I have that set. They have a tendency to explode, I've lost 2 so far.

Harry never replied to my email asking if I could buy replacements.

I'd love to know where these scrapyards are that will still let you do that, there don't seem to be any in my part of the country. I once spent most of a day driving round the scrapyards of Surrey and Hampshire looking for some lengths of angle iron to beef up my lathe stand, didn't find one that was interested in dealing with me, most only grudgingly allowed you through the gates to the site office, no chance of actually walking around the yard. Ended up paying nearly £10 per metre at the local stockholder. Perhaps if anyone knows where there exists a scavenger-friendly scrap dealer in the South of England they could reply here.

But also because the scrapyard's public liability insurance will most likely contain a clause that says the public are not allowed to wander around looking for stuff. Unfortunately, regardless of what effect the government's new stance may have, it will be the insurers who will prevent a return to the good old days.

I believe Genklene was just carbon tetrachloride, aka dry cleaning fluid - long since banned from sale to ordinary people. I tend to use acetone for jobs where I used Genklene is the past.

Thanks for your replies, they're all 10mm+ so no reason for them not to be marked, they are just stamped '10.0mm HSS' just like my Chinese ones.

I just bought some drill bits that were advertised as Dormer.

All my Dormer bits have either the silver band on the posh ones, or the name etched on the shank on the cheaper ones.

Is it safe to say if it doesn't say Dormer on it it isn't a Dormer?

Thanks

I've had my eye on this for a while: **LINK**

"where does one find one and what might they cost"

There's a discussion board for kit-built Britannias I've noticed over at http://modeleng.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=britannia which might be of interest.

Yes, I appreciate that, but if I pick up a jar of coffee in Tesco and it says £5 on the shelf I'd be very unhappy if I got to the till and they said "sorry, that'll be £5.50 cos the commodities market is soaring". Small amounts of price volatility in a consumer market should be absorbed by the retailer, unless he doesn't want any repeat customers.

Personally I wouldn't be very happy about this bit:

"prices charged will be those that apply at the time of despatch".

When buying online as a consumer I expect to pay the price that I see on the website at the time of ordering unless there are very exceptional circumstances.

I find the Glanze insert locks in very positively, I've just tried to move it by hand and it won't budge, would need to be knocked out. I've not had trouble with sideways movement, perhaps if it wasn't perfectly perpendicular to the workpiece there would be trouble but I'm always meticulous about that. Admittedly I'd buy from Greenwood if I had that kind of money to spend, but I don't, so the Glanze has done me fine so far.

Hi Joe, All businesses have a small proportion of difficult customers who they're better off without. As you can see from the responses here most of use have realistic expectations when dealing with a small niche business and delays are expected and accepted. I for one shall be happy to order from you again in the future.

The most useful gift IMO would be a binder for the year's issues.

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What difference does the type of scale make?