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Thanks, they look a reasonable price and as you say I should be able to find them here. Cheers Martin

I thought I'd already posted a picture here of the successful project.

I have been wondering about this as well. I only need 2.5 reading glasses from the pound shop but putting them over the rubber of the mask and under goggles is not very satisfactory. I remember when I was in college, a million years ago, and there weren't cheap glasses, workshop staff had...

Tell me more. I've wondered if I could grind a bit of studding to make some? When I made that suggestion I was recommended to use an old tap, but the only old taps I have are the other sort.

Closer to home, you may find the local carpet fitter has brass door strips they remove from homes where they are replacing them may let you have a length? A couple of years ago I wanted to make a wooden field camera and need brass to make the slides and brackets etc. and a begging trip to the...

Telescope for my grandchildren. Thanks to Boatfixer for suggesting I to go to the sign shop to get off cuts to colour the PVC waste pipes instead of staining.

Hi, I like the box and am impressed by the quality. I presume that the preparation of the slab involved machine planing but I can't decide about the construction. Either using hand tools or machines its quite a feat, well done. Martin

Thank you for the suggestion. Doing this simple project has highlighted how little I remember from my school science. Finding the lenses suitable for a child's telescope was difficult, as I had no idea what the spec should be. In the end I went for a Galileo type to keep the image up the right...

Thank you Boatfixer. I was thinking of putting up with the dull range from Wilko but your suggestion of a sign shop is brilliant!! I popped in, explained I was on the scrounge and showed him the telescope. He asked what I wanted, I said anything you've got and he gave me at least a meter of...

I've come to that conclusion this morning, good idea about popping down to the sign shop. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks Martin

I'm making telescopes for my grandchildren, using PVC waste pipe for the tubes. But it looks like waste pipe, UGH!! I want to colour the pipes and have spent hours on the Internet looking, without success, for suitable small quantities of solvent dyes. (Links to the process and stuff I'm looking...

I thought this was an obvious solution but someone who understands motor vehicles better than I do explained that it is important for suspension etc that the wheels are as light as possible. It seemed to me that it would be possible to have permanent 4 wheel drive with no differentials only...

There may indeed be a better saw but I don't have one. I have a very cheap panel saw, with induction hardened teeth. I'm lucky that I have a big engineer's vice that I can hold the log upright in. I cut down as far as I can and then risk the end by splitting. I am even more lucky as I have a...

Well done Dr Phill. I do a bit of this as I don't have a bandsaw or planer. I find that if I saw reasonably acuratly, then plane one side and edge flat and square its possible mark out and cut sets of dovetails and groves etc to make a box and when its all glued up plane the outside smooth, then...

Would this be the same as Victorians cast the repeat sections of the decorations in our cornice frieze? The reason I suggested that the original would have been carved was that I was told when plasterers made jelly moulds they had a very limited life and the patterns would have to be repeatedly...

Surely they would have carved a pattern on thicker wood and then made a mould from gelatin. I'm interested that Adam is achieving such delicate carving from pine, with such an open grain. I had presumed that all the fiddly bits would be from Lime. Its so interesting to see the production...

Someone once said you could tell the difference between a family with old money and new. New money has to buy its own furniture. Styles seem to come in cycles, a shop near us specialises in pieces from the early 70's (when I was in Art School, DipAD furniture design) and Festival of Britain 1951...

Thanks for the link, I think that for such a basic car 22,000 euro is a bit steep, though I'd love to have one. I dare say that being so light weight would give it plenty of range.

Not quite, in the spirit of what to do with inherited furniture but still reused wood. Any one who has worked in a school workshop will have had colleagues bring broken pieces, expecting they will be repaired for nothing. A friend started in a new school and one morning came in to find a pile...