sanding sheet quickly becoming clogged up with paint.
Tool Overview Random Orbit Sander Regardless of whether you want to sand or polish, whether on wood, plastic, metal, roughcast or paint, whether on flat or curved surfaces, the Bosch PEX principle in the random orbit sanders from Bosch ensures the finest finish and high sanding performance. Delta Sander Benefit from the top performance of this tool right into any angle.
Tool Overview Tool Overview PMF Multifunction Tool The Multifunction Tool PMF 180 E is impressive not only because of its handy shape. Whether sawing, cutting or routing, whether short or long cuts, whether in the middle or at the very edge – the PMF 180 E completes everything with power and precision. And it is even possible to sand surfaces thanks to the sanding attachment.
Tool Overview Specifications PKS PKS 55 A Power input 1200 W No-load speed Put your faith in an exceptionally high level of safety and convenience with the circular saws from Bosch. The result: precise rip and mitre cuts in a wide variety of materials. 5,600 rpm Cutting depth at 0° mitre angle 55 mm Cutting depth at 45° mitre angle 38 mm Circular saw blade rated diameter 160 mm Circular saw blade bore diameter 20 mm Machine weight New Compact Generation PSB Easy Universal Expert 3.
The Bosch team of experts. DIY stands for Do It Yourself – but you are not by yourself when it comes to our team of specialists, on hand to provide expert advice from qualified engineers through to master carpenters, our friendly experts will help you as quickly and professionally as possible. Whether you already own a Bosch power tool or if you want to buy one – we will be happy to advise you about purchase, application and material processing.
