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I have experimented a bit with dowser's twigs just from a mechanical point of wiew and found that the stresses in the twig when held in dowsing position makes it highly unstable so that it reacts to miniscule movements in your hands. Whenever you loose concentration ever so slightlyor step on an...

The only upgrades that pays off economically when counting in time materials and energy costs are to install modern rubber seals on the inner casement. As inner casements were sealed with some sort of tape on the inside there were often no proper rebates for the inner casements. Proper rebates...

Around here the traditional type of double glazing is casement windows with the outer casement opening outwards and the inner casement opening inwards. Both casements are single glazed and together they form a double glazed unit when they sit in their own rebates in the jambs. Made from good...

I bought the filters from Dinair in Sweden. The four cartridges are all similar 1200x325mm with the normal number of folds whatever that was.

The plentiful access to relatively cheap power tools which the western world has enjoyed for 30 years or so proved to be an exception. We should all have seen this coming 20 years ago. The phenomena relied on supply chains so economically slimmed that technically they could not be sustained...

I cut the pocket holes I need with a chisel or sometimes even with an axe. They turn out ugly but who cares on an invisible backside. There are other ways to put parts together without loose tennons. Money for investments has always been an extreme issue and if I had spent the money on that type...

Writing from the perspective of a former hobbyist now part-time professional my machine tool priorities are always about the ability to quickly and fairly accurately dimension materials. It is possible to make a good chest from a standing tree using nothing but an axe and a knife and a chisel...

It seems the Chineese (or the importers) have recently learned that Swedish tools have a good reputation and now they are trying to peedle their stuff under various Swedish sounding names like Magnusson. Jonköping chainsaws and Norrköping gardening tools are examples of the same phenomena.

A few did harvest oat and barley with a scythe and that practice became more common as time wore on and corn became less valuable. Though most harvesting was done working with a sicle and bent over almost double. The scythe wasted too much corn that fell off when cutting. Rye which was for...

Around here one can still find a special sort of rather thick and solid sicle which was used for harvesting small twigs for animal fodder. They are sicles not billhooks. I should have one tucked away somewhere. Normal sicles were used for harvesting grain and not much else. In scandinavia all...

Exactly.

This is the filter housing. It contain four Dinair cartridge filters held with threaded rods against holes in the top. The rods pass through the U-bars on top. The air inlet is some 30cm above the bottom of the housing and a little below the closed end of the cartridges. This means that the...

I built what essentially my own version of the largest size Clear Vue system. Welded up a cyklone from 2mm plate to Bill Petz drawings. Scrap yard materials cut out with angle grinder and welded together using my trusty 1960-ies Unitor stick welder. Bought an old 4kW 400 volt three phase...

It is fully possible to rebuild that motor. Find a way to repair the hole in the end bell and rewind the motor. Though counting the windings and figuring out the speed and replacing it may be more cost effective.

The company Hackman&Co made chisels in Sorsakoski in the past. Some were stamped "made in Finland" and I rekon that English phrase was a bit of a standard at the time. The Swedes very frequently stamped "made in Sweden" and the Germans stamped "Made in Germany". Only the French stuck to their...

Birch is pretty much the standard wood in locally made planes around here. Not quite as hard wearing as beech so therefore those fortunate few who could get hold of some imported beech glued a beech sole under the birch body of their most used bench planes.

My advice is to think through very thoroughly what you and your family want and need both now and in the long term. It is easy to get lured into thinking that you want exactly what everybody else want and then go hunting for what everybody else hunts for and then pay way too much to get it. It...

Wadkin-Bursgreen 10" AGS....... or a Rapid or an Ejca L18. Such saws can sometimes be found secondhand for reasonable money

A modern car is just about as far from a sound ballance between economy and durability as one can get. When it is old enough to become an affordable commuting vehicle for a not very well paid worker..... that is let's say 15 or 20 years old everything is crumbling and everything its built to...

Aye there it is. Send the inventor a message if you have questions to ask. If I remember correctly he is fluent in English.