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I bought the Mantis 4 stroke earlier this year, I use it on my allotment , it works brilliantly for deep cultivating and tilling. I am a very satisfied 76 year old , the mantis means that now I can keep my allotment without the annual hard graft of digging my 600 square feet of ground

A while back 2 or 3 years ago, I bought a Nu-Tool bench top planer , it worked reasonable but very noisy, 2 years ago on ebay I bought a brand new Nu-Tool lathe with electronic speed control , I have given it a fair bit of use and cannot fault it. IMHO some of the Nu-Tool stuff is not bad

Rich I have sent a PM

I was with Tiscali a couple of years ago, I cancelled due to bad service and and a call centre that was in india, where I had no end of trouble trying to get across to the call centre operative the problems I was having, I switched to Sky witout a problem once I gave them the MAC code. Sky was...

NEVER A LENDER NOR A BORROWER BE a saying to remember and practice

Yes I did that , rewired my whole workshop, put a new consumer unit in the workshop, off that I have one breaker for the lights , one for a 13amp ring main , and a separate 16amp fuse unit for my table saw

I had mine made in the late 50's, a local tool shop got it made , it is a steel casting I think it cost me about ten bob in the real money(50p now)

I put my sawdust and shaving in the the green wheelie bin the local council spplies for garden waste,

I have had a set for while now, I have found them to very easy to use, I have set the blades on my Tendo P/T quite a few times and every time they are spot on. At that price I would recommend buy them, I paid a lot more when I bought mine from Rutlands

Hi DW I have WMP on my PC , but I find that Itunes works better, you can download the program from www.itunes.com free of charge

HI steve I have the trend DJ300, It has all the pieces with it , it works fine for me, I am thinking of upgrading. If you are interested in buying it for a reasonable well below new price, I am open to offers. PM me if you are interested

On my allotment , To protect the fencing, I mixed old engine oil and Paraffin, I then gave the fencing a liberal coat of the mixture, and it is about 6 years before I have to give it another coat, The fence posts are soaked in the mixture and a plastic bin bag wrapped around the bottom 24...

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I think I will build a CIRCA 1066 computer desk , previous owner was named Harold :) :)

3 steps to plastering you must remember 1/ lay in on 2/ level 3/ polish on bare brick hack out loose mortar from joints, lay on a scratch coat of sand and cement ( plasticer in the mix helps) to get a fairly flat and plumb surface. when dry paint on a coat of PVA mix 6 parts water to 1 part...

I stopped going to football matches in the 1950's regarding Hicks & Gillette who bought out the shareholder of Liverpool FC, the opinion of the LFC fans here seems to be they are very untruthful men, they promised all sorts when they took over, from all accounts, the fans are saying it was the...

Hi Paul I have the same problem triangular garage .18ft at one end 5 ft at the back end. It as about 20 ft long I resolved the problem by building a storage shed in the back yard against the yard wall it is 13ft by 3ft 6in, it is about 8ft high, it has 3 shelves fixed to the wall and I...

It is possible to pay additional monies into an AVC ( Additional Voluntary Contribution) does your employer have an AVC scheme running within the pension rules, if not make enquiries. The company I worked for did not have that facility, but through negotiations they set one up, the result was...

I have always cut melamine faced boards using my 12TPI hand saw, no problem with chip out. I know it takes a bit more effort than using a power saw but my cuts are mostly spot on, a few passes with a decent block plane and the jobs a goodun. One point I must make is I have been using hand tools...

any one got any knowledge of this machine on sale at Rutlands