• 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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    MS Office Home & Student, 365??

    With Microsoft you either use 365 on the subscription basis with an MS account or you can just buy a version and run using a local account. I use these people for Office and no problems...
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    Important people with money, your average joe just got on with using fusewire from Woolworths, infact many people kept that on top of the board ready.
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    Door top rail width

    KISS works and gives a nice clean look, unfortunately no one told the dust so it can accumulate.
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    When I first started we did not have all the test gear that is available now, certainly not multifunction testers that could perform automated test and record the data, in fact our mega tester had a windup handle and the three phase rotation meter was in a nice wooden oak box ! What we had...
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    Yes an important point and why only a decent tester should be used, not one of those kids toys of the screwdriver type that glows ! The Fluke tester with proving unit is a good tool.
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    Twenty years experience and he did not prove dead once isolated, procedure is prove live then prove dead to confirm your isolation is responsible for the circuit being dead. He might have become complacent, an issue that also happens in woodworking with machinery. He also does not...
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    Just avoid the 4x4 as they can be a nightmare when they go wrong. EGR on 2WD is straightforward but on the 4x4 it is a time consuming job with complications that result in big bills.
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    We used to say "Fix Or Repair Daily" and they have improved in some areas but they look better now because many others have dropped down the league table to there level. The problems were annoying but not costly and could be fixed easily, now you get very costly and often only fixed by...
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    They use coil on plugs, remove the coils and down a deep hole you find the spark plug. I would run a mile from a three cylinder ecoboost engine, they are a small capacity engine producing a lot of power for it's size and so are always working hard. The 1500cc is better than the 1000cc but...
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    CAD system for woodworking

    Back in the day autocad was what everyone used and was taught, command line, graphic's tablet and programable keyboards was the norm but now you actually draw rather than give commands for the program to draw which is so much easier. I find I use it almost like a sketchpad to give ideas some...
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    Prefabricated wins the day

    Just put an external aerial up . https://www.amazon.co.uk/outdoor-wifi-antenna/s?k=outdoor+wifi+antenna
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    CAD system for woodworking

    The software I use is Qcad, there is a free version and it is not hard to use. It is 2D and has all the features you might need and supports a range of formats with a gooo help forum. It has a library where you can put components you have drawn so they can be re used in future drawings as...
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    Snoring

    I thought that you needed a ferrous material for a magnet to stick so it sounds a bit like snake oil. I suppose now living way down south you don't need the thermal long johns and a mankini with a pocket works, just don't answer the door or go outside to put the bins out before changing.
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    Not so much a 'build' as a 'choose one and fit it out'

    Don't you mean Starmer, trying to get a human response from a cyborg.
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    Workshed ventilation

    Just need some airflow, condensation occurs when warm air meets a colder surface so keep it warm or prevent the warm air from reaching the colder surface. Any reason you could not use some of that thermal wrap on the ceiling, they even do it with a self adhesive backing.
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    Not so much a 'build' as a 'choose one and fit it out'

    Now we hear that Arnold Laver has gone into administration so if companies like Oak furniture land are buying in cheap stuff to resell that is made abroad and we are making less furniture in the UK then our own suppliers of wood are losing manufacturing customers.
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    Not so much a 'build' as a 'choose one and fit it out'

    People are no longer individuals who appreciate quality or uniqueness and MFI was just the start. Now you get stuff from places like Wren and Oak FurnitureLand which is really just crap for the masses. Oak Furniture Land is a bad description as I think they spray Oak scent onto the stuff to...
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    Not so much a 'build' as a 'choose one and fit it out'

    Yes John Boddys has long gone and is now a builders merchants. You do ask yourself what went wrong, to expensive or people just did not want the quality.
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    Not so much a 'build' as a 'choose one and fit it out'

    So do I, it is those extra details which can set a job apart. @Lons where do you buy the oak from ?
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    Laminated flooring - every day's a schoolday

    Think back to your school days and chemistry lessons, those blue Copper Sulphate crystals that are hydroscopic and if warmed up turn into a white powder that went back to blue when water is added again. A more common example is brake fluid, that happily absorbs moisture from the atmosphere...
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