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That looks just the business... I've been in touch with Johan.

Back in , I bought a second-hand, but like new, Maxpedition Vulture II. It's served me well as a day sack, mostly for hauling groceries as I come home from work. But it is coming apart where the hip belt and bottom of the shoulder strap attach to the body, at the right hand side. I suppose that...

Savoy Knock, then.

I found a discussion about using diesel in a paraffin lamp: https://classicpressurelamps.com/threads/running-diesel-in-a-petromax-clone.4205/ It seems that some people have had success using diesel as fuel, others less so. From a cursory reading it's not clear to me if it is mostly due to the...

Copper piping from a plumber's supplier, along with end caps for pipes. Solder or glue one end cap, and either friction-fit the cap at the other end, or thread it for a screw-on cap. This page will show you the standard outside diameters (O.D.) for BS 2871 piping, along with wall thickness, so...

The problem I find with a plaster, is that as my finger bends and straightens, and as it rubs (getting things out of my pocket, working, etc), the plaster comes off. Then the wound re-opens and I get blood on my clothes and the wound gets dirty. A bit of gauze, some micropore tape or a little...

You might be able to scrounge beef fat for free from your butcher, if he gets his beef by the half-carcass, and render that to make tallow for candles. Maybe there's a way to use the burning lamp flame to heat the fuel in the reservoir to liquefy it. Or you can convert the tallow to liquid fuel...

This is not very clear... Is the blade stuck in the closed position, or in the open position? Is the locking ring jammed, or can you turn it without using a tool? I have easily a dozen Opinels of various sizes, and the only problem similar that I have encountered is when the knife is new and...

I've been going through some old equipment; usually stuff that has broken or stopped working for some invisible reason and that I thought I would one day be able to get working again... I came across an old digital camera that still had a memory card in it. On the card was this picture. I'd...

I might be wrong, but I think that the idea is that you peg the purse net over a rabbit hole (better yet, a purse net over all but one hole of the warren), and then you put the ferret in the last hole. The rabbits smell the ferret and try to leave the warren, running into the net.

I was in B&Q last weekend and a sales boy came up to me and said "do you want decking". But I managed to get in the first punch.

It looks like there's a tarp in line with the tent, so I suppose that's where anything that needs sheltering from an overnight shower would go.

Thanks, both; it looks like it is the violet carpenter bee, Xylocopa violacea. I see these on four or five occasions each year. I caught this one buzzing around in the winter garden, unable to find its way out: I put a drinking glass over it as it was bumping up against the window, slipped a...

Another insect that has me puzzled. It buzzes around like a big bumblebee or bluebottle, but its mouthparts look more like those of a beetle or a wasp.

If you mean the 2017 film "Tuntematon sotilas" directed by Aku Louhimies, I think I have a copy of the DVD... I'll dig it out.

I've been trying to find a post mentioning "Okänd soldat", and keep getting the message "The search could not be completed. Please try again later." Thinking that the "ä" character might have been the problem, and knowing that the term "round turn and two half hitches" has appeared in a recent...

There isn't one all-purpose knot that will do everything. I need one that makes a loop that will tighten as the standing part is pulled, one that won't do that, and a couple of others for odds and sods. Most of the time, I can get away with three: Round turn and two half hitches, bowline and...

I took my nephew (8) and niece (5) over a little footbridge in a small town in Haute Vienne. I saw some trout and told the kids to look for the fish in the river. Niece looked down and said "there's a a lobster!" I couldn't see it at first, until she described which rock it was half under...

I've had a copy for years...

I wonder what happens when you break something that's been discontinued... I doubt that the company keeps a stash of what it calls "retired products", just in case. The tip has broken on the small screwdriver of my Supertool 200. From the look of it, the tools and blades are designed to be...