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I lived in a flat with a combi boiler once. I wasn't sure if the "Glow Worm" was the brand, or equivalent power output :lol: Anyway, the cycle for running a bath went like this: 1: Turn on tap fairly fast - or the boiler wouldn't fire. 2: Back off tap to the thin stream which was all the...

I did this. Well, the wet plumbing anyway. It took a long time on the phone to find a gas fitter willing to install the gas pipework and commission it. I suspect this is not unrelated to the rates of pay equal to a Barbados holiday charged for fitting a full system. Obviously if you've plumbed...

I think it is worth remembering that cookery fashions, and particularly TV chef tastes, are set by the constraints of restaurant cookery. They need to get fresh ingredients onto a plate and served in less time than it takes an overprivileged food critic to get tetchy. So things that can be...

I'm struggling here - you want to replace the boiler because it is too old for you to insure against it breaking down and needing to be replaced :?: :lol:

Ah, my sincere apologies for any offence caused, I didn't spot that detail. Edited to tone down snarkiness :oops: Gym equipment remains a puzzle to me tough. I confess that I used to use a local gym, for a good few years after giving up rowing. I gave up when the relatively sensible...

So an alternator and a 200W dump load. Then the machine plugs into the mains to power the performance meter, and an air conditioner keeps the room cold by pumping the heat outside. Meanwhile, the pool in the next room is heated by mains electricity/gas ... this is all insane. Or how about one...

It is indeed very pretty. Dare I ask, though, if it was broken so quickly (I think I see the break in the lower horn) is the design not a bit too fragile ? What is the white dot on the top of the handle ? I've seen plugs covering a strengthening rod on some saws - presumably that's not the...

Some do like to talk up the difficulty of what they do, don't they. I've made quite a few tools just by looking at how original ones appear to have been made, often without even having had hands on a genuine "historic" one. I've made a side rebate plane and a spill plane only on the basis of...

In which case, even if it isn't particularly valuble (I'm inclined to think AndyT is correct) at least it is unusual and interesting. And I can vouch that those Number 2 planes, though not terribly refined, work just fine as a scrub plane for a lot less ££ than a Stanley #40...

I'm thinking Frankenplane, user made from a no-name Number 2 casting with a bit welded in to add a homemade depth adjuster, and a block plane cap ? Does the depth adjuster and where it connects with the casting look original ?

I assured that the brass looked thicker at the front because it has been bruised by hammer blows during adjustment.

That's a thought. And looking at this image of another table: It is clear that it relies a lot on that joint, not the stretchers, which are just a cleat to keep the top flat. All looks like it will not last to become a family hairloom to me.

Still looks potentially wobbly to me. That sliding lap joint needs to slide freely logitudinally, whilst resisting twisting whch would lead to racking, and bending the stop the top cupping. Not convinced four screws will d othat for many seasons. Might there not be an advantage in making the...

Got to have some way of recouping the cost of all the compensation for houses their dryers burnt down :lol:

I am thinking that the post is more than just a round post - a C shaped thing clasping the end of the two sides together ? I think I might be half hallucinating a little dovetail shape there ?

Watched it with my son. It was OK-ish, I thought. Mind you, having paid for Prime just to see GT, I can see why Amazon wanted the old TG team and why GT was the most watched Prime show - we flicked through the rest of their offerings and it is real dross. Despite a lot of talk in reviews...

Presumably because it started out as dry floorboarding for internal use, and is now part of a garage door exposed to the elements in winter ? IME, no kind of finish seals wood enough to prevent seasonal movement. The question that we can't answer from the photo, is has enough been done in the...

Cat pee on your table. How gross is that. Since the standard way of darkening oak is with ammonia, and cat urine contains ammonia, I would expect a difficult job. If you omit the job of rinsing off the oxalic acid, it might with a bit of luck just be enough to see off the cat ?

This thread might be interesting c-nurse-dovetail-saw-restoration-t99984.html As I said there, what has happened is that the plate has become too deep in the spine towards the toe by repeated straightening using hammer blows to the spine. The spine may have pivoted up at the back a bit too in...

Can you use a private building control company rather tham the local authority ?