John Brown

Poplar? Soft and bland. Matching the effects of age, stripped varnish and sun will be the challenge!

My orange urethane tyres on my Inca have definitely had it, after 12 or 15 years. The top one came off again yesterday. It seems to have...

You spoil that bandsaw...

Well OK. I obviously wasn't intending to implying anything of the sort.

Drum brakes are the answer, brake linings riveted on! I'd forgotten about doing that on my P4 Rover all those years ago.

Glossopguy is a Canadian expat who writes infomercials for a living. He has red hair, spent some time ski-guiding in the French Alps...

Good point. Sorry.

I didn't say just "non-plug-in" hybrids have regenerative braking. Obviously EVs and PHEVs also have regenerative braking. I was merely...

Electricity is a form of energy. The energy used to accelerate could have been from the ICE. What point are you trying to make?

This is correct, in fact the big advantage of non-plug-in hybrids is that regenerative braking recovers a percentage of the energy used...

Jezus Wept! Talk about flogging a dead horse. You’ve got your idiotic Brexit but still can’t shut up about the EU!!!

Douglas Fir is very durable. My workshop shed is a mixture of larch and DF waney edge, and is totally untreated.

I have to admit, I'm very curious about these smart toilets. There has to be a better solution than yards of toilet paper. Although I'd...

Might be worth a try, as a last resort. Is it just me getting old, or did the cisterns with handles and giant ballcocks work better?

Yes, I'll give that a go. Seems they're all dual flush nowadays..?