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Intriguing as there are two features I've never seen before. Is the turn wheel on the main head some sort of indexing mechanism ? And is the shaped shelf over the head and motor shaped that way for some purpose ? Rob

Ad I admire your eye for shape - that is nice. I don't know anything about Alder apart from the fact that quite a lot of it grows here in Scotland. I take it that's turned end grain - was the wood very dry or do you do something to stop the pith splitting ? Beer - now we all know something...

I think it should read "....my mother, heavily pregnant, was walking up the road with my sister...." --it reads as if it was your sister she was pregnant with. Rob

Badly written, Roy, or is the logic incorrect here somehow ? Ooops I'm high jacking Graeme's thread again. Rob

Ahh, yes of course it's an inductive load so the current lags the voltage. Rob

Graeme - my apologies for the wandering away from the topic ! I suspect I was the instigator :( Bob - would looking at the starter switch for a bandsaw be worth considering for an indication of 'capacity' as they have a fair inertia to wind up. Mine's got a 1hp motor (6A 0n the plate) and...

Ahh well then, I find no problem in that at all - I'm no craftsman !! I'm far to much a 'Jack of all Trades and Master of None'. Today's problem was sorting out the replacement glass in the log burning stove, yesterday's was an electronic gismo my wife wanted repairing, the day before ... too...

Roy I reckoning very few of us could match that - wow. The hatching bit you won't remember, but as I can remember things at 4, the being buried must have been bloody frightening and quite traumatic. I didn't realise that bombers were still being active as far on as the war as that. I'm 1+ a...

BB - having just had a difficult and fiddly task in the workshop, drilling out two sheared bolts, I can quite categorically state that you are wrong in considering that one pair of +3's is preferable in the work situation to +1.5's doubled up. I needed to see close, and actually was adding...

Also a war baby then ?? :D :D Rob

OK - Ok - you've already been there, done it, got the T shirt and seen the video !! Thanks for the connection through. Wizer, I'll look at it later. Rob

Thanks Dibs, that does explain in words of one syllable. Joesoap - that is a worthwhile link for prescription glasses and i'm sure it will be of use to some. The point that I was suggesting is relevent to the many of us can just use £3 readers from Boots, etc, finding them adequate and...

I found this link to a YouTube clip on turning spherical knob ends in steel; there will be those here who turn metal as well and may well know of this, but the principle looks as if it could be transferred to the wood turning lathe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4pwUw0G3RQ Rob

ECC82 - ahh.. that takes me back to schooldays (~1959) when I used one for a school science fair to make a ping pong ball in the middle of a sheet of ply disappear when you reached for it due to body capacitance. Memory says I never used a valve again, but then I did have a neighbour who...

OK BB - I'll leave others to judge whether they want to have even more pairs of glasses to lose, or take advantage of a simple solution using the workshop pair and the house pair to solve a 5 minute problem. That was the point of the posting. I take it that apart from you considering it more...

No it's just a zoom function and I'm sure there are other packages that do the same thing, but Gadwin has been recommended by one of the application reviewing websites, and I find it very useful for extracting snippets of maps, catalogue pictures, documents and the likes. Rob

BB - I appreciate your technical input, but this was meant as a slightly tongue in cheek recommendation. Yes you are correct, but I think you have taken the matter a little too professionally! I'm late 60's and have a number of friends who are all finding that there sight is good enough for...

Can I recommend a nifty little computer utility I've just been using to zoom in and confirm that the name is Martin and that the blade looks much more like a gear wheel than a saw blade !! What in the earth would such a fine toothed blade of this diameter be used for, with teeth that look...

This really has turned into an applicable topic for someone called Digit and someone called 9Fingers!! Keep it up guys - it's good entertainment. Bob, I do like your idea of the toaster timer. Next time I'm at the skip I'll see if there's any lying about. I was about to say to Graeme that...

I've just posted this elsewhere and realsied then that there are plenty here who might find it useful. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has found this, but I'm surprised how often I tell fellow sufferers and they don't know it. If you are like me and in your senility your eyes will no longer...