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"Bloodletting" (officially venesection) is also used to control the rare blood cancer Polycythemia vera, where the patient has an excess of red cells. It's one of the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) which also include Essential Thrombocythemia, with which I've lived happily since 2013. They...

Good test for Parana pine is the smell when it's cut. To me, it smells strongly of carrots. But like others, the grain doesn't look pronounced enough for Pp.

Fortunately, when my wife went to renew her licence earlier this year, she messed up the form, so it was relatively easy to persuade her not to correct it, and so she effectively relinquished it. She'd never really liked driving, but living in what is described as a "remote rural area", it was...

Son-in-law in the USA has this problem. There is a "fix", though it's probably totally illegal. Worth having a hunt via Mr Google?

Depressing thread. My wife is in the early to middle stages of Alzheimers, which we reckon also probably affected both her grandmothers. It's not an easy road. At the moment, it's mostly pretty trivial things like cooking utensils turning up in strange places, and the need to repeat things...

It's (possibly) reasonable to charge something extra for "Highlands and Islands" but how the **** can Aberdeen be Highlands? The Great Glen is nearly 100 miles away, and like the OP, I live in AB41. Happened to check our altitude a couple of days ago, and it's all of 60m above sea level, so it...

Well.... Myfordman is your expert here, I'm just a dabbler. Given the chance and the time, would look for a Brooks/Crompton/Hawker Siddley or other old UK made iron frame job, but presumably the Italian stuff that is currently sold by the likes of Machine Mart would do the job perfectly well.

Repairing the 3hp motor would probably cost more than a new motor. As you say, 3hp is a bit of overkill for that planer. As you can easily vary the pulley size, go for whatever motor you can find of about 1-1.5hp and good quality.

There's a nice line in the link posted by the OP. " The impact of the rotational inertia on the flying characteristics is quite another story. " Have said elsewhere that my Father flew Camels in WW1 and, possibly surprisingly, lived to tell the tale!

I have the slightly more ornate one my son-in-law made during his degree in electrical engineering. We both gained when he became an accountant instead. So he was able to retire at 52, and I got his engineering tools.

Super little machines in their day; my first "proper" lathe was the Gamages version of the Minor, subsequently supplemented by an incomplete Minorette. Learned an awful lot working on and with the two.

Interesting. I have an almost identical plane, picked up in Fraserburgh (for the geographically challenged, that's on the point of Scotland's "cold shoulder", 40 miles north of Aberdeen). But mine is clearly stamped Mathiesons of Glasgow, and while it's cleaner than the OP's, needed quite a...

Looking at the thumbnails, wondered briefly if it was actually a C200, but difficult to argue with the label! It's interesting, though obviously sensible, that many of the components were carried over from the C200, but the base machine was much tidied up from it's predecessor. That said, my...

Beech worked OK on my Kity. But if the OP wants to message me, I can probably supply the requisite amount of LV for the cost of postage.

Related example of Doric humour. Bought a yard broom for 50p at a garage sale in the next village. As I carried it out, an old boy (almost certainly younger than me) looked at it and commented "That was cheap if you are sure it works".

Agree with everything Derek Cohen says. But that's probably because he is repeating my onw setup. Advice to OP would be to get to know any elderly local woodworkers who have lightly used 177E and watch the obituary columns! I'm not local, but exactly fit the description!

In a word, yes, that's what I'd concluded!

Fascinating thread for two reasons. Firstly, my Father got his pilot's licence in late 1917, and flew Camels for real. As afficionados will know, their rotary engine meant that turns one way were almost instantaneous, while in the opposite direction, took miles to execute. Secondly, have what...

+1 for the saw edge theory of leaving the scythe in a tree to rust slightly (but why an apple tree - seems to be the norm?). Terminology of edge tools for hedges, grass etc. seems to be a minefield. To some, a billhook is what I'd call a hacker, straight or hooked blade for cutting thickish...

Just live with the curved guides on my 352. Seems not to be a problem provided the guides are set correctly at some point along the surface. But my 352 gets a hard life anyway.