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I don't believe that "antifa" is a cohesive organisation in a manner that allows a single set of objectives to assigned to them. (Hell, I've spent enough time with people on the far left of the political spectrum (in the UK, so ardent communists by US standards) to know that even when they do...

When we're talking about population level trends it's fairly easy to identify what a better or worse approach would be... When it comes down to an individual level, and especially when a business is involved it's much greyer because so much is shaped by circumstances. If I was an...

Yes. You've won a slight reduction in your faith in humanity!

I think the horrible truth is that right now there are no good answers, and the best any of us can really do is chase after the nebulous and elusive "Least Bad Option" wherever we find it. It's mildly depressing, when I read it back put it like that.

Edit: I realise this reads a bit more confrontational than I really intended it to be, ideally that should be taken as an indicator of my extreme frustration with unnecessary polarisation of the media and not a personal attack on @D_W who always seems to be a perfectly reasonable chap. What...

And you've clearly not tested any alternatives to being alive, yet I seriously doubt you find that a persuasive argument to try not being so... Many of your economic arguments could just as easily make the case that we should have closed our borders far earlier, implemented a much more...

Too right it is! But it's worth mentioning the reason why so many people don't get that: "The Free Market" is the single most misused term in modern economics. Adam Smith used it to mean a system where measured regulations eliminated "economic rent" (charging money for an activity Wii h...

For £39 the performance is pretty outstanding! My comment wasn't meant as some kind of judgement or brag, I used to have a very similar (not Parkside but similar inexpensive 240v) Impact myself which was good enough for anything car related I needed and is still trucking on in the service of a...

Very Much so, for the posters who are uninitiated into this system it's worth knowing that the Russian and Scandinavian grades are different. Unsorted was traditionally Clears, and Russian Grades 1-3 and Scandinavian Grades 1-4. It's not uncommon to see Scandinavian 5ths in the specification of...

It's historical. Unsorted is a contraction of "Unsorted Fifths or better", and is mixture of grades 1-5. When the appearance grades were invented, it was still possible to source large quantities of clears and higher grades, so it made sense to sort them into individual grades. Over time most...

Huh, that's quite a small number of "ugga-dugga's" for an impact wrench of that physical size. Don't get me wrong it's a very useful level of undoing force for a consumer tool, with too much more being increasingly less practical in the hands of the unwary public... But it's a lot of mass and...

From a machining standpoint they aren't particularly well suited to cutting substantial mouldings, and almost everything they're routinely used for can be done better with a spindle moulder, (usually removing material faster whilst using substantially less power per unit volume of material...

It would almost certainly work, and speed control would be simpler (and cheaper) than anything which used an induction motor. You'd still need to build a suitably rigid carriage with at least two undriven rollers to prevent snipe at the ends of boards, and a mechanism which varied the pressure...

Because offhand grinders aren't really designed to be used like that; the toolrest is just a fulcrum to allow most of the reaction force to be transferred downwards and the remainder to be better controlled by your dominant hand well away from the wheel. Angles are established by the...

Dovetail slideways as a machine element have several advantages: Increased Rigidity. Not susceptible to parallelism errors during setup/adjustment/from being knocked or transported. Adjustable for wear to maintain a good fit with no slop. Simplicity of assembly and adjustment. Generally...

I have never fully understood the benefit or appeal of wet wheel sharpening systems. In my experience a linisher (or just a belt sander reserved for metal with not excessively coarse grit belts fitted) is faster, produces just as good a finish, Much less messy and more adaptable to other uses...

Out of pure curiosity why chop up rather than sell? We've been seeing £2 per Euro and £1.25 per standard at points last year, if you rack them up out the way then get a lorry load out every so often it soon adds up.

It looks like the same concept as chip limitatiom tooling in a spindle moulder... I can see how it would both wear badly and be impossible to rectify with a regrind. Based on your honest appraisal I'll stick with a grinder and patience until have the cash for new gas bottles. Shame, as the...

You could even go as far as filing two wedges on a bit of bar/rebar, putting in a vice and bending the wedges so the outer sides of the wedges were parallel to each other and perpendicular to the spine. Might need a blowtorch if you used thick stock, but easy enough.

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