• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Does brass "work harden"?

    To soften work hardened Brass to reduce fracture risk whilst bending etc. Ensure brass is clean (no oil dirt etc.) Heat to just reaching Dull Red (400C?) Allow to cool in air (Do not Quench)
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    Does the first subject of this Rant sound familiar?

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    Marmite

    I cannot check now because the individuals concerned are no longer with us, they lived in the Aston area and I presume worked at HP Sauce, perhaps they made it under licence during and just after WW11 as one of various sites around the country with brewing yeast supplies were used to enhance...
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    Marmite

    Late '40's early 50's family friend who worked at Marmite in B'ham used to bring us/me a Jam jar of Marmite whenever they came for their camping breaks in farm meadows adjacent to River Severn. Loved the stuff ever since. I have an inkling that Bovril was re-formulated during the BSC scare to...
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    B17 flyover

    Merlin 140 series I think.
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    B17 flyover

    Sometimes it does not even need a full blown 'Heavy' flypast to to stir up the emotions, seeing an Enola Gay associated propeller on a memorial plinth and being in the buildings where the aircraft was modified for further trials in 1946 at Tinker Airforce Base in Oklahoma got to me. At home as...
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    Gone to a new Home.

    That's a thought, will have to get some sorting out done and a few images sorted, main problem is that some stuff is likely to be of use I.E. frustrating if not readily to hand such as my Bandsaw, whilst other like my wood lathe, various grinders timber etc. are not likely to be used again.
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    Wood pellet storage risks.

    Talking to my Son who lives in Bavaria this morning he mentioned a local high level emergency with several people admitted to hospital with Monoxide poisoning while handling wood pellets, apparently becoming a more prevalent problem as wood pellet is the designated eco heating on new builds in...
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    Gone to a new Home.

    What space?? the shear quantity of accumulated stuff that is available to migrate into any freed up space seems unending. Have the daunting task of clearing out considerably more, may post some I think may be of interest to forum for sale or just cost of collection.
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    Gone to a new Home.

    Late in the day during a recent weekend (after normal office hours) I sent an email to Cotswold Canal Trust admin, (we're supporters,) enquiring as to whether the Western support workshop could make use of a Metal Cutting Band Saw and a long reach bench Pillar Drill, if so it would need to be...
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    OOPs and some.

    @Lons Amazing how easily a modern cavity wall is breached with a relatively slow impact, our local Doctors surgery wall was caved in last year by a vehicle that had mounted the pavement from the car park.
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    OOPs and some.

    A couple of those on the Fosse Way hills that make me cautious, so tempting with a poor mans turbo SRI until you remember that they are both in 40mph zones should someone be brave enough to stand with a hand camera.
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    OOPs and some.

    Living in a more rural area than the inner environs of Salisbury it is precisely the aid of an automatic that I find most useful when tackling cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Leicester (try there for a real challenge) when they become unavoidable, even Gloucester and Cheltenham can be...
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    OOPs and some.

    But that's bad driving its not Cruise Controls fault, try the A40 from Gloucester to Abergavenny and on to A465 to Hirwaun and beyond and see how many miles you can cover with just a flick of the cruise paddles to adjust your speed rather than throttle or brake.
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    OOPs and some.

    Don't wait until anno domini creeps up on you, every few seconds gained in concentration on traffic junctions lights etc. with the background confidence that you are in the appropriate gear and the darn thing won't stall on you is an increased pleasure to a journey.
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