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The old Stanley 71 I have locked poorly because of the rough cast nature of the collar and the post the cutter is clamped to. It is better after a file, but still it matters which way up you put the collar on.

Hydrochloric acid aka brick cleaner will presumably etch the surface of the concrete a bit. That might not matter, indeed might be good. It completely destroyed some terracotta plant pots / feet I tried to clean limescale off - became soft and flakey. Jeyes fluid used to be amazing for killing...

If the machine is old enough to have come with Vista, it won't be mining many bitcoins :lol: And it is IMO highly unlikely to be to do with any battery. The browser stores the passwords on disk, the battery only holds some stuff for the BIOS in nvram and keeps the clock ticking. You haven't...

There are a few variants of "No 2" planes - Whitmore comes to mind as a maker's name - which all look a bit like the picture. Try Googling "Plane Whitmore No 2" for some pictures. I use one given to me by Secret Santa as a scrub plane with a heavily cambered iron, for which it works well.

Although not the actual exam, I do know how our woodwork teacher marked the mock exam, and I presume (?) it was the same marking scheme as the real thing. It was a subtractive kind of process, max marks was IIRC 150, and you lost varying levels of marks for defects or incomplete work. I lost 7...

Nice. I like the back design too, and the seat weaving; it looks very clean - what material did you use please ?

I made one end grain board - I used a sharp #5. Perhaps that's why I only ever made one :lol:

I guess it is a sliding scale, but mandatory vaccination seems to me to be in another league to enforced lock down or mask wearing. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for vaccination, but forced is to me unacceptable and probably counter-productive. As it has not been considered for anything else -...

When I made a door with sealed units in, the glass supplier told me not to use putty, but not for compatibility but because it eventually hardens, and the lack of flex can cause the sealed unit to fail. They sold me Flexi-strip (?) which very closely resembles BluTack on a roll ... Silicone...

That brass thing - I've seen one of those ina previous "what is this tool" within the last year on here or on TATHS on Facebook. Sand packing was a favourite, soldering iron was also suggested (however unlikely). My only other thought is why is it brass, possibly ease of making if a foundry...

Well done Andy. It is great for the stress levels to have a whole 1" of spare material to play with ! Replacement bits of wood were not allowed. Tempting to give it a go for old times sake, but having done my "O" level woodwork once and got an "A", I wouldn't want to find I've got worse over...

I think there was a limit to what tools you could really need. Our woodwork shop had just one router plane in the cupboard, we were shown what it did, but otherwise it was never used. You wanted the tenons to at least look like you got them right from the saw. I guess we would have done the...

Back in 1983, we had to prepare the wood ourselves, to given dimensions, ahead of the exam. The exam plans did not come with the joints marked on ! That was part of the test, the instructions woukd require you to decide and draw on the plan appropriate joints, and probably some sort of edge...

From what I hear, it is hard to buy a bike of any sort of late ?

Well, you have to decide what you trust. A professor at a respected university, or someone who writes on an oddball "skeptics" website who doesn't have the courage to reveal their identity.

^^This - even metal deflects under weight, over 1.9m it is probably worth guessing the load and the tolerable displacement and working out what you need. It might be bigger section than you would expect !

First a point of order - I don't think it is fair to say Neil Fergusson was "completely wrong and incompetent". I know him personally from University days, and although I wouldn't say he was a friend, I'll defend him here. He was instrumental in changing the government's trajectory by showing...

In the time you spend fiddling with depth stops, fences etc, you could have got the job done with a wooden rebate plane and nothing more than gauged lines and your fingers.

I quite liked the idea of the skew bladed planes, but seeing they were rare / expensive I bought a few boxes of assorted wooden ones for little money. Some pretty useless, but the good ones are a pleasure to use, and dare I say it, quicker !

No. It is still there, hence the ongoing new cases and deaths, but at a lower level because at least some of the measures taken have worked. The graph shows what looks like an exponential decay, but not to zero. Apart from people's behaviour, little has changed - no vaccine, not enough people...