Recent content by Phil Pascoe

Get the ends painted with something asap. Anything will do, old paint, varnish, PVA ... you can buy purpose made stuff as well.

Which is exactly what you do.

You seem to find others doing precisely that ridiculous.

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Opinels are so named because you haven't an 'ope in 'ell of their holding an edge. They're soft so farmers and fishermen can sharpen them on anything to haned - the edge of a pavement, a rusty anchor ...

I paid £75 for my Record RSBS14 for spares or repair. I replaced wheel and guide bearings, the capacitor, the tyres, the drive belt and the blade. About another £80 for what is effectively a new saw. I usually use Tuffsaws, but the last blades I've bough have been Hakansson, they're also...

From what I've read the problem isn't using the batteries, it's charging them. My s.i.l's firm fried Makita batteries using these.

80 seconds on a ten year old Zanussi.

Milwaukee do.

Many years ago at Xmas my wife had a monstrous hangover. She asked my nephew, who was about three or four at the time to get a glass of water, which he did. A while later she asked again, and he fetched one. Another four or five glasses, the glasses were getting smaller. She asked for a full...

Where do you get 6tpi for a circular saw blade? Usually they just quote the tooth number. Instinctively I keep the blade down, but it tends to lift the wood, so a bit higher is better.

It's an old post, but no, Nova won't fit Axminster.

Most of the builders around here have changed from Makita to DeWalt and Milwaukee, though I know one chippy who changed from Milwaukee to DeWalt as he found Milwaukee heavy.

It's not unusual to round the toe and the heel anyway.