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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    You’re like my mum - food is fuel, and as interesting as the stuff you pump into the car to make it go. That said, she fed dad and three sons for all those years, not inventively, but pragmatically. But… my brothers and I are all keen cooks, academically interested in the subject. As my eldest...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    I don’t think so. It sounds like a good way of stab-inoculating bacterial colonies into the middle of the cut. I do have a meat hammer, used to batter bavette steaks to translucent-thin. After some drying, 45 seconds per side on a bouncing-hot griddle does them to a nice medium, served sliced...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    Interesting. ‘Aged’ is a term to watch, I seem to have found. It could mean the steak is vac-packed and put in a fridge for the duration, which is nowhere near as good as ‘dry-aged’, which means hung whole in the conventional fashion. I recently went to a fancy Aberdeen steak restaurant which...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    We made some steak tartare from the fillet of a Highland we slaughtered. The recipe we were following said it should be ‘an assault on the senses’. Very nice, but somehow also very rich. I can eat a pound of steak no problem, but not so much of the tartare. Bear in mind, the brown-ness of meat...
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    Dogs’ understanding of time

    It’s possible your dog could see the clock display (they might well flicker like in some YT videos) and use association and pattern recognition when the digits show the right time. Bear in mind, it’s very hard not to give off unconscious signals (and phermomones) that he could have been taking...
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    Scam alert

    Same user tried to phish me with an offer of a spindle moulder fence. Reverse image search showed it had been cribbed from an old thread on UKW. I replied with this picture:
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    Startrite table saw - table alignment help

    I have the TA 165 - it’s a good, solid saw. Mine has a 10” blade fitted, enabling 6” rips if flipped end-for-end, but that’s pushing the 900W a bit and you may not want to do that. Big rips are done on my bandsaw now. I would take the castors off and fit an outfeed table to that one pictured...
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    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    You wouldn’t want to start a tumble dryer remotely… would you? That means, a) someone else could start it and b) the dryer would be running unattended in the house. There must be some sort of arms race in unnecessary appliance features - our Candy dryer is about 20 years old and has two...
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    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    We like our gas hob because: 1. It’s cheap to run. I can’t remember when I last changed the bottle. 2. It works in a power cut. 3. We can use a proper carbon steel, round-bottomed, naturally-seasoned wok on it. In general, I’d say one should always have multiple energy sources, in case of price...
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    Nilfisk Aero 26 21 vacuum woes

    “More is missed by not looking, than not knowing” - my rule of diagnostics :giggle:
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    Nilfisk Aero 26 21 vacuum woes

    Some of them have a flag that shows what sort of fault happened. If not, a good inspection, then maybe continuity between L and N to earth. Try disconnecting the filter capacitor and seeing if it still trips.
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    Nilfisk Aero 26 21 vacuum woes

    Which trip went, MCB, RCD, inbuilt one? That’s the first diagnostic fork in the road. 6 ohms wouldn’t be that far out for a universal motor, depending on size. If shorted, it’ll usually make an ominous burning/arcing sound. Commutator might be burnt/pitted, brushes too, or the windings might be...
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    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Give them some foursquare timber and teach to saw straight to a line first? Then, dimensioning timber - I like FEWTEL (face, edge, width, thickness, end, length). How to sketch a basic design with three views, and from that a cutting list - I like how this breaks a complex project down into...
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    Wolf bench grinder

    I have a similar Wolf 8”, rescued, literally, from the scrapheap (£10!). The black box is an old Dubilier capacitor which might need replacing. The motor is a permanent split capacitor type, so you’ll need a run-type motor capacitor of the same uF and voltage ratings. The old capacitor might...
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    What have you "lost" today...?

    Reminds me of ‘they’re on your head, Mrs Richards!’.
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    What have you "lost" today...?

    Do you place the little screw carefully on the cross slide, then use the air line to clean the tool, and, apparently, blast the little screw into orbit?
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    Simple bar stool design

    Ah, maybe I mean a ‘quirk’ bead then. Paul Sellers calls it that, but I thought he was just being delicate. Whitehill tools call it a quirk cockbead, so that doesn’t really clear it up. https://www.whitehill-tools.com/profile-cutters/cock-bead-profiles/117489C/
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    Simple bar stool design

    I’d have to trig the leg at an angle with the same 2.5 degree wedge used to make the aprons. Easy enough in principle, but I can see some accuracy/consistency problems creeping in.
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    Simple bar stool design

    Thanks. That’s a ‘positive’ cock bead, probably a lot easier than the one I was thinking of below: The last time I did one, I used a scratch stock as suggested above, just a countersunk slot-head woodscrew with the top filed flat to sharpen it, and some relief filed into one side so it could...
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    Simple bar stool design

    Fine. It’s made of spalted beech, with a turned pedestal atop which sits the bearing. The rotating top has a circular recess to accept the top part of the bearing, so everything overhangs, meaning any spills just drip down the top and hit the worksurface. I don’t think it had a drip groove...
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