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Good Morning. Over the years I sent my aunt in the UK Christmas presents of traditional German carved wooden figures which are sold at this time of year. Not so long ago she died and my cousin (her daughter) lives in Australia. I know that the cousin's daughters would like to have these...

Thank's Andy. Yes it was Toolnut but I couldn't for the life of me remember. I did a comparison between new augurs from Clico and Fisch (they differed in size by 1/16" if I remember aright) and they each took the same number of turns to cleanly cut through some American poplar i.e. no...

You can get new ones here: https://www.fine-tools.com/auger-bit-co ... shaft.html I bought a couple and the quality is outstanding, the performance exactly what you would expect. There is one UK retailer who has/had the last stock of Clico bits which also perform as well as those I've linked...

Your post goes to the heart of the relationship between the state and the private citizen and it does of course question the competence of the state. The very idea of a universal benefit is nonsense if you think about it because a benefit is designed to remedy a specific want. How likely is it...

Sorry. I thought you were having a laugh and meaning one of those one foot long things consisting of a couple of arms which you sometimes see at the top of fire doors. They might even be hydraulic as there sometimes seems to be some sort of pot arrangement where the two arms meet.

That looks like it will hit the button! Thank you very much indeed.

AES, don't they have British or English shops in Switzerland? I popped into the British shop in Stuttgart yesterday and stocked up on Yorkshire Gold tea. (I also got Christmas pudding, brandy butter etc. because I've been stiffed with organising the Christmas raffle for the local Anglo-German...

As an aside, never ever order a cup of tea in a German cafe as the experience is enough to make you weep. They bring out a cup of hot water which was quite possibly nowhere near boiling to start with and God knows what temperature it is by the time it reaches the table. Next to the cup lies the...

I'm afraid that a picture of the current one would be no use at all. It's a commercially made metal thing and from six feet away it looks as much like a hot air hand dryer as it does a paper roll dispenser. However, I can define the essence of what I'm looking for (the design is still in my...

In the toilets at work the hand towel roll dispenser has jammed and there are no signs of it being repaired. As a result I’ve decided to make a holder. The simplest construction will involve a couple of arms at right angles to the wall. Notches in the end would accept the dowel which passes...

I have, in principle, nothing against any of that. You have put your finger right on the point where the problems start: "... sometimes it goes way beyond what would be considered reasonable …" It seems to me that in most human affairs the key question is where you draw the line. The problem is...

I've always felt that the threat to privacy etc. does not come from governments - at least it doesn't if you live in a western-style democracy - but rather from the big multinational IT-driven corporations. Governments are only a problem in so far as they haven't got a grip of the corps e.g...

You need to get round to Tate Modern with that. There's bound to be some numb b*gger there who'll give you a couple of hundred grand for it.

That's the funniest thing I've read on here for quite a while. It did make oi larf.

You could consider fish tail chisels (effectively two-sided skew chisels) like these: https://www.feinewerkzeuge.de/fishtail- ... hisel.html The beauty of them is that they are fairly easy to sharpen free hand due to there being no skewed leading edge.

That's good to read. I have a couple of rules for internet arguments: a. The bloke/woman you're arguing wtih is probably a perfectly normal human being of humanity and good will. This particularly applies to this forum - witness the generosity of time and effort given to those who want...

He's in the sin bin again? They can't ban him permanently though as this place wouldn't be the same without him.

I think that on balance that the thread should not have been closed down. I was away from home for a week and when I got back it had gone, so I just assumed that those who revel in insults had simply gone nuclear. Apparently not. An explanatory line from the mods would have been desirable IMO...

I'd second Tyreman's recommendation of a Skeppshult or AJB Temple's for Turk. I've got a Skeppshult myself: it's really solid, heavy work. When you're not using it as a frying pan, it's the sort of thing you'd want to tackle a burglar with. The Turk ones, which despite the name are made in...

That looks like excellent work. One general question: I would imagine that the drill was almost certainly made with all the measurements being imperial. You seem to be having no problems with measuring everything down to tenths of millimetres but I was wondering if it would be more accurate if...