• 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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    Hacksaw blades

    Bahco - the bright orange ones - are what I've been very happy with as well, though I can't claim to have tried too many.
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    I want to reach out …

    Here's one of the several definitions in the current online edition - this usage has become a lot more common recently but it really isn't anything new.
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    Building a Piano Stool

    It's your arms, not your legs, that determine the right height. Different teachers have different rules for how to determine it for a new player, but they all boil down to making sure that your hands can naturally sit just above the keys while maintaining relaxed movement and without introducing...
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    Sharpening a kitchen knife

    European style kitchen knives are much softer steel than woodworking tools or Japanese knives - they're designed so that instead of taking tiny chips out of it, the edge will roll over in places first. What a traditional (smooth) steel does is unroll it and straighten out the edge; it doesn't...
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    How do you light you fire?

    The top down vs bottom up discussion is interesting, but just to present a third option: what I was taught to do in Scouts many years ago was to light sideways. Place a large log, then put the tinder next to it and lean the kindling against the log above said tinder. Once it's caught, then you...
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    Barn Beam Repair

    There are two examples of it in the horizontal members in the right-hand half of the last photo. If I had to describe it I'd probably call it a half-lapped scarf.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I remember an episode of Tally Ho several years ago where they decided to go back and change something that had already been done, which required removing screws that had been counterbored and, like most things on a wooden boat, covered in watertight gunk behind the wooden plugs. He made the...
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    NOW NEED TO STACK FIREWOOD

    The logs aren't perfectly straight, so the longer they are the more gaps you'll have between them caused by waviness and the like. Cut shorter they'll pack more efficiently, so the same pile of wood will take up less volume.
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    Spot the mistake...

    Not to mention the two other blades that appear to be cutting on the back edge.
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    Win 11 upgrade from Win 10 Unsupported machine

    The check that my instructions bypassed was that the machine has at least 4GB of RAM, supports Secure Boot, and has a TPM 2.0 module installed and active. Secure Boot and TPM generally have to be designed into the system when it's first built and can't be added later, which is why this...
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    Win 11 upgrade from Win 10 Unsupported machine

    Excellent, glad to hear it.
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    Anti-rust paper

    The location link just takes the text you entered and sticks it into a Google Maps search, showing you the first result. It appears that the correct location in Steve's case is actually the second result for that search, as Google thinks the town name is more important than the postcode and...
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    Video buffering.

    Not to worry - modern Windows tries hard to make it as easy as possible to set things up how they think you should, and that means all Defender protections enabled, which is what you want here. Click on the 'Virus & threat protection' tile that's showing the red X, and it'll open the part of...
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    Video buffering.

    It's enabled by default, but you can't rule out that Avast might have turned it off and not re-enabled it. You can check fairly easily: open Settings, choose 'Privacy & Security' from the left-hand menu, then the top item should be 'Windows Security'. Opening that will give you a summary of...
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    Win 11 upgrade from Win 10 Unsupported machine

    I've not attempted this particular operation, but have used Rufus in the past. Some of the details might be off here as I'm working from relatively old memories, but the general outline should be about right. First thing you'll need (apart from Rufus itself) is a USB stick that's big enough to...
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    Video buffering.

    If you've not tried it yet, I'd seriously suggest removing Avast and seeing whether that helps. Not temporarily disabling it, if that's an option - I'm talking about complete removal. There are reasons for that which I can go into if you want. One of the big things that Safe Mode does is to...
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    Video buffering.

    Yep, that's another big difference between corporate and home setups. Any moderately-sized company IT department worth its pay will have a set of pre-configured standard images that can be automatically deployed to a machine, new or old, and start up with everything they need installed and ready...
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    Video buffering.

    If it works in Safe Mode but nothing else seems to help outside of that, I'd be suspecting the antivirus package first - especially since modern Windows Defender can do that job just as well for home usage. Anti-virus packages are also constantly updating themselves without telling you about...
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    Teething troubles, can anyone explain this?

    My money would be on blocking hands as well, with the same suggested solution.
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    Stripped thread ..

    You often don't need to enlarge the faceplate holes for an M4 screw.
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