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I think dementia is a really terrible thing. I hope you have many happy days with him yet.

I went to a place I worked at for many years. Made microwave radios for comms. The building is closing. Everything left in the place has been written off, so it's being scrapped. There are hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of benches, equipment, storage, racking, being scrapped. Hundreds of...

What burnt out? it probably is repairable and it probably could be modified to get it working without the board. the circuitry should be reasonably straightforward.

I also have a twin bar design, but still only one vertical bar to the roller. It suffers the same problem.

I have one and it is reasonably good, but there is quite a bit of slop on the arm adjustment. The support is square, going through a hole slightly larger, but with only one securing knob, so there will always be some small movement even when really tight, but takes a bit of effort to move. Once...

Another data breach, 15 million records. This time at EPIK, a domain name registrar. (NOT EPIC GAMES) This seems to have been an attack by 'Anonymous' because of claimed far-right wing links in the company. "" The hactivist collective Anonymous says that it has gained access to a massive trove...

Brilliant write--up. I've got a very similar problem so, being Scottish, I'm delighted you probably saved me a bit of cash buying the wrong parts. 🤣 🤣

Welcome to the forum. That is one nice saw. Don't know anything about it but it looks really good!! What do you like to make?

I got a cheap drill from B&Q. It was reduced in price, only £50. Very similar to the Taladro It was OK for drilling thin materials, but as above. The quill wandered all over the place especially at maximum extension. I did some mods with copper tape to take up some of the play, That improved it...

Spring looks too short, compared to my one. Only about 4 turns. That would have caused the pin to break. It's probably been repaired already.

Very interesting. I had a conversation some time ago with a flat earther. It was an interesting conversation, but I soon realised the guy was quite insidious His aim was to try and plant seeds of doubt about any argument I put forward. I'm not sure what the aim of these people is?

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yes, the microdrive. If I remember correctly it used video quality tape to get the recording density higher than audio tape. The microdrive was actually very reliable. The QL came with an excellent office suite done by Psion. I was an expert Lotus 123 user at the time, but the QL spreadsheet had...

Well done!!!! it's always worth having a go at fixing these things. :)

The first one is a fantastic machine. I hope it goes to a good home and is used. They just don't make them like that any more. Looks like 4 speed and reverse

Was very sad to hear of the death of Clive Sinclair. He was way ahead of his time. I had a QL, could never afford any of his earlier computers. It was a brilliant machine. Still got it somewhere in the house. The clicky calculator, his watch and of course the C5 Electric vehicle, all well ahead...

Have a look here, Might find info on the part?

I'm trying to identify this wood I think it could be Ash??

Darn!!! Reading the title, I thought it was like a rain dance. Some ceremony you could perform to help get your blades sharp. I'll put the head dress back into the cupboard..........

I'm sure they also made 'specials' Perhaps a company bought a batch of machines, but didn't need the tilting feature. I have a different model Meddings, but here is a pic of the spring mechanism on mine. It looks original and fortunately still in good condition. I'm sure you have found them...