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I've worked with copper sheet, raising a small bowl or two, and know about work hardening and annealing. How does thin brass sheet behave, do you anneal in the same way? (I know there are many varieties of brass but I'm thinking of the small sheets you get from model making stores)

If you go to manufacturers websites and look for dealer or distributor lists you will find some in italy. If (for instance) they stock Robert Sorby tools they will likely stock lathes and accessories. Robert Sorby and Record Power both list distributors in Italy - try some others. Chestnut...

The one in the set of 3 that you say 'might be a bowl gouge' is. Look at the handle end,, a bowl gouge will be made from solid bar as this one is, it gives the strength you need to safely work cross grain pieces.

If you have a COVID *** and stand near a 5g mast the conspiracy theorists will appear in a cloud of dust and will turn you into a genetically modified sheep unless you inject 10ml of bleach and turn round 3 times before sunrise. Must be true, a neighbour said he met a bloke in a pub who had...

I think its a BNC connector.

As others have said, sadly no. Often the top company in a deliberately complex structure lends money to the operating company with a charge against assets, so they get their money back first. Another common tactic for a private equity investor is to split any property assets from the operating...

Thsi thread was 18 months old when you resurrected it, the OP might have made his urn by now :)

The big manufacturers, Stellantis group, VAG, Ford will care more about their big market, the 500+ million in the EU, than 65 million here. We can only buy what companies choose to make so any variations in government policy will make little long term difference. Putting the controls on the...

Thinking more steam than Cornish. I see you have a PL postcode. One of the Swanage Raolway locomotives is a Westcountry Class - Eddystone. https://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/locomotives-stock/sr-4-6-2-west-country-class-no-34028-eddystone Spooky coincidence. (For Southern Railway Steam...

Chuffed, perhaps?

Staples, Amazon and a few others list spraymount at shade over £5 a can. A lot of them are designed to be repositionable for a while so take time to fully bond. Cheap spraymount plus (free) patience?

Check out insurance costs before you commit to anything, they can be much higher than you expect. My son had a Ford Tourneo Connect (the seats and windows version of the connect, so a car not a van) then changed to a Transit custom van to transport his instruments, the insurance was well over...

Look at it from your local authority's position. They have statutory duties like social care and child protection. Things they have to do. Osborne slyly put in train a series of funding cuts which continued, they weren't allowed to increase council tax above government set thresholds...

I've had the Bosch for a year or so, really happy with it for my DIY use. Bit of chuck run out but I use brad point bits and it goes where I want. I like the faff free way it works, no belts to move, easy to adjust position on the column, the clamp is good, decent stroke. I don't find the...

Are you in a hard water area? I've replaced a couple of complete fill valves after about 4 years because of limescale build up around where the water comes out. The price of a whole new valve isn't bad.

Probably not. The fittings, waste etc, might not be Vitra. Sounds like the problem isn't ceramics, it's fittings the plumber has chosen to use to connect it all up which may, or may not, be out of a Vitra catalogue. May or may not be the cheapest stuff they could get from the wholesaler...

If it is related to laburnum, play safe and don't chew it in case it shares the same toxins. Careful with dust too

The old turning tools should be fine, if they are carbon steel not hss take care not to overheat them as you sharpen or you lose the temper, you can get just as good an edge. I wouldn't worry about a bit of corrosion, get started with what you have then you will get a good idea if what you...

The first place I worked, Hawker Siddely Dynamics, Lostock nr Bolton, in HR not engineering,1973, was built as a de Havilland propellor factory in the late 1930s. In countryside, there was still a country lane, fields and hedgerows painted on the roof. Meanwhile, those 2 planes were pretty...

Some call them jaw carriers, some say jaw slides, I think Axminster call them accessory carriers, maybe a search for them?