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In antique furniture restoration, I have always used Mahogany sawdust with Ammonia 0.88 in a sealed poly box (Tupperware?). Put the items into the box give it a bit of a shake. Check frequently (outside and don't inhale) rinse off with water. Gives a much nicer colour than Tourmaline.

Thank you for the various comments on shower pumps. The pump was the choice of the plumber who installed it. The installation is a little more complicated as the previous owner installed solar panels (hot water not PV), which also are fed into the HW cylinder along with the gas boiler feed. I...

Thank you Sideways, My pumps are Salamander and as we are on the South Coast we have very hard water. There was no sign of any scale in the mesh inlet filter, when changing the pump.. This pump is very solidly made with both ends being brass. I shall talk to the plumber as to the actual...

Thank you Roy, not sure of layout so will question the plumber. and post again.

Just had a shower pump fail, that was less than two years old. Supposably made in the UK I wasn't made aware that you have to register the purchase to get a five year warranty. As we had no hot water supply had to get a plumber in who replaced the pump with like for like new pump (pump was £300...

Another shout out for W.S.Jenkins. My go to company for polishing supplies since 1977. Though I am now retired, I am glad to see that they are still operating from same premises in Tarrif Road in North London. I agree always helpful.

In a previous post mrpercysnodgrass linked to a video which shows the whole process. I have a book/pamplet that is quite old and the process hasn't changed much in years. Still better watching that video than my book!

Sanding sealer is used with a "mop" or brush and as worn thumbs says it is easier to cut it back. The additive also helps to fill up the pores of the wood i.e. as a grain filler. So it is really a simple way to build up a surface. Would be best described as a "cheap" process. The various "French...

In antique furniture restoration we always glued desk top leathers with wallpaper paste.

Have a look at Solent tools, they mention spares for Aldi tools. They also list all of the budget brands i.e. Parkside, McAllister, NuTool etc. might be worth a look.

I had to cut the "chimney" part of my cooker hood to match the slope of the ceiling. I used a thin cutting disc in an angle grinder. If you do it steadily there will not be any "blueing". Mark it out with masking tape as suggested.

I can only quote my own experience in travelling by train for the past months through disability and it has been much better than I expected (probably clouded by my pre-car days in the 1960s). As to price, I admit that I did buy a £30 vetrerans railcard that gives 1/3rd off, which resulted in a...

John Brown, you might but I don't and I suspect many others don't. All of this discusion about what powers vehicles is pointless. Any UK government decides its budget (and then overspends) and taxes the working people to fund it. If they loose one cash cow (motoring), they will tax whatever...

One thing the Covid saga has taught me is that, who controls the statistics supplies the numbers, so you can quote statistics all day on any subject and I would still look out of the window to see if it is raining. Yes, I had the first three jabs because at that stage I believed that I was...

Jaco, as usual nonsense, Electric bikes are banned on safety grounds. I have encountered non-electric bikes on virtually every train I have travelled on in recent months. This is a busy channel, I can't keep up!

Paul, Not on any of the trains I have travelled on, which frequently carried cyclists. Many seem to be travelling to or from work ,probably poor bus service?

Worn Thumbs post gave me a chuckle, The hospital I have been visiting from the South Coast is quite close to Snowdonia and I can tell Jacob it takes up to four changes before embarking for travel to France.

As a Navy veteran I have had total knee replacement surgery 250 miles away from my home on the South Coast. This has required several visits by public transport. As I have a railway station nearby (a mile or so), I get driven to the station (no I can't walk that far), The rail trip which in...

Much of this argument will be pointless, when charge per mile is introduced and I am quite sure much of the technology is already in place. The use of any kind of a car will be goverened by how much money you have. It will be so easy for any government to ratchet up the unit price to throttle...

My introduction to computers was 1965 and at that time we had not assimilated US terms, so I stick to the term we used then "rubbish in =rubbish out". Purely as an aside, I had a six month electronics course in the US (early 1970s) and fault finding tests(exams) were via a stopwatch. In the UK...