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Er, Sketchup does let you do exactly this, very easily indeed. You can build up components, made from many objects nested "inside" the component (or even components within components, many levels deep), and clone those - any later change to any part of the complex object is reflected in all...

It still slightly surprises me that Wilmslow has survived Maplins - at least I hope it has!

The common icon is really a simplified cross section of an old-style drive unit. To make a complete speaker, you need to mount your drive unit in a box, which prevents the sound from getting from the front of the drive unit's cone to the back too easily (and vice versa). If it can get round...

Most acids work most of the time. The commercial stuff is usually (but not always) formic acid, as used by Ants when they bite you. It's not poisonous, which is one reason why it's used. Most of the removers will damage chrome or other kinds of plating, so you do need to keep an eye on...

If you want them neat, straight and level, you only have one option, and you know what it is. To make life slightly easier, when you get to put the new backboxes in (cut them out with a multi-tool plus carbide-chip coated blades, and only cut round the sides that have no cable access...

The Falcon 9 series is very cost-effective (in its field), and yesterday they got a very nearly perfect landing of the first stage on the barge, too. We watched it and marveled at the image quality (there was one gorgeous shot of the Dragon+trunk, separated from and seen from the 2nd stage...

There is a company quite near here that has (or had!) a thriving business making display models of F1 cars for the teams to give to sponsors. I think they were 1:10 in those days (now 1:8 or or 1:18). https://www.amalgamcollection.com/ Twenty+ years ago, I was a client of theirs, sadly only for...

I was watching our local Peregrine nest on Wednesday. They have at least one chick. They're in the Avon Gorge, on the far side from where we live (and yes, everybody knows where they are, so it's not a secret). I had my eye (and bins) on the nest, as the male had just gone in for some quality...

Absolutely, same here. I had a set of those jigs but sold them (or gave away - can't remember), as they were pretty useless - the tables on my Kity P/T aren't operationally removable, the drum is small (about 2.5") and the tables are alloy. Complete waste of time on a small machine, and to be...

My wife didn't have a TV in the house as a child, so there are a number of my own 'childhood staples' that we now watch together when they come up. Examples being Star Trek and M.A.S.H., but there are many others. Some don't stand the test of time too well, but we stumbled across the first two...

This might help, or not! router-woes-anyone-else-with-a-t10-t11-or-dw625-had-this-t57533.html?hilit=T11%20speed%20Trend The symptom isn't intermittent function, but a tendency to run flat-out (very fast), and for the speed control to have no effect. On mine, it's not a vaned wheel, but a...

Yup, I had that thought too. Mine are significantly cost reduced from the picture: Aluminium clamping pin and knurled nut, instead of brass, similarly the plug for the spirit level part. The corners (arrises) weren't broken on the rule either, and there were sharp milling marks in the slot for...

Couldn't sleep last night. Now 1/2 way through the Borax wagon build series. I think he probably has the world's strongest (and flimsiest) sawhorses! Brill craftsmanship, especially the blacksmithing, outstanding attention to detail, and real toughness - I couldn't even lift half of the stuff...

Yes they are Swiss. The UK importer is (used to be) at "Victorinox House" which tells you the other stuff they import :-) Spares: I have a genuine spare blade (not anvil, mind) from Amazon. It was the least expensive place to buy (obviously that's not always true!), and around 10 quid if memory...

Yes, I do the same - the diagram I think is for end-of-the-working-day touch-ups. They do suggest that with the instructions we got - oil and hone after 8hrs use.

Thanks - hadn't thought of looking!

Get some diamond coated bits. Unless you want to impact-driver the life out of them, you won't go back to normal ones.

My wife has a pair, Felco Model #7, that were a present and are rather "special" to her (even though they get rather abused). They are really nicely made, if a little quirky, and muggins here has to maintain them, including sharpening them (although I'm not allowed to actually use them). I am...

Wot ee said. But I do like Robertson, would use nothing else if it were possible, but although available they are a bit pricey. I usually buy Kreg ones via eBay or Amazon (eBay is not always cheapest). Torx have a big issue, which is that the hole doesn't go well with countersink-headed screws...

I bought a couple of Bahco 300mm adjustable squares recently, after "several people" suggested they might be good value. No, they're not square (by my book not close either). Gentle attempts to fettle them by filing the nibs in the stock failed. At this point I noticed the rules, when put up...