Recent content by WoodMangler

I'd be wary of applying mains voltage anywhere near a tool designed for batteries.

I take it you don't wear a seat-belt in your car ?

Tuffsaws (again)

My very first lathe looked a lot like your Hodgson, but with an R D Melhuish label. I found a picture of mine in an old Melhuish catalogue of 1893, so definitely Victorian. I believe Melhuish was to a large extent a 'badge engineer' - perhaps Hodgson was too, and both lathes came from the same...

My original jabs were Astra-Zeneca, and I had a Pfizer booster yesterday. Feeling a bit rough now, but no worse than a good hangover. The. injection site is pretty sore though. The mass-vaccination organisation was not of the best this time round - the first invite letter was to a vaccination...

I think this is an indication of why so many forums have changed to this sort of layout. I didn't like it when I first saw it, but so many forums (fora?) have gone this way now, that I fear we're just going to have to get used to it.

I just see 'Image' on the post. When I 'view image' of that I get a new tab with just 'URL Signature expired'.

Which wax should I use ? (I did look back up the thread, but couldn't find that information).

I'm in the same situation - same age, same problems, same lack of enthusiasm. I'll be interested to see what this thread has to say.

Rustins metal lacquer - I made a model cannon which rusted in about 5 secs whenever it was touched. I gave it a coat of Rustins metal lacquer and it hasn't rusted since (several years), despite repeated handling.

I buy my (soft)wood unplaned over-size from an excellent local timber merchant*, and planer-thickness it to size and square when I want to use it - it means I can hand-plane one side of twisted or warped wood to straight before I machine it, without losing-out on the finished dimensions. (*...

Life is a sexually-transmitted disease which is invariably fatal...

Absolutely superb ! Well done indeed, a masterpiece.

But the thing i love is living...

I'm 5 miles from Lampeter - I was in Tregaron this morning, at that silly little counter in Spar that purports to be a Post Office.