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On the Island, that’s only just come into fashion, I hear they will have electricity one day soon

Not everyone on here is a stuck-in-the-past cynic with no idea how much they owe the modern world for their continued luxurious existence, but don’t get me wrong, there are a lot!

IKEA is fabulous. Enabling average people to have nice things.

Any modern adhesive will be fine. I’d use a D4 just in case, that’s still readily available and cheap

Your desktop is not doing what it was in the 90’s, if you think it is, please try streaming video in 4K from the internet on it. Computer technology doesn’t have the longevity of a power drill because the technology moves quickly and drilling technology doesn’t, so it’s not worth making things...

Sigh. If you don’t like modern technology… stop using it.

You know Festool is made in Germany right?

Have a try with neat hinges, once you’ve tried them you won’t go back

I don’t know who told you that, but it’s really wrong. Safety applies to everyone, regulations apply to situations and products as applicable, no exceptions. Windows are outside my area so I don’t know what regulations apply. There is a general safety clause in UKCA that applies to anything...

I’d recommend using 50mm thick boards then, twice as good as 25mm

What makes you think planks of cedar will have an effect that a veneer won’t? A quick search doesn’t reveal much evidence for cedar working at all to repel or kill moths, albeit the only article I could find came from the 50’s and was compared with DDT which oddly enough worked rather well

I think that’s off topic and shouldn’t be asked

It should say on it what specification it, machine manufacturer spare prices are just markups of COTS parts so just get the same spec and it’ll be a swap out, so long as the connection to it is still healthy?

I like that one lots. One to save for future use, thanks

Out of curiosity, why is that? Moth killers are a few quid from Amazon and they definitely work, I’m presuming we aren’t all just using scraps of wood these days as they don’t work (and mothballs smell terrible)

Cedar veneer on MDF works lovely, gives the look and smell whilst being far stronger

Here’s a piece

Mexican rosewood is also called bocote, only your 3rd picture looks like it to me, it has a very swirly interlocked grain yellow and brown are the main colours, quite hard and smells of gherkins when cut.

I’d be cautious here, unless you’re certain your repair is good, the implications are pretty dire for a failure at an inopportune moment. That’s why hospitals give away aluminium ones and don’t want them back.

First part… That’s a male M6 star knob, cheap on EBay. Sometimes a company make them by taking a female knob and bonding a stud in, this is a good one to know if you can’t get one long enough, sounds like what you’ve tried, use thread retaining compound or epoxy to do this, or even superglue at...