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You might look at [email protected]. I feel sure if they don't have them, they'll know where to find them. They've never failed me yet!

We've been driving a Mitsubishi (petrol engined vehicle) with CVT for around 3 years, apart from the (initially disturbing) slightly higher than usual revving when load-carrying and steep hill climbing, we love it. With cruise control on motorways and an easily achieved 60+ mpg it's been a good...

Surely your bumper wasn't cast iron? That'd be a first.

I found a wood boring bee/wasp exiting through a 7mm hole in a hardwood window frame. It had already pushed out a mass of (presumably) chewed wood dust along the sill.

I was much in your situation a couple of years ago. I started off with a cheap'ish 2hp 50 litre job from Aldi pumping out a stated 7cfm. Realistically that 7 should probab;y have been 5. However, it sufficed for several years until I needed to start using air driven nibblers and the odd spray...

Surely there's a less expensive and simpler solution? What about creating a substantial air inlet low down on a downstairs wall, ideally north-facing, then leave your upstairs/bedroom windows open. You'll get a flow of cooler air from downstairs though your bedrooms and out of the windows. We...

If your efforts to find a home for your father's wonderful mortising machine, I would love to have it for our local Men's Shed (Acocks Green Men's Shed), where I'm Secretary. We try very hard to instill the value of using hand tools, rather than immediately revert to the use of power. I'd need...

I expect you've already had plenty of guidance, but for my half-pennuth, I'd say that there are a few possibilities: 1), the 'axle' on which the wheel runs is loose on the body of the saw - I experienced this once on a saw brought to me. It wasn't an 'obvious' problem, since the securing nut...

I had a relatively cheap disc and belt sander do a burn out on me - sadly just out of guarantee - and the cheapest quote I could get after chasing all round the UK was in excess of £200 with a caveat of - "If we find further faults it may cost more!"

In respect of your lathe, is it possible that the capacitor is faulty. The symptoms seem remarkably similar to one of my machines prior to fitting a new unit.

Wow, that just sounds like a bridge (sorry, lathe) too far! I often find it's a good ploy to have done a part exchange or a swap!

Hi, I promised to give you a link to the company about which I told you this morning, just in case it might be helpful. It's: WDS Components <[email protected] I've found them ultra-useful whenever I've been stuck!

There's a company that sells every style, size and thread you might ever need. I'll send you a link when I get home.

Sounds odd? I bought my first digital caliper from Lidl more than 10 years ago, and apart from replacing the battery and cleaning it up, it's worked properly and accurately ever since. Incidentally, I bought a backup 2 years ago and did a comparison and they're the same. Sometimes cheap is OK.

Ha, I ordered a woodworking device for a friend from a company in China, with a delivery period of about 3 weeks (because of the Covid problems). This was back in the last few days of December last year. It didn't turn up. I contacted the supplier to be told that it would be a further couple of...

Hi there, you have a potentially interesting and challenging project. Have you considered digging away the earth that rests against your 9" solid wall/s? Or is it not possible? We have a similar build (9" solid with lime plaster internally) and had a damp problem for a number of years which...

Well Ozi, it seems you and I share similar issues. We're in Birmingham and there are 3 Screwfix stores within 5 miles. However, trying to find a store where they are actually stocking the item you want/need is like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack. In addition, I can't...

No need for sarcasm!

Maybe the very fact that the topic is getting an airing is a good thing? I agree that we should post nothing that we wouldn't have said to our Grandparents or to a maiden aunt. If we can manage to remember - before we post - to read it through again with the eyes of a grandchild to a grandparent...

My goodness, I'd have to have a really urgent and regular need for a drill press that cost £1k. I thought I'd spent a lot when I bought a second hand one for £90, still it's only a slight increase and a shift of a decimal point eh?