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All significant issues, but dealt with in the vehicles themselves, so can equally be dealt with elsewhere. At least in designing plant for a petrol station forecourt weight is not a consideration, nor does the installation have to be particularly compact. Relatively easy to make tanks for that...

Is there a viable alternative to Hydrogen for replacing fossil fuels in aircraft ? I appreciate you can argue about battery versus fuel cell for cars, but for other applications hydrogen is much more suitable. Even if we look at cars, it seems to me that the technology is already well proven...

I remember having a 4 foot step ladder go missing. When it came to collect the replacement the guy in stores absolutely refused to let me take it until I could prove I had been on a "working at height" course. I had, but that was about climbing towers with a safety harness etc, hardy...

I will have to check the specs of it but we have an air source pool heater. Very good and last year cost about an extra 30-40 quid overall on the bill for the four months we had it going. That's heating a 48 cubic metre pool to 28°. Not equivalent to running a domestic heating system obviously...

Or blow it further into everything.

Very much so :-)

I usually clean up bar ends on a belt. If you want a chamfer then mount the rod in a drill and hold it against the belt at the desired angle, depends how precise you need them to be. Important thing that many people ignore is that the work surface should be moving in the opposite direction to...

Nice old machine, just the sort of thing I would recommend to anyone instead of a Myford. You can use it, quite simple to rig up a tool rest. But you will get wood dust in all the working parts, very difficult to clean up and the carriage will constantly get in your way. Definitely much better...

Feeding the wrong way will do that :-)

I have the Sheppach version. It will cut 125x65 rolled channel with ease, so I think to call it a toy is a little harsh. The so called "vice" that it comes with is awful, but otherwise a very good piece of kit.

I suspect few, of the seniors anyway, will be honest enough to admit that it was sleaze and incompetence that brought about their downfall. I did have to grin at Sunak apologising to the party members, the very same people who selected Truss. Never in the history of British politics can so much...

Not suggesting they do, just an example.

I would certainly have thought that it would be prudent to isolate the pipework under the floor, before you go to the extreme of digging it up. If this solves the issue then you know for sure that is the problem. If not you will have saved yourself an awful lot of grief. This ought to be fairly...

Oh I agree, if you want parliament to more accurately reflect the views of the people it is the way to go. Current system very un representative, Lib Dems 3.5million votes and 71 seats. Reform 4 million votes and 4 seats, something not right there, and I am sure a lot of people who voted for...

Booster seat from the prime ministerial car will be on e bay later.

Under PR I suspect there would have been a lot more of the reform mob, so be careful what you wish for.

The Americans were actually among the first to adopt Whitworth threads, along with many of his other ideas. Arguably the foundations of their mass production industries. They continued to use the form in some industries well after the second world war. Whitworth was the basis for their own UNC.

Possibly one of the many thousands of machine tools sent to USSR during the war?

You can mix hard wax to get the colour you want, you can even run one colour through another to get a grain effect, although that takes some practice. If you just want to mix for colour then I use a cheese grater to shave off bits from different sticks, then melt and adjust until you have the...

Didn't WD40 have an advert where they ran a Ford Escort at the bottom of a swimming pool, having first sprayed all the electrics?