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This point seems to be overlooked by many that it costs a lot of money to replace the blade and stop block, some people talk about it like people will just not pay any attention at all to safety because they won't lose a hand. I can't imagine many people want to spend £100+ as well as the time...

you've no idea that the 10+year old airbag will actually deploy in the way it should though, the circuit just tells you the electrics are working. There is no way of knowing if the charge is still viable until it goes off. I'm sure I read they should be replaced after 10 years, but no one ever...

This is oncourse to be another 'Just use push sticks/training' vs 'some people don't listen/safety fall back' thread. Life would be pretty simple if everyone did everything perfectly all of the time. If you think the answer to reducing tablesaw accidents is to advise people to work safely, have...

I find push sticks really hard to drive with, although if you get good you can sit in the back seats.

Lazers cut by burning. Try ripping a 6ft long 4inch piece of oak by burning through it with a lazer and see how long it takes, the power required and the finish you'll get, and you'll have the answer.

When was the last time you set off all of your car airbags to test they actually work?

My experience is that a lot of Tenants dry their clothes indoors and wonder why it is damp. One of the things that seems to be missing from a lot of people's thinking is that if you are sucking 8+ times the room's worth of air out every hour, it has to be coming in from somewhere. If your...

You should have the doors like on the men's cubicles in the loos at the watershed venue in bristol. They are made of 5mm stainless steel!!! I hope I never get stuck in there as it would take some doing to get out. Must have cost a fortune and weigh a ton.

If you aren't cutting all the way through and only shallow at that, it's unlikely that anything untoward will happen. If it doesn't have a riving knife though does it have a blade guard? Most hobby saws have a riving knife that holds the guard. It shouldn't be that hard to make a riving knife...

A lot of the time if you look at where outdoor furniture rots you'll see it is places where water sits (e.g seating planks) and legs (where it touches the ground). If you design it to eliminate these problems or at least reduce them it should last longer. For instance making the final part of...

just make sure you measure really well and compare to the specs of new ones. There are a few different depths as well as lengths.

That is the only theoretically/imaginary? way to travel such distances, but seeing as Musk can't even make a truck that doesn't have bits that fall off or completely fails if it drives through water, despite 'knowing more about manufacturing than anyone alive', I'm not going to wait with much...

You do realise that Musk employs scientists don't you. Who do you think is doing the research and calculations? So do we distrust scientists that say the things we don't want to hear but trust the ones that work for the richest man in the world? It's always funny when I see unquestioning blind...

Are you joking???? Let's assume you are being serious.. So we currently know of no known life on any planet within our solar system. The next nearest solar system is Proxima Centauri which is the nearest star to our sun at 4.22 light-years away. That means you'd have to have a spaceship...

If you open them and look at the hinges you will probably see a triangular piece sticking out. This piece connects with a v shape on the fixed part as the window is closed and should force the top part of the window to pull in. If you close the window slowly you'll hopefully see what i mean. If...

I haven't looked at the cost but the latest thing seems to be fog systems. You can't nick what you can't see. I first saw them as systems for shop robberies, they fill the space in 30s. Saw an advert for one of the main home security firms as they are doing them for home use now. I had wondered...

My (uneducated) take on this - If you want to just stop heat loss from the house below, you need to insulate between the floor beams (and over the top of them), ideally ~300mm. Glass fibre is cheap and relatively env friendly as it's recycled glass and won't be a problem in landfill etc. If you...

I did one that looks suspicious! My thinking is it is to do with the shape of the base and how it connects to the tree along with how smooth and rounded the sides of the tree part are. I've taken to doing sharper edges and either straight sided or slightly concave. If the sides are convex and...

I use 9's which are obv even thinner. Some people even use 8's!

Well as it's getting towards that season, I figured I'd join the rest of you. Here's the first of this year's Christmas trees. Spalted beech that would otherwise be on my wood burner. One of last years is in the background. (I tend to put a ball on the top as I have a fear of one of my...