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Well that's good news. Bloke who bought my parents house recently got a grant for an air source pump which was fitted in a brick lean to. Fan must be about 900mm dia. Can hear it indoors, next door. I can hear the fan of my neighbours CH boiler in my bedroom. Fortunately he does not run it at...

Bear in mind current generation is only just able to cope with bad weather demand. A quick trawl of google returns will give you the annual sales in billions of litres of fossil fuel from garage pumps. Similarly you can find the energy content, of which about 35% is used to make the vehicle...

Python file handles have an internal wound spring to grip the file tang. Just push in the tang (in the correct sized handle, there's about 5 sizes) and maybe twist a bit. DO NOT BORE OUT you'll probably break the drill. When the file is dull, tap off handle and re use. If you give them some...

Does any one know if a LN frog will fit Quangsheng bench planes? I was lucky enough to be brought several LN planes by a US based relative, on their visits to the UK. Exchange rate was better then, and no sales tax. Cost now is out of sight. I have a couple of LN high angle frogs, and wonder if...

Try Premier Man for Jeans, slim or baggy, especially in 20% off sale (frequent). I like Supplier for Industry's Uneek brand pro work trousers, very heavy polycotton with pockets pouches pad holders etc. All very cheap, and big sizes for the portly aged...

"Or you can fit little auto ones that are, basically, a sprung loaded seal, so, when the pressure goes to nothing, the spring pushes open the valve, but as soon as there is air pressure again, it closes up itself. " That's the boy I'm looking for; the unloader dumps when the motor shuts off, and...

The use of white glue (true pva, not buff x linked etc) for veneering was apparently developed by Unibond in the 1960's. Bob Wearing wrote about it in one of his regular magazine columns some years ago. Bob died a few years back, but as a young man trained at Loughborough after the War, and...

Most small compressors unload the actual pump (loud PSSS) when motor stops, so that the motor, when starting again, is not driving the pistons directly against the tank's psi. When the motor starts again, the actual compressor output is wasted for a few seconds, through a spring loaded leak...

The books generally say that you can plunge and then traverse full width up to the shank dia. For morticing, in a jig* you can drill out the waste with several plunges to full depth, and then traverse to clear the edges, better to go insteps if routing freehand. * Woodrat or home made Bob...

I think linseed is breathable so moisture can permeate out. It's also flexible so can move a bit with timber without cracking. Father used to mix a lot of linseed in his alkyd paint, said grandad reccomended it, worth the extra coat. Interestingly some of the modern breathable paints (ie a...

Moulding planes usually have a steeper bedding angle than a bench plane, and the timber for moulding is usually selected for straight grain. No cap iron, means steeper bedding angle, for the same result quality wise. There's no perfect universal setup, but understanding what's going on at the...

I'm hopeless at hand sharpening, although I can guess 25deg pretty well if I have to grind a primary bevel. But any sharpening would get a bit convex and long winded, 'cos I'd never know if I was sharpening at the base or the pointy tip of the bevel. I think it would take me a lot more than 10...

I agree with Trees. We have a veritas "No 80" which is a bit bigger than the real thing, and also the larger (112 is it?) scraper plane. Very handy, but the 51/2 which can be tuned up, is far better for dimensioning something like curly maple. I have not noticed the wear on the cap iron when...

Re sharpening the flat cap iron / chipbreaker mentioned above: For the smoother I usually sharpen the cap iron at about 50 deg and then gently roll on the hook at about 10-15 deg more. The shaving is thus turned by some 60 odd degrees. The paper mentioned in the earlier post shows how the cap...

3x the work? *not if you grind on a wheel at 25 deg and sharpen at 30 (or more) *thou, and inches are both imperial measure-or they were in my schooldays. *a close set cap iron is not needed for most planing, only difficult stuff. *most standard blades with chipbreaker / cap iron attached become...

I missed Adam's bit above. I confess to using a slightly thicker blade (for eg. 2x thicker = 4x stiffer in the plane) and a completely flat cap iron, sharpened to an appropriate angle, and finished with a gently rolled hook (as per scraper) at the final angle. A gentle dressing ensures the hook...

The trouble is, today's Bailey planes do not conform to the design Bailey submitted to the US patent office. The original had the lever cap pressing the blade via the cap iron, onto the frog at 3 points, not todays 2. I've not seen a cap iron like Bailey's original even in the 1950's, they are...

If you bother to search for it, there's an interesting macro video of an edge cutting timber, on line, made in a Japanese University, as teaching material for school students.This shows with-grain and against-grain cutting. There's a translated version, although only sub titles. There's also a...

We have an older Mafell that plunges on columns like a router, the current pivoting version, and a Lidl Parkside. The mafell track has a virtually perfect joiner, but the track is narrow, and 3M of it is easily (mis)laid in a slight curve. Mostly use festool 3M for long cuts as being wider it's...

Oh dear, oh dear! just looked at fake dots (bet Trump is in there somwhere). Didn't they use protective crystals at the Glastonbury Council "no 5G mast here" meting last year? "All our DOTs are low-powered magnets which are programmed with a specific, coherent, naturally-occurring frequency...