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My bog standard Epson scanner scans slides and negatives, its a decade old. I've done hundreds with it, but it so boring, a job for when you are in the mood.

I use mine all the time for sheet metal and general fabrication work. It is true they have been largely replaced by the self locking pliers types, but I have about a dozen of various sizes in regular use that I have had since my apprenticeship, so they are old friends and I like old friends...

Several big tins, and one day I will sort metric from imperial, although the site set is a proper set backed up with replacements from the big tins.

In the last twenty years they have halved the number of beds available and there are now double the number of patients requiring them from twenty years ago. Bed blocking was a problem when I did my nurse training thirty years ago, until there is proper post hospital care available, or a dramatic...

Hi Gary Welcome to the forum, I am sure you will find a lot to interest you here, and you will soon get used to the British sense of humor. Gareth

I am very impressed with it, apparently E & K also made woodworking vices and a couple have appeared on this forum to some acclaim. As a firm they must have been very modest about their product as there are no names cast into the body. I only found out who it was by on cleaning the internal...

Rorschach has it, they are sacrificial anodes.

I rescued this little beast from becoming hardcore, as the last owner said it was ruggered, but half an eyeball showed it was only lightly jammed by muck and rust. It took about five minutes to get it apart and 15 with a wire cup brush on the slides to get it back to its quick release glory. It...

Cutting a sheet with an angle grinder is a bit like using a hand saw, if you start in the right place, and go in the right direction then the width of the blade acts as your guide. As far as I am aware it isn't regular practice to cut a sheet with a hand saw by following a straight edge you only...

I assume you have a 9" grinder and a thin slitting disc. I don't think you will find MDF will be any help at all, the trick of cutting with a slitting disc is practice. Get a good scribed line so you can see where your cutting, let the machine do the work, don't fight it and don't push it. Hold...

Good grief another one! My father had one of those, luckily I have lost all the blades, so I will never be tempted to use it. I only keep it as a sort of memorial to Dad, it should be recycled really.

Setting your hair on fire, sparks down your boot and in the ear are also one of the many hidden benefits of welding. and to the tune of Bright Eyes Arc eye, burning like fire. Arc eye, when I close there's pain. Will my eye that stings so badly ever see again? Arc eye.

I have several large versions of that, blacksmith made, 5 foot handle etc they were my late father in law's hoes. Using a piece of cut up saw blade for the blade they excellent tools. Should be re-manufactured as a way of utilizing all those disposable saw blades.

Promises the earth - delivers a window box.

I don't get involved with cast, but if you are having a go yourself you will need to pre-heat the cover and after welding allow it to cool down again VERY slowly. back in my general fabrication days its the sort of job we would try and avoid, but we were very low tech. If your man will guarantee...

When my books don't fit the shelf height I just lie 'em flat Hat coat - gone!

Hi Nev Its possible the first link is one of those sites where the thing you want is small and unobtrusive, whilst the BIG "download me now" button takes you somewhere else. Your 2nd link is completely different so I will give that a go later - Ta!

I was about to download openshot when the site started talking about PDF converters, so I backed out. What's that all about? thanks for the suggestion anyway.

I'm after a simple video editor programme so I can string a series of short clips together (mp4's), but the one I have bundled, Media Impressions will not except some of my clips. Ultimately I want to upload them to the tube. Any recommendations that I can download for free and are known to be...

sometimes available at slightly less than the super 7, would be a Boxford. I doubt if you could find an A, or B, but a C in tired condition might be available, although they do not have screw cutting. big and old fashioned can sometimes get you what was a high spec machine, but it will weighty.