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Do any of you sketchup users use it for engineering purposes as opposed to woodwork? Specifically I am wondering whether it would handle say a gear box ?

I am not an expert and someone may gain say me, but I think that solar farms and wind generally are supplying their power at relatively low voltage, and the infrastructure allows it to be used relatively locally but not transformed up to the voltage necessary to be distributed more widely...

Dom, I have the same jukebox top as you and the same benchdogs version. It is bang on, so hard to comment on what you are getting. I had a couple of self made issues. One was simply that the saw was a bit loose in the track after a lot of construction work. with the play removed , back to...

Anyone know of surviving descendants from Sinclair products? I never owned one. But had quite a lot to do with various Chris Curry products and businesses (post Acorn / BBC micro) Curry worked with and fell out & left Sinclair. Both made and lost lots. I think that Arm is a descendant of Curry...

I have 10mm copper solar panel pipes come down from the roof through to a storage tank. It had quite expensive insulation round them. squirrels ate nearly all of it,

I’m a fan of Sinclair, but I was living very close to Ally Pally when the C5 was launched there. Me and my mates all went for a go round the indoor track. It felt a bit like a fairground ride, say, dodgems but not allowed to crash. An obvious flop. None of us would have taken it onto the streets...

Mornington Crescent.

i Never thought I’d be writing something like this, but oddly I have a lot of relevant experience of dealing with quirky problems of fixing much heavier stuff to the walls and pillars of quite a few of the nations treasured grade 1 buildings, be they cathedrals concert halls or university...

Simple... you can’t have too many outbuildings. Get building!

I wish I had a few of my grandfather’s tools too. His workshop was just down the road in Bonvilston. Although I did inherit a Billhook from my next door neighbour a few years ago. Really great for hedge laying

If the blade is upside down you simply must turn it over! The cutting stroke should pull the wood against the table, not lift it into the air. You can tell if (with it turned off) rub your finger up and down the blade. It should bite your skin as you raise your finger, and as you lower it. You...

it depends a bit on which car it’s in. The first one I ever drove was a DAF who I guess were the Dutch originator. It was back in the 1970s it was noisy and gutless but had a tiny engine. The next one I drove was an American people carrier, can’t remember what brand but it was a hire carin...

Whilst I do have an extensive festool collection, I bought a dewalt sliding mitre saw 8 or 9 years ago, and the only thing that would tempt me to change it would be dust collection. The shadow is infallibly accurate, whereas the laser setting on the evolution I use outside if breaking up stuff...

I too would go with softwood, but I make all shelves carrying a load using sliding dovetails into the sides. (Various ways of doing it but I have an old router permanently mounted on a littleRat. A load on one shelf wanting to sag goes into tension against those sliding dovetails. None of them...

I use danish oil a fair bit, and have experienced similar to what you are describing especially on previously treated oak. What I have found is that I have been able to sort out my issues by generating a lot of heat /friction by pressing hard and making very fast long sweeps. It takes a lot of...

How’s about taking a tip from the nursery ski slopes drag lifts, where a bit like the San Francisco street cars you have stout cables on the motorway pulling at 70mph. You get up to 70 on the slip road, find your gap and hook on. Can’t foresee any problems with that! Oh it’s amazing how good I...

We moved here (between Bedford and Cambridge) about fifteen years ago , 2 years in we had the crappy asbestos cement slates removed and I was also replumbing heating. Professional quotes for solar panels were very expensive then, and they all wanted to put them on a west facing roof. Easiest...

I have a UJK top, most of the time with a benchdogs fence in place, and have festool rails and festool clamps, both screw and quick clamp and others. I lucked out as my wife was going to MK IKEA store, and she brought 4 of the IKEA rails back for me. I don’t seem to have any issue with the...

I have chainsawed maybe 10 of these things over recent years. There were a few left on our property when we moved in, and the others we got from a neighbouring farm. It’s all overhead power round here and these date from the original delivery of power to the village. High quality and very deep...

i have a saw that has only ever been used for cutting the slots for frets on a guitar fingerboard. The body of the blade is exactly the same thickness as the required slot, and before first use many years ago, I hammered of all the set on both sides. Now and again it is invaluable for other...