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Yonks ago I did Mag Particle testing, Dye Penetrant testing, Radiographic testing and radiographic viewing. Had a bash at Ultrasonic just in the boilermakers I was working in at the time but never did the course, just to get an inkling of it. We used to use wallpaper paste as the UT transducer...

No mention of ammo for the .45 so its as much use as a chocolate fireguard without it. British pounds in the US?

Self employed subcontractor carpenter. Mostly commercial work, very few houses. Museums, schools, firestations, car sales garages type of thing mostly. Some shuttering/formwork, timber framing. I've built all sorts of stuff. This is one me and a mate framed, roofed and clad. We didn't fit the...

Random fact for the day... Upto about 1990 Vicks inhalers contained some methamphetamine.

Yeah, lots of those on Youtube. Looks like Stevie Wonder stitched the vids together and a Mills& Boon writer created a heartwarming story to get people clicking on them.

Round here its different, the southern sides of the tree has gloves and umbrellas.

At the start of this thread I was baffled, we're well into it and I'm still baffled. However, as those motivational pictures and sayings have more or less been mentioned I feel duty bound to point people in the direction of Demotivational posters. My daughter used to get me the...

What about those Witz surf safe waterproof containers?

Point of order but depending on how you look at it there is an I in Team, its in its A hole.

Riiiiiight, so I take it your particular bubble escaped the worst of the weather so you feel that the other areas of the country where there was severe risk to life didn't matter? I guess its not an issue unless it actually happens to you eh? All those gable ends of houses downed where they...

Was working in sunny Whitehaven this week, removing a roof on a four story (ground floor then three above that not counting the cellar) building and reinstating it. We had the flat roof sheeted with placky sheet to keep the building mostly dry a d that was held down with battens screwed down...

I'm not at all fussed by having kni es with different looking unmatched handles so have a Global one an ex girlfriend bought me knocking on 30 years ago and a Santuko Ryusen one my wife bought me. Oh and a cleaver that looks to be made from a leafspring or the like that my sister bought me in...

I don't know its actual age but the patent date stamped on it is 1885. So after that. It's an A J Wilkinson from Boston Massachusetts. The handles fold over to protect the edge/or people from the edge depending on your priotities. Personally I feel that a 45 degree setting would be handy in...

Well, unusual? Dunno about that, it's more like straining the definitions of the word Knife. So, Drawknife, marking knife (itsactually one of the blades for my router plane but the holder you use to sharpen it also doubles up to make it a marking knife) and a snapped off butterknife I found in...

It's been mentioned before but this takes some beating.

Good thread, I have a pair of clogs that my father kept from when I was.a toddler and sort of want them to be usable or at least soften the leather. Now obviously I'm not gonna fit into my toddler sized red clogs from about 50 years ago but theyre still solid and I don't like chucking decent...

Hell, I bought a cheapo 80 grit diamond plate a while ago. Not much faffing about with that and its easy enough to go to 400 and 1000 after. I can go to a strop after that but the main point is getting a proper coarse plate for the times when I want fast. I sometimes use a file on a knife but...

Ahh, we have two cats as well and to be fair to them a purring caton her laps a great stress reliever as well. The older male is about 3 kilos but still the boss of our 26 kilo bull lurcher dog. The dog is afraid of the cat but even when the cat swipes him the cat keeps his claws in so its just...

Meet my psychiatrist.

Clay pigeon shooting, the tedious way to immortality.