• 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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    Video buffering.

    Presumably this is playing videos from websites, in a browser? If so: Which browser are you using, and have you tried any others? Which site(s) are you seeing this on, and have you tried any others?
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    Stripped thread ..

    As Jim mentioned, the standard thread for electrical accessories is M3.5. An M4 screw will fit through the holes in most faceplates, and if the lug is knackered beyond the ability of the tool above to re-thread, then tapping it as M4 and using one of those is often a viable fix. There are also...
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    Lets See Your Backup Power Generator

    Surprisingly not - you just need a specially designed changeover switch to make sure the generator and grid can never be connected to each other, and as long as you do it after the meter the power company has no interest either way. They'll only start hunting you down if you go pushing power...
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    Bread; makers, people or mechanical?

    I do lid on for 25 minutes then lid off for 20, for a normal 500g loaf. You'll probably need to adjust for your recipe and oven, but roughly half and half is what you're after. The lid traps the moisture and has the effect of a steam oven to let the crust expand, before the lid comes off to...
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    Bread; makers, people or mechanical?

    Do the second proving on a tabletop or wooden board, covered with an upside down bowl. Once your pot is up to temperature, just drop the proved loaf straight into the middle of it. If you don't fancy that operation, you can cut a circle of baking paper the size of the base of your pot, with...
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    Osmo Polyx Bare Spots

    One of the great benefits of Osmo and other hardwax oils is that you can just add more in spots that need it, either to top up or repair. With that in mind, you don't really need to be certain of the cause before you try the easiest fix first, which seems to be the one you suggested. If you...
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    Zurich Cycling Would Championship.

    Yep. The very simplified theory is that you train with one recording your power output at all times, and end up with the absolute knowledge that, other things being controlled for, you can continue to output X watts for Y hours without running into problems. Then you just ride so that your power...
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    What would you do? It’s not wood.

    I think this is a similar thing that happened a few years back with the autism spectrum - namely an increased understanding that it's a spectrum, not a binary yes/no diagnosis, and that people who "seem perfectly normal" may do so because they've developed coping mechanisms over the years to...
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    Fish Dishes?

    I know the conventional advice is a whisk or fork for making mayonnaise and its friends, but I've always preferred a wooden spoon. Somehow telling when it's ready for more oil just clicks more easily that way. As long as you've got the capers in there, there's a lot of scope for personalisation...
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    Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

    Having a blade that they can lock means they're not covered by the folding pocket knife exemption, and so you need a 'good reason' to carry it in public but there are no restrictions on owning or using it in private. Of course there's no statutory guidance on what constitutes a good reason. Of...
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    I know how you guys like solving a problem

    Is it possible that you had that number on an O2 (or any other network, really) SIM card in 2018, then ported it across to Giffgaff in 2022? It could well be that to them, 'active' means 'active in our systems' and they don't know or care if it was a valid number on any other carrier before...
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    board volume

    144 (12*12) is the factor to convert square inches to square feet, or cubic inches to board feet for American sawmills. For cubic measurements you need 12*12*12, which as Mike says is 1728.
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    Is a jigsaw OK for cutting plywood?

    The right blade is going to be key - most blades on the market are, as Mike said, building site tools designed to roughly and rapidly cut fairly thick material, and have large aggressive teeth to match. If you try to use one of those on 5mm ply you risk splintering up the entire sheet, not just...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    I did think about this as well, but with both halves of the joint already cut, I'd end up needing an infill the width of a saw kerf down the middle. In the grand scheme of things re-cutting two sets of tails didn't seem too bad for the sake of getting a better end result.
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    A slow chest of drawers

    I didn't mention initially, but when I first saw the cupping I brought the whole stash indoors to the warmest part of the house and it sat there with all faces open to airflow all summer - another delay while I sat and hoped they'd flatten out. Those two sides also now have large splits down the...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, it's been a while since any real progress on this, for a variety of reasons. When we last left off, it looked something like this... ...that's the carcass made, the bottom drawer finished, the rest of the drawer fronts fit to the openings, and drawer #4, as I'd numbered them, had the...
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    Application of Glue

    Shelf life is the big thing for me too - with the very limited time I get to spend in the workshop, I'm on my second bottle of TB2 in the last five years. Even ignoring the wastage that would come with a shorter shelf-life, there's a lot of value in just knowing that I've got glue when I need...
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    Dining room wall unit dresser thing

    There are several methods for gradually increasing the heights of drawers, but they're generally used for floor-standing pieces where the drawers are all significantly below eye level - the intention being that if the lowest drawers are taller then when you look downwards at the set, they'll...
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    Sliding Dovetail proportions

    The main force on the shelves is going to be at right angles to the joint, not pulling out, so you shouldn't need too large a tail in there. I'd probably go for a third of the side thickness, or thereabouts, to keep the sides stronger. So far I've always done these with the widest part of the...
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    Mug and Cup Coasters

    The vast majority of wipe-on poly is just normal oil-based poly thinned down with white spirits - or so the American YouTubers tell me. It's functionally almost identical to the various commercial Danish Oils, or to Mike's Magic Mix.
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