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does that nut have the correct seat for an alloy? It looks like it has a separate flat washer which would be correct but the bolt might be tapered which would not be the correct pairing. https://www.tyreleader.co.uk/tyres-advices/bolt-types-steel-or-alloy

I may well be wrong but according to wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Kingdom 'Great Britain' began in 1707 which would make it about 317 years old. The world may be open for trade but it doesn't help if we don't want to buy what they are selling. Most of our fruit and...

I'm not really sure what we were expecting. It was a divorce like any other, except for some reason we thought we could leave but would get to keep all of the benefits of being in the marriage without any of the responsibility.

I really want the new Alpina root MIPs helmet but it's made in Germany and they won't sell to the UK anymore :(

Its a medium size charity. Not really high pressure or anything. Annoyingly the lady who was my line manager that left was actually pretty good to work with. unless it's me... as they say if you can't see the crazy person on the bus, then maybe you are the crazy person! :unsure:

Is it just where I work or are others finding that people are hired and then leave pretty much instantly. We hired a new line manager that would be in charge of me and after about a week he stopped responding and left for 'personal reasons' (most likely offered more money) So we hired again...

This seems pretty sensible to me. although I'd just do one at a time. I'd make a block with the dowel hole through it then cut a line through just past the hole with enough room for the dowel to be pushed across after the blade (but leaving a section behind to keep the 2 pieces together) leaving...

Agreed. In the case of a drawknife or something where the handle needs to be pulled against, I've most often found the tang continues through the handle and a washer is added and then the tang peened over to hold it securely in place. I'm just replacing some drawknife handles at the moment and...

The problem with this is that if someone gets hold of your email password they can just have a search through your emails and see what you have subscribed to/signed up for, and then go and do password resets on each of these. This is the reason for A. having the strongest password you can on...

I've fitted a fair few handles recently having taken up wood turning in the past few years. If it needs a taper I have just drilled the initial smallish hole full depth then turned the handle and then afterwards just opened the holes out with increasing sized drills, just not going as deep with...

I've used these https://www.toolstation.com/masonry-torx-frame-fixing-screw/p19150 multiple times without issue. Just fitted a new single door frame for my garage. 4 per side and it is rock solid. That was into brick. They are also holding my 1.8m bifold doors and a window frame. Dad and...

After watching numerous episodes of 'money for nothing' the thing that strikes me is how much money they end up making for something that isn't always that good. The trick seems to be to make it unique and sell it to a seller who's market is in affluent areas e.g. London/the cotswolds etc. As...

I find excel too fiddly to keep things up to date and MS project is too indepth for simple work planning. In between the 2 is MS planner. It's very similar to JIRA or Monday, which are all 'Kanban' type tools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban You just have tickets for each job and can...

doubt it unless they are bored. I followed a police car for miles the other evening and right in front of the police car was a car that had no side light or brake light on the left side and the right hand side was stuck on brake light (so was overly bright continually). The police did nothing...

I guess that makes sense as its much easier to accidentally press the start button whilst leaning over or putting something in the car than to accidentally turn a key in the steering column.

that's not entirely what NVR switches are for. If I'm half way through cutting something on my table saw and there is a blip in the power, I want my saw to stay off until I am ready to restart. I don't want to have to take my hands off the workpiece to go for the switch without knowing when it...

It still blows my mind that cars were being sold on the basis of having bluetooth and aux jacks on stereos for many years. Bluetooth had been out for 10 years and aux inputs have literally been around for half a centuary or more. It literally did nothing to improve the car and was wildly behind...

you'll have to rub you head and recite the alphabet :) thankfully my car doesn't make me do it, although as others I've always started with the clutch engaged. I do have an electric handbrake though which is mostly ok but entirely unneeded as a normal one works perfectly well. I do get driven...

currently but they have become better built since the first ones I've seen and will over time become the next Skoda or Seat etc.

I may well be wrong as it was hard to find but it seems like drag coefficient for mk1 and mk2 is claimed to be 0.32. Which to be fair isn't great for either version as a 1990's sierra was 0.33 I think. I guess it is very flat fronted. I wonder if the side panels actually help like the dimples on...