Search results

Digging deep into my memory, when I worked in factory Personnel (now HR) back in the early 70s I recall the odd union dispute about which maintenance fitters tools were provided by the Company and which they were expected to own themselves. Fitters all had their own padlocked toolbox by their...

Can't get there this time but went last year, excellent relaxed atmosphere and loads of interesting timber. You could spend ages just looking. I think, this from memory, that he has no card processing so you need cash or maybe a cheque book. You don't have to spend anything but its hard to...

Well I did use them in the end, hard work to resaw and not worth the effort for softwood of that size. Last week in the warm weather I was getting the garden ready for spring and thought the french beans might do better in a raised bed. 2 door frames, one atop the other, 4 pilot holes drilled...

Thanks, yes that was the sort of thing I was looking at. They still call them UPS, perhaps I was too generic in my first post. I might now wait and see if openretch really do go ahead and switch off our nice reliable copper, an earlier post suggested they were rethinking. We use WiFi calling...

9 I don't think I need a generator but will certainly be after a UPS for the router and one phone. Our village has very poor or no mobile phone signal. "Copper wire" phones are being withdrawn in the UK, so the robust self powered phone system we have now will be replaced by a much more...

I'm sure you will get good advice here, but you maybe better posting the same question in the lathes-woodturning forum below. I started out just before lockdown and am self taught, the Keith Rowley book suggested above is good, you really need to read it all through then "read a bit- do a bit"...

As with so many things, a lot depends on how much time you have vs how much cash you can afford. When I was working full time plus some with lots of travel I had very few hours in the year for making so bought anything I needed new. Now I have more time and positively enjoy bringing things...

If you don't replace the edwardian locks on the main interior doors you will have the same 2 problems as edwardian gentlement did all those years ago: Household serving staff accessing the dining room at night and swigging the port Your wife bursting into the living room just as you mistress...

You've probably heard today that VAT on energy saving products - including solar panels - will be removed so an installation will (should) be 20% less from 1 April. That and rising electricity prices might change the equation. I have thought carefully about pv panels on and off for some years...

When today's inflation rate is a lot less than when you got your first job or bought your first house.

When anything you spend from your savings won't get replaced, ever.

Hydrogen Peroxide ( as in "peroxide blonde") might work if the various organic solvents don't. Its less aggressive than household bleach. I've used it successfully on carpets to get out various stains. Dilute to c. 25% in water (you can always have another go with it stronger) , soak folded...

Have you tried it with a different blade? I don't have that model/make but when I set my machine up, about a year ago now, I managed to get much of it wrong including at one point the guides too far forward. I am pretty certain I upset the kerf on one side trying to get it to track properly...

We have an aluminium counterbalanced extending loft ladder, here when we moved in 26 years ago. It's OK. But I sort of wish we didn't. If we didn't have one, I wouldn't have put stuff up there (instead of being decisive and getting rid) then I wouldn't be thinking bother, need to spend days...

I have the Axi, nothing to compare it with really as its my first machine. Seems good enough, bought Tuffsaw blades. See recent post on bottom wheel alignement. Ceramic guides spark a bit with a new blade, likely the back edge of the blades are a bit rough at first, but not a problem and...

Seemed to watch a lot during lockdowns various. From memory: A few quality films based on real events, worth a watch, Argo (bit old now), Spotlight (stunning, upsetting), Trial of the Chicago 7, Wasp Network, Official Secrets, Sully. The Irishman is a classic, long. (for woodworking fans, a...

Most good sellers, ebay or anywhere else, are organised, accurate listing, photos etc and get all the bits together before they advertise. This one sounds either disorganised or evasive, you will never know but whichever it is I wouldn't want to deal with them. You will hand over your money and...

There will be many people on this forum who know all about bottom wheel adjustment but there will be others (like me until yesterday) who have had no need to think about it. This post is for them. Last evening while I was waiting for polish to dry on a bowl I thought I would quickly change my...

Depends a bit on your 'life resources' - if you have plenty of time on your hands or if cash is very limited, and you have space give it a go perhaps. A lot depends on the frames - are they sufficiently chunky cross sectio to get something worthwhile out of as an earlier poster did. I kept...

I've just drilled a 300mm piece without an auger, albeit in a lathe but I reckon you could do it by hand with the piece horizontally in a vice and an electric drill. When you think about it, what matters is that the hole at the top is central and the right diameter, what happens after that...