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Mmm a friend bought a watch once, it was said to have a lifetime guarantee,,when the mainspring went it slashed his wrist!,,, a silly joke and Im just teasing, apologies,, Steve.

Looking at the photo of the boiler-house above it always seems to be the crappy slideing doors that fail on metal sheds, our daughter bought two over the years, I think Argos was doing them(?) and I remember them having issues with the doors,,jumping off the runners and heavy handed use...

Hello NikNak, no still no message from you and I cannot see how to send you a PM either,,,.how do I do it? The Kia sounds very nice but probably a bit expensive for us,,were more old bangers,,,well perhaps not bangers but cars in the £2000 to £3000 range, we used to go for 2 and 3 yrs old ones...

Well the Ebay £11 WinoMo motorbike alarm arrived and whilst I cannot fit it yet this is how things look. Its a small plastic box perhaps 60mm sq and around 12mm deep, there are no fixing lugs and they supply sticky pads, from one end the wiring emerges, a single arial wire, a short fly lead to...

Hello NikNak and apologies for not getting back to you, your message revealed that I was still registered on the site with my old toucansurf email address that I hadn't used for many years,,and Ive been trying on and off all day to rectify it,,Im hoping thats it sorted now, and strangely it was...

Our neighbours have been having problems with PlusNet, no broadband for over two weeks, unhelpful agents and blaming the problem on faulty lines, eventually BT (or some incarnation of what was BT) arrived and said lines okay,,more faffing about dianosed a faulty Router but Plus Net firstly...

Hi, well Ive just had this reply from the Holtzaffle “owners club”,, Hi Steve, the photos are helpful... The signature style makes me think this could be pre-1804 when Deyerlein joined the firm. Although the tool can be used as a square it is more likely to have been provided as a depth tool...

Well many thanks indeed to you both, its begining to look like a Stonemasons gauge, certainly very much the same tool, but I wonder if ultimately its “just a depth gauge“? When you think about it, if you want to make something to measure depth perhaps you end up with somthing like this, whether...

In my very limited experiance with chainsaws a new chain will stretch very quickly,,its either that or it beds down but the result is the same and after just a few cuts you will need to retension it, maybe good quality saws are better engineered but with my cheap lidles variety Ive noticed that...

Well Im not quite there yet but Ive had a reply from the Holtzaffel.org website and Ive sent over some photos, so Im hopeing to find out exactly what the gauge is for. However, looking at the sort of tools this firm was renowned for, I think its going to turn out to be a rather specialised gauge...

Hello again, I read the Wikipedia entry and then linked to the Holtzaffel website and Ive sent then a note, I also followed a link to the Society of Turners and for somone such as myself, happy to be making things out of old floorboards and the like, it was like entering another world,,well...

Many thanks indeed for all your replies, I did have a brief look at the internet for Holtzapffel without any sucess but perhaps I misread the fancy script and spelt it wrongly. I will definitely look at the Wikipedia entry and then pass on the info about it and your ideas which do sound entirely...

Hi, my neighbour is sorting through her grandfathers tools, she is in her 80s and is still a very accomplished craftswoman and can turn her hand to pretty well anything, anyway she has a number of his tools all marked with his name and she asked me if I could free off this lovely old gauge for...