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  1. Phil Pascoe

    Shopsmith closing

    Early 1992 I won one in a competition. I gave it a fair amount of use for 17 years until I sold it, I moved house just after I won it. I'm surprised they lasted so long, though, like many multi purpose machines they are not particularly good at any one thing.
  2. Phil Pascoe

    Festool Domino scare

    We tended to look on it as routine maintenance - if they weren't already broken they would have been before too long.
  3. Phil Pascoe

    Festool Domino scare

    In a commercial environment where the people using the kit couldn't care a jot how it's treated I used to wire flat connectors into the leads, cutting off the little lugs that made them more difficult to dislodge. Women used to yank the vacuum plugs out of the sockets by the leads, but quickly...
  4. Phil Pascoe

    Festool Domino scare

    Yes. We used to get a fair number of vacuum cleaners brought to us as not working - we used to chop a few inches of off each end of the flex and rewire them without even bothering to test them, the fault was so common. To an inexperienced eye everything looks fine, because the connections are...
  5. Phil Pascoe

    Your favourite listenings......

    I came across this reading a review of an amplifier, the reviewer said he always used this piece. Not my sort of music, but brilliant.
  6. Phil Pascoe

    Saying goodbye to some mature trees = sad but necessary.

    I've seen some beautiful large bowls turned from Leylandii.
  7. Phil Pascoe

    A tale of two airports

    I remember L.A. airport. We had to take our luggage off the plane, cart it around for three hours then take it back to the same plane. I, my mother and three year old daughter walked for what seemed like foreever behind two airport employees who for some reason reminded of the posters for Of...
  8. Phil Pascoe

    A tale of two airports

    Try Changi for being clean.
  9. Phil Pascoe

    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    Bamboo chopping board does not move and you'd never wear it out.
  10. Phil Pascoe

    Router jigs & accessories

    https://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Catalogue_Centring_Point_692.html
  11. Phil Pascoe

    Openreach full fibre

    Every property in the Country could have first class broadband for much less than the cost of HS2.
  12. Phil Pascoe

    Bread Baking

    I've had a couple for 15, 16 years. My wife put them in the dishwasher once. Once. You can give them a long soak and scrub crud out of the corners but don't use washing up liquid unless absolutely necessary, or else keep one for sweet cakes etc. that's not used for bread. Don't even think of...
  13. Phil Pascoe

    Bread Baking

    Find a ceramic floor tile that fits it.
  14. Phil Pascoe

    Does anyone know what tree do these come from ?

    probably a better photo -
  15. Phil Pascoe

    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    We have a Zanussi oven with an induction hob, no gas here. I wouldn't change the hob, it's as quick as gas and way easier to clean. The drawback? The control panel is on the top surface between the rings - if you put a large roasting pan or steel griddle plate across it it cuts the power off.
  16. Phil Pascoe

    Parking Control

    My local. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/pub-dump-bullish-parking-firm-10501463
  17. Phil Pascoe

    Waterproof wood glue

    Cascamite has been made by someone else since those problems. It used to be made by Polyvine and was rubbish.
  18. Phil Pascoe

    Does anyone know what tree do these come from ?

    I inquired about them on UKW a couple of years ago, but I can't find it. Someone did tell me the species of wasp.
  19. Phil Pascoe

    Does anyone know what tree do these come from ?

    Oak galls - oak apples - are near spherical. Those look more like these, they are deformed acorns caused by a parasitic wasp.
  20. Phil Pascoe

    Emergency alarm call

    I believe when I read about the forthcoming warning it said it would sound even if the phone was switched off.
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