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Eventually Doug, yes, that helps, though even then I find coarser woods like teak leave fine fibres embedded in the sticky surface. I usually just shake it out vigorously. My point was, that, when sanding in particular, the mesh traps dust, apparently covering the high-friction web with...

They are also dust magnets and can thus lose their 'grip'. Sam

I ended up with an angle grinder cup wheel bristle (singular) embedded in my forehead. Thing just fell apart and linear shrapnel went everywhere. I was SO grateful - as I had no face shield on - that it had not been 2" lower and blinded me. Mission Control laughed like a drain, then said "you...

I have an ancient Ferm, sourced, I think, from Screwfix. One tenth the price of a CessPool or Lambsbellow and has quite happily chewed through loadsa of slots in teak, oak, mahogany, MDF, ply, oatcakes...well, you get the picture. Sam

Matchsticks DO work. They have to be inserted in threes, to spread the 'squashing,' effect evenly around the screw shank. This works best up to No8's, therefter, you need more packing than matches provide. Skewers are harder wood (or, at least the ones I have are) and, depending on hole...

Cooper said: Boy, does THAT resonate. I worked through several inspections in my career (11-19, grammar school) and invariably the time needed to amass the volume of admin required far outweighed the substance of "contact time" assessing. The inspectors had become obsessed with confirming...

I thought it was oysters not Babysham? Sid James, was it, who said: " I ate 12 and only 5 worked!"??:unsure: Sam

Aww. That's sad Zed, but I fully see your pragmatism. Sam

Artie? Talktalk? Their so-called "service agents" in Manila, Soweto or Kolkotta?.The ones that CANNOT deviate from their script? The one that EVERY new voice insists that you go through EVERY time? The Talktalk that was SO bad their CEO had to be put in charge of Track and Trace? The Talktalk...

As a statin-free mid-sixties individual? "HEAR! HEAR!" Now, WHY could this reply not have been heeded for all those disinfomative posts earlier in this thread? We could have avoided so much wasted energy and pointless bickering. Sam

Mark, I have had similar ones for ages. Material handling, grubbing out as Tris says, fine. They can be pierced surprisingly easily, pitch pine splinters, that sort of thing. They are NOT a good idea for feeding a TS, router table or P/T; there, they can be partially pulled off, or impede your...

"So there is no such thing as a sacred cow when it comes to science, or medicine? I would dispute that, but there you go - it is just an opinion. Ooh Boy...obviously, TN, you obviously have never been present when two or more scientists meet and confer. Even at caffeine break. They constantly...

Yerr!! Working, sorry, propagandizing, for Trump now int he? Sam

The 'terminal.bulb' on those old handles makes them among the most ergonomic and comfortable ones I use. Gives you a superior grip, because they lend themselves to your little finger getting a good curl around the handle. That is the finger of greatest priority for a plastic surgeon after a...

Precisely Unicorn. Nasty trojans was my first thought and it was a quick skelly at the drive USB'ed to an ancient laptop (that didn't matter if it got compromised) with them in mind that led to my discovery. No viruses, no trojans amazingly enough, considering the files that WERE on it....The...

Same applies to hard drives. My father acquired one that I had to rapidly do one of those '7-repetition' wipe and reformat jobs. Previous owner's entertainment tastes were all too evident.... S.

"Shroud of Turin" Eric? Just sayin... Sam

Wakefield? What a debacle that was: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/ Astonishing that the Lancet accepted, and published, a paper where n=12!! By 1998 I, and thousands of other A level teachers, had, for over two decades, been drumming into future doctors, surgeons...

Just amble'in along, blythly minding your own business when you spotted all those sloths Bob? Just askin'.... Sam

Agreed Roger. Replying in this thread is - like giving a pig a strawberry - totally wasted, as the responses can ( inevitably) be categorised as "Yebbut, what if..." fill.in your own surreal, highly unlikely scenario.... I'm off. You're blocked Artie. Sam