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Very good tip with the oily rag! When I was a BTCV volunteer we always brushed the tools with oil at the end of the day. I never thought...

This is what you get when something gets trendy. Everyone wants a piece and crapness is rendered. Gin is horrible stuff anyway, about...

Agreed, considering you can get gadgets to pressurise part used pop bottles! (Lids with a little pump on top)

Remarkably similar to my first idea!

Bought ones may be nice but... Budget. And the Screwfix ones do look spindly. I'd probably get annoyed with them. Anyway I have a load...

Oh yeah. Tee hee hee. I never even thought to look for existing designs. I looked at a couple of slot-together ones here on UKW (very...

Cleaned out an old squeezy sauce bottle and used that for PVA, stands upside down easily. Just remember not to leave it anywhere it can...

I could do with a sawhorse or 2 but haven't got room to store it/them. So I was thinking, make each side with a board connecting the...

I have to disagree about putting coffee in the fridge. I kept ground coffee in the fridge for years and eventually stopped doing it for...

Wow - brings back warm fuzzy memories! Thanks for the link!

Yes indeed! A real USA-made corn cob pipe (Missouri Meerschaum- https://corncobpipe.com/). It is my "secondary" shop pipe. The...

Bentontool - is that a real corn-cob pipe I see? My (other) grandad smoked one for a while! His was very dark looking though, not bright...

With regards to a workshop fridge, you could always make one using a peltier device. It could be a little EPS cave...

I used to get the blister packs of CA glue from the £ shop. Once opened a tube would go straight in the fridge. Just seemed like common...

Check out The Venerable Wearing; at some point, he, twenty years ago maybe, confessed he kept his in a box in the fridge - "Clearly...