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You were probably lucky the "boys in blue" weren't looking to get their tally of charges up for the month! Pretty sure that overhang is illegal (though I've done similar :? )

Really good thought, Jacob. But as others have said, you'd have to be really unlucky or incredibly ham-fisted to damage a 352 table!

Probably not relevant to anyone outside North East Scotland, but there's a Coronet Major advertised for £120 in the free-ads paper. It's nothing to do with me, but if anyone was interested, I could probably have a look at it for them and maybe help with transport. PM me if it's relevant.

What flux did you use? When soldering to steel, Bakers fluid has always worked well for me.

if you weren't at the other end of that foreign country called England, you'd be welcome to borrow my Makita rotary brush - a beastie with a cylindrical wire brush rather like the sort of roller on a belt sander. Can be as aggressive or gentle as you like. Hire shop might have one? Last used...

MIGHT be worth trying one of those low temp rods Heimlaga mentioned, but my experience using one to repair cracked deck on old Hayter mower was not brilliant. Seemed to fuse OK but as soon as it got a slight knock it fractured along the line where the solder met original metal. Possibly OK where...

Why not do what I did for my daughter - made a selection of my tools that might be useful to her, passed them on and then had excuse to buy myself better ones :D

Tip from a cheapskate - look in the boxes of framed pictures in most charity shops and you will find some awful pictures behind non reflective glass. Often only 50p a piece, which is a lot less than a comparable piece of non-r from our local glass suppliers. Glass cutting - forget the multi...

Gone through the mass of documentation concerned with our house, which was built in 1999, but no specific information about the actual doors. The specs give U values for the walls of 0.18Wm-2 and for the triple glazed windows of 1.90 Wm-2, which suggests that the actual door should certainly...

Sorry to hear that, mate. It sounds uncomfortably like what I'm likely to face in a very few years; just hope I can face up to it equally clearly. Like you, I've got lifetme's investment in tools and machinery, fortunately with two sons in law who have similar interests and will probably help...

That is my front door, except that for airtightness, we don't have a letterbox! Can confirm that it is triple glazed and seems pretty efficient thermally. My label shows exactly the same manufacturer and symbols. It was supplied by a company called Thomas Hedlund in Sweden, but pretty sure...

Being just returned from a week in Norway, can confirm the air leakage translation. It's just possible the door is similar to our Swedish made front and back doors and if so, somewhere in the house spec there are probably detals of thermal characteritics. Can look tomorrow, but any U-value will...

We needed ( well, would have liked) a 3 section bent rad in the living room of one house. Lo, one that sounded right was advertised in the village shop. Rushed to look at it, but 2" too wide in the central section. Fired with enthusiasm to get one, so asked prices. End of story! Lived with...

Wild guess - spark erosion?

Are you sure about that? Son-in-law in Ohio runs washing machine and sundry other 240V stuff quite happily from an official 240V supply in their house. Not sure if this has to be ordered from the utility company, but it was in the house when they bought it. (Daughter reckons US made washing...

Started to use an Arbortech on the horse that I did some years ago, but have to admit it scared the shh... you-know-what out of me. Settled for a cheapo B&D Powerfile, which was much more controllable and gave a nearly useable finish. For those who don't know it, the Powerfile is a hand held...

Are you sure you can't open it? Worth a try, 'cos even if you b***er it, you've not lost anything. Don't know the actual switch (maybe post a pic?) bu it's at least possible that the problem is just dust in the working bits. But to answer your actual question, have you tried Miles machine...

Warning, political comment. No idea how timber prices will change but my daughter's business has already been excluded from a £5000 EU contract as a result of the vote. No doubt the Brexiteers will chip in to compensate.

Depending where you are in Oxfordshire, you might find a guy near Milton Keynes could be helpful. Name is Bob Wellings, if I remember right, and he was a near neighbour, between the villages of Chichley and Astwood, in Bucks. He makes superb horses, and occasionally has accessories that aren't...

It's a sad, bad day. Whatever happened to the spirit of tolerance and compassion that did once characterise Britain? However it was dressed up in spurious economics and claims about democracy, the Leave campaign was at heart a vicious, racist denial of the rights of anyone apart from Little...