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It seems to do tolerably well for my daughter's jewellry business, but that tallies with the view that it's best for small, easily posted items. We have to act as her UK agents for regular lines and have a small stock of these which we make up to order. Otherwise freight from USA is a total...

........... thanks for the heads up, but Inverurie Lidl had already sold out of the corner clamps before I got there. :(

Can only speak from experience, not metallurgical knowledge, but having snapped the main slide of a Record engineering vice (don't ask!) it welded up perfectly happily with standard arc welder and my son-in-law has been abusing it for at least 10 years since. The key seems to be veeing out the...

One other thought. Get a piece of suitable timber 5cm square and long enough to accommodate the number needed. If you have a lathe mount between centres, or make up a jig, with a track to carry a router between the two ends Then use appropriate set of cutters to cut the shape along the whole...

Suspect you are right that they aren't quite there yet, hence asking for any real experience. Battery mower isn't really a solution; we did the classic retirement thing of moving to a larger garden ten years ago and have about 800sq metres of complicated shaped grass round fruit trees and the...

OK, the unbelievable has happened and I'm thinking of buying something new, not secondhand. Back has been playing up lately and heaving our 17" Hayter around big lawn doesn't help. At the Black Isle show a few weeks back, had a look at the Husqvarna robot mower, and began to think maybe one...

For the money, their cordless multitool is excellent value. Bought one for son-in-law and he's really hammered it but it's still going. Don't know about their multitool blades, though.

Fit like, that loon! Unfortunately, my stash doesn't have piece quite big enough to make the handle in one piece. And a silly bit of me wants to keep as much as possible of the original. Why? No idea! Now it's clear what was under the crud, the plane has slipped down the todo list, so maybe...

Hadn't seen much of this sort of stuff up here in the wilds until today, when the Thainstone car boot had two or three stalls selling lamps made either out of lots of different copper capillary plumbing fittings or "egg-beater" style drills. I don't like eggbeaters, but the lamps really were in...

(Thought I'd posted this last night, but seems to have vanished) SWMBO worked on a project to aid employment of disabled graduate engineers, and one of her contacts was, I think, an organisation called something like Chaley Heritage (also the name of the place it was situated) who specialised in...

Dunno about that, but it was a ****** nice drink! And the barrel in two halves has made super planters out the front of house.

Done a bit of work on the car boot Stanley No 6 Type 9. Just cleaned off the worst of the rust with citric acid and tried, unsuccessfully, to get the overspray and other paint off the handles without wrecking the original finish. Iron is quite badly pitted non-original UK Stanley and lever cap...

Pretty good. Last barrel I bought was £20 on its own. But it did have about 3litres of a slightly diluted single malt still in it, which apparently retails for couple of hundred pounds a bottle.

Or just take a smaller step forward in time to a Coronet Major? Then kit it out with the weird and wonderful accessories they had and you've got an amazing system.

Slight tangent, but were they the same Slingsby as made wooden gliders/sailplanes? If so, bit of an odd combination of products.

And proper wrecked!

Welcome, mate. At least you are genuinely in the Highlands, where those of us in the flatlands north of Aberdeen are just TOLD by couriers that we are there! Had a great day out at the Black Isle show last week and an "interesting"diversion via the Black Isle Brewery on the homeward journey...

As others have said, quotes from Shiply seem stupidly high. The best of about four that quoted last time was more than 3 times what Parcelforce ultimately charged. But maybe for even bigger stuff, it's better. A lot of people seem to have had good service from a guy trading as "Landylift"...

Is it a localised "hump" or a gentle rise and fall? If it's the former and the bed is cast iron (or possible even if its cast ali) then you could try using an engineering scraper? Lots of metalworkers (me included) have successfully scraped Myford lathe beds.

if it's a MOF96 (not 96e) it's before the days of speed control. Two speeds, flat out or dead stop. But still brilliant routers.