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My wife developed a series of allergies in later life. She buys M&S seeded wheat free loafs. The best of a bad job. She does tell me that it is not as good as it once was, suspected a recipe change. It can have a very inconsistent texture.She also avoids many other things including milk. Often get gluten free products from tescos (but not any of their bread), but their products can be off the shelf for long periods.

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Edited By Keith Wyles on 19/07/2023 13:23:41

One thing that can greatly alter how your body deals with food is the amount of brown fat you have. Some people have a greater ability to dispose of food energy as heat. Typically they are hotter between the shoulder blades. Generally we under use our bodies as machines, look at the amount of energy that navies had to consume to do a days work. We use far less and achieve far less.

If you are going to use a slasher look for an old one. Usually a lot lighter and cheaper, I often see them for around £10.

The jubilee clip I mentioned earlier was also in a farm workshop. It had been like that for years. I have often been amazed at the length of time farm bodges last.
Also I can remember from my youth swinging from a 12ft scaffold bar on a pair of stilsons before I could persuade a coupling on a 2" pipe to undo.

Many years ago now, but I have used drills with such cracks "repaired" by putting a jubilee clip around them. It worked well.

A decade ago when I needed one I also did this as it was cheaper than hiring one. I thought that it wouldn't last long, but it is still working.

I also tried a 4BA nut on a 3.5mm electrical screw. Jams after a few turns, but I wasn't surprised as they are dissimilar. I wonder if M3.5 are being sold as 4BA causing confusion.

I managed to braze the frame of my wheelbarrow using a MAPP gas torch. Would have been better if Id removed the metal body from the frame as it did conduct away heat, but I needed it to align the frame. I did manage it and the braze is still holding strong. Better than the original weld!

When we moved to our present property approx 20 years ago, part of the fencing had old oak posts and larch lap fencing.. Not sure how long before us the posts had been there. They are starting to show their age now, a couple have rotted at ground level, but I bolted a new support post to the base.
When we moved in they looked well past their sellby date, but are still going.
Another neighbour replaced the fence at the bottom of our garden not long after we moved in and recently replaced it again.
So Oak and Larch will greatly outlast tanalised timber.. The nails holding the Larchlap to the oak posts have rusted, but are still holding the panels in place, so I am not convinced that the oak has enhanced any rusting.
In a previos property the person next door put in a tanalised fence and after 2 years the posts had rotted off, but I think that he had bought them cheaply.

Yet you see old oak doors with ironwork that has existed for centuries. The acids are water soluble, if seasoned naturally the acids are washed out. I have old oak items in contact with iron that don't cause tannin stain or rust. Probably because the oak is centuries old.

You can use a fret saw blade in a piercing saw, but the small throat depth will be a restriction compared with using a fret saw. The advantage of a coping saw is that you can turn the blade to go around corners.
The question you need to answer is will your piercing saw frame allow you to reach all of the "cut"?
An alternative would be spiral blades, never used them, but they will cut in all directions.

I use an assortment of storage methods:
Stanley type plastic boxes with removable containers, metal boxes with removable containers, metal framed plastic drawer systems, plastic framed plastic drawer systems, an old metai frame with metal drawers, really useful boxes and similar of varying sizes, plus some are still in the cardboard boxes they came in.
Sounds a bit chaotic, but I know what is in each "system" and can always find things quickly.

For a longer explanation google superscript HTML, but try "<sup>2</Sup>"
It doesn't seem that long ago that I had to entre printer codes to achieve such things

We don't use the SI system, it still common to see cc, ml litre etc rather than dm²..

A few years ago B & Q were selling threaded items quoting sizes in mm and fractions of an inch, confusingly whereas most items were metric threads some were unified.

Edited By Keith Wyles on 10/03/2023 18:05:21

We don't use the SI system, it still common to see cc, ml litre etc rather than dm&sup2.

When I was teaching computing I noticed that students had a hard time adopting different number bases: Binary, Hex etc. Eventually I put this down to only having had a denary educate and not having had the experience of the different fractions used in Imperial system. There can be advantages in being exposed to more than one system.

Isn't one explanation the whoever built the wall might not have had a spirit level, common now, but less likely to be so in the past. Built by eye a wall following the ground level looks better!

Jason beat me to it.

Of course you are because you are measuring a force due to gravity. Remove the gravity and the device doesn't work.