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Do share a photo of your black dragonflies ! We love dragons and it's been a good year for them here.

Make sure to use it on a socket protected by an RCD in your consumer unit, or one of the plug types. I suspect it is some form of static, but just to be safe. I get a similar buzz of the tin box of my household storage batteries despite it being firmly grounded through a big fat earth wire to...

Good link but I don't think I'd bother importing a wooden handle. Maybe planes or chisels ? https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/8205300000

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This is absolutely my view. The only person wholly invested in your health is yourself. Treat doctors as respected professionals who's job is to give you expert advice, but weigh up that advice and the final decision is always on you. If you ask doctors intelligent questions, they tend to give...

Excellent point. A smaller woman sitting to use a bench for crafts and jewellery making (apologies for the atrocious stereotyping) vs a 6 foot bloke past retirement age with backache that makes an upright, standing position more comfortable are waay different. A bench designed for the Asian...

But to the original question, is it foldable / dismantleable for storage between use in a home workshop ?

There is a valuable learning and interest to be had from researching a project like yours. A workbench is such a widely used thing that it is hard to come up with something very innovative. Too many minds have been there already. Don't be put off by this. A masters degree for instance is...

I gave away a dewalt 15xx radial arm saw. Hated it. But the BRA is totally different. Properly rigid. Massively heavy. It sounds like my Metabo.

"Retreat ! Regroup ! Retaliate !" - me (describing the cat's "bad attitude")

No but the maths should be fairly straighforward to work out Cost of goods (big minimum order) Plus shipping charges (substantial) Get back the German VAT but we pay UK VAT on import (so not a great difference) If there is an actual import duty, these are usually quite small 2-3% depending...

He's a professional woodworker in Southern England, very active on the forum for a while and we're grateful for the posts that he contributed. Custard stepped back because he had a real business to run unlike many youtubers who want youtube to become their business.

The forum may be American owned these days but it's the "UK Workshop" forum and I assure you I'd resign directly if the owners attempted to impose a US worldview on the content. Fending off the influence of US youtubers on the unwary is enough of a challenge for us all.

The other one that has been in the news recently is a treatment that can slow the impact of Alzheimers. Very expensive and rather demanding to administer and requires constantl monitoring for serious side effects, the benefit vs risk assessment even ignoring cost is only going to be positive for...

"Smells great, bad attitude !" - my daughter, about the cat.

That looks like a decent used example. Black plastic insert for the slot isn't nicked so no heavy sideways abuse and it has either been built into a bench or not heavily used as the two side extensions don't show obvious wear to the black paint on the top surfaces. That would eventually wear off...

Metabo kgs254iplus 10" Induction motor Enclosed belt drive. Monster heavy. Put it on a rolling stand and it's v nice. Lovely quality. Did I mention heavy ? I tried it on the bosch gravity rise stand. It has to sit off centre and is too heavy to lift like that. It works great on the dewalt...

I would fix the cladding before fascias and soffits as you could be tight for space using a cordless driver to fix the topmost row of cladding up against them. More of an issue with a simple shed where the roof and fascia overhang the walls and there are no soffits.

I saw the interesting observation that rotation stop chiselling is hard on sds drills because it tends to be constant and prolonged labour compared to drill a hole, rest while you reposition, drill another hole, and usually only a few holes, couple of dozen maybe, being drilled. For serious...

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