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If you actually use that billhook (hacker in my native dialect) be a bit careful with the back edge. Not impossible to swing it up just a bit too far and restyle your eyebrows. The wildlife trust my daughter worked with years ago wouldn't have them on site for that reason.

Was making such a hash of another job, decided to repair the rear handle off the Type 9 Stanley No6 I aquired a while back. Decided to ignore the advice about creating just a single plane glueing surface and cut a suitable piece of rosewood off an odd bit I had lying round. Glued, clamped and...

That whole setup looks a bit odd to me. Surely the chuck backplate/adaptor should sit on the parallel section of the nose to provide a proper register, and pull up against the bit that has the tape stuck to it. Or is that how it is when fully tightened? If it is, and the grubscrew throws it...

Thanks for that. will see what I can find around the runners. Did wonder if it would get better with time, but couldn't find a volunteer to open and close unit repeatedly for a few hours.....................

Bought some unbranded (but instructions were in Polish, if that's any help) mesh slide-out shelves to fit in narrow kitchen unit. They are OK, but for one thing. The soft close mechanism works fine when closing, but offers enough resistance when opening for it to be necessary to pull quite...

In my native dialect from the Welsh Border, scantlings were any small section, waney edged bits of waste timber, usually destined for the fire.

Would be surprised if a nibbler would tackle 3mm sheet, even if it's alloy. Whereas jigsaw with fine tooth metalcutting blade should romp through it.

The real bugbear of these is anything with loose threads, or tassles, which wrap round the brushes and stop them dead. Otherwise, the one our daughter bought us certainly seems to fill up with dust and fluff pretty rapidly, which suggests it's doing a good job! They're certainly entertaining...

As a happy (well fairly happy!) Mystro owner, just ask if you need any measurements for lathe parts. But I won't give the OP the satisfaction of admitting how much was paid for mine, secondhand. No 1 recommendation, if OP can find a 3-phase motor to fit, get one plus an inverter. Speed change...

The item pictured to the right of the bed key in the first pic had me completely flummoxed. What on earth are "cow knobs" (I'm guessing that's one held in the sort of dieholder bit) and where were they screwed on? My guess would be on the ends of horns in pre-dehorning/polled breed days, but...

Slightly off topic, but if you don't want a speck of rust, don't do as I occasionally do. We buy meat for deep freeze from a local farm, which often comes in lumps too big for the two of us. Nae problem, grab big frozen joint and run it over the bandsaw. But recently bought a big frozen bag...

Oddly enough, last week the various reps finally got round to coming to look at the space to be mown, and reckoned that there'd be no problem (apart from the cost!!) for the front lawn. But the back "lawn" has three lines of fruit trees with about 2.5 m between the lines and each tree has the...

Bm101 - you're a star!!

Remember someone saying, or possibly I've read, that poplar used to be the timber of choice for the beds of lorries. I have a trailer whose bed is certainly something bland, stringy and slightly soft which could be poplar.

Thanks - rushed over this morning and tried that out. Marks disappeared completely.................................. ........... while the surface was still wet. Once it dried out, they were even more visible than before! HELP.

Trying to refinish daughter's dining table with Danish oil while they are in Spain. Put the tin down on their slate hearth without realising some oil had run down the side of the tin. Now the hearth sports a nicely polymerised imprint of the tin which I need to remove. Any suggestions - have...

Hope at least some of the cases were expended in scaring {name your politician of choice}

The obvious one is lilac. That often has pink/purple striping, sometimes throughout a branch. Colour is not reliably lightfast, but it makes attractive pens and small objects

One suggestion, if you can find one, is the Elu OF97. It was probably their last throw as Elu before being devoured by deWalt, and while it's not the best either for table or handheld use, it does both pretty well and will take 8mm cutters, which are a good compromise. As one reviewer said...

My concern was more the electronics bit than the mechanics, which in the 177 are pretty robust. Things like "back EMFs" and other mysteries.