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We have a few pine doors upstairs in our cottage. I originally thought they were unfinished but now think they are probably waxed. Over the winter lots of small dark spots have appeared on all the doors and are gradually spreading. I have no idea what this is (some kind of wax mould?) and...

Is there a technique to transferring the locations of hole centres from one metal piece to another, without just trying to measure and replicate the locations by eye? I have a piece of steel (6mm, mild) with four drilled and tapped M6 holes in a, ahem, slightly imperfect square. I want to drill...

This is a bit of a random one and I'm not certain that there is much that can be done, but thought it's worth a punt. We have some wooden beams in one of our rooms, which have some kind of stain around holes which have been drilled in them. I presume these holes were for some kind of woodworm...

Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with the angle stop from my Kity 419 sliding table. The stop is there to set the position of the rotating arm to 0 degrees for a right angled cross cut. The centre of the stop protrudes and can be pushed back into the body to enable the arm to move freely to...