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Have they sorted out the lack of top-down design yet? When I tried Atom3D a year or two ago, it was impossible to design one part based on another in an assembly without permanently locking the two parts together (a fact that was confirmed by their customer support people). I quickly concluded...

Today I (almost) finished making a bird box. I made it more for practising techniques (mostly power tool ones this time) than because we particularly needed a bird box, hence the over-done joinery and the possibly unnecessary roof covering. Made from oak (joined from thin bits into thicker...

I've used pretty much every CAD application going over the years, but for home / hobby stuff I've pretty much settled on a mixture of: Pen & 5 mm square grid paper - can't be beaten for anything quick. Onshape (free for non-private projects and runs in a browser and works well even on low spec...

I don't **think** I did (I'm pretty sure I used a plastic thing that came with some epoxy). The oak dust was stored in an Altoids mint tin prior to use though (it was removed from there and mixed with the glue in a silicone glue tray thing). Do you think that could have caused the issue? I'll...

I've been experimenting a bit with the colour that can be achieved with different wood fillers. I think I might have done something wrong as I didn't get the results I expected. I started with a bit of oak, nailed to a scrap of pine in 12 places. Four of the holes (over the nail heads) were...

Don't you enjoy swimming in molten gold then?

The forum software can presumably allow multiple quotes. I'm assuming this as the MIG Welding forum uses XenForo (albeit a different version). At the bottom of each post there are three buttons "Like", "+Quote" and "Reply". "Like" and "Reply" work exactly the same as here, but "+Quote" adds...

The 2019 definition didn't really change anything:

"Last year" when it was changed was 1983, so you're about 36 years out there. Also (and I know I'm rising to something that was probably said in jest), the definition was changed to be more consistent over time, not to actually change the distance (and as the inch is defined in terms of the...

It was formally defined in America in 1959 (and in the UK in 1964), but it was used as a standard throughout industry from the early 1930s:

The answer to that last question is "mostly in metric". All of the guidance systems on the Apollo missions operated in metric units. There was a final conversion stage that put everything into american units for display on the console as it was felt the astronauts would have a more intuitive...

I haven't got much to add to this, but I'm going to say a special thank you to @Rorschach - I've been using the "Versatackle" knot for years and I use it for all sorts of things, but I never knew what it was called! Now I do!

Just for fun I thought I'd take a photo of my new table next to the one it replaces. As I mentioned early on in this thread, I've got very little space in the house, so coming up with projects for the home is a bit of a challenge as they've nowhere to go. This little table was in use but...

Finished my first "proper" woodworking project today: More details in the thread all about it.

No, they were these: WoodSpur Torx Head Premium Self Countersinking Wood Screws ("gold-zinc" plated steel).

Five coats done over the course of a week (with a rub down with 0000 wire wool in between each coat): the last one was applied yesterday. A small ordeal today: when fitting the buttons, two of the screw heads snapped off while I was tightening them. I've never had that happen to me before...

I'm just going through the last stages (three coats done, two more to go) of applying @MikeG.'s oil/varnish/white spirit mix on my side table. So far I've been really impressed with that finish, partly for the look of the wood, but mostly for how easy it is to apply (daub it on without worrying...

I guess everyone has their cut-off point of whom they trust. I use paypal (with only a credit card linked to it and not a bank account) just because it's extremely convenient to do so and too much hassle not to do so. On the other hand, I won't touch any of the facebook family (facebook...

Assuming it's the same as the MIG welding forum, that's true BUT you'll only get an email notification for the first message. You have to visit the site (and possibly the thread) for the notifications to start again.

Those are interesting points, particularly the one about threads you own. For the "SOLD" title, the way the MIG Welding forum handle this is that they just ask people to report their own post and say in the report "this item has sold". The moderators then mark the thread as sold (and move it...