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You are on the right track. Sanding the edge is critical, then put on a few coats of waterproof varnish (sanding between), this will stop snags. I made a set for my wife whi knits a few years ago, they have held up well. I used 6mm baltic birch. Pricy but worth it for this application...

No, they are clearly labelled “biological substance catagory B”, they were for transporting live covid tests. https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/packaging-labelling-reqs-catb-infectious-substance.pdf

Hmm, it still doesn’t describe the experimental set up, other than “DE (nominal concentration: 300 µg of particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less [PM2.5]/m3) exposure occurred for 120 min”, which links to this article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/08958378.2011.562256 which...

The article doesn’t really explain how the ‘booth’ works. I wonder if the oxygen content of the air with the diesel fumes was low, which would explain the temporary effect.

£500 when I bought mine -6 years ago. In that time it has more than paid for itself in saving materials (mostly from stopping me screwing up) and saving my time so that I can get on with something else.

Just to check: the instructions for each grinder mechanism are on each page where they are sold; were the wrong instructions on the wrong page, or did you go to wrong page and download instructions for a different grinder than you bought? If the first one, then I agree that is not good by Axi...

Looking at the manual, they have 2 different battery systems taking 3 batteries in total, one for the mechanism; one for a light. Have you tried replacing all the batteries? https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/AC01/13-AC01_QG_en.pdf

The Axminster branch near me in North Shields (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) was in a retail park when it first opened, but moved to a trading estate after only a few years, I suspect the rent was a lot cheaper. It made no difference to me because when going there I’m not going for any of the other shops...

I have bought them from DC Iron to make the ball-ends for vice handles. They are about 50p each for the size you want. https://www.dciron.co.uk/products/sp30?_pos=58&_sid=36a22319b&_ss=r

Hi, they are definitely not metric. I don’t have the vice anymore. The jaws were held on with 5/16” bolts (according to my notes above), probably BSW. There is a smaller screw holding the quick release plate that I think may have been 1/4”, but I can’t recall the thread pitch.

Short answer, yes: a person’s ability to make accurate parts on a lathe far exceeds the potential movement of the wood during seasonal variations (a percent or two). Longer answer, still yes: there are many types of joint, but predominantly they are either glued or glue-free. 1) For glued...

Being able to sharpen the tools is a critical part of woodturning. The ony exception to that is for the people who use replaceable-tip carbide tools, but the cost and quality and ease-of-use are very different. How much wood do you cut before you need to sharpen a normal chisel or bench plane...

Short answer: yes, it’s possible. Buy a couple of 2.4m 44 mm square, planed timber from B&Q (£10 each), and turn it to the dimensions you need, you will get 14 per length. You may master it in half a dozen tries, or it may take you closer to 30. If you can’t do it by the end of 2x of those...

It is April fools day.

I suspect that they will be back down in a month; the same thing happened to me just before Christmas when I had a trade pack in my basket, but they were back down again a couple of weeks later.

Like a bowl/surfacing bit, but with a 10 mm radius? https://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Bowl---Surfacing.html

Medullary rays. The tree grows outwards in rings and these are structures that continue between the rings, so appearing to radiate out from the centre. Depending on the direction that the wood is cut they are either very obvious or invisible. I don’t think they have a significant effect on the...

You also can get 300 Nectar Points with it as well.

Any further insights please? I have looked at this recently, and the range from £30 caseless things on Amazon to £1,500 professional farrier things is bewildering.

There is some good news there, but the nano-diamond battery is more at the development point of ‘we have proved that the physics is not impossible’ rather than ‘commercial product’. Its ‘killer application’ is still likely to be space craft and very-remote sensing where changing the battery is...