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Right, that's it. I'm going to make one. The wibbly-wobbly wood needs to be tamed!

Well, it turned out to be too high with the castors anyway, so I took them off, so the spacers the castors were on now act as sliders. The sliders just push the chips out of the way so it's become a non-issue. Photo is my first run with it - I'm pretty pleased as it's my fist time ever at home...

Damn! Oh well, you know how the song goes: Weeeeeee brush, brush, brush We Brush, brush, brush We brush, the whole day through.... Actually I could fit skirts, which would help. They're pretty awful castors anyway, bought for something else years ago and never used. Pieces of bog roll tube...

I saw some ideas online for jigs to enable using a router as a jointer. Since my nice old board to make drawer fronts with has decided to twist, I thought I'd have a go at making one. Instead of trying to make level guide rails I used castors so it can be rolled about on my temporary bench which...

So you can fill the bowl with your soup and balance the bread on the platter! I jest - it's too gorgeous to put soup in!

When I was little my mum had a big plaster on her finger one day, which appeared in my absence. She told me she'd dropped a kitchen knife, and caught it. The knife was very sharp and the cut was deep. She told me I must never try to catch a falling knife, and I've always remembered that. In...

Dressing change time. Photo opportunity...

But I can use right handed scissors with my left almost as effectively! (just not so accurately) Garden tools - When I volunteered with the BTCV many moons ago, one of the first things they taught me was to always lay tools on the ground with the sticky-out bits downwards. Sage advice. Even so...

This is also true. Also, not waving fingers around that one is not actually using, should go on the list! But I was snippimg up a label like I've done dozens of times, ffs.

I have cut my fingers/hands so many times I sometimes wonder if I've secretly got something against having any! I don't it's stupid to admit to doing something stupid though, because maybe someone else can avoid doing the same thing.

I'm sold on the idea. Sign me up! As a slight aside, I couldn't just watch the one video. Rex's $30 "Roman bench" caught my imagination too.

Last night I cut the end off the little finger of my dominant (left) hand. I did this using the only tool which I can use well with my right hand - scissors. I was anonymising a small bit of paper with my name and address on it. The scissors are very sharp. My finger was hidden by the paper. I...

You obviously didn't see the advert. A boy was holding up cards with the words to the song as it played. The words weren't quite right, so he needed to hear it on a Maxwell tape. The other one I can't get out of my head is Wake up in the morning, Wanting some breakfast What am I gonna put on...

Yeahhhhh... THATS the one.. (But I need to hear it on a Maxwell)

Thanks for the warning! I never imagined that might happen!

I'm glad you know the tune Stuart, because I really have no idea!

I'm sorry I can't help myself, I can't resist and I profusely and profoundly apologise. Ahem: Woke up this morning (p'chang p'chang) Fell out of bed (ba-da-da-dum) Landed on my dawg My dawg was dead (more p'chang-ing) And it's raaaaiiiining Rain come pouring down (yeah) Well it's...

I made decorative object in my school woodwork class. Looked a bit like an elaborate pepper grinder. Completely useless except possibly for hitting muggers with. But I did at least learn how to use a lathe. Then I trained as an engineer for a bit, and learned to use the metal turning sort, with...

I really don't understand how some people can retire and they just .... stop .... presumably to do Leisure Things. Strikes me as very boring. There are simply not enough hours in the day. I'm looking forward to being able to use all of the ones that there are!

It's very likely to be a brushless motor. They have electronic commutation using an ESC circuit. If you are lucky you'll be able to disconnect the motor from its ESC and test it using another one (you can actually buy ESC units for testing on eBay). Failed motor is pretty unlikely and "cactus"...