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Given that the main ingredient in these worktops is Alumina Trihydrate, not Silica why then is the resulting lung disease called Silicosis? I appreciate it could be a general name - though it sounds quite specific. :unsure:

One has to ask the question as to whether a vegetarian diet is applicable, or indeed desirable across the globe. I think the Inuit would struggle to grow anything. Hence their - far from vegetarian - traditional diet. Land past a certain latitude is useless for growing crops unless you can...

Apologies, if I have caused any confusion here. I was simply pointing out that cattle are less frequently taken to the fields to graze, but that they are now kept mostly under cover and the grass is brought to them. The best they can hope is to be let out into a field adjacent to their...

Hmm ... to say that beef cattle are fed on grass seems to conjure up the idyll of sunny meadows full of diverse plants and teeming with insects. However, the reality can be very different. In this part of the world they practice a form of remote-grazing. The cattle are not taken to the fields...

It looks to be mild, case hardening of the timber, most likely caused during kiln drying. Tension has been released resulting in the cut pieces bowing slightly , In really bad cases the cut pieces can try and bind on the saw blade even before the riving knife is engaged, or around the...

This as been discussed on this forum before. No one has explained why this is a problem related solely to man-made, stone/resin worktops rather than natural stone ones. , . The rise in cases might be more to do with the dry methods we now use to work the material, as opposed to the wet methods...

I couldn't find any link to it's origins, or derivation. I can only guess that it combines "Rant" and "oneous", with the extra "h" to smooth things over. :ROFLMAO:

Try a Yew stain, I find this works quite well for giving things a yellower look. At the risk of stating the obvious, you can intermix stains from the same range to get the exact colour you need, as well as thin them down with a suitable solvent. I recently used Light Oak+ Yew, to match an edge...

Are you sure it's not CaTS ? :giggle:

Thanks for the suggestion but it does seem to be Identical to the ones I have been using. Inside the tube, at both ends of the metal wire linkage are sliding, plastic plugs that are in turn fused/glued into the handle and grabber respectively. The weakest point is where these parts step down...

The cost of houses in relation to earnings was last at this disproportionate level in the 1870's This was at a time when Britain was arguably one of the richest nations on earth. So what hope do we have now by comparison.? In the following years it needed institutions like the Peabody Trust...

From a design point of view, the linkage needs not to be cord,, as it is prone to stretch. It needs to be a thin metal rod or a thick wire. The use of plastic should be minimised as it is prone to break. On all the ones I have used so far I have managed to snap the linkage by grabbing too hard...

Thanks for the suggestion - I'm sorely tempted. I could substitute the plastic for metal, which might allow me to pick up a brick with it. :giggle: I've just come across the "Unger Professional Nifty Nabber", which looks to be the part. Though I will have to get the price down somehow.

Thanks for the link. I would prefer the more hand -like grabber. This .though, is fairly robust, and with less parts to go wrong.

I never really know what to call these, but I do find them handy for lifting things off the high shelves in my workshop. I have had umpteen of them over the years, however, the problem is that they keep breaking. They are not really man enough to lift anything above the weight of a piece of...

All joking aside, you have hit the nail on the head. The dilemma lies in western populations not having enough children to replenish their numbers, Gone are the days when it was possible for a family to live off the wage of one. It now requires there to be two wage earners. Child care can...

Maybe it was the thought of having to pay the artist:giggle:

Because they are the generation who will wipe your a*'e when you are in a care home. :LOL:

The proneness to burning could well be the sugars in the wood, Cutting cherry has always filled my nostrils with the appetising smell of cherry pie. :giggle: You could try using the saw to plane a fraction of a millimetre off the side of your mitre and slide the wood away from the spinning...

Having started out my career in the Art World, this is an all too familiar story. Many subsidise their work by teaching. From being a post graduate student, you apply for scholarships, which for a set period gives you workshop space along with which you are required to do some teaching. You then...