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    Bosch professional jigsaw blades for scaffolding boards

    I think the problem with pendulum swing on jigsaws, is that the diagrams in the manuals invariably always show the blade angling backwards ( pivoting backwards from the top ) and the designs that are sometimes molded onto the saws also show this.When in fact,it is as Kev says, the opposite which...
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    Polishing out fine scratches on chrome picture frame

    Forgive what may be a silly question, but have you tried actual chrome polish? like autosol. If the scratches are too deep for autosol to work immediately, try knocking them back with 3M Scotch cloth pads used gently, ( they will "matt" glass ) I think the white one is the finest "grain" , too...
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    Joke Thread III

    Sounds like another not very well disguised personal attack on me from you..can't wait for yet another excuse about how it isn't , your last one ( remark from you about how often I was posting , followed by your reason for posting that was your supposed concern about my double slipped discs )...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Next time you are photographing outside on an overcast day , take a torch with you and shine it onto the object from level with the camera lens..Move it around a bit til you get the light that you want. Cheaper than having an assistant holding a bounce card ( metallic or plain, or coloured ) or...
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    Joke Thread III

    Yes, really..Yoko is like marmite..I'm informed I am too..am I bovvered ..doubt she is either.. Bjork too.. long list..for "some reason" women get more stick from the men if they are intelligent and have creative talent. Ever seen "Noh theatre" ..Yoko is from a different culture, draws on it, a...
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    Light proof ventilation

    Lidl sell / sold such a box, began during covid ( we have one for phones and keys, due to SWMBO's job ) cost about €15.oo , uses a plastic housing and "bathes" the phone or "whatever" in UVc, gets a bit warm if you forget and leave the phone in for longer than the recommended 15 minutes, but not...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Superb, now take it back in before those clouds rain on it.
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    Joke Thread III

    Actually I agree with ( ex girlfriend was a mate of the 4 and played session with them and loads of others well known ), she ( and others I met , told a totally fifferent story first hand about "the break up" to what was pushed by the media who were well racist re Yoko ) and liked this part...
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    Joke Thread III

    I worked a lot in the fashion / mode business, ( freelance )still do occasionally ..she trusts my taste.
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    Joke Thread III

    Caution..expensive sandals .. may cause severe pain to bank accounts. Ancient Roman or Greek Sandals..probably means these sort. https://www.ancient-greek-sandals.com/en/usd/product/2642800/Women/ST-TROPEZ/ or...
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    Fun guy wood turning mushrooms

    You are in France, garden fairs ( one near me this week-end ) turned and chainsawn mushrooms sell like "croissants chauds"..and yours are far better and nicer than any I have ever seen, and I've been here 33 years..set yer stand out. get yourself on etsy or make yourself a website ( in french )...
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    Joke Thread III

    What that needs is Miley Cyrus.
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    Knot advice please

    re-tension by twisting the cord.
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    Pre fab workshop

    @Jacob I'm Irish, ( world's best passport :) )* so no problems at all ( apart from France being like Mars ( bureaucracy gone mad ) as I've mentioned elsewhere ). Apart from some french who can't tell the difference between Irish and British ( mum was British ), or think that there isn't one.One...
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    Pre fab workshop

    There are habitable ( ready to move into ) houses for that kind of money, or less within 50km of our place. Some nearer still. ( The house next door , two stories plus basement, total 120sq m habitable , sold for less than that 4 years ago and he put his workshop into the built on 8m x 15m...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    pat from Marck "nugget day" :ROFLMAO: Muguet ( moo gay ) ( lilly of the valley, which BTW is poisonous ) is what the french give each other on the 1st of May..1er Mai ( prem ee ay may ).
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    steady hand needed

    @Robbo3 They are by Dalton Ghetti https://www.daltonghetti.com/biography/ more in the shop at that site https://www.daltonghetti.com/shop/ Just discovered Dalton Ghetti was the subject of a thread here in 2010 https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/pencil-carvings.43533/
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    Splitting the line.

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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Useful to know. :)
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    Splitting the line.

    I'll raise you Stanley Unwin , or Hilda Baker. I seem to remember Stanley Unwin doing a woodwork "sketch"..Hilda Baker was definitely near the line..
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