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I've mentioned this channel in the answer to a post elsewhere on the site, but to make it a bitt more public, I'll post it here too. "The Post Apocalyptic Inventor" is a German guy who searches scrapyards to find stuff to repair. He does a lot of old workshop equipment (including cordless...

Nothing like a good prot in the dark

I know you said that you had looked at YouTube, but take a look at "The Post Apocalyptic inventor". He's a German guy who rescues stuff from scrapyards and gets it into working condition. Converting battery tools to mains is one of his "things". He certainly seems to know what he is talking...

When the new computer set itself up, it did not ask for my Microsoft account, but I think that only applies to Windows Pro (which is built into it, somehow). Anyway it was incredibly quick and painless, unlike my old machine that would start and restart many times. over the course of what...

I've just bought one of these (available in the UK as well): Mini PC, processeur AMD Ryzen 7 3750H Quad Core, Mini Ordinateur de Bureau 16 Go DDR4 / 512 Go SSD évolutif avec Windows 10 Pro, Ports HDMI, DP et USB C, WiFi Double Bande, BT 5.1, USB 3.1 * 4 : Amazon.fr: Informatique It replaced a...

Here in France, the common way is to use tongue and groove 22mm oak floorboards. Even I, with my somewhat limited skills managed to make a few quite reasonable doors that seem to be holding up well. So you would need a circular saw and some clamps for gluing up, And your mil's back door would...

85 enter 15 +, surely?

Last ditch bump.........

He said it was 53 hours

This is a forlorn cry for help from me to the workshop community for a spare part for a Spit 385 sds drill. One of the things I do to help pass the time in retirement is to try to fix “stuff”, mainly tools from my mate Dave the builder, whose artisans have a knack of breaking tools in...

I keep it as a spare for the next "change out", make a shade sail out of it or cover the bike. No wastage in this house

OK, here's the final , I hope, chapter in the story. Many, many thanks for all of the helpful suggestions. That's what forums are for, and I appreciate all of them. Some I had already tried, but I followed up on most of the rest. Anyway, we went to a couple of big diy/homeware shops this...

Using Google, I've tried almost every potential source, but prices are fairly constant wherever I look. China is next on my list, but as mentioned somewhere above, I'd have to buy 50 of them (so far). Correspondence continues. I'm off to a diy place about 50km away this morning as they...

I can buy the material "raw" from the company in Holland that quoted the least for the completed awning at 18€ per metre/1.8 wide (10€/m2). made up it's over 40€/m2. Finding someone near where I am to stitch a heavy material, I know would be expensive. It's only a hem on all 4 sides, after all.

About 6 years ago, I bought an end of season powered awning for around 600€. Over the years, the cloth material has of course degraded because of uv and weather, so I've been looking around for a replacement piece of material 3800mm x 3000mm, hemmed to finish. The prices for said material have...

I use a Kango hammer for that

Coincidentally, I've just carried out an experiment using normal hot melt brown glue on some deep fissures on my terrace railing. I live in SW France, so the sun is pretty fierce and I could not find anything that would cope with the temperature difference between summer and winter as the...

I've just checked and Bar Keepers Friend is mainly citric acid. I've also got some of this STARWAX FABULOUS Sorrel Salt - 400g - Ideal for Bleaching Wood and Eliminating Rust Stains which is oxalic acid. As stated above, it also works very well.

You might have some luck with "Bar Keepers Friend" cleaner We use it on our oak worktops to remove black rings caused usually by cast iron pots. Your stains don't look very deep, so you might be lucky, and it's a great cleaner for other stuff too. The powder version works best. Available from...

Ah, it'll be the gold thread that they use.