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Thanks Spectric, Do you get a really high gloss with water based paints? I have been using oil-based and Hamilton Perfection. I lived abroad for a few years and just as I was getting the hang of their version on paints I moved back and all the traditional runny high gloss paints that I could get...

Like current paint - dries so fast you can't paint a door without going over half dry paint, everything has to be fast. In my house I have to use countersunk screws for skirting - countersunk and filled. It's a 1950s house and must have been built by the village *****. The plaster and I suppose...

Surely you use a Yanky Handiman most of the time.....

He really does like being clean - surely one a year it quite adequate.

In a year's time I might want to chat to you, it's time I moved and I've never lived in Scotland.

Living near Skegness where all the old cronies* move to die the doctors here must be raking it in. (* I'm an old crony in case anyone objects to my ageism but I moved here for the cheap housing not necessarily to peg out).

Not always for life. I'll add a lot of confusion here - my wife was diagnosed as being diabetic 15 years or so ago. She rigerously kept to a diet and was so pleased that every time she had any test it appeared she was maintaining it well. Until 3 years ago when we changed doctors and she was...

Thanks for this clarification Dave.

I will do that, it seems a waste of time getting to this stage then spoil the effort. It seems that most paints are the same - in this case I suppose they are to allow a decorator to finish a job fast, perhaps younger people don't know what a good paint finish looks like, or perhaps it's my OCD.

Perhaps you would put me straight on this regarding explosion risk - if there is a fair amount of fine dust then isn't a bag or filter style dust extractor the way to go so the dust is not left flying around in the air inside the can?

I think you might have also answered an issue for me. It's quite a time since I used varnish and I am sure it did not dry as fast as it does now - which is the same as with paint, it all seems to say "fast drying" and it is. It seems that everything has to be done in a hurry which is anathema to...

When emphysema is diagnosed you look at dust collection in a different light and remember all the times you have not considered it.

I get the idea you might be more like my generation. I taught what was woodwork and metalwork for 18 years and wore a suit and tie every day, now I do have a smart jacket, trousers and shoes for the odd hospital or doctor appointment and even a shirt and tie just in case I go to a funeral but...

I have heard of people getting a double glazed unit "stepped" - with the outside pane larger than the inner one. Then the larger part fits in the rebate for the outside and the smaller one ON the rebate for the inside - then just some beading in and out and the job's done. Would be worth asking...

By that time Black and Decker quality had declined - my B&D hammer drill was bought in 1969 and I was using it yesterday (had a new switch and makes a bearing noise but still going strong), perhaps it should be in the Guinness book of records. It's hard nowadays to define "cheap".

keep it simple and practice, I love reading about all these new fangled ideas. I was taught to sharpen when still at school (1960-67) (the woodwork and metalwork teachers were all ex dockyard and the school was really like a pre-apprenticeship for the dockyard). Two oilstones, oil, no...

I lost the plot after 18 years of teaching.

Rather late, but thought I'd mention piano wire, stiffer than other thin wire, on eBay comes from 0.2mm diameter in short straight lengths. I remember using pliers to bend some for a plane undercarriage some 60+years ago. I think it soldered.

Hello, I've been a fairly practicable person since childhood, taught wood and metalwork in some form for most of my working life, but retired early. I have only a standard garage to house my machines and too many tools and even a motorbike so spend more time making room for my next project than...