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useful stuff here from Project Farm: .

A fair point but you can cross an ocean in most things, depending on your attitude to risk. It's just that in your Twister you stand a...

See what you mean: As you say, a camera shot inside would help quell your fears, otherwise it is a difficult re-engineering job. I...

Good man. I have a very similar Rolex in fact I think the Seiko may have been based on the basic Oysterdate Precision. I still have...

Mechanical watches are a bit like wind powered boats - they’re not exactly the perfect solution in many circumstances for our modern...

I have just been motivated to order some tiny stainless bolts and dome nuts :cool:

Good working practice. As an apprentice I was always told never to reuse split pins. The very action of bending and straightening and...

"In Dorset, a black bream caught at Poole Bay contained 38 seahorses – which have few predators as they are well camouflaged – in a case...

Use bolts/screws with nylock nuts. I have used this on all my rigging turnbuckles for the last 20 years. Having said that, on that...

Best bet is to only buy from a proper supplier such as Carbide Inserts Turning Tools Grooving Tools Carbide Boring Bars Threading...

I was probably at the same Southampton show, come to think of it also probably the last one I went to. Working up a new cruiser/racer...

Give it a couple of years it will be in Lidl or possibly Aldi.

Is this true? I don't recall anyone saying that, somebody may have. Looks like a dodgy paraphrase to ginger up a response, not that I...

They used tap-zappers on high worth engineering items, they were very expensive and not portable. I see the Chinese have been on the...

Cushions should not be sodden, thats a red flag for me. Tracing leaks can be a nightmare.