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Turn them back to front as well you get four days!

My wife is an environmental health officer, she is well up to speed on infectious disease control & was only at another meeting about corona virus yesterday. Despite what facebook & adverts say, Dust masks offer precisely zero protection against viruses. they are too small. Point about stopping...

As a sailor & rower for many years & boatbuilder by trade i would make the following points, Power boats tend to get boring after a while! The sport of sailing has been in decline for many years & there is a vast over supply of second hand boats, this means it is a buyers market & small yachts...

Well i have been busy, purchased a new Festool track saw, Why i didnt buy one of these years ago i dont know, i was staggered at the accuracy & cleanness of the cut, zero tear out on the veneered faces & they look like they were cut with a laser. Lower storage unit was prefabbed in the workshop...

Meddings, Fobco, Acera, All british built of high quality. Loads of them about as every school workshop had a rank of them. With the demise of D&T lots on the market. Ten times better than any new machine. A wanted ad on Homeworkshop.org isworth a pop or dealers like G&M tools or Home & workshop...

I have been a member of Benfleet yacht club most, of my life, Dinghy sailing, yachting & rowing, good facilities, club owned sailing & rowing boats. Not many places have facilities like we have!

I like those blue handled Stanley's . I have two that i found in a pile of fly tipped junk, reground & they are excellent, i use them as beater chisels for rough work or if im likely to hit a nail but im starting to feel guilty if i do mash the edge up! I have a set of Ashley iles cranked...

I too dont know where the A2 & A4 designation comes from, doesnt seem to be a lot about it on google. It has been used for at least twenty years to my knowledge probably a lot longer. It boils down to buying from good suppliers. As for crevices, i had a hall of horrors on the wall of my...

In reply to Steve Scott, It is true that A2 (304) & A4 (316) are austenitic, but there is a world of difference in performance, A2 is the cheaper & is commonly used in industrial kitchen manufacture, A friend scraps the stuff regularly from a large kitchen manufacturer & A4 is definately not...

I bit the bullet & ordered a pile of materials, Cherry faced MDF & three slabs of sawn cherry for edgings & mouldings. All arrived yesterday. I ended up using Jennor timber in Enfield, reasonable on price & free delivery. We sometimes use them at the school i work at & they have always been...

Screws into oak, depends where & what application. Stainless steel screws come in two grades A2 Or in old money 304 grade which is a cheap commercial grade, It will discolour & rust slightly if outside. A4 or 316 which is marine grade & far more durable. The main problem with stainless for...

This was why i stopped cutting secondhand wood for people, "I have checked it for nails" 50% of the time i would then spot one or another 25% of the time the saw blade would find one. There is that special expensive whang sound when the carbide tips go through a nail.

Thanks for more ideas, Timbmet at Basildon also have a good selection. Will have a shufti next week.

Gards arent far from me will have a look! First unit goes into an alcove between a wall & chimney breast 1100 wide x 2400 high, storage cupboard below 500mm high x 400 deep , 5 or 6 shelves above. Second larger one 2300mm wide x 2400 high 500mm high storage coming out from wall 400mm with...

May have to be the way!

Maybe but i literally have nowhere to store it in full sheets. If it rains im stuffed!

Mum passed away a year ago & our book collection has grown from reasonable to big! Just knocked a chimney breast out & had it plastered to make room. I have approached four companies to give me a quote & two gave a ballpark figure of about 7k, time scale at least two to three months away, the...

Blame Sarah Moore, most irritating upcycler on the telly!

Interesting, In 1958 my parent bought a detached house a quarter mile from where i live today, It cost them £3500, According to the calculator £57,171 in todays money. They sold it in 91 for £190,000 & moved oop north buying a place with half an acre of land for £80,000. Within 3 years their old...