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Outside the back door is a small brown bucket with a tight fitting lid, used for vegetable peelings which will end up on the compost heap. In the garage is a very old orange square bucket that I use for car washing. Alongside the shed I have an old black bucket with a cracked rim, I use it for...

I'm not a great fan of super glossy but its a matter fo taste. Plus - customer is always right. A few years back we stayed in a holiday rental with epoxy coated live edge everything, worktops, tables, walk in, go "wow" but after a week it was as if it was shouting at me. It was quite nice to...

Is light a wave or particulate: discuss for a century or two. Newton, Huygens, Young, Einstein, and many many more have all had a go at it. The accepted answer is that its sort of a bit of both - a particle that behaves like a wave. Fire the photon torpedos, Mr Sulu. Take us out of here...

Age? No need to tell us. But may be relevant. I was dithery about a Coronet Herald. My thinking, I can afford it, spending it is no detriment to anyone else in the family, I'm 71, with good fortune I might be physically and mentally able to do good work for a few more years, if I don't do it...

Just a thought, as the cable won't generate heat, bog standard polypropylene plumbing pipe insulation which splits easily then a hat of some type over it. The squidgy stuff protects from vibration.

Paul Barnard s idea is a good one. Sand and a 'hat'. Take care not to twist the cable though, or all your streamed movies will be upside down.

Not commenting on the lathe, but if you can get some tooling in any deal its a good thing. Chuck, jaws, odd bits and pieces, tools (even a basic set of 6) and some way to sharpen them will set you back far more that a lathe of that type/price point.

If you are unsure about an email you can usually find a lot about its 'journey' to help you decide. This is what to do in Gmail on a laptop, but other mail systems will do similar - for instance in Thuderbird you can go to view - all headers to get the same information. So - gmail on laptop...

My granny is long gone, 50 years or so, but however deep I dig into my memory I don't recall anyone ever painting her. 😁 (I doubt auto correct often comes across people typing "crannys", or is it "crannies".... I think it is, along with nooks, but not nookie which is completely...

Charity shop/warehouse place perhaps, buy a chair or two and rip apart for your prototype. If nothing come of it, at least the charity gets a few ££.

Looks like an interesting project and something satisfying and lasting. Of passing interest, here's a link to the mathematical bridge in Cambridge. It's in Queens college but easily viewed from Silver Street bridge...

Woodturning blanks come in 3x3 squares, often 12 inch but longer are available. Ash is normally available. Maybe call Turners Retreat near Doncaster or Yandles. Both do mail order. Yandles will do custom sizes and isn't too far from you, near Yeovilton. . (ah, I see Yandles mentioned above...

The question raises other interesting thoughts. I have a lot of 'stuff' in my garage/workshop, none of it essential but I am reluctant to get rid of it. If it was costing me £xxx a month to store it, I would look at the trade off between material costs and storage costs. Is it better to buy...

I'm following this out of interest because I might need to do something similar in a couple of years. I have a vague memory of building regs about toilets off kitchens if that is your situation, I don't think it can be directly off without an intermediate door, but I might be a few decades out...

Enjoy the restoration, all good straightforward stuff, no complicated electronics and you can see how it works. Nice. I half owned one (as in, 2 of us shared it, not each owned a wheel) for a summer back in the late 60s. Despite the name, we both had normal length arms. (a comment added to...

Excellent, it's good to 'round off' forum threads when a definitive answer is found.

It might not bring it into line but it might keep it in line if you use it from the outset.. Having hollowed the goblet, a centre of some kind might help it stay put if you do get a catch. No help now perhaps, but maybe next time.

Never considered artificial wine "corks", had one in the box of bits by the sander and just tried it, works a treat. No doubt the other suggestions are as good, but I drink wine more often than I clean abrasive discs so no need to expend any more thought.

3 thoughts: Stapler and calculator - you might need a bit more information. I have an old casio calculator that fits in a wallet, and one that is as big as a hardback book. Similarly I have a tiny hand-held stapler ideal for the top corner of document sets, and a long arm one that won't fit...

Had a local walk today, a few miles. From the top of a hill we heard a village church clock chime 3. According to my BST set watch it was 1. So they remembered they had to change the clock, just didn't remember what to change it to :).