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Isn't steel sheet cut by lasers these days?

Back to the initial topic of safety. I was thinking the other day why haven’t the mechanical parts and blades of bandsaws and table saws been replaced by a cutting laser. The momentum of the blades is the real hazard, a laser would turn off instantly. I’m probably showing my ignorance about lasers.

As a retired HOD of a D&T departments I'm afraid the reason that school workshops have declined so dramatically since most of us were pupils, is that there just aren’t enough competent practical qualified people to teach the skills. Also D&T is very expensive and there was a time Head teachers...

A bit more information. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/05/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-launched-into-space?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I never thought I’d ever hear of news like this. What next, a wooden space station?

I agree. They grow in my garden and I had one converted into boards . Looks like oak but has a more open grain.

I hope you find these pictures as interesting as I do. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/oct/21/workshop-royal-academy-of-music-luthiers-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I think everyone contributing to this thread is lucky that they have so much detailed information about what has been given and by whom. In Russia a few oligarchs rule with Putin they would laugh at this discussion. The Republicans in the US get vast sums from billionaires who Trump has already...

What a brilliant thread this is!! It's brought back so many memories of renovating our 1880s house and the McKay illustrations are beautiful. So much better than reading about polititions clothes and the failings of the police. You have really cheered me up this morning.

Aren’t we just showing our age? But while we are at it may I add train station instead of railway station and the confusion between can and may.

If you can't trust the Grauniad, the BBC which seems to take its lead from The Mail this morning has this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd988p00z1no I just think leaving such an influential group as the EU is bonkers. Yesterday I used a tub of ready mixed mortar, printed on the side...

I filled mine for 23 24 in July and had to look up the payments and multiple by 13. I’ve always thought that HMRC was persecuting me, now I know they are!!

I'm not a Labour supporter nor did I vote for them but I suspect if they hadn't won the election the prospect for everyone, including the elderly, would have been far worse. The public sphere was already massively and deliberately underfunded. It was 14 years of Tory austerity that underfunded...

Well for a start: Preventing privatised utilities borrowing against assets transferred to them to pay dividends to shareholders, instead of borrowing to fund infrastructure investment as was the intention at the time of privatisation. Tax multinational companies that structure their businesses...

Proper regulation. That someone can accumulate a personal fortune of hundreds of billions that it would take over 5 generations to spend leading a normal life is obscene. They do this exploiting a society that provides all the resources of law and order, defence, infrastructure, labour and our...

I have ordered the Blockbuster niallY suggested. I'll see how that goes and maybe I'll have to go down the route you mention. When they came with the CCTV and pressure cutter they offered that process at a massive increase in cost and to be quite honest they seemed a rather shady bunch. I...

Thank you Jacob. You are absolutely right, that a long term solution would be replacement of the whole system. My problem in this house, all the while we have lived here (nearly 40 years), is that I expect it will soon be demolished and replaced by a block of flats like next door and across the...

Thank you. I knew someone could recomend a source.

I've mentioned in several threads that I live in an old house. I therefore have old drains. Over the years nearby trees and plants have discovered them and direct their roots into them. I have rodded them and called out "experts" with CCTV who have cleared them with high pressure jets only...

You are probably correct, though pulling on the cord pulls the bottle tighter into the jaws. I’ll have a little practice with water. This was as much about getting back to making something on the printer as anything else. If my design doesn't work I'll certanly think about the spray bottle in...