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Never had anything but positive experiences with them but thinking about it I don't recall ever trying to ring them. Seem to be quite well known and well respected on here too. On the other hand I do see a note on their site saying it might not be possible to pick up your call dut to...

The south of the country as a whole is sinking. The north sunk under the weight of ice in the last ice age and it is still rising up now the pressure is off, the south is sinking in consequence. It probably was underwater before the ice age, or when sea levels were higher than they are now.

Can you take a reverse charge call on it? That was one of my reservations last time I thought about dropping the landline. That and simply knowing the numbers - I know my own landline number, my parents and so on off the top of my head. Mobile numbers? Not a clue, they're all in my phone. Not a...

It'll be a run capacitor, a start capacitor would be many times the value. Stud mounting is not a particularly obscure thing, generally an M8 thread. One thing that slightly concerns me is there appears to be a plug that goes on the end of the cap. When connections are on the cap itself? It...

The Bank of England have very limited scope to vary the interest rate paid by HM Government. In ordinary cricumstances (the absence of quantative easing, aka print money) they have none at all in fact. When the government wants to raise money they go to the bond market where they actually have...

This is the kind of thing that is supposed to be easy, the WiFi standard was designed with this kind of thing in mind, but various things have since clouded the issue. I am a Cisco CCNA (network engineer) from a former life and to be honest there are so many variables if I enumerated them all...

Yes, it'll be a motor start or motor run capacitor. Personally I wouldn't worry too much about it, they do fail. Once failed the motor is unable to spin up which causes an overcurrent in the same manner as a stalled motor - that'll be what tripped the fuse. Would you be able to take a picture...

I'm reading this as hand saw, it may help if you say what you've already tried as a baseline we can compare to. Up until about six months ago I was using a tubular frame 16" I got from Hobbies around 30 years ago. Never had any complaints about its rigidity but the only time I ever have is on...

It's time consuming and to begin with it's largely a thankless task. I don't think it helps that a full set of equipment is expensive and the like of Stanley will flog you a 400/1000 grit stone as if it is all you need. Never used to like sharpening until a couple of years ago I decided the...

I take it you are unfamiliar with the concept of "satire"? Of course those are all good questions. It didn't stop Gary Numan I Die You Die going through my head.

I hate guitar makers. I get tired of pointing out No, the saw you use for cutting the fret slots is not a fret saw.

 Epsom scanners? Photoshop? It that what the bookies use when the "wrong" horse wins? 😁

There's doubtless some easy trick with a speed square that roofers use all the time. No, I don't know what it is. Not too difficult to calculate a mitre mathematically though assuming this is at 90°. First of all decide whether you are basing your measurements on the front or back faces of the...

I do have a tendency towards overengineering and it's possible that is coming through, but equally I wouldn't underestimate the requirements. One thing that is giving me a moment's pause is when I think of a couple of bookcases I picked up from Argos perhaps ten years for somewhere around £40...

How many are you talking about? Film scanners are a thing, cost perhaps £150-250 for a reasonable one. Don't have any recommendations since it's probably ten years since I last looked into it. Alternatively most high street photo places will be able to do it (it's essentially photo CD) Better...

Hmmm, that's a very clean minimalist design. If that's the kind of look you want I'd tend to say go for something commercial. That kind of look depends on extreme accuracy and the nature of the design puts a lot of faith in the integrity of the joints. High class work in short. How attached are...

Picked up a copy of the Taylor book as per your suggestion. I've only really flicked through it this past couple of days but I've already found a couple of tips worth its cost - adjusting the arms for different length blades in particular. I did smile when I saw the picture on the front cover...

I suspect you would be better off with a pair of fixed orientation wheels over swivel castors. I'd expect the latter to misbehave when you lift the footed end. With only two independently rotating wheels on the ground you don't need the swivels for steerability.

Bit of a boring attitude though, and if everyone followed it noone would do anything. Where do you think the commercial manufacturers come from except some entrepreneur wondering "How can I make an....?" And yes, a bunch of random input is helpful for things like this. The whole process depends...

I see they have been sold now so either way the answer is moot. Personally I don't like the look of them from a design perspective. I dislike the lack of any back or bracing to prevent them from parallelogramming. You describe them as bookcases but in my observation that kind of design is they...