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top one's the wrong way round. :D nice job. no other tool in a machine shop is as versatile as a lathe. everything else does a one or a few jobs, the lathe does them all. it's also the only tool in a machine shop that can build a version of itself with no other tools (excluding the nut...

thank goodness, panic averted. Chiltern mills is gone, shame that, my mum will be gutted. sorry for being 0 help. you can make a bag from polyethelene, use heat to seal the edges. I'm aware you are unlikely to have a hot bar, so as an experiment you could try a heat gun to warm a ruler, or...

hold on a second, boyes is closing down? thats a sad day. try the range at Alfraton or Sutton in Ashfield, they sell PVC table cloth.

to quote Mick Dundee "Call that a knife mate, this a knife" and to misquote the Simpsons version "thats not a knife it's a sword" "Ah I see you've played knify swordy before." a jolly nice bowie you have there, much like it's name sake, a bit wooden and way to much tan but a jolly nice one. :)

Screw that, once you've got one in place, sit your router on with the cutter out the way, use a scrap on the other side that's the right width to give you the position of a fence on the other side, clamp the fence on. once your happy use a couple of brads and some scrap to join the fences at...

I sort of disagree with that. the airguns get as much respect as the REAL guns do. granted one of mine had to be a ticket (now sold) but they are still stored in a locked cabinet that's bolted to a wall and out of sight with pellets store in a separate locked container as with live rounds...

I'm not that old. :lol: we did destroy a large number of unsuitable things by shooting them. we did set fireworks of and turn the allotments in to a a good rendition of the Somme. we made french darts we made blow guns we made small incendiary devices following the anarchist cookbook...

I have 4. I built and raced hovercraft for a while. They were held together by the damn things. An standard eclipse A rolson copy of it A scissor action And a pnumatic For the one time in 100 you need it its the best tool in the world. For everything else its a paper weight. These days i use...

I really want to respond with a conspiracy theory. but I wont.

Theres something about it that smells of ex MOD tooling. not sure if it's the colour (which is the same lovely santised shade of green in the inside of a mobile workshop was painted), the 220v (generator output from a PTO) or red name plate (same as every bit of machinery ever to come of base)...

It started as a bit of good natured ribbing at a how it works thread. I fear it's gone to far now though. I think we did go to the moon. I think the earth is round I think JFK was so long ago it doesn't make a jot who dunnit I couldn't care less if MI5 is watching me (not true, I care enough...

Moon landing documentary on how they faked it. moon landing :D

Hi Sam. you sent it as an Email. sneaky. I'll try and reply later. sorry for jocking the memories.

They used to. not sure how much they do now as they seem to have moved towards DIY stuff a lot more (not been in for about a year now). give em a bell I guess.

you could try Atlantic timber in Altrincham but I can't promise anything, they seem to be cutting down on there decent timber stock by all accounts.

ahhh Bisley was always fun. haven't been in years, found I didn't fit in anymore after my dad passed. I've got pictures of my dad from various years, I only shot junior and don't have any evidence. there is every chance you'd have shot against my Dad in competition either in person postal. we...

ah come on, no it looks like I'm a nut job. oh wait, nevermind. Thanks Chris. :lol:

Bob, we sold a copy of the white album in a similar vain. 20 years of small bore match. had a lovely match 52 for comps and for a bit of fun 1022 that you could put 10 down the range in under 8 seconds with (and take a 90x in the process). joined the ATC (survived 6 months before getting the...

Ah Bob, may we never meet, I fear the world would explode. in complete agreement.

unless they lied about his background. ;) and it turns out he was in the marine corp and qualified as a marksman, considered as above average by his peers and superiors. unless they lied about the 3 seconds and it turns out it was more like 8 seconds unless they lied about the distance and it...