• 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!

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    care homes

    This is the unfortunate side of working with people in their later years. Hospitals are desperate to discharge patients, so a Care home placement is a good result for them. Continued care and an empty bed. Bod1
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    Blast From The past

    Came across this several years ago, it's a bit long, but hopefully will raise a smile. The Specialist by Charles (Chic) Sale (as told in 1929) (Used by permission from W. T. Shaw) (Slightly altered from the original) Mr. President and Gentlemen: You've heard a lot of pratin' and...
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    A bit of a head scratcher as it’s too hot to do real work.

    Make 2 plugs that fill the current holes in the door, glue them in. Door is now solid. Mark and fit the new lock as per normal. The square rod that goes through to activate the catch, is the key to this problem. The door handles will have to be drilled and tapped to allow a grub screw to be...
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    3"x3" Posts

    Metposts, I seem to recall they did a repair post, that hammered into the cut off old post remains, leaving a square clamp for the new post. Or go the whole hog, use concrete posts, and gravel boards, the trellis will last much much longer. Bod1
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    Breast Drill Renovation

    http://www.wktools.com/y_MillersFalls/tools/chucks/tools-chucks-Ryther/springChuck-Ryther2.asp The chuck type has a name, and patent. Bod1.
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    Disston D8 28 inch Rip Saw - RIP

    Broken teeth, I've had this with a Disston saw, an elderly saw, sharpened fine, but when setting with the "Eclipse" type pliers, some teeth "crunched" then snapped off! Never having this before, all settting rechecked, even redused, but still snapped teeth. My conclusion, the actual metal had...
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    Getting old and stupid

    Welcome to my world. Bod1.
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    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    Yankee screwdrivers work surprisingly well with Pozi/Philips screws, if you can find the bits, or Hex drive bits. Bod1
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    For those interested in metal working machinery

    One day someone sat down with a blank piece of paper, thought hard, and laid out the assembly path for each part. Bod1.
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    The Farrier's Axe

    I seem to recall, a televised "Race of Aces" at Snetterton. A Norton bike with a rotary engine, was making the rest of the field look very slow. it wasn't cornering fast, but on the straight, it went! Bod1.
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    Wouldn't it be great if ....

    After reading this topic, my next car will be a Morris Minor Traveller. Bod1
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    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Teapot stand, first project in school woodwork, saw, marking gauge, chisel, square, simple quick. Bod1
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    Suggestions for excavating this hole

    Bit late to the game, I'm afraid. Largest brace bit that will go down the hole, drill to depth + a little more. Use a small chisel to chop out the corners left by the brace bit as best you can, The brace bit creates a space for the corner waste to fall into. Bod1
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    Bandsaw 'fettling'...

    Looking at your photos, Has this machine worked properly with a different blade? Or has this drifting happened from new? Check the lenght of all the blades, carefully measure the machine, rather than believe the manual. If a blade is too long, the tension knob will not have enough movement...
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    Multimeter / s

    A couple of mine. The bottom one has a DC clamp meter rather than an AC clamp meter, for use on 12 volt boat systems. Bod1.
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