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Because of the confined space and position of a waste pipe from the basin I need to make the unit to go behind a back to the wall toilet pan. I would like to know if there is an easy and accurate way to fit the drop down and push pull clips? all I can think of is clamping to the inside and...

Thank you for recommending The Post Apocalyptic Inventor. I've just enjoyed watching a couple of clips. I wish I had his electronic knowledge. I'm always distressed when I see electronic equipment chucked away when its probably only a small element that has failed.

Third attempt at pasting an image. The librarian told me that it was done in the 1920s.

I’m afraid I haven’t worked out how to copy and paste more than one image on this iPad, hence multiple messages.

I was in the reference section of Battersea library and was really impressed by the carving on the gallery and clock.

This is very nostalgic for me. It takes me back to when I was a woodwork teacher in the 70s & 80s and I would remind them not to make a staircase, inevitably someone always did!! I notice that you initialed the ends, its a good idea for your mark to remind you which is the out side, so you put...

I was just telling my daughter about this interesting thread and mentioned about needing permission to generate electricity. She told me that a permit is required but there are automatic exemptions for small generators, that is less than 50 megawatts. This link has loads of other examples but...

I can’t agree that wood working skills beat design ability. If your design skills are useless all the making skills in the world can only make your design. I would have really liked to see the designs before production. By design skills of course I mean construction detailing as well a form...

Thank, sorry to take so long replying. As I said I'm so impressed by the quality of your turning. Martin

Beautiful work and my curiosity is piqued, a picture of the DIY tools, would be very welcome. Martin

Has she sat on it, they are beautiful but I bet they aren‘t as comfortable as contemporary Danish furniture,

I turn Easter eggs and toys and give them away. These are only two ideas from scores. Martin

When I first taught, rawhide mallets were standard kit is school metalwork shops. In those days they raised and dished copper, also used egg shaped wooden mallets and leather cushions as well as beautiful planishing hammers. I was only a woodwork teacher and watched my skilled colleagues with...

I can't offer any proper solutions but its good to know I'm not the only one who faces this problem. My shredder is very noisey and has to be unblocked so frequently that I give up halfway through the pile of prunings and get left with a massive pile that dries out and becomes impossible to feed...

I was surprised that nobody made a Shaker table, it seemed the obvious elegant and sturdy theme to choose. I would have liked to see more of the laminated arch table. It would have been interesting how she joined the frames together and why someone obviously familiar with woodworking made such...

Does that explain why my steel (looks like) brass coated kitchen cupboard hinges haven't aged as well as the pine doors? (They have rusted) Martin

A beautiful cabinet well done. You are very brave to put a glass lamp on top. Your children must be less excitable than my grandchildren.

Not according to the OS. From their website: While ODN was a measurement of mean sea level in 1915-1921, it's important to know that mean sea level has changed since then – it even varies throughout Britain depending on where you are measuring! So, it's best to think about ODN as a height...

I have always been under the impression that the space race in the sixties was not really about going into space but devising rockets that could deliver ballistic atomic weapons. By employing Von Braun the US was exploiting the Nazi technology for their own defensive purposes. The morality of...

It was there on Monday.