• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Anti-rust paper

TBH, Steve, I doubt that VCI paper will make any difference. We used to line bench drawers with the suff because it is supposed to work in confined spaces.

I think you biggest problem is condensation of moisture in the air onto machined cast iron surfaces, a common issue for those of us who work put of a van. The only solution is to wipe everything down after use with an oily rag, or for larger cast iron surfaces apply a wax like a silicone-free wax like Liberon Lubo (lubricating wax), then sheet over. WD40 works well as a water duspersant, but doesn't protect long in the UK winter
 
It is such a shame you are having these problems but it sounds like to fix them you need to take the tiles off and re-roof the building using a decent underfelt. Something for next year during the warm weather.
 
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One thing I do every winter is cover machines with thin plastic sheets, the decorating ones. I find it helps. I'm in the process of putting in a miliatary tent heater that runs of various fuels.
 
There was an American chap in the 'other place' that used to get into spats with the resident troll that had a lot of opinions about various things. One of which was rust prevention. He maintained that the rust prevention stuff you can buy is just mineral oil and that it works as well as anything. I can't remember the reasoning but it was enough to convince me to have a go and I bought a bottle of food grade mineral oil that I now slather on everything. Seems to work okay and my workshop is very prone to moisture in the winter.
 
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