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In my experience the 0.5mm and 0.7mm sizes popular for writing are too fragile and wear too quickly for workshop use. I moved to 0.9mm mechanical pencils and 2mm clutch pencils (which act like wooden pencils in use) a few years back and never looked back. And a couple of water soluble...

Sure. I use quite a bit of masking tape for labelling parts to ensure the pencil jottings  are easily removed. Not so much for cut marks but the "left outside" or "corner 3" type stuff.

But completely ignored when it might have been helpful. In th days of analogue TV it was often difficult to distinguish the brown from the reds because the colour system tended to "smear" the colours on making those difficult to differentiate.

That's the usual solution but it does compromise stability. For something like a drill or table saw not an issue but consider damping the vibrations of a scrollsaw. A fixed base is far preferable to even braked wheels. A more minor consideration is cost. Even for medium duty wheels you tend to...

No, not using pallet wood for a tool stand but building a tool stand compatible with a pallet truck to make it easy to move. It seems such a obvious idea I can't believe it hasn't been thought of before but web searches don't turn anything up, although the results do get polluted by an infinite...

Radius of 8.5mm. 17mm would be the diameter.

Petroleum jelly.

Sounds like a slightly distorted account of the pitch drop experiment at the University of Queensland. It's been running 90 years. There have been several drops. There is a webcam on it but it broke down for one of the drops. It's more of a demonstration than a real scientific enquiry. And no...

It's a bit awkward for absolute newborns, they can't actually do anything for the first couple of months. Any toys are beyond them at least initially. One thing that comes to mind is a toy box/chest/bench. It's the kind of thing that always comes in useful and could easily go with them during...

You'll have much the same issues as encountered using a pillar drill for milling - a drill simply isn't designed to take sideways forces. On a mill the bearings differ to withstand that force and critically the taper is secured in place with an additional locking screw. Without that there is a...

Happy birthday. These are gorgeous. I was about to ask how much these go for - I take it this is professional? But then I figured I wouldn't be able to justify any sensible price for the workmanship.

Out of interest are there any magical high quality drills that avoid blast out? Reasonable brad point bits cut cleanly (I use Bosch myself) but the far side tends to be a right mess unless supported which isn't always an option.

Sorry just another couple of thoughts on insurance. Firstly if you have a detached garage or workshop check the limit on outbuildings cover - it's often only a couple of grand or so by default. Also be wary on trade tools exclusions - that is something that varies by policy but many exclude...

Up until a couple of months ago I was actually a home insurance claims handler so I will make a few points here. Forget the act of God exclusion - it doesn't actually feature in most current policies and even where it does it very limited where it can be applied. The Ombudsman will throw out...

I ordered the bolts because I noticed I was running a little low on that size. I probably have a couple of month's supply left so not too bothered if I get them today, tomorrow or next week. I ordered the router bit because it's an odd profile I don't have to hand. I need it to continue a job I...

More to the point: if a parcel does go missing how on earth do they know who to chase it up with?

A while back I did a couple of Christmases at a Royal Mail mail centre - the first place your letter actually gets looked at. There are far fewer of them than many imagine, they tend to cover several postcode areas. The one I worked at in Preston covers the whole of the PR, BB, FY and LA...

Look at the seller's feedback, the buyer left a comment. Looks like the seller backed out of the deal when he didn't get the desired price. It seem quite common machine tools go for a pittance because carriage is so problematic, as a result you effectively reduce the market significantly to...

Only just seen this but I would have suggested an oscillating multitool too. The great thing for sanding is the nature of the movement puts the most aggressive areas around the edges and in particular the corners of the pad which is exactly what you want for internal sanding, and the very...

Depends on what you regard as "simple". Some of the simplest drawing programs can be very difficult to use because they lack the sophistication to work with "natural" relationships between elements, e.g. this line is parallel to that one, this hole is centred 326mm from that edge. Good CAD...