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I believe it is commonplace enough to have its own E number.Apparently, it is also used in a lot of drug preparations - both those administered by injection and orally. At certain levels, it is understood to have an effect on male fertility I haven't been able to find out how this was...

I'm not sure why Arla should have thought this was a worthwhile pursuit. It is said that the chemicals used don;t cross over into the milk but are broken down in the gut. However this must be based on the assumption that the gut is working properly at all times. I don't like the Idea of...

It continues to be pretty alarming here. Gusts of 83mph were recorded down the road at Aberporth Not much sleep last night because of all the noise The car is bouncing up and down alarmingly and one of our front lobby's is ringing wet with rain driven past the front door (think power shower)_...

@artie, you're not having a Michael Fish moment , are you?:giggle:

As title says , this has just turned to a red warning. The satellite image is looking pretty dire for Ireland Wales and the south coast of England Just been out battening down the hatches, making sure all ladders are on the deck and safely stashed away . Also, that all the doors and windows to...

I think it should be termed a "Young Gentleman's Chair" I can't see myself easily being able to thread my legs through the opening beneath the tray. It is a bit like the bucket seats in some cars, which were difficult to negotiate even I was a lot younger. :giggle:

Sometime, in the distant past , I seem to remember it also being credited with a rise in the average height of the population in the generation after the war. :unsure: .

Mortise locks are traditionally placed at the middle rail position. If you look at virtually any Victorian door you will see this to be the case, The locks were also quite long, having to allow for hand clearance around the knob that operates the latch. It is true that the chopping of the...

It would be best to remove the chisel from its handle and bend it whilst red hot. It will then have to be re-hardened and tempered. The re-hardening will most likely require quenching in oil. And, the tempering can be carried out in a domestic oven with a oven thermometer to check the...

I think the problem is that Europe and the UK is becoming poorer. We are , to all intents and purposes in a managed decline. What this means in reality is that our public services will be affected. The levels of state help we once enjoyed will no longer be available. What France is experiencing...

A brief post script to my original post - following is a photo of my cracked 40mm waste pipe. I think @Bingy man may have offered the most plausible explanation as to cause. It was located quite close to the sink. So, more than enough exposure to chemicals and of course all that hot pasta water. :)

My problem, apart from it being a 'pig' to machine is that it doesn't seem to be available in all the convenient sizes and forms that brass is. I would love to be able to easily buy 18mm diameter tube with 1mm wall. I can get plenty brake-pipe' sized' but that doesn't really help. Also, the last...

The best cut i managed was with a tungsten insert that had the minutest semicircular groove around the top of the cutting edge. This, I suppose, gave it a slightly positive rake. I'm not so sure how one of those tips for aluminium would perform, but I'm willing to try just to improve things...

It must have been beginners luck , last time, because when I turned some 18mm diameter ferrules and rings, from some 20mm nickel silver rod; I don't remember the hassle I have encountered this time around. I spent the whole of today making 4 x 18mm outside dia. x 6mm long ferrules, They were...

There were also the wire coat hooks of this era that used these coloured balls.

If you use floor standing rollers set to the right height then long lengths won't be a problem.

This seems to be just the latest example of cancel culture, trying to hound someone out of their job The guy is a bit of a fossil from a bygone era, and not to everybody's liking But, when all is said and done, he is a London Greengrocer and not Mother Teresa- and what you see is what you get.

It was really just an observation, rather than me wanting to come down on any one side or the other. With suicide the reasons are always going to be extreme enough for it to be carried out But the mitigating factor there will be that no one else is involved. Where a person wishes to die, but...

I think it is a strange juxtaposition, that a secular society that, in living memory, has quite rightly come to the conclusion that the state has no right to execute murderers; should now be countenancing killing some of its sick.

If they were for cane, tops then the holes are going to be in the region of 10mm in diameter.