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It really miffs me when one loses their NCB by choosing to not drive a car for a couple of years, I lost 17 years of careful motoring, so when I came to insure my clio four years after not driving, I was being treated as a new driver the fookers. Anyway, got insured through Gibraltar, the...

As a kid I had an idea for a mag lev train after playing with some magnets, imagine my surprise when I found it was already being done with electromagnets. I also had an idea for a mag lev spring as a damper, this one electromagnetic so damping can be adjusted with higher current. I had loads of...

Brilliant, I always liked that website, but the buses, just superb, from a time no doubt where people had a vision of a rocket age future - what happened, has the rocket age been and gone ?

Blogging, does anyone blog here ? And how does one start a blog, as it has been suggested I do so so I can spare forum viewers of what I write about, but I have no idea how to start a blog and where ?

Shropshire is nice, I liked it when I lived there; Albrighton but it's a bit from the sea, and I like being near the sea, what the hell was I thinking living in Oxford for ten years is another thing, but a Shire to think about, what about Devon, plenty of hilly stuff here to get you fit, either...

Eerm, that's a scouser version of 'erm' init ?

Nah. it's gone past the stage of just needing a clean, the copper tracks that the slide switch/speed control run on are worn through, as this machine has been apart a fair few times. My only option to avoid replacement of the machine and buying a new switch, is to bypass the speed controller...

This is mad ! http://youtu.be/vePqxFN9s0U And that's hairspray, undoubtedly the butane propellant in the can... Then there's this.... http://youtu.be/CejsxceoSgc

Hey, a 4 inch makita belt sander, ever tried using them for traction ? We did once, four of them with the switches locked on, all cables into one adaptor. A board on top of the belt sanders with a course grit fitted, workshop gofer being the lightest got to sit on the board then switch the power...

I found two sources of leak, laminate in the kitchen was never a good idea, so that came up and the other area is I suspect a bridged damp course in the corner where a lot of damp is, outside the damp course is only an inch above the ground. This flat has always been known as the dampest of the...

Mine, a largely unmolested '95 GT Timberline, the colour is called 'candy', it's purple in some light and a maroon colour in other light. Alivio MC12 and STX

Third Ear Band, anyone remember them, I had the album Alchemy, now that stuff was different.

The one power tool I have just about totally destroyed is my Dremel, first it was brushes, then bearings and now the speed controller is shot. Parts are available, but they are a bit pricey, may as well save and get a new one.

And just watch as soon as we get a dry spell lasting more than a week, we will be told hosepipe ban is on again. It's not so much the lack of rain, it is just the water companies use colanders to transport the water around, instead of pipes.

Why is friday the 13th unlucky, I have never found it so, not biblical rubbish is it with the thirteenth disciple being Mr Iscariot is it ?

I am waiting for someone to mix it into something modern and boring to make the modern and boring sound better. Have all the melodies been done do you think and what can only come in the future is a rehashed thing from the past ? I was pleased to hear All along the Watchtower By Hendrix...

Someone said yesterday that the hot weather that the US is getting is influencing the Gulf stream so as long as they get what they are getting which is unusual we are going to get wet as usual.

Ah, a variant of the Fein Multimaster, I used to have one, but that was one of the tools my ex sold at cash converters and I do agree they are good at spot jobs, there is even an attachment for ripping the caulking out on boat decks. If memory serves me well, they tend to work better when the...

Routers, from what came in for repair, the most popular were Elu/Dewalt, Makita and Hitachi, but Trend's, just seemed to keep going. Myself, I liked Hitachi for Wood cutting machines, they seem to be well built and deliver a lot of grunt. All the machines I had were built out of recovered...