• 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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  1. Robert

    Hydroponics - Anyone tried it?

    Following last years greenhouse tomatoes doing pretty badly i decided to try something different for this season - hydroponics. You add nutrient to water and your plants grow in the water. sounds easy. I had the idea at the end of the growing season but thought I'd get some stuff to play with...
  2. Robert

    Toybox

    No work in progress pictures. Just something I was told I had to do before I was allowed to get back to making my garden table. Here it is on its back so I could paint on the front what it is for. Needs a second coat. Right way up. it is virtually a full sheet of 18mm MDF. 1220 wide 500 deep...
  3. Robert

    Bit of emergency plumbing...

    The central heating pump had been getting a bit noisy so time for a simple swap out. Screwfix had sent me a voucher so I already had the new pump ready - Grundfos UPS3. Early last week Mrs was out for half a day so good time to get it done. Strip the boiler cupboard out and attempt to turn off...
  4. Robert

    Talking of Lathes...

    Mikes friend being interested in a woodturning lathe set me thinking. I have an Axminster Perform white lathe that I hardly ever use...but i do sometimes. Not measured it but the thing is 4 or 5 ft long and most of the time is just in the way. What I think would be more useful is a small metal...
  5. Robert

    Garden Table - 1 year on...

    So in a different thread I decided on a table design and now I have a new planer thicknesser I've started on it. This was the last drawing I did and never got round to correcting or completing. So I had it worked out in my head how I would go about it. First step was to make the segments for...
  6. Robert

    New Garden Table Design

    So my winter project is going to be a new garden table. Some flooring came up on ebay not too far from me and i picked up 12sq m plus for £70. Seller didn't know what wood it was and the pictures looked like it might be iroko or similar. I'm currently recovering from twinging by back when I...
  7. Robert

    New rotary switch needed. any sources?

    My planer thicknesser (metabo HC260C) has sometimes refused to run in thicknesser mode. I usually fiddle with the interlocks, turn it on and off a few times and it starts working and carries on working. yesterday it refused to play ball after going from planing to thicknessing. My suspicion was...
  8. Robert

    Another end grain chopping board design #3

    I've been messing about with this for a while now. Didn't take many pictures at the start but once it looked like it might work out I took more. This is a 'I did it my way' version :) I don't have the big machines you see in the youtube videos. I also don't have huge amounts of wood to waste...
  9. Robert

    TV bought from Amazon now faulty

    Sometimes Amazon amaze me and this is one of those times. I bought a LG OLED TV on 1st April 2017. It had just come out and was full price everywhere at £3000. Expensive but it did look special. I bought if from Amazon because with a mistyped search it found it for £2400 but you couldn't get it...
  10. Robert

    Sausage rolls my way

    Felt a bit like a work in progress taking pictures for this :) This is my Vegan sausage roll recipe. We like them so much that I don't bother making meat ones any more and I'm a meat eater. I've tried to quantify some of the ingredients but nothing is that critical and I usually make them by...
  11. Robert

    What do you want for Christmas?

    Yes a bit early I know but it happens every year and I don't have an answer! I do favours for friends and family during the year like making a cupboard or fixing a door - you know the kind of thing. They pay for materials but I don't want payment for labour. I wouldn't do it for reward as I'm...
  12. Robert

    smart meters

    Came home to an email from Bulb Energy saying they have to change my meter(s) due to age and would like to fit smart meters for electric and gas using new version 2 types that don't have problems of earlier ones. Also says I can request dumb meters as replacements if I really don't want smart...
  13. Robert

    A car rental story

    We flew BA to Kalamata Greece and went through BA to book a car for the duration. I don't like the tiny cars that struggle up the hills so went for a VW Polo or similar so it would be slightly better. At the Avis rental desk in the airport they couldn't find the key for the vehicle reserved...
  14. Robert

    Folding Adirondack chair WIP

    I started drawing this up ages ago. I finished the drawing a couple of months back but other things needed doing first. Bit too late for this year so these are not in any rush so don't expect rapid progress :) Here is a snip of the drawing and folded I think it will work but I'll not be...
  15. Robert

    Robot Vacuum cleaner..

    Guess what I bought on Amazon prime day :) Normally around £270 but nearer £170 on the day. I got that look from my wife that instantly tells you you have wasted money on some junk gadget and will be reminded of it in the days to come. As to why I bought it... we have an Orangery style...
  16. Robert

    Home made through dovetail Jigs

    I've always joined the corners of drawer boxes with dovetails and I've always used a dovetail bit on the router table on one piece then struggled to find a way to cut the angle sided pins on the other part. I don't do hand tools if I can avoid it. So I started thinking about getting a dovetail...
  17. Robert

    folding chair - checking how it folds

    I'm thinking of making a couple of folding Adirondack chairs. Ages ago I made 2 normal ones - which are now in my daughters garden. They were given to her mainly because they take up so much room when stored over winter. Having sat in folding versions whilst visiting the Virginia last year I...
  18. Robert

    Aldi Track Saw

    They had the sheppach track saw with its workzone branding on offer a while back and I bought one for £79 along with the 2 x 700mm tracks it comes with. Having bought it I hardly used it as the short tracks were no good for a full sheet. Evolution now do a track saw and for it they sell a 2.8m...
  19. Robert

    Visit to Capital Crispin veneers

    I'm making the desk currently to go with the basic pedestal units etc that I made a while back. I'm in no rush just doing a bit now and then. I have taken a few pictures along the way and will get round to posting sometime. For the desk surface I didn't want to use the floorboard planks and I...
  20. Robert

    Wild Birds..

    We now have a bird feeder pole thing in the rotary clothes line base on the lawn. We do get 'normal' wild birds but on average more of these ring necked parakeets than anything. They seem to have a night time to day time migration route and we get them stopping off each way. Plus a few that...
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