• 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 Duncan A

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    Glasses - what's your view?

    I wear varifocals with three different areas in the lens and I have found that the disposition of the different focal areas is absolutely critical for me. The better lenses (Hoya, Canon) are vastly superior to the cheaper ranges. Fitting by a local optician is then critical to place the...
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    Praise where praise is due Leicester Royal Infirmary.

    Parking is still indeed a challenge at LRI but Leicester does have a good Park and Ride system which works well as long as you're mobile and not vulnerable to infection due to low immunity. Worth considering if there's no need to park right by the hospital. At least one of the bus stops is...
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    Flooding

    Regardless of damage to the vehicles, it always annoys me when I see 4x4's ploughing along a flooded street at speed (because they can) sending even more water into the flooded houses than is already there. Grrrrr!
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    And just when I thought...

    There is no way of protecting against all eventualities but I would never leave important documents in the car.
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    Wouldn't it be great if ....

    Our car's 3 years old so not as bad as the newer ones, but, somewhere under the dash lives a woman who says "caution" at random moments. No idea what she's on about but, just like real women, there's nothing in the manual 😀😀😀
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    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    How to use a saw, chisels, plane without harming themselves? If they find that too boring, they'll probably not come again and you'll be left with just those that are really interested. Duncan
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    What live center for woodturning? Morse 3 taper.

    Yes, I have done that on my lathe. Best to get an adaptor without a tang, or cut the tang off to reduce the length. Or use an open-ended adaptor - no added length but may be a pig to remove in the future. DAMHIKT! Duncan
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    What live center for woodturning? Morse 3 taper.

    If all you want is a pointed live centre, the MT3 centres for metal working lathes are often cheaper and stronger than the woodturning centres.
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    Curtain rail - fixing issues

    Older houses often have this trouble - crumbly bricks, previous drillings and fillings, the frog in exactly the wrong place etc. I drill a hole which invariably comes out oversize in the rubbish brick, stuff it full of polyfilla or similar, then push in a Fischer UX wall plug. The UX plugs can...
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    laptop memory

    I don't see how installing a 900GB SSD can add so little to your available storage. Was the old one 256GB? If so, I think it's possible that you've created, and are using, a partition of the same size, leaving 600GB unused. File Explorer may show, for example, a D: drive with loads of space...
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    Beech bowl, probably.

    One of the most important tools in the wood turner's armoury (at least in mine) is Dither Time. If unsure of how to proceed, I put it aside and one day it'll suddenly become clear what I should do. There are always other projects to carry on with in the meantime. Duncan
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    Download a complete thread for offline reading ?

    On my Android phone with the Brave browser I navigated to the first page of the mirth thread then selected Download from the menu. The entire thread was downloaded and then the menu options became Share or Delete. Choosing Share offers Print as an option and it can be printed to PDF
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    Houston - we have a problem

    Lockable, with an internal baffle to prevent retrieval through the posting slot. With a notice politely requesting to phone when delivering. All costs to be borne through the project manager's budget. Or even make an arrangement to deliver to the project manager's home. This might have the added...
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    Churches

    Jacob Butler did a superb conversion of a Derbyshire chapel. www.owdman.co.uk Not sure if he comes over this way,, but can certainly be found over the other side
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    Another drainage query - sink "blocking" - now fixed

    We had a similar problem a while back - traced to a blocked bottle trap in the sink drain pipe immediately outside the house. Buried under the drive, a camera fed back from the waste water chamber outside found it and a squirty rod cleared it. Sorry about the non-technical terminology!
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