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Battleship guns used to have bigger rounds as the barrels wore down.

A properly laid hedge is impenetrable to almost any animal!

I don't have that problem. The last time I needed stitches in my hand they had a hell of a job getting the needle through my skin!!

Try looking on Amazon and the web! I am stunned by the amount of chemicals you can buy and get posted to your home address!

Anything can be done if you throw enough money at it!

I always give customers 3 prices, normal price, price if they want yesterday and a price if they are not in a hurry!

Propane regulators have a service pressure of 25 bar!

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As suggested, I would bolt it down, preferably to a large section box section. It will pull down over that length.

It looks very much like a Deckel rotary table for a Deckel milling machine. Will also fit an Alexander mill. Are you selling it ?

The number stamped on it will match the number of the mill it came from.

You need to watch ebay. I managed to buy some boxes of Stubbs files for my workshop!

I did my apprenticeship in South African Sugar Mill and the blacksmith shop had a huge tank of pure whale oil for hardening purposes.

Bit hard to get hold of nowadays!

Being cynical I think the car manufacturers are behind the push for electric cars.

Air contains 78% nitrogen so why NOx so bad?

So can IC engines, but electric cars only use zero power at standstill if you switch them off! They still use power for heating/cooling, radio and lights.

Both petrol and diesel engines will run a number of alternative fuels. Diesels were designed to run on peanut oil and will run on virtually any oil including used engine oil. Petrol engines will run on any combustible gas and liquids, including alcohol and hydrogen. When it runs on hydrogen it has no exhaust gas other than steam.

I once had to make a large bronze bush for a Bugatti gearbox, the customer supplied the Ali gearbox casing. When the customer got it all back, he phoned me up to say the bush wouldn't fit!

When I got to his workshop the temperature was about 5C! Put the gearbox in front of a fan heater for 1/2 hour and the slide in nicely!

I was commissioned to make a gear change selector linkage for an Edwardian racing car. The plan was to base it on a Bugatti design. Basically it was a shaft sliding inside a tube which slide inside another tube all bolted to the chassis.

It worked really well on the bench, smooth as silk with nice close tolerances. Totally failed on the car. So managed to strip down a Bugatti one and found it was as sloppy as hell with 1/16th clearances.

Taught me that you can be too accurate!

Having dealt in shares for the last 30 years, I would have bailed out a long time ago. Nothing increases in value that quickly without heading for a major crash!

There is never a daft question, just daft answers!