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Pricing seems a little ambitious to me, those are OK machines but they are not an "aspirational" model and may well be single speed. If you want to actually shift it you may only be looking at a third of that, perhaps two thirds if you don't mind it being a bit sticky and taking time to sell...

If you just want to cut flat bases for those I'd say a scroll saw would-be ideal. Laser would likely be more effort than it's worth once set up and actually entering the design is factored in - on a scroll saw simply draw around the base and cut by eye.

Yes many books have been written dealing exclusively with this topic. I would not claim any expertise myself. The only design I have ever studied is the legendary BBC LS3/5A (BBC design, produced by various manufacturers over the years), and that only because a replica design appeared in one of...

I doubt that she would have been able to throw Richard very far.

Used to feel similar until I got a set of the De Walt Extreme bits, really do work nicely, cut cleanly and with a nice flat bottom. When I got those I stopped thinking about it. Problem solved and end of consideration. Use them all the time for thinning the rear of ply panels such that they're...

I'd echo that. I think I've said before here my most used "general purpose" drill is a Bosch 12v. It's also the slowest and least capable but as Colin Chapman put it, simplify and add lightness, at least for the common stuff. Added to that, it may be personal but I don't like my tools to...

There are two systematic errors at play there, firstly GMT is the average (hence the "mean") local time as obserbed at Greenwich. Since the majority of the country is to the west of Greenwich it follows that locally observed solar time trails GMT. The second is that a day is not of constant...

Apparently that is a thing dairy farmers have to factor in, cows know when they are due for milking and get agitated if it's late. When the clocks change they have to transition the milking times by few minutes over ten days or so.

That doesn't look too bad to me from the photos. I suspect I'd tackle it with fine (400 grit or so) wet and dry and a sanding block, then wire wool. You don't need or even particularly want a mirror finish, if it feels smooth to the hand and things slide on the surface that's fine, the less...

Probably a built in amplifier, the Hall effect in practice gives a very low level signal that needs to be boosted to a practical level as soon as possible, otherwise it risks being swamped by noise and interference.

At first I assumed he was referring to plane socks.

I'm not quite clear what you mean. By a "segmented lighthouse" do you mean a Fresnel lens? If you want to retain that bare in mind they are designed for a small single light source rather than something distributed as for a number of LEDs. Controlling LEDs is relatively straightforward if you...

There are limits to that, as paper and card are recycled the fibres get shorter and shorter, if you just endlessly recycled the same card it would rapidly degrade and lose all integrity. You need a steady stream of virgin stock going into the mix since there are effective limits to just how...

17 boxes to send 32 sheets of A4 paper Shipping pallet to send a single computer mouse

That thought had crossed my mind but beginning with one of the mini drill presses such as https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KBYXPCU/ which are the right sort of power level and can be geared to the right sort of speed range by moving the drive belt. I have one of those for circuit boards and for...