Recent content by whatknot

What a ridiculous notion? how does anyone know what is or is not stolen of any item at a boot sale, what next, ban ebay, preloved, gumtree, facebook marketplace and all other selling sites? How about cars, lets ban the sale of them, oh and vans, caravans, motorbikes etc, its quite the daftest...

Well thats another few minutes of my life gone ;-) I only realised almost towards the end that it was an ancient thread, I was wondering why I had a sense of deja vu ;-) As to either Lidl or Aldis tools or other things come to that, I have several and all have given good service, and whenever...

Likewise the long blackboard ruler with a handle on it, one of our teachers would sneak up from behind if we were talking during class and rattle it between our heads ;-)

Its Cornwall, it will be there dreckly ;-)

Any scroll saw that retails for less than £250 new is mostly the same saw under different retail labels and not worth considering if you want ease of use, so a second hand saw would be your best bet (cheap saws can work well and produce good things, they are just not as easy to use as better...

Thanks for thta suggestion, not cheap is it, over twice the Zinsser I used and that was supposed to be the bees knees Tikurilla Otex oil based adhesion primer.

We live in an old chapel now 175 years old, where it appears some of the original plaster is still on the inside of the outer walls When we moved in it was wallpapered but after a couple of years we took that off and thats when the problem occurred of staining It will go with a spray bleach...

Our printed leaflet (yet more recycling) says fortnightly recycling and rubbish collection and weekly for food As we are direct onto a village street there are going to be a heck of a lot of new wheelie bins littering the village, what an eyesore They also state that the wheelie bin has to be...

Are you also changing to fortnightly black bag collections? with food waste every week, they are supplying a new wheelie bin and food waste bucket, or a seagull sack , despite our having already paid five quid for a council seagull sack, thinking of all the plastic wheelie bins and seagull sacks...

We apparently also have that here, I have yet to visit the tip since it started and am not looking forward to it when I have the need to

That is very much what I was saying out loud to no one in particular but after the umpteenth "your call is very important to us" I resigned myself to listen to whatever passes as their music which is very loud and irritating even on the lowest setting, thank goodness for hands free cordless phones

On a similar subject I was a self employed shop owner a few years back and submitted my self assesment tax return online, by logging in through the Gov gateway Roll on a few years and retirement, check your pension forecast they said, do it online by logging in through the Gov gateway, good I...

In that case I have seen it before, not had the need so far to do similar

Whats the mod? or is it something I have seen?

I totally agree the Hegner prices are utterly ridiculous, I believe the quick clamp it now about £34 with postage, I was lucky to get mine second hand for £15, but they are rare to find used I have an Axminster AWFS18 Hegner clone, which is variable speed I bought some new blade clamps about 8...