• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Recent content by Eric the Viking

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    Mower spares pricing

    DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, LOOK INTO IT... ... unless you and your glasses are securely tied on, topsides. and you are wearing breathing apparatus (or lashings of decent aftershave)... ... And don't even think about wearing those nice new contact lenses. I hate those things - my parents...
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    8mm diamond drill bit recommendations sought

    The one I have for tiles is a tube. Mind you, doing porcelain is still horrid. And the obvious thing is that you can cut through the surface cleanly if you you make a jig (just a perpendicular hole in a block of wood, held on with D/S tape), once you've done about 2mm depth, the drill should...
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    Banking Apps

    We moved our mortgage to Nationwide around 30 years ago, when we moved house. They have been absolutely brilliant, and remain the only banking branch in our part of the city. Four clearing bank branches have closed within 1/2 mile of us, and at least three more in the village itself. The...
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    8mm diamond drill bit recommendations sought

    I can't recommend a decent make any more (Marcrist used to be quite good, years ago), but they used to proliferate on eBay at low prices. Regarding extracting the waste, I push it out by tapping the head of a masonry pin (i.e. facing backwards) towards the back end of the drill (not pushing it...
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    UK makers of hand tools

    I have a Maun pair (parallel jaws with cutter/wirestripper), which I inherited. They're very, very useful for tightening the nuts on electrical potentiometers (control knob shafts) and toggle switches. I think Maun have slipped a bit, quality-wise though: My pair have bespoke half nuts on the...
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    Right angle drill attachment

    I have a very similar DW one to Duke's. I am surprisingly pleased with it - it seems both well made and well designed. If you use standard-length bits in it, only the business end projects - the rest of the bit is inside the head of the tool, giving it probably the absolute minimum rear...
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    Anyone for cricket in 1939

    Cor, I remember those rubber-spiked batting gloves from school...
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    UK makers of hand tools

    Are Crown Tools still going? I've bought at least three of their items down the years: a dowel-trimming saw (like a Gent's saw, but teeth set only on one side), a burnisher for scrapers, and a set of rosewood handles for my early 1980s No.5, which replaced horrible glass-filled-plastic...
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    Lost! Now found.

    I have the Presch square and I love it. The extra stock thickness is handy, and for some odd reason it's the most comfortable one I have. I also have two Bahco ones, relegated to 'if desperate', because of fit and finish. They may have been better twenty years ago* but are pretty rough now. You...
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    Recovering from an op- ideas of what to do?

    My physio appointment on Tuesday last was with someone I hadn't met previously. She took a fresh case history, and did a reassessment, too. She also reviewed the exercise regime in the light of the second op, and an embarrassing propensity to fall over this time around. The 2kg dumb-bells are...
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    Puzzled I am and so was the V&A....

    Given the period, it makes me wonder if it might be, literally, upmarket campaign furniture. Not collapsible, but intended to be transported a lot.
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    Flush Ceiling Ventilation Extractor.

    My take on this (rank amateur, but I've done five bathrooms now): Run-on should probably be seven to ten minutes at least, and longer in the summer, as there's more moisture in the air then. Also, as Roger said, make sure there's a good airflow through the bathroom. Ours have fairly large gaps...
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    Router bit?

    I have a small selection of Wealden beading cutters, a couple of which are fairly tiny. I'm sure you'll have looked at their list and nothing would match exactly (from memory - I might be wrong), Might you do it with two passes?
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    Puzzled I am and so was the V&A....

    Cacti - the ones in our kitchen always damage me if I go anywhere near them.
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    Recovering from an op- ideas of what to do?

    Boy, do I sympathize! I've had two spinal operations in the last four months, and I think this second recovery has been worse than the first one! Your mileage WILL vary from mine, depending on where/what the operation was. That said... ... I found out the hard way (er, twice, which is...
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