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Folks is a pretty safe term I would have thought :-)

You really ought to have stopped at "He was charismatic" I would have to agree with you there, but the amiable buffoon persona was carefully cultivated, even his sister has frequently said as much. In every other respect the man was a disaster.

Suitable sized hexagonal bar, then once you know the profile and pitch you could make them very easily on a screwcutting lathe. Going to be expensive as a one off. This has come up a few times, so maybe make a few and sell them and you could quickly get your money back. Depends how many people...

Fingers crossed. Cheeky bug**rs to be charging that for a nut though.

Only time I have done this on a curved surface was on a clock similar to the picture, where the top and one side of the curved hood had the veneer badly separated and blistered. I used a number of pine slats about 1/2 inch wide, dictated by the narrowest clamps I had, and a couple of inches or...

Hard to say for sure until you show pictures. On a flat surface the corrugated surface you described can sometimes be recovered by playing steam over it to soften, then clamping it under something like a granite chopping board. You can use a steam cleaner, or even a steam iron. If you don't do...

Just Google rare earth magnets. Massive variety of sizes and shapes, and not expensive.

Nothing silly about it. We lost our Heinz 57 terrier last year at the ripe old age of 17. Very sad. One of the worst things was seeing our other dog looking around the house and garden wondering where he had gone. I feel for you, it is awful.

I did find it funny that Hypnotic Chimera should cite the military as an example of some sort of probity. How many scandals have we seen in recent years, many currently on going, concerning racism, sexual harassment and so forth across our armed forces, some victims being driven to suicide...

Yes definitely worth the money for a good one, cheap ones can work ok but tend to leak. And for the Harrison you need one with a narrow end, especially for some of the oilers that are recessed.

Good idea. Similar setup used to be a common feature on trucks and high quality cars many years ago. One tip my dad gave me, who was very familiar with their machines. The main strip at the back of the saddle doesn't have any specific oiling points, it relies on surplus oil working it's way...

I hadn't mentioned Taylor Swift, so not sure where that came from. Widely reported that the Met's plans altered significantly following political intervention. Is that true? I don't know, and neither do you unless you were party to the conversations which took place, and have detailed knowledge...

Let us suppose for the sake of argument that I am a chief constable. I only have that position because I have been approved by the Home Office, without their approval I couldn't have even been considered for that appointment. The Home Office direct exactly what areas of criminality should be...

Good idea, I shall have to try that.

Not quite as clear cut as you imagine. No one can even be considered for appointment in any chief officer rank without having completed various training etc at the college of policing. Who is responsible for appointing all the executives of the college, that would be the Home Secretary, who is...

Sometimes a tourniquet made out of string can be very handy for awkward shapes as well.

As an aside when my son was small he was very much into his Warhammer. He went to a number of workshops where they were shown how to paint the figures. I was quite impressed with the results so went along to one. The instructor was really into his war hammer stuff, but his day job was in the...

Trick is to keep offering it up until it closes as tightly as possible, then try and work out how to hold it there. More than once I have resorted to covering a piece of wood in cling film, then using car body filler to make a lump of material that fits it exactly and can then be shaped so the...

You can always add rods to reinforce it afterwards I would have thought, as you say very tricky to get any holes to line up when the parts are separate.

No idea, shellac is good for repairs because it can be easily tinted. It can also be easily removed if it all goes wrong. Good to start with a couple of coats of clear. Then if your tinting goes wrong you can just take it all off and start again without having stained the wood irrecoverably the...