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It also states “open in safari”, no company would suggest that. It suggests they are working from an apple product. Any genuine message would say “open in a browser” to cover all operating systems.

I think this shows how little a large part of the population read nowadays. If it’s not fed to them on mainstream TV or social media they ignore it. I’ve been following this story for years but you have to look hard to find it sometimes.

I agree. I am dsiappointed she has given it back. The stigma would have been much greater had it been removed by the honours committee. As for Jacob's comment about the judiciary, don't forget the majority of the prosecutions were 'nodded through' because the defendents pleaded guilty, usually...

As has been mentioned 5/32 BSW was very common for handles of all sorts going back way before the 1956 BS was published and were commonly still used into the 1960s. As for not enough Meccano nuts, I don’t seem to have a problem…..

There must be something in that whenever I’ve seen an extended flue through a building from a wood burner it has always been insulated. If it was such a good idea surely it would have been done lots of times by now.

I had a feeling you meant to use cm not mm. I blame the French for continuing to hang on to an obsolete measurement. CM should be deader than imperial in my opinion. I grew up learning imperial units, made the change to metric when I started college/work and spent 43 years in engineering using...

Beautiful, but it looks bigger than 20x20x20mm to me.

I see despite the existence of this thread some people cannot resist commenting on Joke Thread 4 in the thread itself 🙄 Sometimes I wonder……..

As always with WD40 it’s fine until it dries out to a gummy varnish, if this has got onto contacts it can cause unwanted open circuits. It, and similar substances, were used at work on wet/damp secondary wiring of high voltage circuit breakers which spend extended periods in one state and when...

Yes, used to be banana oil in my youth, a cellulose acetate based “varnish”, for inside the hull for waterproofing and sanding sealer on the outside as a base for the desired paint finish.

I find block planes very useful for one handed planing, door edges for instance, with the door still hanging. I started with a Stanley 120 but passed that one on to a daughter. I now have, all Records, a 9 1/2, 60 1/2 and a 220. All old, all beauties. Even use the 60 1/2 on the shooting board...

I care, and I absolutely refuse to use text speak when I use sms or whatsapp on my phone. It does have an effect too, neither of my daughters, nor their partners, use text speak to me or on our family groups. I just nagged them until they stopped 😁 On forums (fora?) I always proof read my post...

Not in the UK. Illegal to carry (fixed blade) but not included in the list of banned knives. My old boy scout knife is a Bowie pattern, and in the 1960s I used to wear it on my belt every time I was in uniform. Walking from home to scout meetings and back, once a month in Church for church...

This is my other favourite knife. A cheap, less than £5 at a game fair a few years ago. No makers name but the carbon steel blade takes, and holds, an edge you can shave with. It gets less pocket time than the Boker as that has the advantage of a screwdriver and corkscrew, but this one has the...

I have quite a large collection of knives, including Leatherman and Gerber multi-tools but my everyday carry, it lives in my pocket all day, every day, is a Boker Plus Techtool 2 Keeps a good edge and legal carry in the UK as it has a non-locking blade. I know you CAN carry a locking blade but...

Close, but the five minutes, when I was a butchers boy in the dim and distant past, would have been 15 to 20, or I'd get sent back to do it again. Funny though, once I hit 16 and got my first motorcycle, I never had any trouble undoing tight nuts and bolts. Block scrubbing is a wonderful...

I have some in the garage, good for lubricating brass screws into hardwood, just wipe off the excess or it goes green. I got mine years ago from work, the jointers used to use it for wiped joints on power cables. Still available from Toolstation.

Airguns, had over 50 a while ago but I've slimmed it down to 44 now.:) Triang Railways from the early 1960s, that started when clearing out Mum & Dad's loft I came across my old set from my childhood, I now have almost everything in the 7th edition catalogue except the transcontinental series...

Ashley Iles bevel edge chisel does have bevels in 3mm. They also do a dedicated dovetail chisel in 3mm that appears to be rounded rather than bevelled. Both however are 3 times the price of a Rider:oops: Jef

My original (1970s) set of Marples blue chip chisels came with the 1/8” chisel with no bevels, the chisel is just too narrow to have them at the size it is made (to match the rest of the set). Axminter’s illustration of the Rider 3mm “bevel edged” chisel clearly shows no bevels, it looks exactly...