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Ignore the advice above, it has no relevance to your question. If your handle is staying in the upright position after you lift it to look the door you're right in guessing that a spring has failed. If you're lucky, the spring will be in the handles, often a spring cassette which can be...

The issue with not thinning the first coats on fresh plaster plaster will only come back when you redecorate. I did my kitchen wall and ceiling straight over the plaster and/or plasterboard. No issues at the time, but 5 years down the line I had building work done, and the paint is not...

I've had good success squeezing glue into the splits, and then adding screws at 90 degrees to the hinge screws, to pull the split closed. Best results are achieved by giving the glue time to dry before rehanging the door, but if time is of the essence you can get away with hanging whilst the...

Oops, missed that it was sold.

Will this reliably sink nails flush without denting the workpiece? If so I'll take it off your hands.

Any cutter which will cut wood, will cut aluminium tolerably well. It will want to grab more, so you need to ensure your workpiece and any fences/guides are well clamped, but other than that just take multiple shallow passes and any straight router cutter will do fine.

Go wild - grain fill with black, then sand back so it's only present in the grain, and strain with red. Black, red & brass should look great.

Whilst I agree with Jonwar, having also been a locksmith for 10 years, a wide prying tool (ie: 3"+) or an airbag is unlikely to do much harm, and members of this forum are typically well above average with their problem solving and practical mechanical skills, so there's a sporting chance...

Depending on agree and accessibility, I've drifted the hinge pins out a number of times. I've also had good results spreading the door and frame apart, using a special tool, but a 3" bolster will work as a substitute, and tapping the locking points back - if you get lucky moving one will open...

Do you know what type of locking points it had? Rollers, hooks, deadbolts etc?

But this is apple to orange territory again, the side grain to end grain joints were wood failure, not glueline failure. In simple terms, if you don't have a piece wide enough for your purposes, you can glue it up without losing any strength relative to a single piece, in fact the glued...

No he hasn't, he's confirmed that wood is stronger long grain than cross grain. The end grain glue joints were the weakest in the test, as they were the *only* joints which failed. All other fractures were in the wood itself. He's also failed to address the reason side grain to end grain...

Butt joint. I have on occasion ironed a piece of colour matched edging tape over the joint to improve a poor joint. I have also contemplated getting self adhesive vinyl RAL colour matched to the units for when I need longer/taller plinths, but I've yet to actually do it.

Thicker, not wider. The cut was set to remove .3mm from the thin end of the board, but this setting equated to 3mm at the thick end, and consequently... *BANG*... brown trousers!

I've made 5mm dowels using a DIY dowel plate. I found that chucking the bits in a power drill and driving them into the plate removed the need for hammering. For best results split the stock to eliminate runout.

Sometimes a sharp blow with a mallet will break the brittle glueline with hide glue, but this is obviously an approach not without risk! Hide is much more susceptible to moisture and heat rather than dry heat, in fact it is very popular as a glue in luthiery for this reason - it can withstand...

I've got one of these, though I think mine is mitre only, not compound mitre. Can this one have the blade tilted filtered in tablesaw mode? PS: How on earth did some one manage to cut so far into the table?! Oversize blade, or does removing the guarding allow you cut too deep with a stock...

Not if you charge for private testing. Now that the system is established, the nominal labour and materials cost per test is minimal, so you could charge double, triple, ten times cost and effectively subsidise the public health testing. That profit is currently going to private enterprise...

Normally I'd agree with you, but for the most part the PCR testing has been impressively well managed.

IMO, this is outrageous. The Gov clearly had the ability to turn around tests in a timely fashion, so why on earth not use their capacity to perform private tests and recoup some of the expense of all the testing we've being doing for free. Baffling. (Obviously not baffling, it's an...