Recent content by JefL

I’ve used Bendry Bros on numerous occasions. Very helpful staff, if not too busy they let you sort through the stacks to pick what you want. Again, if not too busy, they will also help load roof racks too.

It also states “open in safari”, no company would suggest that. It suggests they are working from an apple product. Any genuine message would say “open in a browser” to cover all operating systems.

I think this shows how little a large part of the population read nowadays. If it’s not fed to them on mainstream TV or social media they ignore it. I’ve been following this story for years but you have to look hard to find it sometimes.

I agree. I am dsiappointed she has given it back. The stigma would have been much greater had it been removed by the honours committee. As for Jacob's comment about the judiciary, don't forget the majority of the prosecutions were 'nodded through' because the defendents pleaded guilty, usually...

As has been mentioned 5/32 BSW was very common for handles of all sorts going back way before the 1956 BS was published and were commonly still used into the 1960s. As for not enough Meccano nuts, I don’t seem to have a problem…..

There must be something in that whenever I’ve seen an extended flue through a building from a wood burner it has always been insulated. If it was such a good idea surely it would have been done lots of times by now.

I had a feeling you meant to use cm not mm. I blame the French for continuing to hang on to an obsolete measurement. CM should be deader than imperial in my opinion. I grew up learning imperial units, made the change to metric when I started college/work and spent 43 years in engineering using...

Beautiful, but it looks bigger than 20x20x20mm to me.

I see despite the existence of this thread some people cannot resist commenting on Joke Thread 4 in the thread itself 🙄 Sometimes I wonder……..

As always with WD40 it’s fine until it dries out to a gummy varnish, if this has got onto contacts it can cause unwanted open circuits. It, and similar substances, were used at work on wet/damp secondary wiring of high voltage circuit breakers which spend extended periods in one state and when...

Yes, used to be banana oil in my youth, a cellulose acetate based “varnish”, for inside the hull for waterproofing and sanding sealer on the outside as a base for the desired paint finish.

I find block planes very useful for one handed planing, door edges for instance, with the door still hanging. I started with a Stanley 120 but passed that one on to a daughter. I now have, all Records, a 9 1/2, 60 1/2 and a 220. All old, all beauties. Even use the 60 1/2 on the shooting board...

I care, and I absolutely refuse to use text speak when I use sms or whatsapp on my phone. It does have an effect too, neither of my daughters, nor their partners, use text speak to me or on our family groups. I just nagged them until they stopped 😁 On forums (fora?) I always proof read my post...

Not in the UK. Illegal to carry (fixed blade) but not included in the list of banned knives. My old boy scout knife is a Bowie pattern, and in the 1960s I used to wear it on my belt every time I was in uniform. Walking from home to scout meetings and back, once a month in Church for church...

This is my other favourite knife. A cheap, less than £5 at a game fair a few years ago. No makers name but the carbon steel blade takes, and holds, an edge you can shave with. It gets less pocket time than the Boker as that has the advantage of a screwdriver and corkscrew, but this one has the...