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The thing I will never understand is tailgaters. I live in a rural area and often it'll just be me and the car behind, which for some reason wants to drive 0.5sec off my bumper???? whyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! they could literally drop back by 5secs and be 5 secs slower to where ever they are going. When...

But this is only 1 part of the equation. We are told that diesels produce less CO2. So in theory a diesel is better over a petrol car for carbon emmissions (both in direct exhaust and also they last longer generally) which cause global warming. You might have better air quality but does that...

This is going to happen regardless. Even if we take the climate change and pollution arguements out of the equation - Oil is finite! it is running out. Maybe not today or tomorrow but the less there is the more it will cost. No ifs, no buts, no coconuts. We can't grow more fossil fuels (well...

the main issue at the moment imo is that batteries are not designed to be easily swapped. Sorry about banging on about the renault twizy but as an example with this car you rent the battery (although this might have changed now, I think you can buy it). So as soon as the battery is failing it...

If the government didn't get involved you wouldn't have a CAT on your car. Good you may say except they are pretty much the only reason manufacturers had to fit fuel injection systems as carbs are almost impossible to make work with a CAT. So you now save a huge amount in fuel, have cleaner...

not a problem if you don't sell your car every 3 years, which is a bad practice anyway.

yep, been saying this for years. The car I do think fits the bill though is the renault twizy. It might not float a lot of peoples boats but it is exactly the right thinking though. Imagine if everyone commuting drove one of these. Traffic would instantly be a fraction of what it is now purely...

This is quite an interesting concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_GINA and many of the shapes would work well in wood. The MEV sonic 7 kitcar would also work well Although both are more modern looking cars rather than the one posted earlier

My father-in-law-to-be bought a Jet afs-500 a while back (like this but not from here https://www.machinery4wood.co.uk/Jet-AFS-500-M-Air-Filtration-System-230V/P36192) and about 6 months ago it stopped working. He ended up buying another air filter unit as he didn't know how to fix it. I...

I may be wrong but that tool looks like its for forming small bends not a big wide bend. I assume you are bending and having move it a bit and bend some more as you go. If i was doing this I'd get a big board or an old door and form an arch out of wood or even just wooden blocks screwed to the...

I've started trying to use more environmentally friendly paints in particular 'earthborn'. they do a furniture paint https://earthbornpaints.co.uk/paint/furniture-paint/ recently used it for some picture frames and it goes on nicely. Bit more expensive than some others but when it finally...

This is what I was thinking. Find some nice glasses and create an oak base that wraps up around the bottom. Something like this https://johnlewis.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/237511530?$rsp-pdp-port-1440$ and kind of imagine that the wood turning part is pretty much where the brown liquid is...

That was a long video to say I made a little draw to put pencils in! I just have a block of wood with a bunch of holes and loads of pencils. when i find one floating around I'll put it back in the block so there is always 1 likely to be there. how many people have the little Ikea pencils in...

I've got a flock of Doves on my roof that is doing my nut in. They live under the solar panels. It seems to be a common problem as I see other houses with solar panels with resident doves. I hate that damn things. They woke me up at 6am on the wknd with their cooing and scrabling around. my...

if you are worried about splay but want to keep a more open look inside, you could always add some hi-tensile cables across to hold the 2 sides together. would be a fraction of the size of a wooden joist and arguably better suited, as wood is better in compression than tension. My inlaws-to-be...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emerging-infections-monthly-summaries/infectious-disease-surveillance-and-monitoring-for-animal-and-human-health-summary-january-to-june-2023#plague Doesn't seem to suggest thousands of cases. More like less than 100 and none in the UK or even Europe...

is that a confession? :oops:

Female rats are ok, I had a pet one. For a short time I had some males and they are gross. They pee everywhere when they walk. I'd clean the cage and 2 mins later there would be pee trails across anything they walked across. Bubonic plague is a bit much as a reason to kill them. I can't...

what is it made of? I tend to use candlewax to lubricate things like drawers and they are super slidey once its buffed a bit.

This would lean into my arguement for having a foot kill switch. If it is all going wrong and you are trying to hold the chuck (probably with your left hand) and holding the tailstock with the right it is pretty difficult to lean over into the dangerzone to hit the off switch which is on the...