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Good advice above, mig is the easiest to learn although unless the equipment is expensive I have always thought gasless a waste of time. Stick if you plan over 3mm thick unless an industrial quality mig comes your way.

I found this we gadget in a corner of my shed. Its a German made Tarantella razor blade sharpener! You fix the blade as shown and there should be a stone or abrasive material fixed to the other portion and you spin it like a football rattle giving one assumes a new lease of life to your razor...

I acquired two of these NOS Allen West starters and promptly forgot about them for thirty years. So having rediscovered them in the back of a cupboard, my question is would one of these be suitable to use on the 1/2HP single phase motor on my slowly being rebuilt ML8? Seems a shame to throw...

I don't think I have seen this posted before, if it has been, well never mind.

I use baby oil in my 'rag in a can'

One of my post retirement jobs was to bend 10, 12, & 16mm re-bar by hand in an old 'Sampson' bender, have made hundreds of shapes up for footing baskets and cages, would generally give me two or three days work and much more constructive than a gym. I am hoping I can get back to it one day soon.

It's only a bad idea if no one buys it, if they do at that price, its brilliant, (except the bulb).

Does anyone still drink OXO, I love a hot mug of the stuff?

I can't do it for a family tool, but I did research the name on an old guage I bought in a junk shop. When cleaned it revealed a name. B. Luckham, as Luckham is not a common name, I thought I would try and track down the original owner. This is what I found. Bertie Tom Luckham, son of Edmund...

The battery drill so versatile, coming from a steel work background I remember the days of the cast alloy bodied 'gut buster' or was it wrist breaker drills.

Beetroot and cheese sandwiches - yum! Hate Marmite, love Twigletts - odd.

We have an interesting conundrum, we are tier 1, Pompey is now tier 4 half the ferry crews live in tier 4 and should not travel out of it. Our holiday camps are full of people from tiers 3 and now 4, we have even had people coming over here to visit the pub. The ferry companies have no power...

That worked, I have now revived a long dead outlook account I last used in 2017, via that link. Think I will try and and retrieve the others tomorrow. I would like to reuse my old OE email system I knew that backewards, but that was taken down with my old fsnet address and try as I might I...

I went on to the Hotmail account again and thought I would do the upgrade to the new version of Outlook as Hotmail seems to be being killed off. After completing the registration process and using a virgin password, it looked lie I was going to end up where I wanted to be, but at the very last...

I tried to get at my hotmail account this morning, only to be confronted with what appeared to be the latest demand by MS to upgrade to their newest all singing and dancing version with lots of advantages for the iphone wot I ain't not got. Trying to by-pass it by just signing in, I had to put...

I think you can be excused for not continuing your participation in this thread and I wish you a full and speedy recovery. I am waiting until silly season is over then I will get myself a modern stop start switch for the lathe and wire it in properly. The antique MEM tin box switch I had in...

I would be very surprised if the JCB bandsaw was Chinese, as it is at least 50 years old, and as China was at the height of the cultural revolution at the time and couldn't even feed themselves. These machines were made before the company made earth moving equipment.

JCB made little bandsaws, I have one.

Success, the motor starts and spins!! I owe a big thank-you to the help I got on here, but especially to Guineafowl21, for taking me through the diagnostic process stage by stage. Now I can marry it to my saved from scrap Myford ML8 and enter the wonderful ( I hope) world of wood turning...

I have, I hope followed your instructions correctly and taken have the measurements, with the wiring unchanged. We have readings of, although they all fluctuated slightly. 1-2 = 26.8, 1-3 = 32.9, & 2-3 = 7.1 . I took pictures of all three set ups to confirm I did the test correctly.