• 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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    A New Fir Kitchen Counter Top

    I have indeed been really busy this August constructing various furnishings for our kitchen. Of course, all 100% fir, and with my L-profile, carriage-bolted legs, and painted gloss white. My counter top from 12. August, 2026 Since this double induction cook field draws 3500 Watts, at full...
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    Lots to view when driving country roads.

    And the orange one: Best guess: a Fordson Model F / Fordson-era orchard or industrial tractor with a front attachment. Charles
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    Lots to view when driving country roads.

    My best guesses on those old farm tractors: From left to right, they look roughly like: International Harvester/Farmall-style small row-crop tractor Another Farmall/International Harvester tractor Massey-Harris or Ferguson-era tractor Farmall H/M-type tractor Farmall M/older IH row-crop tractor 😁
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    Skil Jig Saw Case Repair

    No, that is not me, but his channel looks indeed interesting!
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    Another sewing machine, progress and help

    My wife's machine originally had a hand-crank on it, but her dad installed a motor on it, which I replaced years later with a nice, new 90 Watt motor, with a new foot-pedal. But when my then 'wife-to-be' immigrated to Germany, to marry me, she had this heavy machine stuffed inside of one of her...
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    Another sewing machine, progress and help

    From 1911 - 1917, Singer had invested in the Russian economy, building and operating a Singer Sewing Machine Works, in Podolsk, near Moscow. The original plant Low and behold, the plant was nationalized after the 'October Revolution' and eventually renamed the 'Podolsk Mechanical Works'...
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    A Bakery Bench for a Mixer

    So, I just tipped the bench over on one side, and gave the underside, and some of the legs and frame, their first coat of paint on bare wood. No photo this times, as at present, it looks like it was built in the 1960's. But some light sanding (240?), plus the next couple of coats will make it...
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    A Bakery Bench for a Mixer

    Here my mixer bench from underneath, showing the 64 SPAX screws, securing the top, while the glue dried. And also a view of the inside corner of my L-Profile Legs, bolted with two 50 x 6 mm carriage bolts, nuts, and flat washers. I usually mark each leg and corner 'A, B, C, and D', so...
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    A Bakery Bench for a Mixer

    When my girls, and the older one's husband, still lived here, I had a lot of baking to do. They always wanted fresh sour-dough bagels, which were a lot of work. Then I also baked bread later. So my K5 has a bit of slop in the gearing. She was very tight when new. But now I can feel it while...
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    A Better Rat Trap

    Thanks for the info! I was certainly delighted to see the American ones hanging there on the hooks! So I bought them all, as reserve. I shall have to look up photos of Lititz, Pa. in internet. Charles
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    A Better Rat Trap

    At first, I considered buying the 'catch them alive' type cage-traps. But they are around 16 € each at 'OBI', and the product reviews about them were all negative, such as: 1.) Too small for big rats. 2.) Panicking rats usually do indeed get the door back open, and escape. My wife also...
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    Greetings from Northern Germany

    The problem is that you have to think the entire sentence through in your mind before you even say it. The verb comes at the end, and if you suddenly have to change what your are saying, in mid-stream, you will indeed blow the grammar to pieces straight away! Then there are endless exceptions...
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    A Bakery Bench for a Mixer

    This one's bowl is round on the bottom with two 'ears' with holes which stick out. I have two, and they cost 120 € each. Anyway, they look like mini-replicas of the big 80 litre 'Hobart' bakery mixer bowls — one of those big bowls is over 7500 $! This mixer raises and lowers it bowl with a...
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    Skil Jig Saw Case Repair

    Thanks! 😁
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    Skil Jig Saw Case Repair

    This Skil jig saw got pulled off the bench, by its cord, and suffered a nasty crack in its case, plus a hole in its side. So I took it apart and then sealed up the crack, from the inside, really good with two-part epoxy. I covered the hole with a piece of aluminium sheet-metal, carefully...
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