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It’s the sort of thing that would be good to hire I suppose. Doubt anybody does though- sorry I can’t help, and no that’s not being tight, just practical. Ian

I bought a Conecut years ago that’s still going strong, it gives a really good clean, but slightly tapered cut. Ian

Well that’s certainly different, I thought I had seen most vice arrangements! What is the advantage to having a long jaw and being off centre, and how much cramping force do you get towards the far end?

Being an inventive and unconventional sort of person who doesn’t trust other people’s designs and ideas, I would want to build an adjustable one to check out the seating position. It also may be that your client may want his to be different to his wife’s? Custom made to individuals leg length...

Well we will all have different views on that, personally it would be a Record 53 with quick release. But I can see the case for fitting what it would have been fitted with originally. Ian

Can’t quite see, is the storage built into the surface of the bench? So was there a large hole there which was actually a box and it’s then later been planked over? Most unusual, I would imagine to have worked it would have had a hinged lid, presumably it was to store tools, but it would have...

A loud alarm, yes I have a Master Blaster in my workshop, designed to be so loud it’s disorientating and believe me it is, all you want to do is get out of there! BUT you do have to remember to hide the ear defenders. Ian

Not quite sure what it will be like, (pay attention at the back boy!) but I must say that’s an incredible bit of turning, I’ve done a bit here and there but there’s no way I would have tackled that. Ian

This was a recent thread, lots of answers on there.

@SimonB other ways to make workshop doors more secure are, don’t have a traditional letterbox, they can use that to cut horizontally though the door allowing them to open the top or bottom of the door that isn’t then locked! Galvanised tin sheet can be carriage bolted to the face of the door to...

Hi, it’s a cheap and easy way to protect doors from attack to the hinges which is sometimes an easier way to break in than going for the locks. You will need a couple of carriage screws, say 2 1/2” or 3” these are screwed into the edge of the door on the hinge side leaving them stuck out about...

Yes that’s my understanding as well, but that can’t be how things were years ago, the flowers seeded and regrew each year, so have the seed producers rigged it? Obviously theses aren’t the seeds you need - perhaps a little borrowing of roadside seeds etc might pay dividends.

As @Jonnyb said but I think he meant to say outward opening? being more secure, stops them smashing the door inward, and yes to a mortise lock, even the best padlock won’t last a minute against a grinder or bolt croppers. I always fit Jamb bolts into the edge of the door so that even if they...

Can’t see how he could be fake after all the comments he’s made? Something I found out the other day which I didn’t know was that mice - and probably rats, can’t stand trying to bite wire wool, I don’t think I would either lol. So the idea is to block up any gaps and holes with it. Ian Ps any...

Thanks Jonny, I have some to make soon but hadn’t started to think how! Timber, Iroko? And yes I know they’re nothing like each other but it reminded me of Cedar as well. Not easy to describe what you’ve done sometimes I know but I couldn’t follow the paragraph ending in "who knew". After...