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Phil's right - lots of good ones out there. Which reminds me: anti-seize has silica in it (so it grips) - it is NOT a lubricant, so don't be misled - Sir is needing proper grease, Sir is. E. :-)

New bearing time*, definitely - cheap upgrade (do both wheels!). Clean the shaft gently but thoroughly (Scotchbrite is good for this, then some fairly fine wet+dry), and grease it. It may have been zinc plated originally, but the wheel should be able to move freely along it, so it finds its own...

My pillar drill is a floor-stander, but it isn't in the gar, er, workshop, so while I had my morticer, it was very useful to have the chuck for it too, to avoid having to go to the top of the house to use the pillar drill. Single speed wasn't a big issue, but it can be a bit of a fiddle in...

It's a bit concerning that the wheel appears to be stuck on the shaft. PlusGas or (second best) WD40? The bearing(s) should just slide off the shaft. I got my replacement belt from a bearing company (they often sell both bearings and bolts). It wasn't expensive.

Do you own one of these? I do. Should you use it freehand? Simply put, NO I've just deleted the rest of my reply based on yours above. "I lost my fingers because the spindle moulder was set up for another job..." Seriously?

How long, exactly is a piece of string? If you want precision, you can most probably achieve it with a car jack, but it might take a bit more fiddling than one of those posh router lifts. The only real issue I can see with a scissor jack is that there isn't a linear relationship between the...

Axminster have (or had) some nice ones, variously labelled "bandsaw" and "table saw". I bought two of the tall bandsaw ones (for both machines), I have yet to fit the second one (to the table saw), but the same one on the band saw is very nice indeed. I have a horrid feeling though that they...

I have a similar thing (Rutlands). It's the second one. On the first the motor blew up. This one has a piece of milk carton bolted to the side next to the wheel as a water deflector. The idea that a wet-process machine with an electric motor doesn't need to be reasonably waterproof would be...

:oops: :oops: :oops: Sorry! E. :-) But I am smug, coz I've just come back in from flying one of my Flexfoil kites on the Downs today, for probably the first time in ten years, and the Peregrines even contemplated stooping on it (all three flew in circles right overhead - brilliant!).

Crikey! If you mean the blue covered "Technical Training Book", a sort of mini ring-binder thing, almost flash-card sized, it's on the shelf next to my right knee as I type! I am definitely not worthy, etc... Can I blag some of the answers from you? Won't tell anyone. Seriously though, the A...

A56, IIRC. I was taught at various times by both MTS and Kevern Oliver (odd spelling, which I think is correct). The Soundfield stuff was MTS on a later course, which also included an introduction to digits, IIRC, but by then we were already struggling with an AMS Audiofile in Bristol (yup...

It's more that you want to use the acoustic sympathetically in big rooms (concert halls, cathedrals, etc.) - it's part of the performance. In small rooms, usually, you want only the source of the sound, for example a voice reading or speaking or possibly singing, and to abstract it from the...

I think it's one of the best vehicles they've done (dons flameproof suit), expensive but sympathetic resto/upgrade (added a carb to the straight 6 block that originally only had one). To be fair though they bought it part-restored, and the previous owner had done good things. Nothing really...

Or Google "Google Calendar". Works on all my devices, syncs brilliantly, lets me import ical calendars (e.g. the F1 race series dates/times, that so far this year hasn't happened), schedules meetings, repeat events, etc., etc., and is free.

[Takes ready-lit briar pipe from tweed pocket. Inserts into notch in teeth.] "Ach Zo. Zet vill be a vunderful example of ze creation of ze phase coherent reflection." [clears throat in preparedness. Audience remembers that Really Important Thing it had to do... and walks off hurredly...

I have a telly in the bathroom*. I like to watch/listen to junk TV in the morning (Pick/Quest), as the ad breaks help me time things like washing my eyes, and make sure I don't linger in the bath too long. But Pick has just started showing series 8 of Wheeler Dealers. This morning one episode...

I didn't succeed in unscrewing the chuck, but I did free the chuck's scroll and the jaws now work! Thanks everyone! E. PS: Chewed the plastic slightly but it doesn't matter. It's a reminder to me to do three things: 0. For this drill, try to get some grease where it will do some good in the...

Normal, right-hand thread. I'm going to try with Thor and the Mole grips later this morning. By the way, I was watching Dave Engels's You Tube videos this week (very therapeutic!), and realised where the terms "left-hand thread" and "right-hand thread" probably come from: the axle nuts for...

It's infuriating - I share your frustration. We get all these silly water regulations about non-return valves all over the place*, but there seem to be no constraints on the badly-designed rubbish sold by both the sheds and the up-market kitchen and bathroom boutiques. What you pay for...

Good thought - not yet (guess - pump pliers out on loan too!), but I have some suitable Mole grips. Will probably use electrical tape round the chuck, in case it can be saved. And I need to confirm it's a right-hand thread, too, before getting "Thor" out of the drawer!