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You're undoubtedly right. Unfortunately my wife is the one who broke the second one, and she's definitely capable of feeling guilty about it for longer than that! I'll have to have a go with epoxy, I guess - at least it'll hold together a bit longer and should be safe for milk. Thanks to...

Unfortunately I've found ThisToThat less than useful for real-world applications. It doesn't list melamine specifically, it just has a generic "plastic" entry, then gives specific advice for PVC pipes (?!) and suggests "probably epoxy I guess" for all other plastics. I know there's better...

Hi - I've not been following the forum for a few years as I had a bout of someone-filled-the-garage-with-junk-from-the-house-and-now-I-can't-get-to-my-bandsaw, followed by a stretch of trying to build a built-in wardrobe, followed by the birth of our first child 16 or so months ago. (And I say...

So now I'm curious. I have a cheap old Draper-branded biscuit jointer that I got second-hand; I gave up on the fold-down fence within about fifteen seconds of opening the box, and reference everything off the base-plate of the tool and a common flat surface (sometimes finding the common flat...

Ah! Sorry, I got you mixed up with Mike Jordan for some reason! If you want to slow the speed the wheel spins at, then you need to introduce some resistance into the system. Gears aren't necessarily the best option there, but there is a way to shoe-horn them in if you fancy a bit of extra...

Gearing slows down or speeds up your system by having gears of different size. If you have a drive gear with ten teeth meshing with an attached gear with twenty teeth (and thus twice the circumference), then the attached (teeth in mesh) gear will rotate at half the speed of the drive gear. The...

I can see that these two points are advantages, but this bit: "I find it easy to use after some practice" is not the same as "it's easy to use". :P I find a bicycle pretty trivial, but thousands of kids who are sat on one without stabilisers for the first time would argue with me if I said it...

Perhaps you could expand upon why? I've only ever found the pin ones thoroughly unhelpful - more likely than a wheel to follow the grain and/or gouge than actually make a useful mark. But maybe I'm using them wrong! I kind of suspect it's one of those things where the "best" option is the one...

Counterpoint: if you use the tablet for art, then both a larger size and also the wide border are potentially quite useful. Artists are trained to draw from the shoulder and elbow, not the wrist, so larger sizes simply allow for larger expressive strokes. Not really useful if you're using the...

That would gel with my experience only if it means that the ID of the inlet is 38mm at the widest, with ~1.5mm of thread on each side. (Certainly 32mm is far too loose in mine unless LancsRick is talking about a wider hose that just happens to have a 32mm connector on the end.)

I hadn't noticed that the protrusions on the inside of the fitting were actually a screw thread! I'm using the "tool hose" that came with my trusty Lidl wet and dry vacuum; the end of the hose that doesn't fit on the end of the regular vacuum hose fits perfectly into exactly two things that I...

Cheers, guys! Unfortunately I spent so much effort getting the dovetails all nice and tight and glued up square in the plane of the tray base that I didn't think to check how square they were in the other direction, and ended up having to sand two corners down about half a millimetre on the...

After using a temporary screwed-to-a-bit-of-MDF-in-a-workmate job for more years than can strictly be considered "temporary", I made one of these: And to celebrate, one of these - to replace the temporary-old-glass-placemat which we'd used for more years than could strictly be considered...

Out of interest, what is the particular advantage to starting it convex-down as opposed to concave-down - just that it's easier to balance the board and find the right 'flat' to plane, where starting concave-down would potentially make inefficient use of the board if the bend is all up one end...

The nice thing I found about the Lidl one - as opposed to another battery digital vernier calliper that I have - is that there's a little nub you can push from the opposite side of the body to the battery compartment which pushes the battery compartment open a little. Meaning not only that it's...

Did you use actual acetone or did you use nail varnish remover which might have acetone in but also has perfume and water and who knows what else? Did you burnish the back of the paper or just wet it with acetone? I've had limited success with this method with my colour laser printer. It's...

I tried a 3mm bit of polycarb once, as it seemed pretty rigid and looked like it might work - it bowed about 15mm down in the middle to the left side of the blade before I hurriedly stopped the saw. If you do want to use such thin stock, then countersink some holes into it down the left (narrow...

For the second one I found the secret was just taking all the drugs they offered instead of stupidly thinking I'd be happier avoiding a needle in my arm!

Consider yourself lucky, I've had that thing down my throat. Twice; the first time the only anaesthetic I got was a quick throat spray... It turns out you can just about breathe past it, but only when you're not dry heaving - which is pretty much all the time. (It was still worth it, FWIW -...

I've used Fischer hammerfix fixings to attach into brick walls both a timber rack and the winch for an assembly table that lowers down from the ceiling. I can hang off of the timber rack (and I'm not small) and the winch hasn't caused me any trouble at all. They're very much like regular wall...