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Hello Chaps (and Chapettes). :D I haven't been around for a while - I was made redundant back in February, and so consequently have been busy trying to earn a living by whatever means possible whilst trying to find a new job. (Some fat chance!!) I have been doing some consultancy work, which...

Anyone wishing to kill a few minutes, have a try at this: - game (Don't be put off by the name - it's nothing mucky!!!) It is really simple, but frustratingly difficult at the same time. My best score is 39 so far. Regards Gary

I currently pay BT £20 a month for Broadband. As I am a Sky customer, I can get their Base package for free. As we are a bit rural, and can only get 0.5 M/s anyway, this seems a good deal! Does anyone here use Sky Broadband? If so - any comments - either good or bad? Thanks. Gary

Anyone know anything about airbrushes? I am looking for a cheap (<£50) one. It doesn't need to be anything fancy. I just want to use it for spraying spirit stain and acrylic onto some of my turning and scroll saw work. I have a compressor, but sadly it doesn't have a receiver. All advice...

Rutlands have reduced their RP4000 chuck clone by £30 - see here: - http://www.rutlands.co.uk/cgi-bin/psProdDet.cgi/XT700 I have the Record version, and it's an excellent chuck. I have just order one of the Rutlands ones so I can fit my Cole jaws to it and leave them in place, as it drives me...

Well, here it folks - at long last I have some pictures of what I have been up to since receiving my Axminster AWSF18 for Christmas. Cut from some crappy old 1/2" pine I had laying about - from my own pattern created using the Word Art Function in Microsoft Word. Finished using a couple of...

Here's a little tip for you guys having trouble with your patterns either not sticking, or being impossible to remove. I had hours of fun when I started off, as if I only gave the pattern a light spray of adhesive, the it would lift half way through cutting. If I gave it a heavy spray, then it...

Anyone here an expert in motor insurance? Back in October is was involved in an motor accident that was not my fault. Fortunately I walked away unscathed (I was driving a 4x4 - if I had been in a car I would not have been so lucky). My insurance company decided in their wisdom that my vehicle...

I just upgraded to version 2 of Firefox, and now, when I type in a post, if I mis-spell anything, it gets underlined in red and I can right click on it to correct it, just like in Word. A very handy improvement if you are as bad a typist as me!!!! Regards Gary

A very kind gentleman gave me two very nice logs of freshly felled Yew yesterday, which are just the right size for making a couple of end-grain hollow forms. As Santa is (hopefully) bringing me a Rolly Munro hollowing tool for Christmas, it looks as if I shall be having my first go at end...

I defy anyone to watch this and not laugh out loud! Enjoy!!! http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4183967147021677751 Taffy

I am just starting off on my journey into scrolling / intarsia, and have loads of questions, which I guess would be best answered by our resident expert Gill. The thing is, she hasn't been seen in these here parts for ages - anyone know where she has gone? Was it something we said? :shock...

We have just dug up our front lawn as it is on the north side of the house, and so never gets any sun and consequently the grass always looked manky. We have replaced it with a nice bed of flint pebbles with some shrubs in tubs, and it looks really nice. However - there is one slight...

We have a Dyson DC08,, which is about 3 1/2 years old. For the first 2 1/2 years of it's life it was fantastic - the most powerful vacuum cleaner I have ever seen. Then the suction started to drop off quite drastically. It sounded as if it had a blockage. I took it all apart and checked...

I need a legth of 12mm dowelling for a job I am doing. Does anyone know if B+Q or Focus et-all sell this? If not - any suggestions? Regards Gary

Anyone here got any experience of applying Patina over either an oil or spirit based stain? I have some Beech stools that need to be stained to match a dark Oak kitchen. Given that they are going to be in a kitchen environment, I would like to use Patina to protect them, as I have had very...

... to South Africa for 16 days. Flying tomorrow to Cape Town, 10 days cricket tour along the Garden Route to Port Elizabeth, then 6 days holiday - 4 at Sun City and 2 in Joberg. I have always wanted to go to SA, so I can hardly wait. Maybe I will bump into Jaco while I'm there? Just...

Does anyone know anything about pyrography? TLOML wants to buy me a pyrography machine for Christmas so that I can sign my work, and also decorate some of my plain turned items to make them more interesting. (Also, I think she secretly fancies having a go herself!!) I have been looking...

I am going to build a stable door from American white oak this weekend (unless of course Fiji beat Wales tonight, in which case I will mope around all weekend in a black depression!!!). #-o Nothing too difficult or startling there you may think. To make life more exciting, I am going to try...

Can any one help please? When I am using IE to surf the web (this site included). I am having a problem where IE hangs. I can't do anything, and have to use CTRL + ALT + DEL to open the task manager to close the window. It doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes it happens immediately, and...