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Yours is not the first I have heard of where the fan has lunched itself. Peter Sefton's routers are superficially similar to the Rutlands ones, but definitely not identical. I suggest you PM him for more detail, as he's very helpful.

Peter Millard has some excellent videos on making MDF panel doors on his YouTube channel. He uses a similar slotter to the one Steve suggests (in a router table setup), but I think it's a Wealden one. You can also use some biscuit jointers for the same task - it's a 4mm cutter, so two passes...

If I was attempting that on a router table, I'd be kicking myself because it would need an aux. fence (3mm) above the cutter for the 2nd pass, so the half-round could run on it. Bad enough doing that manually, but I'd guess quite tricky with a power feed - it will wear your newly cut profile and...

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I have a better half who likes one of those 1970s "carving dishes" made of stainless, with spikes on it to hold the joint (or bird). This year "the dish" wrecked the entire length of the carving knife, so comprehensively it was hard to imagine how the knife had been used. Sadly, no butchers'...

We have it in an otherwise-inaccessible large window on the stairs (the Pilkington version). It works brilliantly. That said, Mike is right - the chemistry requires strong sunlight to work, so i'm surprised it's being used in shower cubicles - is it possible that a different technology is...

This has to be quick - I am trying to re-seal one of our shower enclosures right now (we live in a hard water area and it does horrid damage). #1. We have a Kaldewei low-profile steel tray in the guest bathroom. It's brilliant. Not cheap, but very easy to clean and looks great. #2. In my very...

Diamond plates are my way, too. Fast and consistent. I still use a steel, but very lightly and only for bigger knives.

FWIW, Axminster re-badge Advent tapes. I think the Axy rules come from China, but I have one of their 1m ones and I like it (it is straight).

Have to say, a classic Elan backed into the parking space next to me in the village this evening - tricky in the dark as it had no reversing lights. It was in pretty good nick, in all-red (sadly not the lovely three-tone Sprint with the gold stripe). On balance for a practical car, I'd go for...

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I bought a B+Q carcase and cut it down, machined the back rebate, etc. The mistake was buying B+Q*, not the idea itself. If you have a tracksaw, or even just a long enough straightedge, it's easy. If it uses knock-down fittings, you might need to move the back ones. IIRC for me that was a 15mm...

He's a guru. He has followers, er, acolytes. He gets them to do his DIY. He makes odd stuff, sometimes designed quite badly, that is somehow supposed to be special. One example is a rack for router cutters, recently, notable for its impracticality and odd use of joints and glue. It wouldn't...

... and, as I said in my PS, it is essential to balance the battery before use. Basically this is charging the cells individually, stopping at a predetermined endpoint, and only then using the battery, so that in service the cells reach "full" charge together. Lithium ion systems are picky...

Thanks for all that, everyone. This was prompted by me finding out that the military spec for using Lithium ion cells is to use at 3.6V/cell, and not to charge 3-cell packs right up to 12V, as doing that shortens their life considerably. And the military want reliability first, with other...

A friend had a white one - rather quick, but difficult and uncomfortable on the subsided Somerset roads around the levels. I can't remember which configuration it was, but it had a dodgy microswitch on the headlights: if he was slowing for a zebra crossing he'd flash the lights at a girl to say...

Wrong at several levels. 1. 100V line, done properly is capable of excellent results in practice. I linked to Canford's own transformers. I note they have dropped their industrial quality range (as far as I could quickly see), and now only sell music quality ones. I couldn't find the spec...

Assuming the ceiling speakers are identical, I think you have a wiring or connection fault somewhere, based on what you've said (or one of them has a long run of too-high resistance cable). So check resistances, etc. before spending any money, as it may be something very simple. I can't say...

I am not saying you are wrong, but if it's a passive switch, i.e. one with no logic control or sensing and purely mechanical, I cannot see how this can be achieved. Of course you could work out a truth table of "allowed" combinations of series-parallel arrangements, each giving four or eight...

Are you trying to use several pairs of speakers simultaneously, or one set at a time? Paralleling them up isn't a terribly good idea (at low impedance). But it rather seems like they are not all the same. This may be the speakers, the switch, or the wiring. First off, some basics: have you...