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Says in the subtitles "lacquer". Traditional Japanese coating, so I expect so.

I think you are conflating COSHH with "fire proof". To the best of my rather limited knowledge, the one needs to be secure but it doesn't matter what it's made of if it's sturdy enough and adequate for the kinds of hazardous material it contains, and the other needs to be fireproof, but not...

When I did it a few years ago it had well known people on it and I came out south-west of Ghandi. Did it again just now, no longer got the people on it but I'm in about the same spot, centre of the green bit.

Hacksaw is too cloggy. Needs courser teeth. 14tpi does it.

Thanks for writing such a great article. Nice to learn some things and get some affirmation of my own methods :D I'll add that the absolute game changer for me was getting a decent solid hacksaw frame (Facom, seemed the best in my budget). Gone are the wobbly cuts from my old cheap tubular...

The bits of acrylic I've cut have been with a hand saw and it worked very well. Cuts easily enough. I'd go for a hard point panel saw. My power tools are too cheap and basic to chance using for it - I'd probably just get partly melted shards!

Indeed. I once made cheese whilst camping, from milk that had gone off! It was actually nice :D

I've been a vegetarian since about 1984 - my mother's doing initially but eventually it's because I just don't like meat now. I actually believe in mixed farming, if farm we must. Anyway, being vegan is the big trendy thing with certain celebrities doing it, manufacturers of convenience foods...

Yeah. Rancid is a horrible word for a reason...

Well, my first one, as a teenager, was thinking putting marmite in coffee might be nice... Nope! My second one, recently, was accidentally making tea with the descaling water from the kettle, full of citric acid and dissolved limescale. Truly horrible. This evening, I found something worse than...

I actually used to obtain old tyres to re-sole my boots! You have to remove the outer layer with the tread from the steel. Cut across and under a cut edge until you can get hold of it. Takes a lot of effort to get it started. Then you have to pull it whilst keeping going across with a knife to...

They are gorgeous! Are they art pieces or do they also have a function?

This is the drawers I was rabbitting on about in another thread. I actually started making them 2 years ago, made the bottom 2 fronts a few days ago. Been levelling the wonky drawers - it was originally supposed to be quick and rough! Oh well. So some of those drawers have been used as shelves...

Seems ok. Normally I do use PVA, but this was to hand. I just wondered if anyone uses acrylic glue for wood in general.

I started making a small chest of drawers a long while back for some of my electronics stuff - when started it was only supposed to be quick, rough and ready. But then I found some old boards I really liked and started making fronts from them. The fronts are fairly close fitted to each other...

That's really quite amazing - but I doubt if retail sales figures are worth that much! And now I've had a think about it, i think the drives are sent to a company that destroys them. But when I first started it was just a few big holes drilled.

More fun maybe, but the hard drive fixers are located within a secure room in a larger workshop. They have their own press drill...

My employer drills holes through them...

Sunnybob - I hope you check your "emergency only" phone periodically to make sure it still works! It would be a b****r if such an emergency arose and you couldn't use it.

Interested to know how this turned out? @Spectric - traditional hard drives are specified with MTBF " mean time between failures" which they can exceed by years, albeit with errors, and supplied with a 1 year warranty. SSDs are specified as having a fixed number of read/write cycles they will...