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I made a pair of these tables some years ago.de The glass is 1/2" or 12mm toughened with polished and bevelled edges. The round pads are rubber foam (very cheap) and self-adhesive one side. The glass will move if pushed from the side, but in normal use it stays put. With your 3 legs and only...

Although airships are generally written off as historical beasts, I think their time may come again. Using Helium negates the "Hindenburg" issue and modern materials can overcome most of the technical challenges of containing the lifting gas. There are a number of companies (including...

I am in the process of manufacturing some Iroko decking and have to decide what finish I'm going to use and when to apply it. Unless I want to change the colour of the Iroko (which I don't), some sort of oil looks to be the generally accepted wisdom. There are quite a few products available...

Don't ask. Just think "The Two Ronnies".

Fair comment.

Looks very similar. I thought it was a lot of work for £50, but they obviously go for bigger sums as well. It's so obvious, I wonder how many people fall for it?

I'm gonna tell you a story ..... Last Friday I posted a heavy-duty tube bender for sale on Gumtree and within a couple of hours I received a message from a "Melissa" saying that her auntie was looking for one and would I email her at ******@gmail.com. Assuming that her auntie didn't have...

I bought this in May 2021 when I discovered how heavy 150mm x 150mm green oak is! I have quite sizeable bench, crosscut and panel saws, but two of us could barely lift a 3m green oak beam, so I thought I had better take the tool to the wood. With a 101mm depth of cut (270mm blade) and around...

I bought this in January when I couldn't find anybody local who could bend some pipe for me. Although I only had 4 pieces to bend, it was holding up a project that SWMBO was waiting for. I did look at the cheaper ones, but I chose this model because the 2 lower rollers do the driving, linked by...

When you say 20mm diameter dowels, that's quite big, so I'm wondering what you are going to do with them? I have just completed a green-oak pergola using 15mm dowels/pegs to drive through the (offset) holes to bring the joints together. The oak was 150mm x 150mm so the pegs were 200mm (ish)...

I generally use Whitmores at Hinckley. They have massive stocks, a good range of sizes and the stuff is generally good quality. I self-select, but you have to phone up for an appointment to do that. You have probably left Leicester by now, so maybe one for next time. There is also Lathams at...

I've got some old fitted carpet over my concrete floor. I find it much less tiring on the legs and feet, deadens the noise of the machinery considerably and cleans well with a shop-vac.

I'm probably a few weeks ahead of you on working with metals (I'm basically a woodworker) and have come to realise that as with wood, there are a lot of different "steels". Getting stuff from scrap bins and scrap yards is good for developing welding techniques, but you don't know what the steel...

Yes, but I plane it first!

I have a thing (some may call it a fetish!) for removing/recycling all metal from wood before it goes in the wood burner. My kit is similar to Kinverkid's with the addition of a bench vice. If I can't get a nail out with the handtools, putting the nail head (if there is one) in the vice and...

Thanks. Hadn't thought of them. Their price is good so I just ordered the tyre for fitting on Thursday. Their T's & C's do have a clause regarding changing specification but it is more reasonable than Asda's. 12. Specification of Products and Services a) All Products supplied will correspond...

No. One for Google!

I don't think you are allowed to put a tube in a tubeless tyre (for road use).

My wife's car (BMW i3) picked up a puncture and since I've never known a tyre shop be willing to repair one, I went onto the web to get a new tyre fitted. Wow! I had no idea that even specifying the brand, name and size there were still a huge number of variants. Why a manufacturer would...

I recently needed to bend some 27mm diameter galvanised steel tubes with 2.6mm wall thickness to a radius of about 1m. I bought a (new) 3-roller tube bender for the job which came with 3 sets of rollers/dies, none of which were for 27mm tube. I believe that you need to have the dies snug against...