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Emma Cook, brands herself the tiny turner and really is. Her brother has set up a linked ppe business and might be able to help, worth a question on the contact page. Search for the tiny turner, shop, follow the links.

Vaguely relevant for those discussing soakaways and suchlike is your water charges. Our bill, and I'm sure most, is split into a supply bit and sewerage bit. I've lived here 25 years and only last year realised that the 'output' charge included groundwater. All my gutters etc. go to soakaways...

We live in a very hard water area and one if the jobs I hate is cleaning the grouting in the showers, around taps, plugholes and suchlike every few months. Yesterday I was in town and saw a "sonic scrubber", c £22, like a giant electric toothbrush. I see from their website that sonic is...

You want 8 or 10mm from the top, nicely centered. But you don't need to go all the way through. If you drill similar size from the bottom, chances of them meeting are trillions to one against, but of you use a forstner or spade bit, say 30mm, from the bottom it will meet the hole from the top...

Sounds like a good idea for "showroom appeal". If the spinner is a gift for a small child, a swallowable marble that might come unstuck is a worry.

Keep going, make it into a ring and drill one small (1.5mm?) hole in from the perimeter to the middle. You then have a keyring for the shed key you are always mislaying, or a really good pull light switch end for someone with arthritic hands* or frequent drunkenness to the extent that a...

The nails don't help the quality image. I recognise you have no time to purchase anything else. Got any christmas wrapping paper or similar, preferably red? Cut it into thin strips, dab some pva on one end and wind it round the nails - OR, as they pull out easily, get hold of a few stripey...

Scroll right down this page then click the 'more ML8' button, between them there are several pictures of the lathe and accessories one of which might help you. http://www.lathes.co.uk/myfordwood/

Assume you are starting with a rectangular pieces, work it out and cut the spout-like curve at the front on the Bandsaw while it's still rectangular so easy to control. Then cut the rest. ( I've been making coffee and grinding beans for 15 years and never found a need for a dosing tray)

I don't see the problem. You have to have a rule-based system. Suppose they let you book 30 days before your birthday, someone would be along to grumble that they were 31 days early and "they" wouldn't let you book it. If there is a wait because there is lots of demand then you ration supply...

Anything that burns, parrafin etc, produces water vapour so unless you vent it outside it adds to your condensation problem unless it's a very well ventilated space and always on. It's not getting cold or being cold that's the problem, it's the warming up. Last year we had several sub zero...

First, stick at it. Tables of tha era have great appeal and that one looks to be sound apart from that bit of the top. When we cleared my parents house 15 years ago I let some ercol furniture go, and regret it. Ercol still does some high end stuff, but has become a bit of a brand so they...

Thinking about the OPs problem, I agree with all the above about trying to get the person back. If that isn't possible and replacing is all too expensive for now here are a couple of 'bodge' ideas. Each door alone might be difficult to put right, but if you look at all the doors do they...

Completely off topic but school bell relevant. When my son was in reception class, age 4, one child would go round the playground with the teacher after lunch with the handbell to signal the end of break. Great excitement when it was "your turn". We had to go and collect him straight after...

Fair point. Thinking back, in similar but temporary situations I have covered the soft furnishings with something like an old blanket or sheets then over that a plastic mock-tarpaulin. That works and the inner layer can be washed.

Here's an idea. As suggested, make up the top with 2 layers separated by 2x1 or thereabouts so it's rigid but not too heavy. Make, or buy, 2 trestles. If you leave a gap or two, or holes, on the edges of the sandwich you can use clamps to hold the top to the trestles without anything...

If it can be against a wall, could you mount back edge of bench on sturdy hinges along wall, turny-cleat-thingy to hold it up when its not being a bench, legs along front edge hinge down when it is a workbench. If you are prepared for wrath of the family: Dispose of sofa bed Build big...

I put rubber strips on the bottom of my garage doors - unheated double garage which gets used as a workshop - and the difference in general comfort was HUGE. Screwfix do some, doubtless others do as well. Stormguard Garage Seal Aluminium 2.5m - Screwfix Won't cure the problem by itself but it...

I must admit I haven't watched any of it this time round, but when I was channel surfing last night it showed up. Programme details said something about contestants making a kitchen island and an accessory to compliment it. Oh, I thought, that's challenging. A sentient talking wooden item...

I would say yes to the Coronet. Variable speed is nice, but I spent my first 3 years with a belt change and you get good/quick at speed adjustments. The big value is in the things that come with it, even if you buy a new budget lathe you will need to spend over £300 for even the simplest chuck...