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I dont know about these tops but if Im right they are lots of evenly spaced holes? Could you make a router jig for use with a guide bush, a couple of wings with 19mm pins that would locate in the neighbouring holes and you would just work your way around, the final ones could be done with a...

Ive just done a number of largeish mortices, around 75mm wide and 60mm deep x 1/2ins thick, for oak loose tennons. And used a router with a cheap ebay HSS upcut spiral bit. Came out very well indeed. The other thing I used was an old Stanley 59 dowel jig, it has guides up to 1/2ins and worked...

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Its not supposed to be like that is it?

I had to join several bits of natural edge timber at odd angles to make up a counter top, I only have a home made sawbench (an upside down circlar saw in an old workmate frame) so the cuts alone were not really good enough for jointing, but we have what we have so it was glued with biscuits and...

No, thats the odd thing, its now quite clean but nip up the two screws on the front plate and the main screw is then binding, part of the job was completed by my neighbour and I think I really need to strip it out and take a proper look at it,,still its dificult to guess why its so tight, esp as...

Hi, had a look at a neighbours engineers quick release vice today, its a large Paramo version of the Record type. A screw had fallen out of the saddle plate that holds the Half Nut in and he had reassembled it with the plate upside down. The intresting thing is that once put back together the...

Intresting topic, expensive knives, I have one that is a folding knife but the “blade” is a Stanley knife one, and it locks open, a nice alloy body and a button allows the blade to be switched over,,I think it came from the pound shop around 5 or 6 years ago! But its very good and is always in...

Does the “scale” part push in, like giving an injection and give you a reading with the spring loaded button in the anvil end taking up the slack when measuring preset tolerances,,I think the scale reads both under and over measurements?

Cant help with the identification but its turned out to be a nice looking but of timber with real character,,and all from an old pallet.

Artistic licence old fruit,,,but you get the point and our chum the heating engineer confirms what I suspect most people would think, hanging a rad onto just plasterboard with any type of fixing is chancy to say the least.

Ah the things that keep us amused,,Im just glad my wife thinks Im looking at ****,,I really couldnt admit the truth,,anyway to matters in hand so to speak, I can see your drift Andy but I cannot see why the type of oiler your thinking about would want to have what does look to be a plunger? Im...

It is indeed an unuseual design, but interstingly (sadly!) I think the brass fill cap looks the same as my common or garden british made oilcan, I cannot think of the make and Im away from the shed,,I wonder if the oil can companies bought these in? However that incredibly intresting detail...

I have a large Clarke pillar drill but Ive often wondered if a regular mains electric drill sitting in a drill stand would be just as good and a hell of a lot easier to live with? My Peugeot electric drill seems to be a powerful beast and Im sure has more muscle than the pillar drill, and it...

Around two years ago our friends in Andover had a lovely new kitchen fitted, after a couple of days she had put a moderate amount of stuff in the cupboards and when she opened the door one morning the cupboard fell off the wall on top of her, she crashed onto the floor surrounded by broken...

Im sure plasterboard is incredibly strong but I personally wouldnt want to hang heavy things like radiators onto just it, esp as has been said, people do daft things like leaning on them and kids pulling themselves up on them. Screw through the battons will give you a decent fixing but, if as...

I have never had anything to do with roofs but I thought that with modern tiles you would have to get the battons correctly spaced because each tile has to both hook over a batten and also hook over the the two tiles below, locking everything together and making a secure roof? If you look at the...

I would say that the screw on type are fairly good but are at times a bit of a pain to screw on, and I dont think the actual threadson the valves are up to much either perhaps designed to take a plastic cap and offer a grip to the regular clip on adapter. Our elderly Saab has leaking alloy...

Many thanks, and Im not really surprised by what Im hearing,,though I had to think a bit when visualising a Rhomboid! I have had some oak under cover for nearly two years and will see what it presently looks like,,but its going to be a regular size domestic door frame.

This was news to me but apparantly the fixed odds betting terminals in bookies was the way smallish drug dealers did it, just go in and bet limitless amounts, the machines are set to pay out a percentage and you have clean money in either cheque or cash with a receipt. The gambling industry...