• 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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    This brought a smile to my face and made my day

    Brilliant. Ive seen articles where they are 3d printing replacement parts for kit like drones where they cant get the genuine items.
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    Captive fasteners

    The wood can be split open and scrapped - my inner hooligan didnt think of that Id like the fasteners out unscathed. I assume they just hammer in to a bore ( soft pine)?
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    Captive fasteners

    Is there a way to remove these without damaging them so they can be re- deployed ? I have some brass ferrules that screw into them but they're witworth thread so virtually irreplaceable.
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    Tis the season

    Thats the problem In situations like airbricks ,chimneys ,cavity walls, window frames, eaves etc there is dismantling work needed (unless the guy has a bee-vac - I dont like them as they can do irreparable damage to the colony that Im trying to retrieve intact.) After the swarm is collected,the...
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    Tis the season

    Honey bee swarm season usually runs mid April to early July with crazy time peaking in May About now I am a county swarm collector and two calls already have concluded in the householder becoming unwilling beekeepers because the swarm has got into the fabric of the building and cannot be...
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    What I have fixed today

    Love the smell of new brassware in the morning
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    Quaich

    Its beautiful. Any wood and metal together is always an aesthetic delIght - to me at least. Even a cheap galvanised gate latch....
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    Coaster holder

    Still a nice receptacle even if they are withdrawn from service
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    Bandits have arrived!

    Better mongeese than cattle. Or unicorns.
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    White “Faskut” saw

    they will when steeped in the time honoured solution of red diesel and old engine oil . Dont bother with that fancy nancy creosote stuff.......:eek: The chap I worked for ( 50p an hour :D) in school holidays had me sloshing that stuff on everything. I used to go home looking like a seabird in...
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    Printing

    Fewer and fewer people have pcs now. I can print from my phone or tablet without any extra software. The printers screen is handy for maintenance in that scenario. Still prefer the full- fat control of a desktop pc though The Brother I have is ( was) a top of the range job Enormous thing It...
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    Printing

    An acquaintance has access to someone who has an acquaintance who has an acquaintance - you get the picture... Office laser printers that are changed out when a new lease is agreed. Over the years Ive had thousands of pages for the price of just the paper. Ive got a Brother colour laser waiting...
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    Moving an outside mains stopcock. Or not.

    I would remove the Talbot altogether and put a clean run of new 25mm blue pipe in ( preferably from the street 🤨) with no joins. Inspection chambers if you have to joint. Hiding valves or fittings is trouble for the future. The acme of hipocracy is that you can be prosecuted by the water...
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    Printing

    All answers so far align with what Im doing. I have a laser printer for text documents that is zero maintenance - bombproof I just feed it a ream of paper every 18 months. I need an inkjet for my label printing. It sits unused for months then it has to go hell for leather. Surprisingly for a...
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    Printing

    Has anyone got a HP smart tank printer perhaps a 1505 Any problems or regrets? Ive got a dying 2700 that has cost me a fortune of ink over the last 8 yrs and these tank models appear to be a much better overall proposition.
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    Ideas for replacing hinges.

    Some would be aghast at the idea but Ive done exactly this job with wallplugs The red Rawlplug Uno type are amazingly versatile (even on plasterboard) If too long they still work with the legs cut off.
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    Sausages

    I read an undercover report in the Times conducted, admittedly some years ago, on a processing plant producing sausages for Richmond and Tesco amongst others. The author concluded with the statement that she would not allow the products into her home from that point.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Oh. :(
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I had a look at bandsaws just now and anything I could afford has the fence secured at only one end. Just like the Einhell tablesaw I got rid of. Im getting Vietnam-style flashbacks now.😱
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    Multimeter / s

    Well as you mention it - it is! Minor tremors at Checkley are commonplace, a slightly noticeable jolt( sometimes with a boom) followed by all the birds squawking and taking flight. About 15 years ago there was one that got onto the Richter scale and the national news. I was in my then garage at...
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