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I dont think it happens so much with dry wood but I've had fresh sawn board start to cup due to being on the ground. The top or bottom dries out faster depending if the air is dry above or the ground is dry/warm and absorbs moisture both causing movement. I flipped them over and they moved back...

I tend to go to a local builders merchants that also specialise in timber. It tends to be pretty good and they let me look through the stacks for the bits I want. Could you find something similar near you? I've also recently bought a lot of freshly cut Cedar and I am quite amazed how well it...

One thing I don't like about the moxon vices I've seen is the studding sticks out and doesn't move. I'd rather the studding screw in when you tighten so it is out of the way. I built a classic leg vice using the screw gear from a car jack. It works fantastically well. I was thinking of doing...

I think we are arguing the same point. If it causes a health problem over time then it can be deemed toxic. It just may be to a greater or lesser extent based on the wood (or dust) in question and may not appear on a list of known toxic dusts. But this will be subject to a whole host of...

That's pretty much one and the same thing, depending how you want to classify 'Toxic'. Wiki says 'Physical toxicants are substances that, due to their physical nature, interfere with biological processes. Examples include coal dust, asbestos fibres or finely divided silicon dioxide, all of which...

Another vote for Opera. It's really good these days. I always find the other browsers eventually bog my system down if I don't close the browser every now and then. Opera just puts tabs to sleep so doesn't use all of your system resources.

My thinking on this (and it may well be wrong) is that for most of the time a p2 will be more than enough. Also the 94% is a minimum so could well be higher. If you think about it in real world situations walking down a street with cars going by you are likely to inhale significant amounts of...

why not a card scraper? it is probably safer than cutting yourself on glass if it were to break.

No, not unless your thermostat is happy that it has turned the boiler on. Or annoyed that it is being pestered again whilst it was trying to work something else out.

something I find tends to help is to lever a bit and move along and lever some more etc and move again. If you lever in one place the lid will bend and be a pain to open.

bought a SIP mig welder which I thought was going to be ok as wasn't the cheapest out there and was reasonably large output. It's been a PITA! It just would not weld nicely. I ended up changing the liner and adding a liner to the swan neck. In the end I think it is mostly due to the drive wheel...

Depending on your level of comfort at this type of thing I'd recommend you save anything you think is important to an external drive, take a note of all your programmes you actually need and associated licences and then re-install a fresh copy of win10 to your laptop. You can get a genuine copy...

Do they need to be powered? The 'pinewood derby' cars concept looks quite fun if you have enough interest for a race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_derby

Will be interested to find out myself. I was thinking of making a windup train for the Brio wooden train sets. Should be light enough I would think. Is that a motor you already have or one you've seen on the internet? Glue shouldn't be an issue around kids once it's dry.

Another thing to consider in addition to insulating the wall, if you haven't already, is preventing heat loss from the garage itself. E.g is there a big howling gale coming under the door. You may also want to look at multi layer breathable foil insulation. Batten the wall - staple on the foil...

Sorry I'm guilty of this, although for this topic it is such a big and important topic that effects everyone that it is almost impossible for it not to be political/social. If i ask what Chisel is good or bad it won't make much difference to many people as it won't affect their life if I...

Assuming you believe this to be a good thing then it completely contradicts your previous statements about how the rich are too rich. The reason they are rich is because they have increased productivity at the expense of workers. Bezos is hugely rich as he has automated a huge amount of the...

Hammer! As they say 'Everything is a hammer unless it's a screwdriver then it's a chisel' :)

hahahah well that is looking for a silver lining. I guess they might learn some maths too whilst they watch their parents buying an 8th. Drugs are one major route into deprivation and cycles of poverty and I'd argue it's a lot easier to fall into drug use than accidentally learn maths. Schools...

It's interesting the level of responsibility put on teachers these days. Pretty hard to produce decent outputs when you have kids and parents that have no desire to engage with school and often actively disrupt others. Perhaps if parents put in the effort the kids might follow. Seems like...