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I think your on a steeper learning curve than I had fully appreciated,,,,, Steve.

I can only speak for myself but I would just carry on hes done the job, didnt kill himself and learned a little as well. I also very carefully touch a neon screwdriver on the wires just in case, and I know its not a fancy tester but its an indication, and then gingerly short the wires to be...

What a lovely moulding, and here we are with all our modern tools and we would struggle to do it, so I wondered how would I try to do it now,,maybe router a slot followed up by some sort of bearing guided ball cutter,,then finishing off with the beveled front edges,,would that be possible? Steve.

I share your thoughts about alarms, car or house they just get ignored,,,but Im hoping that the burgler might be a bit jumpy and the noise might be enough to frighten them away. As to big vicious dogs, I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for one,,,say the bugger got out and mauled...

My grandson is an electrician and always has the pads in pocket work trousers, Ive not tried them but Ive got some old really cheap strap on ones that are okay but very noisy and slippery, and a pair of tilers ones I was given made by Vitro,,,,somthing like that, they make tile cutters and the...

And its also quite easy to grind your own lip and spur drills, an old chap showed me how to do it and its reasonably easy, the best way to see how its done is to hold a shop bought version againt your grinder like our friend above and it becomes clear what you have to do, bigger bits are easier...

Personally I like to keep some distance between us and the gas/elect board,,,reading the above just confirms my worst fears. Smart meters are another area where people have found themselves unexpectedly disconnected and facing big repair/ replacement costs because the fitter has to do a safety...

Why did they shut off the gas supply? the boiler has an isolation valve and leaving them with no means of cooking or keeping warm seems to be making a bad situation even worse! Steve.

What about when your putting somthing together, standing back and looking at it will be difficult if not impossible,,everything will be laying over, things will roll about,,my own personal opinion is that contemplateing a bench thats sitting on the pee to that degree (nearly 3inches!) is to be...

Weve had a little Cannon printer scanner bought as “refurbished” from ebay for around 6 years, its only ever had the cheapest ebay compatible cartridges in it and its still working just fine, it gets used perhaps twice a week for a few pages of text and I think thats the secret of keeping them...

God I am the last person to be criticising anyone for poor grammar or spelling but I do sometimes see posts where I really do have to work hard at trying to understand what the person is saying, and given that were trying to “communicate” surely thats a serious issue. Often its a lack of...

He could use a pair of singles, that way you can have soft or firm to suit!

Crikey,,maybe you should have bought a length of anchor chain too whilst you were at the chandlers, sounds like thats going to be a big beastie, Im guessing one of the Mastiff type dogs?

Many thanks indeed ****, thats really helpful, to quote from the Zeuss description “16-UN - Unified Extra Fine Thread, which is used for special purposes.The thread angle is 60°.” I felt that it was a fine thread, maybe they used that to make it a bit more water tight? Now my next challenge is...

Hi, nothing to do with woodwork but I I think there are a number of people on here well versed in thread sizes and types. The O/D is said to be 1.3/8ins with a pitch of 16tpi. To put it into context its a blanking plug on a bronze valve which I think will be Swedish made. The plug is designed to...

I assume its not a Toy Poodle then,,,perhaps more of an old sea dog!

As it is its probably strong enough,,,,,for a toy poodle,,,,, Its probably not strong enough for a Rottweiler,,,,, If you can expose the joint a touch with a modern welder will catch it without heating things up I would think. Steve.

Ive got an Irwin one that was not expensive, a tubular design with a single cutting flute and its not very good at all, however a really cheap liddles set where the cutters each have 4 spindly cutter “legs” seem to work just fine and Ive cut several dozen hardwood plugs with them, cannot see...

It seems that drugs are readily available, even within prisons and I think the govt have stopped using the term “war on drugs” perhaps because its a battle we've lost? It seems to me without any real knowledge of these things that drugs of all sorts could be legalised and distributed at cost...

Entirely agree with everything said above (and its a crap bit of work, esp those bolts into the joint, and a bloody cheek to send it out like that too) but just clarify something for me, the Long Grain frame bit above,,now if I was going to make that I would have thought a long grain frame was...