Recent content by Filament

Eh? But you’ve been talking about doing things that didn’t involve your parents so weren’t they ‘doing what they wanted’ too? Not saying it’s bad, but you seem to say the poor parents are bad for leaving their kids to occupy themselves whereas yours weren’t?

As a parent who does a lot more practical and outdoors stuff with my kids than anyone I know I’m going to push back against the ‘wasting time on electronic gizmos and games’ etc. themes for a couple of reasons. a) holier than thou is silly. You might have played war with your mates using...

Oops. Double post.

Never too young. Had mine (both flavours) helping with using safe tools at that age. Mine were into a toy that was a gold ball size spheres so we made a simple stand for them (I cut a strip of oak worktop - they helped measure, mark and drill a line of round holes to sit the spheres in, then...

I’ve heard some say that silica gel can make wooden handles crack due to making the atmosphere ‘too dry’ but wonder how much of that has osmotically made its way from marketing guff from manufacturers of the ‘our sachets create a dry and oily environment hence cost £1m each’ sector. Anyone...

I feel your pain. My kitchen cupboards (here when we moved in) are put up with fixings that are smaller than ones I’ve used for a small mirror (I did then find my 4 year old swinging their whole weight on the frame of said mirror some time after, so felt smugly justified in my over-engineering)...

Ezarc blades did very well in nail tests I’ve seen. I used a fein e cut carbide pro to do the same job as you recently. From that experience I’d say do the nails but do the screws a different way. The hardness of the screws I tried meant it took ages and started blunting the blade quickly...

I have the brother pte 300vp too and love it. Very often heavily discounted at screwfix. Of those using the aftermarket tze tape knock offs, any recommends for those with good adhesion? I’ve had mixed experience.

You might want to re read my post and stop being quite so reactionary. Bit of a weird reaction tbh.

Just been researching exactly this. From everything I’ve watched and read despite having Makita everything else I won’t be sticking with them this time (Their multitools are either a) two models which are a little old school (no light etc.) or b) expensive and only using Starlock Max blades -...

The ‘we’re in an ice age’ thing is interesting and used a lot in climate change denial. It’s all from a number of papers in the 1970s that got huge amount of coverage which has led some of the very prominent deniers to state that ‘the consensus was global cooling very recently so scientists...

It’s not that’s kinda the point (clearly I knew that. You’re ’I Don’t want to live like that’ comment was odd as if you just mean ‘I don’t want to live in a city’ presumably you would have said that and it would have been somewhat irrelevant As you say, the concept is very prosaic and...

Notice the word could. I didn’t say you HAD to walk to the shops. What do you mean by ‘live that way’? What do you think 15 minute cities mean?

In other news, this thread is very encouraging compared to a number of similar ones I’ve seen other forums recently. Top work all.

The most amazing one is the 15 minute cities - a concept that essentially says ‘wouldn’t it be good if most people could walk to the shops’ that has somehow been sold to those with slightly boiled heads as ‘the WEF/Bill Gates/George Soros are going to fine-imprison you for leaving your...