Recent content by DJT48

I like to use a Staedtler clutch pencil with a 2mm lead. Sharpen with a bit of 120 grit abrasive paper. I also have a 6mm clutch pencil for rough marking out. I made that one myself from a kit from Turner's Retreat - you will need a pen turning outfit.

I don't think you are fussy, the correct word is discerning.

Paint the wood with chilli extract and mix ground dried chillies with the bird seed. Bird's don't have the receptors to be affected by the capsaicin but squirrels do and they don't like it. Although, there's always the danger that you may breed a strain of hard-core chilli-head squirrels.

Paint it white. It will go grey or brown or black naturally over time. You need light in a workshop.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironwood

Ah, but when you get to 70 or more, you'll find that you are slower with the splitting axe than you are with the log splitter.😜

Royal Mail refuse to handle overseas packages containing lithium batteries. You can get them sent by courier but that just adds £40 to the bill, and we aren't all millionaires in a tax haven. Some of us are just pensioners.

I too have a Trend Airshield and concur that it gets heavy very quickly. I also find it generally uncomfortable and not very stable. If I didn't live in the Channel islands and could get lithium battery equipment posted to me, I would have preferred a face shield with a belt mounted power unit...

I have the Axminster 16mm version. It works well. I believe the teeth are smaller than a steb, judging purely from the pictures. It's great for small work or largish. I recently mounted a 6" bowl blank to cut a recess so that I could then reverse cut on the chuck and turn the bottom & chuck...

That's more authentic. The DR1 airframe was of tubular steel construction.

The D100 has a sanding risk with its own belt drive. You can disengage the belt drive as and when you like. As another poster stated, the motor doesn't really have enough oomph for the sander.

Sorry, I got my numbers wrong. I told you, COVID brain fog. Compound inflation since _1967_ is 1511.35%. Petrol inflation is still >2200%

You're right, my arithmetic was awry. I claim COVID brain fog. The percentage comparison isn't really correct. The income of an 18 year-old back in 1967 could hardly be called representative of a living wage at the time. In my case, it was in the order of £11 or £12 per week However, to put...

Haha! Yes. When I started driving, petrol in the UK was 6s 8d (about 37 pence) per gallon. Now it's more than £7!

My first venture into what could be called personal computers was an Acorn Atom, a precursor to the BBC computer. It came with 2 kb of memory. That's right, two kilobytes. This was a slight handicap, especially as the machine used most of it for the display and work area. This left half a...