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How to remove these deposits in the pan? ideas please

The smell of tar as you walked along the gas works path, Bury Park Luton. GPs recommended the walk for those with bronchitis.

Originally bits had a square tapered shank that fitted in a bit brace ( as in the picture at top), drills have a circular shank which fit in a 3 jaw chuck. One other advantage of the Forstner drill/bit is that one hole can overlap a previous hole, which no other standard drill/bit can do.

Im with cabinetman - I was a 'Mr Rand'. The viceroy was not a machine to do a quick upgrade, but one to do 40 plane blades and 80 chisels before term started, or after school ready for exams (in days of old when GCE tested practical skills). The oil was distinctive and if it splashed onto your...

Having swept chimney for last 20 odd years first with old cane rods and classic brush head, and more recently with keyway jointed plastic rods and cordless drill with a polypropylene brush cutter type head, on last 10 years a wood burning stove with SS chimney liner, the dryness of timber is the...

Working in school workshops all my life the 2 chiselling rules; all fingers behind the cutting edge and cutting away from you and down, have prevented many injuries I’m sure.

All joints rely on side grain to side grain for strength. If you have any end grain in the joint there will be little strength from that part. Your photo is showing a carcase but you have applied framing joints to make it. It is doomed to failure. You need dovetails or finger joints which will...

To calculate moisture content, take a clean log off the pile, weigh it and record. I use the kitchen scales. Put it somewhere to dry, airing cupboard, greenhouse, oven at end of cooking session etc. Weeks later weigh again, and record. Continue until consecutive weight are the same. Then use the...

I used to use a large fertiliser polythene bag with a tyre valve fixed on with a good vacuum pump in secondary schools in the 70’s before we bought a proper Harefield bag. A cautionary note. PVA didn’t dry in the bag - we had to use synthetic resin - Cascamite or equivalent.

1. Where the cheeks of the tenon are too tight they will be bruised and this shows as a slightly shiny surface. 2. If this joint will be under a lot of torque, it may be worth wedging the tenons - a standard construction.

When drying 'left overs' for the log burner I've become interested how dry the timber can get. If you leave logs on top of the log burner for weeks to really dry out will it only be water that evaporates or does the timber itself (cellulose etc) evaporate? By weighing, I'm surprised how wet...

Even though the respirator is about 20 years old, I managed to get replacement Main and pre filters from Argo tel 01923 202090 Code DTVS-3170 pre filter DTVR-TH2 Turbovisor Main Filter.

Good morning! I am renovating an old Lervad Technology bench which has an end vice (working) and side vice (part complete). The side vice has 2 clamping sections operated by the one screw thread. My question is : what is the maximum size of material that can be clamped or the thickness of the...