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A few years ago I purchased boxes of Model Engineer magazines going back to before WW2 for £45 and the guy paid delivery, the courier hated me as we have two flights of steps up to our front door. Didn't realise that boxes of magazines are also good for weight training as well.

Here's the link to their website www.model-engineer.co.uk

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My Yamaha Diversion's front wheel needed new discs, the first bolt came out easy enough but the next one broke, then the next, steel bolts in aluminium just love each other so much they don't want to part, so off to a local engineering works that deals with North Sea oil rigs and for £200 they...

One of my sons decided to mash the fallen apples with our large flymo XL500 grass cutter and stripped the keyway, the two options were try and weld it and then cut a new keyway, or buy a new engine crankshaft, one I would have to pay for the weld and the other nearly half the price of new...

Just an idea, try enlarging the drawing on your screen, check the other measurement are right then you'll get the size you want, enlarged by 203% gives 1.875

Years ago my mother asked me if I could 'paint her mahogany coffee table with something that would protect it from her grandchildren marking it with their toys, the painter in the boatyard where I worked asked me to bring it in and gave it a coat of International two-part polyurethane yacht...

Have a read https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/polyurethane-chemical-resistance-d_1878.html

If house prices are hitting $500,000 dollars I don't think the price of Tesla's cars will be a worry, the real worry is the up and coming COP 26, people jetting into Glasgow from around the world, followed by all their clingons, but telling the Scots, 5.4 million of them if they get on their...

Now theres an idea, magnetised you toecaps, wear plastic bags over your feet and slip them off when you leave.

I road bikes for 50 years, started in a local farmers field aged 13 on a 350 matchless with no silencer, my last bike was a Yamaha 900 diversion, up until the late 70's all my bikes were unfaired, my triton was fast and noisy and ridden with no helmet, I can remember my work mate, Alan, coming...

One of my employers, a WW2 RAF Squadron leader, spitfire and mosquito pilot, was making a part for his home brewed control system for our lower chairlift. To finish it he was making a small wooden box, using his new toy, yep a hand planer, holding a small piece of wood in his hand he did what...

Singer sewing machines were made by the thousand in various countries, they had a huge factory in Clydebank, just North of Glasgow, Scotland. https://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/leisure-parks-events/museums-and-galleries/exhibitions/clydebank-museum-exhibitions/singer-sewing-machines/ I've...

In one of my past lives I became an upholsterer, an industrial sewing machine is a powerful machine, capable enough to put a needle through your finger nail and when the needle comes up having created a stitch? OUCH it's that fast.

I have pdf files of books that were downloaded years ago all out of copyright and free, what has happened since I downloaded them is copyright laws were revised and internet giants like Google who had told the world that they were digitising books so that people could read them for free in the...

The book is online at Jigs And Fixtures : Haas Lucian L. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive But copyright can be a minefield especially in todays digital world. What does "out of Copyright" Mean? (with picture)

I've ditched Google for most of the time through the use of the Host file, trouble is that you don't realise how much google has infiltrated the internet today, there are far to many websites that rely on nothing but google's software so I have to revert to the basic host file to some access...

Hi I purchased 4 of these, https://www.gearbest.com/3d-printer-parts/pp_1816577.html?wid=1433363, for my 3d printer. Made a difference to the print quality and the stepper motors are smoother in operation and quieter too. Cyril

I use foxit reader which has a beta program for showing 3d pdf files, I can rotate it but only see a solid black image.

As an upholsterer thumb and finger nail piercing was really a pain especially at speed, what made it worse was the unexplained language used and the laughter of my workmate.