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I am a long term user of the free Designspark Mechanical and find it pretty much straightforward and intuitive. There are loads of YouTube videos both indies and from RS Components who support it. I've produced numerous drawings for the 3D items I want/ need around the house or workshop. It...

@PDW125 @Old.bodger Thank you both for your suggestions. I will look into them. SWMB is rather on the short side so I may have to build a lift table to raise her up to the working height! 😂😂 Martin

This seems appropriate in today's social climate: ME TOO, 😂😂 And I'd have one or two more if I could find them at non-silly prices. Martin

SWMBO's birthday returns again soon. She has expressed an interest in upholstery as we have a couple of dining chairs that need attention. Can any of you knowledgeable souls recommend a book and suggest what basic tools are required for a beginner please? Thank you in anticipation. Martin.

No just a bog standard one.

The function of that o-ring is interesting. I thought at first glance it was a circlip to retain the bearing sideways into the precision housing. At a second look it appears to be halfway along said bearing. As @Sideways said a bearing should have a precise housing so why an o-ring in that...

Very informative. Thanks @Richard_C . I was given a DeWalt bandsaw without a motor. It had burnt out and thrown away so no fittings or pulleys. 😰. I've managed to remotor it and it now runs fine - well good enough for my needs. I have not touched the blade/pulley adjustments: as I said it...

Thanks @Sandyn for your analysis. I've had an adjustable temperature kettle for about 5 years now and always heat water to 90C for tea, mint tea and coffee. Always perfectly ok. The question of energy saving has always been put down to another one of Dad's stupid ideas: now I have the...

Partway through my new hopper build for Nutley Windmill. Thanks to @Sgian Dubh for his invaluable help with the compound angles and those others who added their advice in my Compound Mitre Angles thread. The corners are glued (Semforite) and a fillet piece glued in as well for strength. A bit...

Are you sure that's not the burning practice? My first thought was that it must have hurt. 😰🤣 Nice whatever it is though.

If you're into English gardens then Beth Chatto's is Maldon way but I'm not sure quite where as it's on SWMBOs list. Don't know about transport links either sorry.

Yes I think it should though I'm more electronicery rather than motorery. The surge is produced because is no back-emf from the non-spinning motor so the inductance of the windings appears as a virtual short across the supply. Note that any inductance tries to keep the status quo i.e. it only...

Thank you for all of your answers chaps (and chapesses if you are there). I really only posted the picture as an example of A spiral, I don't need to have the trapped ball feature just a spiral that can be felt. So a spiral cut into the surface with a 6mm ball cutter will suffice like the...

Yes I didn't mean to imply @sams93 was wiring it incorrectly but I had seen other posts suggesting the slow start could be wired before the NVD. Also I did suggest that the slow start will only dissipate for the second or two that the slow start is operational and thereafter only a minimal...

I seem to recall being told that the fire extinguisher should be further into the workshop. If the fire is between you and the door you want to be able to grab it and fight your way through the fire using the FX rather than having to fight your way through the flames to safety and the FX. Just a...

@sploo So where did you cheap out? Martin

I agree with @Sandyn . From past experience it is difficult to get reliable insulation between the triac and its heatsink unless the triac is of the sort which is fully insulated by design. But just wrapping the whole thing up in heatshrink tube or insulation tape ruins any possibility of heat...

I've been asked to help at our local children's respite centre by making some sensory boards. One particular version has my mind going around in circles - well ever decreasing spirals really. How do I cut the spiral like that in the picture below? Draw the spiral onto a board and try and trace...

Recently I ordered a book called "How to scam people". Two months later and it still hasn't arrived. Oh sorry this isn't the joke thread.

There looked to be a total lack of insulation over the connections in that first video. Please don't forget to insulate thoroughly preferably with two layers of heatshrink tubing.