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As most of my bigger tools have been purchased because of an "emergency" situation - and with the attitude of "that'll do!" cost-wise - I suspect most will be in a worse state than me on the day!

I had a lot of problems - almost overnight - with Firefox, particularly over YouTube videos. I tried a few others, but eventually settled on the Brave browser but still using google as the search engine.

A few years ago somebody tipped me off about a company on Rutland Road in Sheffield who placed "offcuts" of marble outside their premises. Sceptical, but seeing I was driving past it a couple of times a week visiting my m-i-l in the Northern General Hospital, I kept my eyes open....and sure...

Many years ago I was visiting a company that churned out hand-made plaster covings and the like. Part of the operation - which is fascinating to watch, by the way - involves wood lats (laths?) layed along the full length of the mold. This character wandered up to me in the workshop, his hand...

If you actually mean "none", my question would be "why not?"! What's holding your clampthingy in when the rule is removed? It's not as though they're screwed in - certainly not on all the unbranded ones I've owned!

Tell you something else that wrankles me... The screw clamp thingy that tightens the straight-edge in a combination square. Take the rule out, and the law of Sod demands that the clampthingy drops out, never to be found again.

Garfunkel?

Ah, the Banana/Katana discussion! I did try the method - using a monster of an aluminium truss rod ripped out of an dead Eko Ranger 12 - a few years ago on some nondescript electric. I'm sure it gets easier, but I found the trickiest part was judging when the three points of contact were "correct".

I just had a wander down to the cellar where most of my guitar stuff lives. Not done very much in the last couple of years as her ladyship/covid shortages meant that the "work area" (Ha!) became an overflow Sainsburys. I spotted the fret presses. I saw the straight edges. I clocked the 2 or 3...

Shame on me! I forgot to mention Sam Deeks! Possibly the most patient guitar repair man on the planet! You can lose many hours watching his youtube videos....and I often do! He's finally left his garden shed and found some "proper" property to work in, so good to see that all his hard work over...

I got a pal to make a fret press similar to this.... I also splashed out on a second-hand arbor press, which I adapted to take fret wire with different radii. You (can) end up buying a range of tools that need "adapting", which generally makes them useless for their original purpose. A good...

Really?! It did well.... mind you, I had looked after it. Great fun, that car, Marina 1500 engine or no! Thanks for the info.

I had a '74 Midget in "Tundra". Didn't like the colour until I visited the National at Donnington one year and it was one of the rarest colours going! Swapped it eventually for a BGT which eventualy got trashed....still miss my Midget to this day. HWE ("Hughie") 26N. In the big car park in the...

I can only remember this one example, Anston near Worksop, very early '70s. Might've been nearer Lindrick golf club, come to think.... A petrol station which was self-service during the night. You had to flatten your banknote - £1? £5? - making sure that the corners were not folded over - and...

That's very civilised! "Meet 'em by the cafe bar...". Reminds me of the days I was lucky enough to live in Montego Bay.... you'd order something. and they'd say you'll get it next Tuesday. Probably. You knew you wouldn't, they knew you knew you wouldn't, but somehow it didn't matter to either...

Nope, no belt cover. Just had the presence to RTFM, and it gives instructions on changing the blades, but simply says "turn the blade drum until you can access the cutting blade", before loosening the 3 fixing nuts. But if I've got to sight down the sole after any adjustment, the bloody things...

Hmmm. Question is, is this me? I have a cheapo Workzone electric planer, model WWEP-800/17. Bought some time ago, smuggled through the till first as Mrs.Cozzer was still loading fruit and veg at the other end of the conveyor belt. (This is a good ruse, by the way, as long as you don't forget...

Wouldn't mind so much, but it's not even my order! It's probably a bulk order of face cream or something, courtesy of her ladyship. She did get a supply of something last week, but then expressed concern because she'd ticked the wrong box on the order..."Oh, I've ordered the day stuff by...

Yes, thought of Tippex. Useful for aligning stuff under the car bonnet as well - isn't affected by petrol. Sure I've a bottle somewhere...probably dried up years ago! Still no ****ing courier... Edit : Ah-ha! An Edding 780 'paint marker'. German (?), white paint in a pen format. 0.8mm 'nib'...

Too right! Noisy little beasts... I see StewMac are pushing their "Safe-T-Planer" these days. Wasn't there some scare a few years ago how the units could unscrew themselves from the drill stand and basically travel at speed in your general direction?! Maybe someone on the forum could knock up a...