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It's an ill thought out piece of plastic tut. Whoever came up with the idea of bottom entry cisterns needs their head examining too, the ceramic stuff is so variablein thickness it is hard to get a good seal at the best of times, so given the choice of putting the inlet above or below water...

Somewhere on YouTube I watched a video of a Japanese woodworker making a small chest of drawers with wide mitred dovetail top corners. He made it look easy - I guess he had a lot of practice ! He used a small plane to plane the mitres.

That last one has a strange creepy air of War of the Worlds about it to me - like it might scuttle across the floor on it's own ! Or have I been inside on my own for too long ...

You may have found a job I could use my pattern maker's plane for. I bought it a few years ago because of my steelworker family heritage, but there's not a lot to use one for in contemporary woodworking. Lovely thing though.

BMI of under 18 is classed as underweight, not much chance of getting there from where I am in a helpful timescale, even if I wanted to. Though the shakves of Waitrose last Friday made it look like it might be on the cards.

My word they are pretty. Do you use them, or put them on the mantelpiece to appreciate ? Fab.

Yes, do be careful taking gauges apart. As well as a concealed nut, there may be a small loose brass disk or similar to prevent the end of the screw marring the stem, or influencing the setting when tightened.

I'm sure whoever made them will be very pleased to know that :wink:

You can have the top bit of the cone you cut off for your hat :wink:

Measuring from the posted image, 8BA is the closest match I agree - unless it is something obscure like Whitworth instrument thread, in which case you have a problem.

Traditional cabinet scrapers, like the sorts made in Sheffield from Clifton, Crown or Thomas Flinn (and probably all made by the latter), will be the same spring steel used for saw plate, I am sure. it is no coincidence they are available in two thicknesses - ~0.4mm (the same as a dovetail...

+1. At least he had some things worthwhile to say. He knows a lot about old school woodworking, things that are sadly becoming forgotten, so have to be re-learned the hard way. When this forum follows the trend of most of the other forums and falls largely silent, we'll regret the people we...

No, no - it is the right thing to do. You need to hear other opinions - if you only listen to your own voice and its echoes (e.g., social media) you can come to believe any idea is reasonable - despite how bizzare a thing in might seem to the wider public. Just go to the pub like any normal...

I hope you are joking, at least about the shower cap and the smoke detector. I know it may be unlikely, but can you imagine if detection of a fire your activities caused was delayed by you having interfered with the fire alarm ? I think you'd struggle to find sympathy.

Dunno about electrical insulation, I just chose the electrical conduit as its inner diameter is just right for 15mm copper, and I expected otherwise the movement might crack the tiles. Of course everything is earth bonded under the bath.

I burried my pipes in the wall. No problems 15 years on. 15mm copper, sleeved in plastic electrical conduit IIRC. Copper and soldered fittings wherever inaccessible. The idea of cleaning around & behind pipework in a shower doesn't appeal.

The friend I asked is Japanese - He's near to Yokohama. He couldn't read it, so it is not one of the standard character sets. It looks to me stylised, so as to be inscribed with a chisel, rather than the traditional brush strokes - some "strokes" remind me of cuneiform, which is pressed into...

I bought it well over a year ago as supposedly rough sawn 1" boards of steamed beech. Wierd stuff, looks like it has been belt sanded, slightly fluffy finish, horrible to plane. I doubt I'll go back to that timber merchant - he took time to explain to me how he doesn't like beech because it...

You should be able - with practice, frequent checking of progress, use of a cambered iron etc - be able to hand plane to 0.1-0.2mm of the desired size. Given that wood isn't terribly dimensionally stable, this should be well good enough. Now I'm cutting joints in some beech I carefully planed...

Ok, I sent him the photo, but his answer is : Regarding the saw, what is engraved must be some sort of kanji characters but in a unique style I cannot read. So either a stylised and obscure style, or not Japanese ? Google translate does not seem to match the characters against Japanese either...