• 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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    Spindle moulder fence

    The Cooksley only cost £360 or so, with a decent Europa power feed!
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    Spindle moulder fence

    Still looking for a one-piece or horse shoe fence, ie the type normally fitted on most machines. To fit the old Cooksley, about the size of a Wadkin EQ, obviously with some adaptations: The two separate fences in slots are a bit of a nuisance.
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    Coopering

    I bought an SCM T110 spindle moulder from a cooper. Here are the knives he was using - 100mm tall and two different, opposing curvatures: I also buy tonne bags of old whisky barrel lids for firewood, which have a very nice smell when cutting and burning. These are joined together with some...
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    Interesting power line safety

    The earthing straps would also be there in case someone starts up a generator and back-feeds the grid. There are some fascinating vids on helicopter linesmen, flying up to half-million volt lines, offering up a wand to the line as they approach. This is to take the arc as the heli’s potential...
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    What does a Request Timeout mean on Ping test, Now Starlink,

    They’re in Bracknell and Ebbw Vale, but have no problem providing internet all the way up here, so you should be ok. It’s their solving of problems that sets them apart, for me. Now, initially, my fibre internet was going down between about 6pm and 11pm every day. Once, it was off all night and...
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    What does a Request Timeout mean on Ping test, Now Starlink,

    Up here it was quite complicated - one team to brought the fibre to the main road, another took it past the house, then Openreach themselves made the actual connection to the ONT. If you’re looking for a decent ISP, I can strongly recommend Andrews & Arnold, a small independent. Tech support is...
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    What does a Request Timeout mean on Ping test, Now Starlink,

    Good stuff. Best solution for ADSL problems is to ditch it, as I’ve found as well. It’s basically a bodge job, trying to piggy-back complex signals onto an ageing, corroding network that was never designed for it. My internet connection varied between crap and non-existent. I must have had 5...
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    What does a Request Timeout mean on Ping test, Now Starlink,

    I had this a year ago, struggling with ADSL. If you’re on the MIG forum, try ‘pinging’ a chap called Qwakers - he does this sort of thing for a living, and analysed my router and connection all the way from Cornwall! My travails with BT tech support are documented there too. I spent days trying...
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    It looks like you’re in that limbo, job too small for an electrician, maybe too big for you. A serious lack of tradies up here means there’s little point in contacting one. They won’t turn up. So I often ‘go it alone’, but I do have decent test gear. I wouldn’t say your job is too far different...
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    I would get that changed, which I think would require removing the timing chain. At the very least, I’d be dropping the sump to inspect and clean the oil pump pick-up strainer.
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    2 years in, I can recommend the 2018 Volvo V40 T3 petrol that I found for the wife, after many debacles with a Discovery 3 and 4. The criteria were: Easy to work on (I do all the maintenance/repairs). Low mileage. Petrol. Not from the North of Scotland (rust). Ours was shipped up from...
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    Good. The other problem is, the oil pump drive was also a wet belt, so it may be worth checking they altered that, too.
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    Interesting YouTube electrical fault video

    It didn't look like a direct live - voltage was down from 230V and dropped as appliances were plugged in, suggesting a high impedance source. Switched live from thermostat probably activates a relay in the boiler. So the errant voltage source, at least on the neutral plug pin, was probably via...
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    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    Is that the EcoBoom, with the wet timing belt which degrades and clogs the oil pick-up? I would steer clear, if so. Post crossed with Spectric saying the same thing.
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    Garlic press

    I do exactly this after seeing Rick Stein do it, because although we have a garlic press which works well, I can never find it intact. My wife has many talents, but storing things logically and systematically is not one of them. She’s banned from cleaning up the big mincer since the last time...
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    What I have fixed today

    Where there’s a will, there’s a way… Part of the unwillingness to buy a new machine is that I don’t know which brands to trust any more. A friend of mine brought me her newish and hardly-used Miele vacuum cleaner to fix recently - shorted armature. New motor - £250. New machine - £280. Into...
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    What I have fixed today

    Our washing machine is now a hybrid of parts from three broken ones, including one we bought in 2007. Anything to stave off buying a £900 machine that looks like it belongs on the ISS, like t’wife wants. Also allows a satisfying answer to: ‘why are you keeping all these broken appliances?’
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    SCM T110 spindle moulder shaft

    Ok, thanks. I’ll see if it sells as is, then maybe test hardness with a file and go from there.
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    Hunting Open Season

    What’s the meat like - venison? My favourite is Sika, but I’m not sure if you have them out there.
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    SCM T110 spindle moulder shaft

    I have this 1.25” shaft from my old spindle moulder (L’Invincibile!) hanging about. Any idea how much it’s worth? I could probably take it down to 30mm if that would make it more desirable.
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