• 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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    Festool Domino scare

    Yes, having to use an adapter well might be a bad idea. Given where you live, I'd say it's worth altering the vacuum to have a Schuko socket instead. They are a better design* than the UK 13A ones, without a fuse and with a better earthing arrangement. Why do you need the latter since Festool...
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    Photography: lubricating a tripod ball+socket.

    I do very little human-driven video these days but I do have a proper Manfrotto fluid head (not a really cheap one), and a tripod with a decent bowl (90mm?) and spreader. It doesn't get out much as it's a bit heavyweight for a DSLR (hard to get neutral balance on the head, for starters), but it...
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    Photography: lubricating a tripod ball+socket.

    Very kind thought! It's had as good a clean as I can manage for now, and I shall have another go at unscrewing the QR plate when we get back. I also found a perfectly sized zip lock bag to cover the ball in a suitcase, so it won't make a mess (it sticks out of the tripod bag - why do they never...
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    Photography: lubricating a tripod ball+socket.

    I have been frustrated by the QR plate being "permanently" attached to the column and ball, but... it's just occurred to me that a bit of well-aimed heat might cook the thread lock so I can separate them. I am pretty sure I can remove the safety interlock and cam first, so they’re not harmed...
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    Photography: lubricating a tripod ball+socket.

    I think that's how mine was initially, but the coating seems to have worn, although it's still functional otherwise. It's a very sturdy ball head, which is why I bought it in the first place, and I haven't seen anything as good since. The BH-55 is excellent, but would be too heavy, This is the...
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    Photography: lubricating a tripod ball+socket.

    They're really nice but I'm wedded to the Manfrotto plates, in part because I have a specialist pano head I've adapted to work with them, and I'm not keen on the Arca-Swiss style. The Manfrotto ones have a nice interlock, so you can't easily drop the camera too. Also I already have a good, if...
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    Photography: lubricating a tripod ball+socket.

    Photography question: I am the sort of twerp who buys a lightweight carbon fibre tripod, discards the pan+tilt head and then sticks a really solid and chunky ball and socket head on top of it. Pan+tilt = video, but too frustrating and slow for stills stuff, especially panoramas. The preferred...
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    Subsidence

    I've been through this farce. The huge issue is that there are a very limited number of structural surveyors in any given area, and they get the bulk of their work from insurers. It's nigh-on impossible to find one to work for a property owner, and in my limited experience they are happy to be...
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    From across the pond Florida USA

    Welcome Joe! Around 1987, my wife and I were invited to a friend's brother and family in Ocala for Sunday lunch. We drove up from Orlando, but were extremely late for the church service where we were to meet, because of an apparently-endless freight train, triple-headed, if I remember, that...
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    Any Monty Python aficionados?

    Ni ! I was wobbling down a Bristol hospital corridor last week, under the close instruction of my neuro-physiotherapist, feeling rather silly doing what he'd asked me to (he was watching closely). Since I was basically doing The Walk anyway, I said, "John Cleese was brought up in...
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    Does brass "work harden"?

    ^^^ Wot 'ee said. To be honest, your symptoms don't sound like work hardening - that usually relates to brass becoming brittle rather than malleable and shouldn't affect filing or sawing. It's much more likely to be blunt tools (I speak from experience on that bit!). It's pretty easy to anneal...
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    Never Have Work Done when you are Not Home

    My sister was one such, in a rural setting. On one occasion, in the days before mobile 'phones and when she was still in uniform, she was the first to attend a 'domestic' incident involving a firearm. The police were only informed about the latter after she had entered the farmhouse on her...
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    Dare I - after last time: Parkside at Lidl

    And a shout-out goes to all you Canuks out there: I'm right there with you: forget Mr. Phillips and even Mr. Torx(??!): Mr. Robertson is the true King of Fastenings.
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    Corner or Angle brace.

    I've always known them as "Joist Braces", to let you bore holes through floor joists (presumably for lead piping back then). I have one somewhere, but it was a NOS purchase in the 1970s, and is more like an ordinary ratchet brace. It has a longer handle than that one. If I can find it I'll...
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    I Do Like Facebook Marketplace

    Hmmm. I thought I had several books on the Shakers and actual Shaker furniture, but the library is in a bit of a mess at the moment. I've found four that have Shaker-influenced or copied designs, but you really want history and examples. Also somewhere I have information about those cups used on...
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