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Not disputing the authenticity/deliciousness of your local Nisa sticks John, just that I haven't had a similarly satisfying experience in my neck of the woods however early I got up - maybe I should move back to Brum! Looks like it can be done with a breadmaking machine though which is good to...

Mostly I'm content with baker's bread, but what I have never found over here is proper French bread - the things sold as baguettes here (UK) are, except in shape, quite unlike the versions sold in France. Crispy crust, big bubbles ('open crumb' in the jargon) and lasting for only a few hours...

From the delightful Susie Dent: You can be gruntled (satisfied), kempt (combed), couth (polite), ruthful (full of compassion), whelmed (capsized), and gorm-like (have an intelligent look about you). And, for a while in the 1600s, you could be shevelled too. Robin. (Gormless, unkempt and...

Yes it does - I have a cheap stainless pan had which had handles attached with aluminium rivets. They didn't last long. Robin.

I think you know the answer to your question - you have to find the source of the buzzing/crackling. Urgently! As the previous poster said this is a very real fire risk. I've had similar - involved taking up carpeting and floor boards to find the poor connection, but it has to be done Robin.

Rafezetter - I've PM'd you re your original request for a bit of high carbon steel drilled through. Robin.

I would agree that base/column will be more than half the total weight - the base is a very substantial casting. The height of the column/base on my Star is 710mm. The base itself is 235mm wide by 390mm deep (max dimensions). The column (55mm diameter) is centered about 120mm from the rear of...

I haven't tried the Avon stuff, but Zoro is part of Grainger Inc. whose UK physical presence is Cromwell Tools. I've never had anything duff from Cromwell - they are primarily an industrial supplier, so their stuff needs to work I guess. The same Avon paper is on the Cromwell site at 60.64...

Hi Aaron. I haven't any industrial experience of using chopsaws so I can't answer your question as posed. You've had a couple of answers from people better informed than me which suggest that dedicated chop saw stands don't yet exist because there isn't a real need or market (not always the...

Silver soldering is another possibility if you have a gas torch with enough go to get the part hot enough. The only problem is cleaning carbon from the fractured surfaces (I'm assuming it's cast iron). Googling will reveal how... I have done this only once, but it worked fine first try using...

Interesting indeed - particularly the ingenious method of cutting the flutes. I guess you could also have done that on the lathe, holding the tap blank in the chuck and clamping a Dremel equipped with a bull nosed cutter to the cross slide. I had a similar experience (ie homemade taps not...

Thanks for replies and apologies for my delay in acknowledging. It would be rather wonderful if it were rosewood, given the price the stuff goes for, but that would be surprising! The consensus on the basis of my closeup of the long grain and experience of reclaimed lab benches seems to be...

I took a chance on a reclaimed school science lab bench top advertised on eBay without any info about species, but the seller said it was a heavy dark wood so I thought it might be worth a tenner (starting price ) or more. I hoped that it might be teak, but having got it home (#10.50 - my wife...

Arc Euro Trade do universal transfer punches . They are based on the 'punch in a cone' idea, but have a sliding collar on the outside of the cone which ensures that the punch is held perpendicular to the work. The larger size goes up to 26mm Robin

I think that mathematically, SMALMALEKI is correct - to say otherwise would be equivalent to asserting, for example, that there is no such thing as zero (identically) in the (uncountable) set of real numbers. Which would be a problem for mathematicians! Just saying, with apologies for any...

Blimey. Amazed this has gone on so long. I'm (very much) an amateur woodworker but I find engineers' squares are more than good enough for woodworking - even the class ones B are good for one part in ten thousandish (if I've got my arithmetic right). If ever I thought I could saw to that...

Yep, that dawned on me today - widest they do is 8 and 3/4, that'll do. I go around the houses and forget where I started. Thanks, Rob.

Thanks for further replies. In reverse order (ish): Jacob: Table saw is a Bosch site job so probably around the same weight as the boards, which adds to my feeling of insecurity. It does have a knee height cutoff switch though. You'll have forgotten, but you Freegled a woodie jack plane a while...

Hi Saeid. I wonder where you got your 'engineer's square'? I bought one from Screwfix which was complete junk, despite being advertised as an engineer's square. If you go for something conforming to BS 939 class B it'll be more than good enough for woodworking. Faithfull (not the best name I...

Thanks for replies. The area is actually an upstairs landing, and the reason for wanting thinner boards was indeed to avoid steps between the landing and adjoining rooms. Given the price of the reclaimed timber and the mount of work involved in splitting the boards I think the way forward is to...