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Aidan is yer man on this, but yes, there is a shortage. In my wife's surgery, they have insufficient face shields. So the nurses on front door duty get them (checking for anyone with Covid19 symptoms), but my wife only has scrubs and a facemask, in part because she wears glasses, which offer...

In case someone on here (in the Bristol area) has had tools pinched recently... I got a Neighbourhood watch circular today: "Police have launched an online gallery: http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/recoveredproperty in a bid to return suspected stolen property to its rightful owner...

I don't really need all that, but it's for an espagnolette bolt set, so there is one long wide bit for the handle and four smaller plates for the bolt guides. It's because the weather strip sets the door off from the "doorstop" part of the frame slightly, and I can't make the cill look neat if I...

Sorry - I should have been more emphatic! :-) E.

I think it is the same carriage/saddle, but the smaller one is machined differently, and at a guess the two bolts on top allow the fence to swivel to compensate for drift (you shouldn't need this much if the machine is carefully set up), Anyway you can, if you wish, do this on the rail and the...

Good point, but we've almost paid off the mortgage and I won't get that past the Financial Controller (I used to own a dinghy). Mind you, she won't get the lock fitted either, so I suppose it might end up as a Mexican standoff. ;-) E.

Not a thread hijack (I hope)... ... it turns out that I probably need to get some brass plate/sheet to pack out our espagnolette French window lock set. Does anybody have a favourite supplier? I'm probably going to need about an A4 sized sheet, thickness as yet unknown (will have to make some...

I have an old SIP (I think mine is slightly smaller - will have to check). The supplied fence was really dreadful, and at one point I snapped off the locking lever, too. But although I mended it, I got rather fed up with fighting it every time I wanted to set it precisely. I bought an...

Can you clamp the drawer front to the edge of the bench and use a rail/plunge saw? I can't remember the kerf of mine, but it is in that general range. You wouldn't get any wobble and you could probably get consistency with a jig to position track and workpiece. Small router cutters tend to have...

So for the avoidance of doubt, do you mean: 20-off , 5/16" Whitworth thread, 1.25" long bolts (machine screws?) If so what type of head? If countersunk, the length is measured between the top of the head and the far end of the thread, if anything not countersunk, measure from the underside...

Same here - about 10 years ago I got ripped off by a buyer in Eire. It turned out to be a known scam and PayPal wouldn't even reply. They did, however, ensure they lost nothing by refunding the buyer, and emptying my PP account in 'penalty charges'. Haven't used PP since (and won't). Basically...

Crockery survival, is also an issue with granite - and environmental impact is a huge one. I would rather look cheapskate and actually be green, than vice versa. That said SB, if it comes from a quarry on the island, that's probably a different matter, although you still have the crockery...

Me too, even though we didn't see eye-to-eye on many things. There's far, far worse out there, in YouTube comment threads, for example. I've also never known Jacob to be really rude, either, at least not by those standards :-).

Sheffield Tony, above makes an excellent point - electrically insulating copper pipes where they run through masonry stops a lot of corrosion. I'm also very undecided about plastic pressurised water piping too, as my initial experiences weren't good at all. It may be better nowadays (and it...

I bought some Makita strip a couple of years ago, and was extremely annoyed to find the new ones are not the same thickness as the original ones. It throws off the bevel adjustment, by a hard-to-measure amount. With hindsight, I suggest getting some double-sided tape and moving the worn strip...

I get on fine with my Crown Tools one. The steel of the scraper must make a difference to how well it works though. My hand scraper is just a steel rectangle from Bristol Design (had it for decades), but the Crown burnisher works well on my Record #80 iron, too. I suspect both are fairly soft...

Probably not terribly well, *except* at 2.4GHz, if it works. Aerial length should match to the frequency/wavelength. At 2.4GHz, that is 122.45mm, but as these things are almost always 1/4-wave dipoles (in the cheap stuff), a 1st order approximation gives you a length of around 30.61mm. This is...

It's more complex than just Ohm's law, as the induction of the motor introduces a phase shift (current and voltage peaks don't coincide over the AC cycle). I have a feeling that the less air is actually being moved, the faster the fan turns, and in turn the less it is loaded. That means the...

I hope they don't do that as I've bought a set, too! But the Trend blows a veritable gale out the bottom (er, towards the table!), so I don't think it will let dust get in directly, until it's turned off... ... Hmm. E.

The only time it's a real pain is doing slotting, when there is nowhere for chips/dust to go other than into the plane of the table. Steve Maskery did a rather elegant mod to his older table (documented here somewhere, with photos), putting a DX port right into the tabletop, on the outfeed...