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You crafty perisher you have just discovered away of getting free biccies from both stores!

The door in the photo is made from angle.

+1 for angle, box is a non starter for this job as you either have to fix through it to get to the wood or weld a lip or little lugs for the wood to sit on. Try and get angle with a square root rather than rounded or you will need to chamfer the outer edge to suit.

dies shouldn't have flare on both sides as the idea is the thread will get deeper as your cut progresses. Normal practice should be that the flare is on the same side as the size and maker are stamped, allowing you to pick it up whilst still in the holder and know what you have got. hand...

I think I would prefer to get that TIG'd, if it was doable and if it were mine.

+1, I was to shy to ask!

Used for tensioning chains, the hooks take a link edge on, not hooked into a link. . +1 for railway and truck use, I think we also used them in the shipyard.

Have you got a scientific calculator, if so use that. Take the distance you want to divide by the number of pins you want that will give you a number, i.e. the distance between each pin. Then punch that number in (Example 12, then punch = ANS) the screen should now show ANS now punch +12 Every...

years ago we had some Turks came to the workshop offering the same service. The boss who was as tight as a DA smelt a saving and gave them a whole bunch of worn out Roto-bore cutters. Off they went with promises they would be back in a week, we were all giggling that he would never see them...

I like that, I have a Parker Hale P1853 3 band Enfield rifled musket that I shoot, and I am thinking of making a full box for it, and all its tools and gubbins, in the classic style.

I cut all the stalks off my plants, and have left them in the ground, so far all the tubers lifted have been healthy, and delicious.

Poor Elves time to update them to a battery drill! :deer

Normally factory machine I.D. numbers, which I strongly suspect the M/5 disc is, the 99 may be a previous factories number. I have in the back of my mind that the disc type were something to do with the wartime ministry of supply, who needed to know what machine tools were where and what they...

I have an equally old lathe and that was marked with the makers name on the front of the right hand head stock bearing. Mine was only marked by a small stamping quite painted over, so keep cleaning the paint off you may find a makers name yet. For those who may be interested its a George Hodgson...

+1 I took my Leytool drill apart as the grease had gone hard, now with fresh grease and it will last another 40 years.

Over the years I have accumulated dozens of taps and dies in a range of thread forms, so I have spent the last few days cleaning sorting and boxing them into thread types. BSW, BSF, BA, Metric, UNF/UNC, and even a few BSP and Gas. The old fashioned ones are nicely stamped as to what they are...

As a boatyard apprentice you weren't allowed a Stanley Yankee until you were out of your time, as the damage you can achieve with one on finished work is quite outstanding!

One of the few pistols I have ever shot was a long range thing chambering 30-06 rifle rounds. It had a long barrel as I recall to comply with the recently introduced ban, and you shot it sitting down in bench they called a 'flying machine' using a scope mounted on the thing. My score was 9...

Sounds very irresponsible to me, it might have come down anywhere. "Excuse me my Action Man has come down on your roof, can this gang of men climb up and retrieve it"? "No - go join the Foreign Office"

Most of the shipyard sites have been sold off for desirable dockside dwellings. Britain has thrown away its strategic industries claiming EU rules whilst all the other nations of the EU quietly kept them going. An independent Scotland would possibly prove an unpopular choice to build the next...