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I joined the forum in mid January and just caught the thread about secret Santa gifts received, I've just had a search and found Simons post with the rules in and am really happy to participate in this years secret Santa.

I'm definitely going through the skip in the morning there must about £200 worth of bent vintage nails in there.

http://www.axminster.co.uk/fisch-flexi-curve-ax783040 Paddy, Axminster sell these flexible curves

Hello Matt@ When you say heavy vertical slats do you hit and miss fencing using 4 x1 slats? Or are you doing a heavy duty close board fencing. Rather than use wooden posts why don't you use concrete posts, you can get specific concrete posts for close board fencing from any proper fencing...

I purchased a product from Brewers (paint and decorating merchant), I'm away at the mo or I'd look in lock up to see what it's called, I think it was called Peel Away its a non toxic formulation we used it to remove several layers of paint ( in some places up to 12 layers, it took a couple of...

http://www.wallbarn.com/products/roof-a ... r-decking/ Hello Phil This link shows a plastic foot system for decking, fully adjustable, I've used a similar type of product when I had to build a temporary deck for a garden show,we built straight on top of grass with them and the finished deck was...

osmo do a range of wood fillers you may find one that suits

http://www.leadbitterglass.co.uk/americ ... on-keynes/ I can highly recommend leadbitter glass in corby, i dealt with them recently to make some american bevelled, leaded panels for a double doorway i recently made, the panels we used are option A in the link, at the moment they're designing 2...

+1 Im well known for having reclaimed spares for every imaginable situation!, its in my blood, I'm a clone of my grandad or so I'm told, when he passed away we had 3 full garages of bits and pieces to clear. i was to young then to realise how useful a lot of it would have been. its amazing, when...

Hi mate Take a trip to your local castorama, I was in the Beziers store a few weeks ago and they sold a complete oxy / acetylene set up for about €200. Harvey

I've had the makita for a few years, after reading about the katsu one on here a few months ago I thought bugger it I'll get one as a spare, I now have 2 katsu trim routers as had been said no difference at all to the makita, I use all 3, I just leave the bits in them and don't have to faf...

Martin If you ring festool uk, they should be able to arrange a rep to visit you for a demo, they will come to you and do a complete demo and you'll be able to use the machine in your workshop, it's ok looking at machines at a tool shop but I like to actuall use it first, I've purchased the ETS...

The link here is for unlaquered brass Tonk strip, if you search you'll find a recent post of mine about using curator fluid to age unlaquered brass door knobs, a very easy process and with a little bit of practice on a small off cut you'll be able to age it To the degree of aging want. Hope this...

This Costco kit is quite good, I purchased on for a friends daughter when she left home, she often comments how useful it is from changing a fuse to removing the front wheel on her bike to fix a puncture ( I was presented with the wheel to mend the puncture)...

Here is a picture of a mdf skirting I fitted a while ago, it's not to obtrusive and hid the pipes perfectly. I cut two strips of mdf 18mm mdf to 15mm wide, used mitre mate to glue them to skirting and very carefully screw and plugged it to wall a quick sand and a bit of caulk. job done I'm sure...

Thanks to info from RobinBHM I purchased the curator fluid to age these door knobs My customer is over the moon with them, not my cup of tea though. I thought I'd post the results should anyone else have the need to age brass ( or any shiney unlaquered metal) Very easy to do, dilute the fluid...

Hi Brian I've been extremely surprised by my wife's new Honda Jazz, she had a type R civic before which I really couldn't drive comfortably, I have no problems getting in and out I'm 6ft1and a bit on the plump side. I've no idea of the running costs or fuel economy, I know she wanted a...

Hi EssexChris What model Milwaukee 12v driver have you got, I have quite a lot of Milwaukee gear and have no issues with the clutch on any of it, there is a drilling setting and a screw diving setting on my driver if it's on the drilling setting it will push screws right through, on the driving...

As Mark A says torx screws are brilliant, I've only recently started to use torx head screws and find that the torx fitting is excellent, with the pozidrive bits I had to change the bit quite frequently even using premium bits they seemed to ware and start to cam out, I highly recommend Spax...

Thanks guys for the info RobinBHM thanks for the links especially the John Wardle one, I'll order the old English brass curator one, I'll try to post some pics of before and after when I've done them