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@Sachakins I take your point but I feel it’s semantics. The proposed changes are in reality a change in the banding, just dressed up. The issue is that as more EVs hit the road tax revenue decreases, and since the majority of the VED is not spent on roads, they need something to fill the black...

@Vulcan, your right, I am wrong, I was considering the total number of car models available, not just EVs. There are over 400 models of car sold in the UK. Sorry, my bad. PS, we are actually actively seeking to buy an EV at the moment!

The last time VED was changed was in 2017, the policy of only applying the new rules to new vehicles was perpetuated. I’ve extracted and highlighted the relevant part from the governments web site. This is the first time VED rules will be applied retrospectively to the best of my knowledge. I’ve...

You may have missed all the reports of chaos, hiring extra staff to police service station charging areas, charge rage, queue jumping, parking in ev spaces? All reported in the FT usually every bank holiday / peak travel time?

The average cost of an EV in the UK is £46K, clearly there are models that fall below this threshold, far fewer than ICE equivalents. Thats before the 10% import duty hits in 2027…..pushed back by an extension in the free trade with EU. Something that only benefited our European car plants and...

They are also going to apply the ‘luxury’ vehicle VED tax to all new cars electric or otherwise over £40K. Thats an additional (at the mo £410 / year for the first five years) There are very few electric cars that won’t qualify for that additional luxury tax. So, electric cars cost a fortune to...

The policy has always been that you had grandfather rights, a VED was set at the time you bought the vehicle and any changes only affected new vehicles. I think is amazing how a total disliked government is replaced by one that’s is now totally despised, that’s some record of achievement for...

There are many approaches to box making, but to simplify it down for me there are two. Machine and pure hand made. If you’re looking to make a living at it, a mechanised approach is needed, if it’s just for the love of woodworking pure hand made is wounderful. The former needs investment in...

I might be easier to understand what you would like help with eg. machine use and setup, hand tool use and setup, material selection, design, sales and marketing?

You are missing the setting nuts, which set the height of the rollers; item 280. Usually in the manual it will define how much lower the rollers should be than the cutting circle of the block. The nuts are used to set this height. At the moment, the rollers look to be too low as a consequence.

I generally use the correct blade for the job, however, I leave a general purpose blade on the saw. If the saw is difficult to change the blade, that says something about the design of the saw! I’d change the saw to begin with to one that makes blade change easy. I would not recommend anything...

Probably the best rust remover is electrolysis, very easy to do, and you can’t ’over do’ it. An old mobile telephone / pc charger is all you need and a bit of wire.

I was a sailor, and since retiring have seriously considered a boat restoration project. There are literally lots of boats for free that are in need of serious attention both wood and glass. After a fair bit of looking I decided that for the majority the cost was more than simply building a new...

I think it would be cheaper and take less time to build a new one!

With the skill by and precision you’ve highlighted in the pictures, may I ask, how do you weight the keys to achieve a uniform feel across the entire keyboard? How do you compensate for the actuator part of the keys being different lengths and some being cranked. Equally, do you need to...

In my training I spent 6 months with an electronic organ builder, during which I time I had the good fortune to be in the good grace of an expert in British traditional wind organs. He took to all the major organs in the UK and through his contacts we went behind the scenes of each and everyone...

Robinson were the brand for wood working machines. The quality eclipsed Wadkin, they were huge and their machines sold around the world. Given a choice between a Robinson and a Wadkin, the Robinson machine will be far superior. It’s funny how such a major brand has just disappeared from peoples...

Spindle moulder and a 1/4” router.

That’s a beautifully franed building, well done indeed.

You can see why they are so rare, such a flimsy design, parts will clearly wear out in about 1000 years😉 Did yoi get the chain Morticer head too?