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I did have fun as you recommended but I didn't need to cheat!! I realised that if I made bottle holder a pinch grip and the taper was more or less accurate it would fix firmly to the end of the pole, which it does. The ugliness of the clamp is mostly due to the stubbornness of Sketchup to accept...

I have no idea how you would use it but the little channel reminds me of the place to rest a piece of chalk on the wooden blackboard instruments that were used in old school technical drawing rooms. On the curved scale the numbers add up to make 90. Fibrous plasterers and masons, back in the...

You are much better than I am doing searches, I couldn’t find anything remotely technical. That’s a good idea about moulding plastic. I have some from another project. Thanks

I would like to make something that fits on the end of my painting pole which will operate a squirty bottle with weed killer, to eliminate ferns growing out of my chimney stacks. I have seen them online but thought it would be an interesting challenge to print one. The mechanism will be the...

I wish in the same statement there had been be push to ensure pensioners in cold homes had real help with insulation and fuel efficiency Still its sensible not giving handouts to those of us pensioners well able to meet our bills, while there are so many really in need of support. I'm...

I have a bee in my bonnet about this. In the 80s I was Head of Design and Technology at Tulse Hill school which had been set up as the junior section of the Brixton School of Building. There were specialist workshops for most trades but they were no longer in use as the curriculum no longer...

For me the dramatic increase was the early 80s when Thatcher encouraged building societies to demutulise and permit banks to provide mortgages. The banks then had a virtually no risk investment and began funding gazumping. (I'm sure she was encouraged by her friends and donors in the housing...

Because we will sell them. We are providing a service. Until the law is changed to permit local authorities to control the planning and building of homes to rent, someone needs to supply homes. The culture in this country is to regard home ownership as the ideal, until politicians don’t pander...

Jacob, quite often I have a lot of sympathy for your points of view, though not today. You make presumptions about the vast majority of private landlords that are just not true. Many are small traders who found their pensions worthless and it was the only way to secure their future and not be a...

I’m also a private landlord and very fortunately have two excellent tenants but I have also been worried about changes in renting laws. I think the best we can do is contact our new MPs. They must know that the homes we provide will not be available in the future unless it is easy to remove bad...

That was how traction engines were used 100 years ago. Also when I stayed on a farm in Switzerland in the 60s that was how they harvested the hay on their very steep fields.

I would love to be vegetarian but the alternatives are either so much effort, expensive or unappetising. I’m really not interested in fancy meat but why when normal sausages can hardly be described as meat are the vegi ones so expensive and tasteless? Packets of fake mince so small and also...

As a matter of fact my daughter works in the energy department and she has 2 Masters Degrees from Imperial College in Physics and Sustainable energy. I believe her colleagues are similarly qualified.

How interesting that the website has instantly managed to change to Green rubish Cameron's change of policy.

Another interesting tread. A few random observations. The buried blades from turbines are a form of carbon sequestration. The resin and carbonfiber were once oil. Buried in the ground they may not rot but they will not be released into the atmosphere as CO2. There have been several negative...

I watch Reform's deputy on NewsNight yesterday. He was give 20 minuets to spout his bile hardly chalenged. What I find so offensive is their championing of the D Day troops achievments. They forget that the same surviving troops voted in the Labour government that introduced the Beveradge...

What am I doing wrong? Each morning I receive the email with recent chats. Sometimes I think I have a worthwhile or humorous contribution to make and click login. I often find I’m already logged in! Then finding my way back to the original thread is very difficult. I make my comment then go back...

I’m a long time Liberal Democrat and I have been so because I identify as being slightly left and south of the very centre. Certainly not towards the authoritarian. Though I suspect that most voters for the main political parties see themselves right in the centre.

I was interested to see the debate on the meaning of socialism, Will Hutton raised exactly the same issues this morning, you may find the piece of interest ? Socialism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply about wanting to make a fairer society...

Im sorry to say that you are not the only one who takes this attitude. May I remind you that universal adult suferage has been our privilidge in this country for less than 100 years. Those entitled to vote and join political parties and unions share the responsibility for the government we...