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Have you considered the 'Dutch' style tool chest? These can be made with both opening top and drop down front, and with forward planning stackable like the mechanics tool boxes.

I only put expensive holes in cardboard, ranging from just under 1/4" up to just over 1/2"

The point as I see it is someone has gone to the trouble to make something. I can think of some highly crafted pieces both antique and modern that I think are horrendous looking, but that is irrelevant as beauty is in the eye, etc. The labels attached to it because of the emotional reaction of...

Only ever had two Big 'M's, the second one was definitely a mistake confirming my opinion of the first. That was twenty odd years ago, have they improved?

The firm F H Brundle do steel balls up to 200mm diameter, so you can always replace them. (no connection with the company)

Made a bracket and mounting plate to hold the voltage regulator on my 1945 Triumph 3HW, as you can't get the tube clamp type any more, and I didn't want to drill the mudguard.

Don't ever put you are some type of engineer, they load the premium for that as well. My mate insuring his brand new Triumph absentmindedly put on his form 'agricultural engineer' on his on line form, and got a quote. He then remembered on all his other insurance he had stated 'mobile welder' -...

I have still got somewhere the hand-cranked tool for the Rawl plug drills, a little more sophisticated than a hammer and the drill holder, and great fun as a very small boy as a machine gun! Till collared by the old man and told to put it back in his tool bag.

For bending washers you can make your own tooling. I made bending tooling for our little flypress and on it I made component sets for 2500 vans for a well known vehicle rescue company. My bending tool comprised of a piece of square stock set on the diagonal pressing into two pieces of angle to...

As a fabricator welder I think £20 is spot on for a small job. I spent 25 years in a small workshop that was plagued by walk in small jobs. There I am working on something large and complicated, in comes the punter with his small job, I immediately loose 10 minutes plus while he explains what he...

The methodology when using taps for cutting a new thread may mean you need up to 3 different taps. The first - the taper tap will go into the hole yet to be threaded - the 'tapping size' hole drilled for that purpose. This tap is undersize at the bottom and will, as it cuts, increase the depth...

+1 for the above, you haven't said if you are expecting to clean up existing threads, or are hoping to cut new. If you are cleaning, a cheap carbon steel may well suffice. However if you plan to cut new, and perhaps not very experienced in the art, then it would be better to go for the sizes you...

They are the manufacturers, and always claimed to pan European

Back when I was an employed person we always used to use Eutectic rods, which I think are pretty universal the specifications are here https://www.castolin.com/en-US/Manual-Metal-Arc-alloys

In times of yore they were the weapon of the peasantry, during the French incursion on the IOW of 1545, one French knight, Pierre Du Balcas lost his head to a 'brown-bill', being wielded by one jolly local who didn't understand his call for quarter. Said local was shipped across the Solent and...

I shall long treasure my wife's first encounter with the DIY checkout, when suggest she use the facility her reply was "I came here for service, not to be an unpaid part-time employee"

Why is it people want BH's when the weather is likely to be poor? So no to leap year and no Trafalgar Day as well

A Box of electricity (remember the ad)

7. There are reasons why we don't let people watch. For most people who watch surgery on themselves, this generates a conflict in your brain between your eyes (which are telling the brain that tissue is being damaged, and your sensory nerves (which due to the local anaesthetic are telling the...

I had one done last year, it was uncomfortable at times, but I found I could do 85% of what I used to, including mild lifting. I used to be a steel fabricator so most universal beams were out. Mine sort of pushed its way through about a month after the initial strain, which for half a day...