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Thinking about it, I think that the last time I used mine much was with a drill bit for boring pilot holes for screws. That's a few...

The 131 with a snail countersink is awesome - 1/2" countersink in one push if the countersink is kept honed.

In the early 80s I lived in Stroud, and I attended there the most memorable New Years celebrations of my life. They were fabulous. We...

Same here. Haven't used either for some time TBH. Used to occasionally use the plugging tool to help a hammer drill along in masonry, if...

Been moving a socket today in the workshop. Been a while since I did any electrical work, although I trained as an electrician, worked...

Nice job. I've got a Dunlop one that's similar sat under the bench waiting for me to get a necessary round tuit.

Got this for pennies. As it was parts seized. I use them for adding air pressure when I am doing wood preserving of small parts...

Nope. You have to understand the high country farmers in NZ and you really don't want to pi$$ then off. These are hard tough people as...

All done on risk data (as mentioned by Amplidyne). I had a weird situation many years ago where I was looking at getting an "M...

Agree - but it can't be too much of a stretch to imagine a scenario in which they can differentiate between different kinds of mods...

Far as I can see power tools are an overkill for this. Nice to have if you have the money / room / use for them, but not essential. A...

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating...

The thing is that insurance has nothing to do with common sense. It just goes with the risks. They know that a certain type of car is...

My father used to run two Riley Monacos, a 1929 and a 1931, I believe. By the time the compulsory MOT was introduced (1961?) he had...