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on the first day of The Big Plastic Count it is interesting to see all solutions are plastic based my father would have made something like that from sheet steel but he did move with the times and took to pop rivets in a big way when fixing his old fiat 600.

That's not a micro micro torch thats a large size this is a mico torch brought one years ago not expecting it to be of much use is was so cheap but it's come in handy for a few jobs over the years always have to fefill from a lighter gas can before use as gas slowly leaksbut otherwise fine.

I would avoid like the plague if the recent batch of instant hot water taps advertised for the domestic market are anything like the Zip hydrotap that were being installed in government buildings about 15 years ago, they quickly used very expensive filters and couldn't cope with the rush after a...

I used to have a large street light globe as the wrong size had been ordered but it got used as a fish tank

I chose a Wanhoa I3 V2.1 3D printer as the company retirement gift nearly 5 years ago as it was an expensive toy I couldn't really justify but as a present thats OK, it's come in useful a few times and it's a bit dated now but yesterday printed out these tuner knobs to replace split originals...

Don't do it you will get adicted I started with a £25 bead lathe as I wanted to shape a length of dowell to restore a table skittles game and now I'm sat in my motorhome having picked up three lathes on the way, now the one thing I've never seen in advice to beginners is get a centre finder...

thats why I preferred the ratchet spanner or if that didn't fit the 4 inch adjustable got used. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bahco-8069-Black-Adjustable-Wrench/dp/B0001IX8T6

I have somewhere 2 different sizes of this style somewhere but when working used the rachet spanner if possible

https://www.screwfix.com/p/rothenberger-4-way-radiator-services-cabinet-key/84379

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gohantee-Ratchet-Wrench-Service-Refrigeration/dp/B07TGC3D1T

dripping outside and variable pressures are symptoms that you have lost the pressure in the expansion tank you need to get the pressure out of the system and with a vent open repressurise the air side of the expansion tank to 2/3 running pressure

can only find that motor as a 110v and usually with a shorter shaft so details of sewing machine would be required to find suitable replacement but good news is that the motor is used on the better quality machines

it depends on the sewing machine you could be spending more than it's worth on a converter or a new motor if it's an industrial machine usually worth it but a lot of domestic machines are worth very little with only a few worth spending much on.

when I worked in a chemical works the explosive set of tools were spanners and a hamer in phosphor bronze the laggers would be the only trade using pop rivits much of their work would have been done in a workshop in the safe area but they may have had them for final fitting.

I've got even lazier tongs and gone electric, but just an attachment for a drill the real electric ones cost a fortune

Nice sets but most cost more than I paid for the drill and it's just for DIY currently restoring a clock that needs a small piece of wood sanding to shape next is a 50's wooden model boat that may need the hull sealing and sanding as the planks can shrink. .

thanks to Pallet Fancier & Phil Pascoe I now know the discs are available in 50mm & 75mm sizes and having these measurements it's easy to source the backing pads & shanks that will fit

There have been times when I would have loved to have had an angle drill to get in a tight space so last month bid and won a DeWalt from a Hospice ebay auction, looks like it's never been used and batteries charged OK and drilled a few holes in some scrap timber. Now drilling downwards it felt...

£16.50 😱 and I've been chopping the tops off those to grow tatties and tomatoes in as couldn't get rid of many of that size ( dishwashing liquid ) because most people in the camping at festivals scene liked the smaller sized ex laundry liquid containers.

I once replaced a broken spade handle with a bit of debarked apple tree branch, it was almost straight and lasted for years.