Recent content by Jelly

Nice find, obtaining one in such good condition for a reasonable price is no mean feat! If you ever find yourself wanting one, Myford are still going (albeit from West Yorkshire, rather than Nottingham) and manufacture a full range of spares: Clickity Click.

Thanks, I've just spoken to my local ironmonger and they might have some of the mighton ones in stock, they're going to check if what they have (it's an over-order by a previous customer) is the appropriate size, otherwise I'll order directly. I may have had a rant to that effect, to my missus...

I've been working away at rejuvenating the much abused (but still fundamentally sound) sashes around my house. The rear two at the back have been replaced with (very sympathetic) modern units fitted with spiral balances and no space for weights. Predictably the balances have failed after 10...

There's often a market size aspect to consider. I have bought almost all of my clothes on eBay for the best part of a decade because it offers excellent value for money, I needed to replace some jeans recently, and managed to get 3 pairs of Levi 501's in immaculate condition for starting bids...

The current regulations consider all oils other than cooking oils to be classed as Hazardous Waste (even when testing demonstrates the oil demonstrates no hazardous properties) and has an absolute requirement to dispose of hazardous waste via an approved disposal site or under an exemption...

Technically, because this pertains to waste generated by a business activity (renting a property), it's hazardous waste unless fully decontaminated (which itself would also generate hazardous waste) and needs to be taken to a licensed disposal site. If it was you changing your own oil tank at...

I use a Durham-Duplex straight razor, takes replaceable blades which are extremely sharp and made from carbon steel (fortunately the required blade design became a defacto standard for microtome blades used for preparing slides in cell-biology, so are still in production) no sharpening needed...

It's not even the whole UK which clings on to the confused mess we have... In Scotland the concept of all the surveys being done upfront by the seller (with the seller carrying the financial risk of mis-selling) and the process of "the missives" which results in agreeing heads of terms and an...

I've been involved in a number of projects dealing with business acquisitions and commercial property purchases and was shocked at how unnecessarily difficult the whole house sale process was by comparison to something far more complex. My move was made difficult by the seller not...

I spoke to my solicitor about preventing exactly this kind of thing when buying my house, as there had been a lot of interest... Apparently unless the seller accepts some form of "consideration" (such as a deposit, or you providing some other valuable service to them) then it's effectively...

I remember my dad thinking he was dead funny by buying my mum a print she'd seen in a gallery somewhere and really liked, framing it and hanging it in the place that she thought it would go well after she went to bed, then giving her a new ironing board as her "official" birthday gift. She saw...

Whilst terrifying in their behaviour (including human reproductive toxicity, and changing the sex of marine life) I believe Stannanes (Organotin Compounds) have been regulated almost out of existence as antifouling agents, certainly they're banned for new maratime applications (where I could see...

I have an old lab coat hanging in the workshop which I will use to protect my clothes if I'm just popping in for a moment to do a potentially grimy task, but don't generally use it if I'm going in to undertake a planned task. I tend to either change into dedicated set of duck cotton bib and...

This is excellent advice. As I said I've had issues with spectral clouding and overlapping WLAN coverage which could only be resolved by the kind of methods discussed above. Adding extra AP's actually made it much worse.

What irritates me most about Gove is that when he ran DEFRA, for a brief moment we got to see him earnestly and competenyly working on non-partisan policy that was both actually workable, and something he believed in. It just makes the return to form that much more galling, knowing we could...