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I have sent you a message, and marked the items as claimed. If no-one else claims the roller-stand by the time you come to pick up the jack and axle stands, it's yours if you want it.

All items available to collect in the Sheffield area, or possibly dropped off in S/W/N York's when I'm passing. First: [Collected] A well used but still perfectly functional roller stand, it's got awesome adjustability, and is nice and compact, but not especially sturdy as it's of pressed...

If they can't improve on that when it comes to electric vans/commercials, that's going to be a non-starter for the road maintenance and light construction sectors... It's not too unusual to see a Transit or Daily towing a 2500kg trailer, and I can't see road rollers or mini-diggers magically...

I seriously looked at leasing a Mirai (which involved a fair bit of pestering Toyota, as they don't actively market them yet in the UK when I was looking, that's planned for 2021) It's a fabulous car, not blistering performance wise, but extremely well specified for the money, and nice driving...

If anyone is looking fo IIRC (and it has been a good while since I last used mine) the thicknessing capacity is pretty substantial, something in the region of 260mm w × 200mm h (so there or thereabouts 10" w × 8" h). They're great machines, and perform a lot more like a "proper" commercial...

I fully agree that with BSI being designated as our national standards institution, the standards should be freely available, at least within the UK... It's a total farce! On this particular point however, there is some hope. Most local libraries will allow online access to BS Standards, as...

I would tend to say that given that it's common knowledge that people in general are not great at piloting their chosen modes of transport, it wouldn't be a huge leap to conclude it's best to separate the two camps (and as far as possible pedestrians too)... Yet we don't seem to have much...

I used to cycle to and from work, but after narrowly avoiding being thrown under a bus the 3rd time I was knocked off, I gave up and went back to the car... To add insult to injury my at the time boss was waiting at the gate for me and launched into his "why the hell are you late" rant, before...

If you want it done properly it is. The process is nigh identical to powder coating but with pyrex glass as the coating, and consequently a much, much hotter baking process. There's a company in Lancashire who will do it on any bath (as well as buying and renovating baths to sell as premium...

The vaccines for those particular diseases are so effective that when you get exposed to it, the body destroys the infective agent so quickly it doesn't have a chance to take hold, so you never get symptoms, or to the stage where it's easy to pass it on. The current COVID vaccines work just the...

Renault have a thing like that but slightly more to the Peel P100 end of the "small, simple vehicle" spectrum, it's pretty nifty for what it is, but not a complete replacement for a car. Something like a Nissan Leaf gutted of extraneous gadgetry, and fitted with better battery technology...

My partner was finally disabused of this notion during lockdown, not by a knife but with scissors... She's always had very long hair, and after about 8 months without a haircut, began to tire of pulling her own hair every time she sat down without thinking; so purchased some cheap naff...

If there's chip welding, you're either running the drill too fast, or not applying enough feed pressure, potentially some combination of the two. Cutting fluid will help, WD is not ideal but might work for Alu as might 3-in-1 or another straight to mineral oil, a dedicated cutting/tapping...

My workshop renovation is moving along to the point where I'm ready to install the new main door(s?) Which will be three 1962×642mm half-glazed framed, ledged and braced doors, running in a tommafold 60 bifold track. Whilst I've built a great many doors (and windows) in my time, that was in a...

I think it's extremely unlikely we will ever see something that severe happen again by accident, in the still fairly unlikely event something of that severity did occur again an act of war or terrorism seems more plausible as the cause. The reason I think it's unlikely is that Humanity is...

If a pandemic wipes out so many people that we're plunged back into the dark ages, then frankly any conceivable release of nuclear materials isn't going to be that big of an issue, compared to the daily struggle for survival. That said the fundimental technology needed for "minimum viable"...

When talking about waste storage and containment, it's not hugely technical and the infrastructure is comparatively simple and robust. Humanity has been good enough at capturing and transferring knowledge, that we would be able to retrain individuals in fields like radiation...

I agree with you in principle, but it's not an either-or choice, the necessity is to do both. We have to cut consumption to levels which can be supplied without exhausting natural resources and find the technologies which allow us to maintain a certain level of resource use (ideally in a closed...

I mean up until ten-ish years ago BNFL and it's successors were actively selling reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield on the condition that whoever sent them the material for recycling took back all the active material waste and useful fuel alike. If you're looking to point at a...

I don't think the argument around cost of production taken alone ports well from Oil to Gas, moving LNG other than via a pipeline is comparatively hard and costly, compared to oil; so the economics make more sense for local production. Can't disagree with that though... Gas has been a great...