Recent content by Richard_C

I live in #2 in a street in a small village. To help delivery drivers there is a 2 by the door and a BIG 2 painted on the garage pillar which is what you see first from the road. There are just 5 other streets in the village, one of which has a name nothing like mine and a #18. The occupant...

I've just had to redo the layout in my double garage because one end is needed to store large musical instruments, so now I'm using 2/3 of one half. We all have different needs, mine is based on woodturning. When we have visitors we need to put a car in the other half of the garage, limited...

For an interim quick fix see if your phone has the function. On mine the phone camera has a button for code scanning and for translation among other things. It works remarkably well.

This thread suddenly jumped from Feb 2021 to a few minutes ago. The technology has matured and UK workshop has a forum, Cad, 3d printing etc., which is active and contemporary.

The certificate you get from FENSA is full of disclaimers and to some extent worthless. It does avoid the need for building control certification and is useful when you sell the house (as we, or our heirs, all will one day) so you can provide the paper that the buyers solicitor will ask for.

I have an old Titan mitre saw, OK ish. Bought a Saxon bladei, it's like a new machine. Well worth the investment and I suspect it would be the same for a circular saw. My experience with jig saws is less, but it always seems a bit random. I normally buy cheap blades and change them often...

Dabop (above) opens the door to fresh thinking. If you treat the short support tubes as spacers so the work is done by the through bolt/screw from inside the door to the handle most difficulties disappear. Developing that a bit, if your handles were rectangular tube, maybe you can get it with...

There are lots of useful thoughts above about the slabs etc., but don't forget the soil beneath. Chances are it will be compacted, cold, no texture, no worms, maybe a giant ants nest, very likely impoverished. If the patio was laid at the time of building the house, it may well be a repository...

Clarke also as well. As a temporary fix a bungee hooked on the operating handle will help as a return on short stroke work. I'd not spend too much on it, but it does have cast base and table, some are pressed and lighter duty.

I have metal up and over doors. A quick and easy way to improve security is to drill c. 8mm through the side, the metal return, below the pivot point and continue the hole into the wooden frame. Insert a pin of some kind, I use tent pegs, invisible from outside. After a bit I painted the top...

Spalted beech vase, (in the style of Lucy Rie perhaps) 16mm plastic test tube lined so you can use it as a specimen vase as well as for dry stuff

A seed mix containing yellow rattle is good, suppresses grass a bit. RHS (rhs.org) has useful guidance, no need to be a member, search for wildflower meadow. The chance of natural colonisation probably varies a bit with what's around you but I'm constantly astonished by wild flowers popping...

The AWGB website, no need to be a member, has a list of members who accept commissions. They hide it very very well. Expand the Resources tab, member services tab, you will find it. Or maybe a phone call to the secretary of. your nearest woodturning club, AWGB has contact list somewhere on...

Or any way to stop it when no one is on the footplate, nor any evidence of safety gear, and at times the operator standing on the moving platform, which was advanced by a crank handle very close to the blade area. Got through it pretty fast though, and offcuts were used to feed the fire to make...

Might not be ideal in a workshop.