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I ended up beefing an existing BSO* with 3/4" ply, an 8' board cut into 4 by my local timber yard gave me a 2 1/4" thick top that's 2' by 4' and a 3/4" 'splash back', I then beefed up some of the cross members with miscellaneous salvaged timbers, and a 2" by 8" piece of ash 'lipping' the front...

"Think womens votes, slavery etc I could go on......." Mark, I hadn't realised your crusade against traffic laws, and those others which you personally consider to be tosh, was a noble campaign to be judged alongside universal suffrage and emancipation; now I see that you're a true and selfless...

Hmm, that sounds like fighting talk, and I'm sure isn't intended as such. Re-read it and tell me your views on a member of an anarcho-syndicalist collective making off with your car/bike/tools/TV because they don't "agree" with property laws. There are some laws which I find inconvenient...

A useful reference for the bewildering array of power connectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320 I've got a couple of converters, ~1" long male to female adaptors that are designed for use with PAT testing equipment, that I use for travelling with just a single Thinplug/Flatplug power...

A colleague of mine 'washed' his work boots with a pressure washer - nice suede effect.... They're great tools, but as BugBear says their potential for causing damage is often underestimated - after all, it's only water...

Do you have a multimeter? If so, worth checking to see what it's putting out. I've had a laptop which showed no signs of life until I removed the battery, a dead cell was holding the whole battery down and even with the charger connected nothing happened, with the battery removed all was fine...

CAN stands for Controller Area Network, a technology developed by Bosch and now ubiquitous in the car industry, basically it connects all of the interfaces in your car from engine RPM, turbo boost, coolant temperature.... Yes, Torque converts codes to human readable, there may be better out...

Go easy with the pressure washer - I did similar a few years back, and while the pressure washer did indeed remove a lot of the grime very effectively a moment's over enthusiasm produced an interesting surface effect by literally blowing the fibres of the wood apart. I was just refinishing some...

Do a search on Amazon/Ebay for OBDII/OBD2 - I bought a unit with Bluetooth for less than a tenner delivered and then bought the Torque app for Android that allowed me to read diagnostic information and reset. I'm sure similar software is available for Apple and PCs equipped with Bluetooth. For...

Sound advice, and absolutely consistent with the old rule "never cut towards your thumb, always cut towards your chum"

Ouch! Best wishes for a speedy recovery, eternal vigilance...

That looks fantastic, a really great way of showing off your bread. I'm afraid you hit the nail right on the head with your last point of people not understanding how much effort goes into crafting 'real' things. Most people have lost contact with the 'making' process. Hence in an era of wall to...

http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=65357&cat I'm not sure whether I shouldn't update my old imperial one with the metric version.

"Use the Force" does seem to be sound advice for freehand sharpening, I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to 'feel' what was right for the scrub. I've recently acquired a bargain pair of Clifton spokeshaves (convex & concave) in brand new, never sharpened, condition. The convex blade I...

Jacob, I saw a video a while back, I think it was Deneb from Lie Nielsen, demoing sharpening for a scrub plane. He did pretty much what you describe, effectively drawing a falling leaf pattern along the length of a sharpening stone. Well, 'falling leaf' is what I call it, and it works for me. I...

Having just bought one of the SIP filters from that auction site, and reading some of the comments regarding its similarity to the Microclene 780 I stumbled across the manufacturer's website, http://www.acrolltd.co.uk/?page_id=16, they make reference to the Coanda effect. From their website...

I used some of those Toolstation loft legs - they worked fine with chipboard flooring. Would I want to clog dance on the finished result? No. Do they act as a safe base for the odds and sods that I'm waiting 10 years before throwing out? Yes.

Love the 'until just before it breaks!' - priceless advice... It was beaten into me that 'clocking'or 'soldiering' screws was bad engineering practice because of over/under tightening - filing false slots into screws does sound like a labour of love - and a good way of going bust!

If they were mine, and as you suggest not intrinsically valuable, I'd start with a few good squirts of penetrating oil or 3-in-1 and leave for a few days. The oil (probably!) won't do the wood any harm, it might remove any remaining finish and darken the wood but that sounds like the least of...

Dishwasher? I can't even begin to imagine the reaction I'd get for trying that. Interesting that you use a pencil eraser, I'll try it next time my stone gets loaded up. Kev