• 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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    The accuracy (or otherwise) of AI

    Even the Crucial website seems confused, suggesting 32GB, then only offering 16GB: https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/hp---compaq/hp-82f1-motherboard
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    Virus information

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber) The perceived veracity of the Wikipedia article probably depends upon your view of Wikipedia, but I think I'll continue to take the advice of my fully qualified doctor. Duncan
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    Bob '9fingers' Minchin

    Terrible news, dreadful for his family. He gave me some motor advice just recently, and very useful it was, too. Heartfelt condolences to his family Duncan
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    Fixing a stripped thread

    Does it have to be on the opposite side? Could it be 90 degrees from the other two, on one of the other faces? Then all you'd need to do is drill and tap to suit. Be wary of welding if the banjo is cast iron, esp that close to the edge. Duncan
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    Oh, the irony

    Make sure you use a different phone. There are ways the scammers can keep the line connected even though you've hung up. Duncan
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    Salt and pepper mills - yew?

    There's no reason why the yew can't be lined with an insert made of another wood e.g. beech. As regards the tool for grinding the recess, it's easily made out of an old Allen key or any other piece of suitable metal. Mine is glued into the end of a piece of broom handle - not pretty but it...
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    Fluid-driven tools

    .....and battery tools are changing the game once again. No leads or hoses to get tangled. Duncan
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    Blood (without the gore!)

    I used to give blood as often as I could but often missed sessions having just returned from dodgy foreign climes, and then the next session would be months away. I never understood why I couldn't just turn up somewhere reasonably local and donate. Nowadays I can't give blood for other reasons...
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    What would you do? It’s not wood.

    Very well handled; such a shame that some people set out to cause trouble, just to prove how "special" they are. Duncan
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    What would you do? It’s not wood.

    ..... and if the nut allergy nut really is allergic, surely she shouldn't even be in the room when the dessert is served.
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    What would you do? It’s not wood.

    Refuse to serve the nut allergic "customer" as the risk is too great given that your kitchen cannot guarantee that all food is free of such ingredients after having prepared the arranged meal. Offer to prepare something veggy for the no meat, no fish idiot but don't make it sound too appetising...
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    Interesting Looking Leg Vice

    Clever idea, but I immediately started thinking about how to improve the geometry. I think the whole thing could be placed under the table if the leg support were moved in further (a fifth leg) and the top arms bending outwards rather than inwards. Perhaps also a swivelling gripping block to...
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    Smart Meters

    Simply tell them you want to pay for the energy used, no "smoothing" over the course of the year. This, of course, means that you pay in arrears. No good for those who struggle to pay large winter payments unless they have the discipline and wherewithal to save money during the summer months. Duncan
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    Domain and web site hosting advice please CONCLUDED THANKS

    For our westnorthantswoodturners.co.uk site we use the £4.99 pcm unlimited package from Netnerd. This is fine for our purposes although we don't use any e-commerce facilities and there's a max of two domains. Don't use our somewhat amateurish website as a guide to how it should be done! As you...
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    Any LINUX Users here

    Ubuntu/Firefox no problem. Win 10/Firefox no problem Android/Firefox no problem Duncan
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    Forum Testing

    Brilliant! Works well on the phone as well as on larger screens. Many thanks to Mark and Alasdair, as well as everyone else involved Duncan
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    Bearings, Who's best?

    Good quality bearings will keep for an astonishing time, even without grease. These ones were only working slowly through an arc and were still able to perform their function despite being a little on the dry side! Duncan
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    Dust Extractor Remote Control

    I have an Axminster ADE2200 dust extractor (really a chip extractor) with a 1.5kW motor. It has a starter with NVR so if the power is interrupted and then restored, the motor will not start unexpectedly. Having moved it some distance from where I normally work, it is less conveniently to hand...
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