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It is indeed Bridgeport size, check Colin's albums

This might sting a little.

It would be worth removing the display box circuit board to check for any cracks in the track around the base of the components. Pay close attention to the larger items and also the flexible ribbon to the display if there is one.

Free machining steel comes with free electricity vouchers.

Given the cost of power these days the lantern tool post or better still an original Victorian candle tool post if you can find one could save you a great deal of money.

The issues start when someone belts the chuck key with a hammer.

Have you tried RDG ?

Blackgates do 5" copper tube in 10G.

UG! Tanks are plastic and have lids now for both those reasons. My father had Bees block the overflow on the hot tank back in 1960, then the washer went.

You get more choice of mixer taps that work.

You only heat what water you need

You, um, er, give me time now ........

You need a bigger gas feed right back to the meter

You get enough hot to feed one tap only.

You get a condensate drain that freezes if the outside temp is lower than -8C for more than a day and stops the boiler. Particular fun when the boiler is in the roof space so that freezes as well

You need one of these fairly greedy with thin air tool oil, but much better with thicker car engine oil. Or you could make a proper oil pump such as the on on Minnie.

Simon,

There's nothing wrong with nailed on felt

Spend the £42 at B&Q and get some decent 15year felt, rip the old felt off, I think you will find a wet roof under it which will need to dry in the sun for several days. There's so much movement in a wooden building + the thin felt moves as well, it's impossible for that felt paint to work for more than a week.

What did you 'seal' the roof with? It should have been heavy duty felt, the expensive stuff. 6x4 sheds tend to be made cheap with the thin felt and thin walls made from fencing panel timber.

Without gutters rain will run off the roof hit the patio and bounce up wetting the walls.

You'll find the brackets can deform enough to take out any slop when you tighten the bolts.

Having watched the RedBull soapbox races the major flaws are wheels collapsing under side load and nor enough steering and or brakes.

Oh and doing a rubbish dance at the start.

But 'us' left alone are the mob as we had on here last week.

Looks like the brackets for the cable fairlead, goes horizontally above the towing bracket on the back of the tender

Pacemakers never went anywhere near a Lucas factory, they came out of a proper lab and the only thing that Lucas were allowed to manufacture on the site

I always thought that was when the battery fell out (after the headlight flashed very bright for 1/2 second)

Talking of pacemakers, the originals were made in the 60's at Joseph Lucas Research in Shirley, they tore the building down this week I believe to add more capacity to the local care home ghetto

Did he turn something parallel and measure each end for you?

Those were the days, now you need to check the Calor web site.

Some torches need a particular size of bottle to work properly.