Like many windows users I was disappointed to discover a few months ago that Microsoft deemed my windows 10 PC would not be eligible for updating to windows 11. It gave me just the push I needed to try Linux.
The first week had me doing a lot of head scratching - google searches on many things...
I trap in hay fields and prefer the Talpex scissor style traps. There are lots of poor copies around, it’s worth paying a few quid more for genuine Talpex - well made and galvanized to last a lifetime (that’s if if you can remember where you set them ! I always push in a marker stick alongside...
I am another VAT registered sole trader who was once quite happy with a simple spreadsheet.
When MTD was announced I looked at a few online services and settled on one called "Pandle". I used the free version for a couple of years and found it did everything I wanted.
Recently I upgraded to...
Casters are not that expensive. If the bearings are still good you could buy a non-swivel(they are usually the cheapest!) caster of the same diameter and swap the entire wheel over.
Another good online castor supplier is Bulldog castors
Agroshiled, thanks, I can tell you put some thought into these things too. Lots of good suggestions.
I keep adding additional tapped holes into the baseplate in random places when I don't have another convenient point to clamp a piece down. That's the best thing about home made bits and pieces...
Benny, I did the same thing a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised at just how good a single speed mag drill can be as a substitute for a pillar drill. My choice was the evolution 42, which came at a good price and also has the benefit of a large range of height adjustment making is...
A well balenced hatchet can be a real pleasure to swing, although I must confess that nowadays my most used axe has no handle at all.
For anyone who makes kindling by hand, a Kindling Cracker is a great way to do it. For anyone who hasn't come across these, you can make one yourself from an...
I have a welding table with sliding slats and it works well, although I don't use it for beating down on things with a sledge hammer.
One thing to consider is how to make the slats, if you want them to be both flat and relatively inexpensive. I made mine from steel plate with angle iron...
I used to have a Toyota Hybrid and I remember something was in the manual about in the event of a crash, there is an inbuilt impact detector that immediately open circuits the battery.
Many years ago when I was an electrical engineering student, a superb lecturer called Jack Priestly, who had...
I would love to own one of those beautiful Damascus blade penknives, unfortunately it would be wasted on me as most of the time I abuse mine by repeatedly taking the edge off by cutting plastic. On the upside, few things in the countryside are quite as satisfying as slicing into a tightly packed...
Just wondering if anyone on here has any experience of protecting steel from corrosion by "Impressed Current Cathodic Protection" (ICCP) ?
For those that haven't heard of this before (including me up to yesterday), it seems ICCP is using a small dc power source to prevent current flowing away...
NCB black is the colour my Austin Maestro used to turn if I passed your old colliery at the wrong time and got caught behind one of the lorries taking out the last of the coal. Actually, that was a vast improvement over the orange peel effect beige paintwork. :D
My memories of Brooks are...
Hi Colin, nice to see you are doing a great job of keeping busy during retirement.
I was at Brook Motors too. Started as an electrical apprentice there back in '73 before going into mining machinery with BJD in Wakefield, driving past Caphouse every day. Huddersfield's street planners and...
Possibly the ugliest spanner you have ever seen.
I was wondering how to stop a big nut from spinning on the outside while I was inside a tank. Inspiration came from my scrap pile, the old bracket needing just a few mm taking out with an angle grinder.
Have you ever tried to use a faster tool, only to find it wasn't ?
Earlier this week, after grinding some bolts to pass up through a base plate to fasten a cross slide, I had only 4 nuts to tighten up, but my impatience got the better of me. With limited access it was slightly slow going with...
I've used road road plannings for farm tracks, laid 5" over non-woven geotextile then just tracked over with excavator and found they tend to stay in place well, particularly once they catch the sun in hot weather.
When I've used them to fill potholes in a gravel road, they haven't done so...
A knackered hobby sized vertical milling machine, where the drive and control gear are useless.
All I need is 3 axis manual movement, so I can adapt it to take a router for wood work. I have a router table which is great for working on longer lengths of timber, but it always seems so primitive...
When asked what I would like for my birthday last year, I said a skip. Nothing arrived, so I hoped maybe Christmas present instead. Still no skip - perhaps my wife is overthinking the gift wrapping.
Many years ago, as a student, I bought a book called the "Application of Matrix Theory to Electrical Engineering". In the 45 years that have passed, it has never once come in useful. That was until this winter, when the wheelbarrow was empty and it was peeing down outside. At long last matrix...