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Very nice, but just a tad expensive for me I reckon.

I have an I beam across the middle of the main space in my big shed, and an old chain block running along it on rollers. Great for...

Me too Phil. I was taught Decimal, but spent 37 years teaching S.I. calculations: Litres, Angstroms, Microns and so forth, nae probs...

The thing is that as it's not a fractional horsepower motor (don't know what the regs say now, but IIRC it used to be that) for...

Sorry but at the moment it just looks like a mess. All the makes of starters are slightly different internally, and it looks like the...

And can you take a clear pic of the writing on the 'metal box' sitting on the timber- that appears to be your capacitor!!! and I haven't...

ETA I made a mistake and quoted myself. Meant to quote Spectric about getting a new starter. His idea is by far the best option IMO...

Do you want to keep it looking original ? If not then the best solution is to just buy a new direct online starter (DOL) and replace...

If the motor runs, you have a good start. (Pun not intended) The "stop" buttons, both the one on the starter itself (assuming it has...

A friend of mine works at a local fabricators, and has made all sorts of stuff for me. He is only about ten years younger but has no...

I never, never, ever do that. At least not more than three or four times a day. TBH, I'm usually on my own working, so I often just use...

I confess that I am only just coming round to metric length measurements. Drill sizes I always think in mm, but still find myself...

I've always thought the problem with the decimal system in this Country was that we should have done as Oz and NZ did and changed...

I think it was 12 months ago, might have been the year before. I'm about 6' tall. I still use that, although I use the metric system for...

When making a piece of furniture for a Park Lane, Hotel, I queried a dimension given by the Chief Engineer (Irish) as it was way off. He...