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Of passing interest. I was filling the car at a Tesco today and idly looking at the unnecessary-stuff-and-things adverts on top of the pump. One item on offer was a 6x led UV torch for £3.99.

There is a free phone app, golden ratio calculator, no need to buy anything. Or just work it out yourself, or do an excel, Google sheets, ios numbers calculator. Simple sums.

Daylight, not through glass which can filter out some uv, will work, albeit more slowly than a proper lamp. But as a try out without buying any new kit it's OK, especially for things that are easy to carry outside the workshop. ( Most weather apps include a uv forecast.)

Get a cardboard box. Cut a hole in the side. Write on it "do not move, rat trap underneath". Put it just inside your garage. Tell your neighbour. Do nothing else.

As above, I would be tempted to go for water collecton with butts and so on for some uses, and take a 10l camping jerrytcan thingy of tap water for human consumption. You could even get a pump or foortpump in the style of camper vans - our old vw had a water container in a cupboard unit and a...

People keep mentioning Reform. Is it a party? I thought it was a private limited company 80% funded by Tice, with Farage as a shareholder. Supporters are not members, no influence on policy. So a vote for Reform is a vote to support whatever Tice decides he wants. I could be wrong, anybody?

If you look at the Rwanda costs, like many policies, the numbers are so big they are hard to comprehend. To put it in simple terms, take the total home office estimated cost per head, multiply by the number you get on a plane, divide by the number of UK working taxpayers and you end up with it...

We have similar rules for legal migration, not called a points system but has criteria. It works well enough despite the scare stories. If you curtail it, as some politicians want, you have to decide which crops go unharvested, which care homes close, which financial and technology firms move...

You may like Braverman's ideology, you may not. There is however no doubt about her incompetence. Failure to budget meant she had to go to the Treasury for £3bn emergency funding, knee jerk policy struck down by courts because she failed to follow proper process, and more. I think we have the...

You will need a lathe as you say, and for bowl turning a chuck, for any turning you will need a basic set of tools, maybe 5 or 6, and a way to sharpen them, at the very least a grinding wheel. As a rough guide, you need a budget of £500 on top of the lathe cost. That's not to put you off, it's...

Repair cafes fill many functions. Avoiding landfill might be one, but fixing things with intrinsic value rather than cash value may be another. I recently refurbished a Stanley #4 plane, nothing special and I could easily afford a new one. But I remember my father saving up tp buy it back...

As above, OK for display but not for handling. But a small block is brilliant for rubbing along the lathe bed, underneath where the banjo clamp runs, toolrest edge and suchlike so things move nicely. Also good to silence squeaky bees.

Blinds inside glass might help a bit, but the infrared end of the spectrum isn't reflected back through the glass as effectively as visible light so heat does get in/ stay in. Some blinds have coatings, but it's best to have exterior protection or coatings if you can. How about birdseed? Then...

In Cambridgeshire we have had a recent fatal house fire attributed to an electric bike charging overnight, and a couple of bin lorry fires where it seems like the crusher has crushed and shorted a battery pack, created a hot spot and got the rest of the rubbish burning. In those cases the fire...

Useless :) Evri, which is a surprise because there is a regular who does the nearby villages and normally gets things right. Maybe they were off, holiday or whatever.

I live in #2 in a street in a small village. To help delivery drivers there is a 2 by the door and a BIG 2 painted on the garage pillar which is what you see first from the road. There are just 5 other streets in the village, one of which has a name nothing like mine and a #18. The occupant...

I've just had to redo the layout in my double garage because one end is needed to store large musical instruments, so now I'm using 2/3 of one half. We all have different needs, mine is based on woodturning. When we have visitors we need to put a car in the other half of the garage, limited...

For an interim quick fix see if your phone has the function. On mine the phone camera has a button for code scanning and for translation among other things. It works remarkably well.

This thread suddenly jumped from Feb 2021 to a few minutes ago. The technology has matured and UK workshop has a forum, Cad, 3d printing etc., which is active and contemporary.

The certificate you get from FENSA is full of disclaimers and to some extent worthless. It does avoid the need for building control certification and is useful when you sell the house (as we, or our heirs, all will one day) so you can provide the paper that the buyers solicitor will ask for.