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Oh Wow! That's an unusual and rare machine, and remarkably well preserved too! You might try asking Dalton's if they have the drawings for the missing part; whilst I doubt they actively carry spares (although it's conceivable that you could strike gold with a new old stock spare, the lottery...

You damn well should be as well! It's turned out beautifully. That level of performance makes me more than a bit envious though, I spent ages building a gun-drilling attachment to make a couple of precise deep holes when all I needed was a lathe with some real rigidity to it!

Doom 3 played in a darkened room is far and away scarier than any horror movie I've ever watched... The developers did an excellent job of building a highly immersive world full of tension, which totally sucks you in.

I'm with you on that. I more or less gave up gaming entirely in my mid teens when Counterstrike was still a mod of HL, and the PS2 was still the hottest thing around, then came back in my late 20's to discover that it had changed beyond all recognition, and not in a way which made it feel more...

Thanks Bob! I'm very calm about most things in life, (I doubt I will ever be "chill" though, I think the ADD ensures I'm always going to be a very driven person, whether I like it or not), and for the most part life is turning out pretty well these days. But, I'm not ashamed to admit that I've...

Those have been excellent, even by Reith Lectures standards with quite nuanced viewpoints you hear broadcast all too rarely these days.

I think you're thinking of cold-fusion reactors, which I would classify with tesla coils as cool but highly impractical and slightly terrifying hobby projects. I think he was referring to David Hahn "the nuclear boy scout" who tried to make a breeder reactor using geology samples, disassembled...

There can be no course of action which is not ultimately made more regrettable by the use of expanding foam in the process.

I would hope that's a sentiment we can all get behind, regardless of other issues. Certainly both labour and conservative governments contributed to the issues raised in my initial post.

That isn't the only way that can be interpreted, nor the spirit in which it was intended; stacked was chosen because there's a multitude of issues at play which add up to have an impact which is greater than the sum of their parts. But if that's how you interpret it, I'm never going to change...

The screwfix and toolstation ones for like £12-£15 are perfectly adequate, not amazing but good enough. My advice would be to buy more foam-gun cleaner than you think you'll need, as it gets used up fair quick and if you run out with foam still in the gun it will be toast.

As a graduate and (in my role as a manager in a large corporate entity) an employer of graduates, there's a significant element of truth to this. Higher education is now a prerequisite for many jobs where it's not needed; Simultaneously universities haven't adapted their curriculum to the new...

Oh boy, did we kill the golden goose there! The story of what killed ICI is sufficiently complex that I suspect a lot of people wouldn't have any interest in following it, but suffice to say deregulation plays a major role and the grubby fingerprints of shady Thatcherite grandees is all over...

That's a good "It stands to reason that..." argument, but it doesn't hold up to well tested theories within behavioural psychology. Maslow's hierarchy (and Herzberg's two-factor theory) illustrates how humans are motivated by deficiency needs (Food, Security, Relationships, Recognition) up to...

I will agree to a point that elements of the trade union movement spurred on by militant did not do industry any great favours... Of course labour didn't actually support the unions on that, hence why we had a snap general election which was intended to shore up support for Callaghan's...

At no point have I actually blamed the older generation. I have pointed out that older people happen to have become the net beneficiaries of certain policies which disproportionately hurt younger people. I suspect it still feels very uncomfortable to be identified as being part of that group...

This is in fact a big point, the failure of pension schemes and the closure of final salary schemes to new entrants at a point where an older person changing job might not be feasibly able to put away enough money in a defined contribution scheme, was instrumental in creating the a demand for...

If I was being snarky, I'd suggest that you go have a crack yourself and let us know how you get on... But in terms of a serious answer, if according to ONS data: the mean (not median) household income is £35k, and each household has 2.1 working age adults in it, then that means that the...

Undoubtedly it would be... However, I've met several people in local and regional politics who do just that; and my innate cycinicism has been heightened further by watching what happens next... Their nuanced positions don't gel with the orthodoxy of their respective political parties and/or...

Based on that statement, you're unequivocally fortunate to have been in the position of having earned more than 5 times the median household income, as an individual! If you're unable to recognise that you're both unusual in your success and that it's inconceivable that everyone could replicate...