• 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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    Disappointing car, great neighbours

    I helped a colleague find the "hidden" keyhole on a Skoda recently when his "fob" went native. "Manual" keying didn't work 😖. Complicated issue (SISO* key programming), resolved only by a VERY expensive/newly programmed new key. When I consider EPROMs etc from the dark ages of computing (1983)...
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    Workshop (clean up)

    You fibber! All those posts on soshul mejah ("thank you"Janet Street Porter) ??? Your gaff is simply the most organised, surgically-spotless jealousy-inducing one I have ever seen! Go on! Prove you are as messy a hellion as the rest of us! Post a picture of it looking "lived in"!! Sam, suffering...
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    Why use a stepped drill bit here?

    Two drill types on view: a tank cutter, Sue Perb gadget for metal disc creating. Quick and dirty, who needs a lathe? Fantastic at its stated usage. I had need of cutting lots of overflow tank sides for 1.5" connectors at one point, easy peasy. The "Conecut" I have in both cone and stepped...
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    Disappointing car, great neighbours

    Ah yes, the Nissan Joke...I had a hire of one from an airport. Couldn't get the bloody thing out of the parking bay! Brakes frozen on..🙄 the rep said "drive it, we've just washed it" 😲. Well, I did, and it sounded like grinding girders and it took 6 "emergency stops" to free off the ice, THEN...
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    Unusual winter weather.

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    Unusual winter weather.

    "Grita Garbo"
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    Unusual winter weather.

    ICETALAVISTA BABY....just outside Aberdeen.
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    Unusual winter weather.

    A gem!! Scottish snow ploughs have simply the most cheerful, uplifting names! https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker "Always be grit-full" "Oh my gritty aunt" Go on Peeps! Find your own favourite!
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    Unusual winter weather.

    Most basic rule for serious hikers and mountaineers. Don't sweat!! Pace yourself to stay dry - and therefore, warm. Sometimes, a fine decision /distinction has to be made re going on (higher up, or further across, the mountain) to destination, or turning back. The hill will still be there next time.
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    Unusual winter weather.

    The air temperature in northern Northumberland has been hovering about 1°C to -3°C (depending on sun or shadow) for several days, but, and it's a substantial but, the wind chill today is significant: -7°C overall, and that fell about 4 degrees more with sunset. The ground is like iron. S.
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    Tongue firmly in cheek, I first clocked the design, thought: "a Tolkien influence creeping in", THEN read the rubric. My bad; Goudi was a querr fellah!
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Not just R.R.; this practice was widespread, known as "boiling them down" in many places. The apprentice, not the work! A particularly evil derivation (for particularly feisty/cocky young men?) was to have a 1" copper cube produced by hand filing only, that woukd then be checked by "the Head...
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    What tools did you buy for yourself for xmas.

    "Carcoons" in Blighty apparently.
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    Falls (not water)

    Gawd...I survived a ladder slipping, with me on it, 6ft off the deck, that then 'took out' a freezer. I am still stupidly proud (any woman wouldn't be) that I took my hands off the ladder before impact. I thought I had broken my leg and forearm. I lay there thinking:"phone? Oh yes, its on the...
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    What tools did you buy for yourself for xmas.

    Nice problem to have...
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    Sad news, Phil Pascoe

    One less of the good guys; I admired Phil's turn of phrase.
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    Hi Dad...

    Got imagination!!
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    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    Al, the guy who never made a mistake, never made anything. I/We have all been there; my wife and family used to say I could verbally strip the paint from the walls when the C.U. fairy visited me. 😳.
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    Antique Stanley Line Level

    RRTFLMAO!! Sue Perb description!
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    Unusual winter weather.

    Mine are on their way, Roger. Photos soon as they bloom. Daffs and other bulbs thrusting strongly too.
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