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  1. Droogs

    Acceptable tolerance for thicknesser - parallelism of cutter head to the bed

    Tell them it's not within yours and ask for a replacement or refund
  2. Droogs

    Applying wood stain to the inside of cabinets

    If I am going to be using a glue type that I know can be problematic when it comes to applying a finish after gluing up, I dry assemble parts and then use blue decorators tape to mask off the areas around the joint. This means that when I assemble the piece with the glue, any squeeze out will...
  3. Droogs

    They must be having a right laugh

    As long as Putin doesn't try to set up a Ukrainian NHS once he has taken over, he should get away with it, After all if you can't charge the victim $1k to get them from where they were wounded to the hospital whats the point of fighting there :rolleyes:
  4. Droogs

    This is modern DIYing ...

    :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
  5. Droogs

    Advice needed for installing tv in the workshop

    I haven't watched a TV program as its broadcast in over a decade apart from the news. I have a TV but is used more as a computer media screen for what I want to watch
  6. Droogs

    Advice needed for installing tv in the workshop

    If not using it to keep plans and cut lists etc in view the it usually has music vids on instead. If watching something interesting and needing to do something, I use the pause button.
  7. Droogs

    Monopoly ?

    You dinnae need Putin as an excuse to do that, it's weegieville yer in laddie. Just don't have the compass the wrong way up and end up in Cumbernauld :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
  8. Droogs

    Advice needed for installing tv in the workshop

    I've had a 40" TV in my wksp for around 7 years admittedly not much use since the lurgy struck but never had any probs. I wrapped some accoustic speaker cloth around it to help keep out the dust. I use it hooked up to the laptop for when using fusion etc and for watching vids
  9. Droogs

    Sharpening Moulding Cutters

    We are talking about a hand plane that can have different shaped irons inserted for use edit typo
  10. Droogs

    New music

    two guitar based artists like Estas Tonne Andy Mckee and strings you may not know Guilhem Desq
  11. Droogs

    Monopoly ?

    @Trainee neophyte maybe to persuade the PRC to keep taking over the world by selling us endless amounts of cheap garbage we don't need but for some reason can't live without and just foreclose on all our mortages that they hold instead, rather than take the small step of subsuming Taiwan first...
  12. Droogs

    I'm a cyclist.

    Well i last lived there in 2008 so was in place then. If everyone pays for the infrastructure they use then none can moan (with any justification) that x y or z is using the roads. The money raised can be ring fenced specifically for cycling infrastructure improvements. As to trusting your local...
  13. Droogs

    I'm a cyclist.

    Do as the Swiss do and have a yearly tax sticker that you pay for that includes insurance. Then as bobbies walk around in pedestrian areas bikes they see without one get siezed and sold off at auction and the money raised goes to local charities. Just my tuppence worth.
  14. Droogs

    Sharpening Moulding Cutters

    I created a length of the moulding in MDF when I first got mine and then soaked in some oil and covered it with rouge. As I us mine and feel it needs a touch up I take the iron and run it backwards on the MDF for a few strokes and then give the back a quick swipe on some flat rouged MDF to...
  15. Droogs

    Van **** crystals into oil - how?

    Lye soap has been a taditional finish for furniture in Scandinavia for centuries.
  16. Droogs

    Holzmann HOB260NL P/T Issues

    :eek: A NEW AND IMPROVED HOZMANN HOB260NL MK1.001 As if :p
  17. Droogs

    Van **** crystals into oil - how?

    not really. They are insoluble to oil, if mixed esp with hardening finishes they tend to lead to a crackle type finish. The can be applied between coats thinly with a good deal of time being given to each layer drying before application, that's for both the finish and the dye. It will tend to...
  18. Droogs

    Electric vehicles - again

    The affordable good value cars are coming within the next 12 months. The Chinese companies that are launching in europe see well spec'd but not over spec'd good value mass sales as the way to go. This will build a strong market share for them and in 5 - 10 years when people want to renew they...
  19. Droogs

    Electric vehicles - again

    Can't wait to go to work in this
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