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Below are some thoughts about doing this task on a router table, which I will leave in place, BUT... ... after thinking more about it I would get the machining done by a sawmill, and not try to DIY this myself at all. It's Douglas Fir, which means it is very resinous, and probably has other...

What you show in your first pictures is a Shuko socket, what we sometimes call a "trailing socket", which fits on a cable. The Shuko "plug" is fixed on the machine. The information you have been given is correct: the middle pin is "earth" or "ground" and the other two can be wired either way...

Mine was the low-end Axminster morticer with the dual axis sliding table. The drill chuck was extremely useful. It's not like using a pillar drill - much more limited - but given that it is still really handy. Strongly suggest you don't get a kit to convert a pillar drill to a morticer. They...

I have a 700 with the Seneca. I wanted the bigger sizes for exterior projects, but also, though heavy, I think its handle is more comfortable for me. I have some difficulty holding things like barrel-shaped jigsaws and angle grinders, and this feels a bit easier than even my Makita biscuit...

I know this is contentious, but I don't think a tracksaw (or a tablesaw, for that matter) is a good choice for ripping any timber that might have tension stored in it - a bandsaw would be far better. As I think I said here, I have had nasty experiences, including a cut closing up behind the...

In the 1990s I used to work closely with a division of our company in Northern Colorado. Whenever I visited there was always a rather boring drive up Interstate 25, from Denver airport to Fort Collins. On one occasion I noticed big machines on the eastern side of the interstate, levelling the...

Wot ee said. End of handle snugly in the heel of the hand. Funny thing is, I can be gentle (or not) with a hammer held like that. Held half way up not only feels wrong, but I have much less control over both weight and accuracy.

Trinis were very good - bright and clear. For probably 15 years the BBC used them as on-set monitors on outside broadcasts, but they were a bit awkward to service, apparently (not my dept). Sony's selection of phosphors was a bit unusual though, so Trinis weren't used as production monitors...

Distance is but one of the issues. My comment was merely an educated guess. The fact that there seem to be few houses that don't have an external aerial (as described) was my hint.

I know about COFDM (not the maths, mind!), however sending 1/4 MW up a tower isn't cheap. so the broadcasters (well, the TX company that now does it for them, Arqiva or Crown Castle or whoever owns it this week) used digitization as a reason to drop the output power of many transmitters, usually...

First off, identify exactly which transmitters are visible (line of sight) from your house. Take altitude into account, meaning not just yours and the TX, but any intervening hills, large buildings and trees (In leaf, trees very effectively block higher frequency radio signals such as TV and...

To my surprise, Wealden tools sell the common Aquamac profiles by the metre, as well as standard length rolls. Obviously they also have the tooling too. I only noticed because I'm looking for a cutter, as I have sufficient left from a 25m roll of Aquamac AQ21 to draughtproof our French doors...

I think I got a shorter length from Ironmongery Direct a while back, but it wasn't that exact profile though.

Do you have a really soft pencil (4B or softer). I would try lubricating the pressure plate. I do this with mine (smaller, modern Makita) and it seems to help. I have spare plates for it, and new ones start off all silvery & shiny, but actually get blueing and scorchmarks after a while, never...

The technology isn't new, although it's a neat package. In the late 1970s my father designed a commercially successful controller for a cardboard box cutting machine - bespoke cutting, notching and folding. It had an accuracy of 0.1mm over about 2m, which was considerably better than the...

I have a cheaper variant, most probably also Quangsheng (branded Dakota, from, er, Ru****nds). It was bought a lng while back when they introduced them, it's exactly the same pattern as in the link above, but with a cast steel body rather than bronze. It has a very thick iron, which takes and...

You apparently don't understand what you are saying. Strobing is caused by pulsed light combined with movement, usually repetitious (most commonly rotational, but not always). It's actually irrelevant how the light is fed. What matters is whether the light has a continuous output (= no...

I had to google Megaflow. We have the same idea here, but with an extra coil from the solar system. How far is the run from the boiler to the tank? The biggest losses are immediately next to the boiler and (obviously) the longest runs. Basically the hotter the water the more heat is lost from...

Thanks both. It's more likely to be the small ones (on goosenecks (flexis)) that strobe. The big mains panels probably don't strobe as they don't use high frequency switching to drive the LEDs. I've only fitted one (2'x4' on a 60Hz mains supply), and it showed no sign of strobing. My battery...

Do you mean 28mm copper? If so there is excellent lagging already available: We used Isover here (Armaflex on the solar as it needed to be more bendy). I wouldn't use any pipe system that's pre-insulated simply because it's not adaptable enough - you can't choose how much insulation you get...