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Huh, I have never had an issue with buying timber from Lavers. Be that: "I need a 100×100 section of red meranti, what have you got that you can mill that from and what's the machining cost?" "I'd like this specific list of sectional sizes and board lengths", or "I'd like 0.75 m³ of...

It's stripped, and the oil is coming from the casting itself unfortunately. Previously working on train castings I've often used a rosebud to burn the paint off, which bakes out and burns off oil, but in such small castings I would want to put that much heat in even if I had got the oxy-fuel...

But you can purchase "armoured flex" as well, which is produced with stranded cable, finer armour strands and a more flexible sheath. However if you got some, and failed to earth the armouring strands, the benefit of the armouring would be reduced and induced currents could do bizzare things...

Having seen "Lean" implemented in various organisations, a consultant is the absolute last thing they need. Without a senior management team who both understand the nuts and bolts of the business and are totally bought in to the concept of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement it...

I've just begun refreshing my hand-operated drill press. Having stripped the paint with paint stripper, removed the rust with Jenolite, wire brush and emery paper, washed down with water, tidied up some more with emery, cleaned with acetone and rags (twice) and cleaned with dry paper... (A...

There's an irony there for sure, but it's not like that kind of activity isn't rife in any institution comprised of influential (and thus statistically quite likely to be wealthy) members... Perhaps making it easier for people who would be, you know actually representative to be elected as our...

About time too! My day-job is designing recycling and waste management plants, which is why work (of all things) lead me to be rabidly anti-consumerist; it's sickening to see how much perfectly usable stuff is thrown out every day. So much stuff in fact that there's no realistic hope of being...

This does seem to be the recieved wisdom... However anacdotally, I have a house full of "old brown furniture" and am (was should I say) surprised how diverse a range of guests all comment on how lovely it looks, and how they'd love to have "proper" furniture. Admittedly: The whole house has a...

They're phenomenally competent at what they do, can't argue about that... However, there's a lot of really problematic things about how they run their operations, how they treat business partners and especially how they treat their employees that make me very reticent to purchase from them...

This is a huge oversimplification that's effectively taken as a truism these days, and it deeply irritates me (being that industrial strategy and policy is one of the things I've specialised in over the past decade). The automotive industry was wrecked by the "Picking Winners" approach of the...

In a word, yes. However, I would eco TJC's point that if it's at all unclear on which wires are which at the machine side, (or you're unclear on which lines go to which pins because it's a second hand machine and the phases have been deliberately rotated by a previous owner), then you'll need...

The first thing to do would be to ring your local Power Distribution Network Operator (UK Power Networks for London and the south east) and get a budget estimate for getting 3-Phase, to compare other options to. It's often exorbitant, but sometimes you'll just get lucky and it's cheaper than...

[Note: On reflection, explaining my logic clearly here would be much better done with some diagrams, and/or a system of equations... But that's apparently not something my brain is willing to do for me at1am on a Tuesday morning. Sorry!] So I'd agree that: In no case could the thermal mass...

You can speed it up considerably by cutting the jack off an old phone charger (or any other low voltage DC transfomer that's surplus to requirements) then separating and stripping the two cables... However it's worth noting that if you apply sufficient current to iron in brine for long enough...

Bit tangential, but this seems like the right place. My trusty HP DesignJet 110plus has just had a bit of a malfunction, resulting in a puff of acrid smoke and a lightly charred yellow print-head. Given being able to print in A1 is basically a convenience (I can print off work's plotters in...

The consultation cuts that down to agriculture and forestry, rail and domestic heating. So (except in Northern Ireland where electricity generation uses are exempt from all hydrocarbon oil duty) the current lower rate of duty for "use in an engine other than a road going vehicle" would no...

Looks like that won't be allowable past 2022, as per this consultation on .gov.uk Worth bearing in mind given how a long-term an investment a gennerator would be. After my experiences with generators (as the implication of needing to run a 100hp motor on a site where the maximum Western Power...

Hadn't thought of that, but it's a cracking idea. Given Frank has at least one big steel plate already, if he has a second one, then using 3 or 4 G-cramps (or 1 really large g-cramp which is well centered) compressing two steel plates together would probably work and take less time & effort.

I have, somewhere a gigantic wooden mallet intended for setting them in place manually, face is bigger than the nail plate, handle about 3ft long, must weigh a good 5-6kg (10-12lb) That's just to firmly seat them on the truss mind, and would not normally be used to fully drive them (which would...

Whenever I've wanted timber converted from logs I've rung round local sawmills and usually found that someone is willing to do it for pretty cheap... As long as I'm willing to put up security on the price of a bandsaw blade. The indication that I know why they're worried about converting other...