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A partial solar eclipse On Friday 20 March a total solar eclipse will occur across the Arctic and in the far Northern regions of Europe. This is the last total solar eclipse in Europe for over a decade, with the next one not due until 2026 The UK will experience this as a deep partial eclipse...

Hi Devonwoody, Un-compacted aggregate chippings are ~ 1400 - 1500 kg per cubic metre, when compacted this will increase ~2000kg per cubic metre. So, your 1000kg should be somewhere between 0.7 and 0.5 cubic metres. Of course it all depends the material and its packing geometry, and how/if it's...

Thanks Wide74, useful info on the Velocity screw - it's always good to have a recommendation. I just looked them up on Screwfix - either somebody's been monkeying with their images or I'm having a really bad Sunday morning... http://www.screwfix.com/p/timco-velocit ... -200/94979

Well, except perhaps some of those happy Chinese factory workers...

They give greater torque for a given size of tool. They work by using a spinning hammer/anvil mechanism - there's a few videos on Youtube showing cutaways of the mechanism which explain it quite nicely. They're great for driving in coach screws, decking screws etc. but they lack the finesse (or...

That's sweet, you made matching cutting boards for your wife and your girlfriend, you romantic fool. Knife-block? Door-stop? Romantic fire?

Never been quite that extreme - although coming home with a car full of French booze a few years ago the ramp off the ferry did induce a few strange grinding noises... The story (from 2000) is apparently genuine! :shock: Thanks, N0legs - odd, the picture was working a few minutes ago :?:

A trip to Iceland is absolutely recommended, a fantastic place to visit. I was introduced to the Huldufólk by a guy I was working with briefly. He said he didn't *really* believe in them, but he still honoured the traditions, rather like the reasoning behind Pascal's Wager.

Pedant alert: :!: Very good, but clearly not composed by a genuine wurzel: Frome rhymes with room, doesn't seem right to use a Doctor from Rome though :wink: (For the life of me I can't think of another place-name that rhymes with home & gnome...)

Crikey, still going strong! Well done all. I was reminded of the ads from the '80s Sekonda, beware of expensive imitations, were they apeing Seiko designs?

Have you checked your computer security settings? Your account appears to have been hacked - by a goldfish.

What rubbish, what offal - you just weren't expecting to be called out on your unwarranted, unsubstantiated and unjustified accusations.

OK - just read part of the thread you reference and got as far as tl;dr it's just the usual spittle-flecked rubbish you'll find on all forums. Can you explain a) Your argument and b) how this thread strengthens it?

Stone-me! It's like deja-vu all over again!

As has been noted by several posters there's nothing new under the sun, and manufacturers who produced fettled versions of designs that have been effectively in the public domain for a century have little grounds for complaint when companies in emerging economies start producing their own...

King Tubby Elvis Costello Van Morrison Madness Nice idea for a thread - cheers to the OP!

Another vote for the Makita 2012NB sandwich toaster oven - I only use mine outside so I can't comment on its extraction abilities, but it feels significantly quieter in use (I still use hearing protection) than the Dewalt 733 which I borrowed briefly. It uses reversible disposable blades which...

Moulded strain relief

You're certainly on the right tracks Steve, basics of classical Newtonian mechanics. F=ma, so the F required to throw the cantaloupe up against the force of gravitational acceleration would actually exceed the downward force exerted by its 2lb mass. I'm entirely too sober to start delving far...

The Doctor is the boy's mother.