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Courtesy of the BBC web page reporting on the cricket in Sri Lanka " It does. But it also gives us an excuse to eat cake for breakfast which, let's face it, is the dream when you're a kid. " :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I do puzzle over the fact that my 10 yr old grandaughter still believes in Santa Claus - her 8 yr sister is a bit more wordly wise and I suspect goes along with it. But then the parents do not give their family presents - every thing comes form Santa Claus. So who is misleading whom? The...

Welcome Fran - and the other topic which is in the 'banned' list is plastic dust extraction systems:D:mad:. And welcome to C64 as well - wasn't that the name of Sinclair's washing machine motor driven bike thing? Or am I just showing my age and being intrigued as where people's handles come...

Are blending valves not mandatory now for the taps in all modern builds ?

My gut feeling is the drain is the source of the problem because the glass fibre the pond is made of looks horribly thin from the photo, and with all due respect you quite likely initiated the cracks when you cut it. The further problem is that unless you have that drain connected to something...

P-A , had you thought of looking at the diesel type heaters popular with the mobile home community.. I don't know anything about them but that is what my brother is going to fit into his retirement workshop - retiring from doing ..... woodwork!! I suspect controllability might be an advantage...

Interesting your reference to the RAF as the Standard originally had a pick up body on it and was I seem to remember used on the wartime RAF bases in a like manner to the Austin one you see in all the films for crew transport. My father originally bought it from trhe Ednburgh Council Parks...

AES - having gone back to your post there is a couple of further things worth commenting on. Fuel consumption 20 mpg was my reckoning or was that the Land Rover some years later? Brakes - the Standard had cables. You tuned them up for the MOT, retuned thereafter and used your gearbox...

AES that is a lovely bit of remembering - well done and a picture too. I hope you enjoyed going bacjk there. I hadn't thought about the SS connotation. We are in same period so much of an age. I went late to university and had 'wheels' - a pal from that time remembers the cold in the van...

Now I have never looked into this but isn't it the case tha the bark of silver birch is much more water proof than other species such that rot occurs from the inside out. Often I've seen fallen silver birches on the hills where the bark is intact but the wood inside rotten. I'm not sure how...

In the 1950's/early 60's my Dad had a van that was based on the late 1930's/40's Standard 12, and I took it on in ~1961. A guy that I was working with gave me a damaged engine that was based on the Standard 12 side valve but had been converted to push rod ohv. His line was that it was an...

Having seen that Paul is of the opinion that insurance companies could well apply commercial legislation requirements to DIY extraction systems, where does that place the amateur using machinery from a bygone era. We all take care of ourselves as far as possible with guards and the likes but I...

Sandyn - I haven't checked the internet but if you have enough technical knowledge to build this device, then have you thought of having a look to make your own current sensing device. It is after all just a coil that sits round the line wire. I can't remember why I made one some years ago...

My eye caught the picture Mooose took of the lower wheel and the brake. That looks remarkably like a disc brake off a push bike. Might that be a worthwhile mod to un-braked bandsaws?

Another vote for yew. I doubt it is cedar as that is really quite soft - quite tricky to turn because of that. But then that would have been some yew tree both in girth and straightness of the trunk. I seen somewhere that yew is the second hardest wood to olive in Europe. Certainly...

I've followed this discussion with considerable interest. I am not a tub-thumper as I feel one or two here are, though I would like to take the general advice which seems to be to go metal. But I won't - certainly initially - as I don't have a system yet installed and I really don't know how I...

Is it also possible that this is a modern deisel Merc which adds urea to the exhaust to reduce nitrates (?) and maybe when cold that produces more 'water'. They won't go anywhere unless the urea container has fluid in it.

As an afterthought, there is a spindle turing project in Mike Barlow's book that I turned pretty early on - page 126 - it's a lovely hat stand and a piece that I hope my kids won't throw away! Just local bits of cherry wood. Rob

Cowboy - I'm not sure I would recommend this. Mahogany (modern!) is relatively easy to turn, but you have something which is bonded with glues, will have grain going in all directions, may not actually be mahogany and will produce a lot of fine dust which could be troublesome...

More from the Scrolll saw - not my design I'm afraid. Four sets made - one already away before photographic record. Rob