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It's an urban myth actually. It's true that there is a memory effect, but it's only been observed in communication satellite batteries (which used to be NiCd and may still be). Comms satellites are usually geostationary, meaning they are on an equatorial orbit, with a period of approx 24 hours...

I know a lot of us do building work from time to time, so I thought I'd ask: I have a flat roof, roughly 4 x 4.5m. It's not leaking now, but it's not too well either because it's had a fairly heavy scaffold sitting on it for the last four months or so. In a few places it's lost the gelcoat...

If you blow up the original pic (of the band itself), there's a sign on the back wall that simply says "Be careful". Brilliant :-).

What a jolly good idea!

If this is a "back to 100% original" refurb, this will be no help, but if it is solving a practical problem, I have three suggestions: 0. Use a cable gland instead: These are probably still easily available in imperial sizes, and will accommodate the thickness you need. If you don't want it...

Alternatively, is it possible to fix the clock to a batten (or some sort of backing plate), that's easy to hook on and off the wall with something like a boathook? I find wall clocks a PITA to hang up, even at ground level, but in the worksop function trumps form...

This'll probably be too much information, but hang in there... ... the UK atomic clock signal is transmitted on 60kHz*, right at the bottom end of what used to be known as "Long Wave" It has a wavelength of 5km, which in turn means that a theoretical 1/4 wave dipole would have to be 1.25km...

Very nice, Bob. There's a lot of thought in that, too, although that's apparent in a lot of your work. I especially like the LED lights facing backwards in the face frames, and the very careful alignment of the backs for symmetry. I also picked up on the detail lines down the middles of the...

I think you've rather confirmed my general point - a Hammer isn't exactly cheap. I'd expect it to at least be roughly set up to start with. Snodgrass's "method" (which has varied, incidentally, over time) will probably help, but if the fundamentals are wrong, you'll still be stumped, as he...

I did NOT say "it doesn't work": you are twisting things somewhat. I said it doesn't work well. And in the case of my saw, it took me a long time to determine the frame wasn't completely true (it is only slightly out), and when big blades are tensioned on small bandsaws, the frames bend...

I find it interesting that Snodgrass doesn't seem to follow his own advice. When he is talking about guide(s) setup, the blade is apparently not sitting with the back of the gullets on the crown of the wheel. This is understandable because it doesn't work very well. Better to have the set...

The box my Makita plunge (rail) saw came in actually is an original-style, size 4 Systainer, and I assume it was made by Tanos. Makita have since varied the design, but the new ones still lock with original Systainers. My understanding is that Tanos own the design rights for the original...

Wholly agree with Doug. I've been there. My wife once went to Sainsbury's one Saturday morning and returned to find the living room floor held up by three Acrow props and a building board (in our bedroom below)! I had opened it up and discovered three or four joists with the ends rotted away...

It worked brilliantly for me - almost nothing in the wheel cupboards at all. Search for old threads - I drew it up in SU, I think.

I'm working on a new system myself, but the clearance under the SIP table is tiny. The previous owner raised the table on a big block to make space, but that brings other issues with it, so I want the table height back as it was originally. I have a plan and a prototype, but it's not quite...

Have you used the search function on the forum? This has been discussed seveal times. In short, my own machine (12" SIP "heavy duty") came with a very good system made from plastic waste pipe by the previous owner (to connect it to a shop vac hose), just under the table. Sorry to say, the big...

It all depends on definitions. There are slight differences in the way some things work. There's also an excellent ability to assign keys to macros and shortcuts (so you can, if you wish, match Word). You can also quickly set up key functions either specific to Libre Office Writer or to the...

Libre Office is VERY close to old-style Word (and I still have a full set of Ford Prefect on 5.25" floppies in the attic, I think!). It'll cost you nothing to try it on Windows or Linux (it's genuinely free - no ads or other nuisances). I've never yet found something it doesn't do that I need...

Quite agree - staggering. There is a video on the BBC sport web site.

I looked at an Axminster "de luxe" bandsaw fence to upgrade my bandsaw. In the end I bought two, the second one to do the TS200 as well (my TS200 is a "bitza", and one thing missing was the fence). It's this one: https://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-d ... ade-102426 You can use the fence...