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Well, I'm in the UK and have lived in 8 different houses over the past nearly 80 years and have never had any problem with mould on window cills in bathrooms - or anywhere else for that matter - and I am not fastidious as far as general maintenance is concerned !

You probably 'suck at drawing' simply because you haven't done enough! My father said to me when I was about 9 or so (ye gods, over 70 years ago!) "If you can draw it, lad, you can make it" - seldom a truer word! I used to 'sketch' each project -- back of envelope stuff -- but I now use...

I note that you 'don't care' but that statement can't go unchallenged - it is so wrong in so many ways! You may not need to use the Calculus (or care about how the Romans influenced democracy) but there are vast swathes of people who do and without their knowledge scientific progress would be...

That doesn't make any sense to me. The left-pondians hate metric - they don't even use the metric paper sizes (A0 - A6) and they begrudge the ISO standards for threads still preferring their UN system. They have had to accept the metric system simply to align with the rest of us rather than the...

Yes from 'New' the thread-form on each die would be the full width - but with the obvious proviso that the 'thread' on each chaser would start 1/4 of the pitch apart. You could simply measure the width of each chaser with a micrometer and the chances are high that if they are the same then you...

It's a while since I handled any Coventry Dies but they were at one time my 'Bread & Butter' :) and I've probably forgotten 80% of what I knew then. 'S' simply means that the cutting geometry is for Steel - as opposed to Brass, Alum, Cast Iron etc. The only difference between the two 'Sets'...

We'll have to agree to differ @Rorschach :) Though I wasn't suggesting that the HARDNESS would be altered, just that the edge (sharpness) would 'go off' sooner if the tool were subjected to heavy cuts at high speed causing high temperature.

Simply not true - HSS is affected LESS than Carbon Steel cutters but it certainly is affected. More important though is the fact that even at the relatively low speed of a hand held Router (3-6k ish) the cutter could get hot enough to burn the wood if the depth of cut were excessive. In my...

Looks like a good job but it seems very odd when 'go wallpaper'appear to be somewhat shy in their description not giving the 'weight' in the normal wall paper market terms. I had to dig very deep on their site to eventually find that the "Premium HD Lining Paper" is only 0.234mm thick. This is...

I suspect that the OP is concerned about the HSS Cutter getting too hot and therefore loosing its edge. As @smackie has just said, light cuts and slow(ish) speeds during tests working both up with experience.

That might have been the correct stance a few years ago but with the advent of the Ryzen range it certainly isn't. - though I have been using and recommending AMD over Intel for 25+ years - purely on value for money terms.

Just one very good reason to avoid the Apple platform.

The boot-up time is dependent upon much more than just doing so from an SSD and can be seriously affected when M$ demand that they 'phone home' and upgrade the O/S which can take many minutes. The best I've achieved for a bare Win 10 Pro is 14 seconds. SSD, or better still M.2 SSD, are very...

With that extra detail you have moved the whole debate :) There are a few activities that demand a great deal from a PC - the most notable probably Video editing, but they include - Music & Photography ..... both of which you site. If by "Managing my music library" you mean keeping a...

My experience is -- less than an hour for UK-UK -- the only delays I see are eBay/Paypal refunds which can be 14 days or more.

Just my two penn'orth --- I've been in the business of building PCs since 1989 and have some customers with me most of that time - one is now 93 and on her 4th PC, only upgraded due to new requirements. The only Laptops I recommend are Toshiba, I wouldn't consider Lenovo, HP, Dell .... or...

Paraná Pine is -- firstly -- not Pine, but, more to the point, not 'cheap softwood'. Yes it's a 'softwood' in the terms that it is evergreen but it's actually Araucaria angustifolia. Still a conifer and actually as close to Cedar as it is Pine. Though not on the CITES list it is considered...

I've not seen Lemonwood but the image on the 'Wood Database' shows it to be quite bland. I have worked Chestnut (not a lot) and feel that unlikely due to my experience of 'swirly' grain. I do have a small stash of Parana Pine which came out of a sweet shop in the 50's (Shelving) and I'm most...