Macpherson

Aye, this is quite worrying in the sense that we've almost created a cage for ourselves before we've really had a chance to fully take advantage of the benefits of the new environment that's becoming increasingly more available every day. So the exponential leap in science that I had hoped to witness in my lifetime may well be contained in an orbital coup [ rubbish tip ] which could blind humanities view of the cosmos completely. I'm tempted to make comparisons to many other ' blinkers ' that may be in play as regards our species awareness of reality.. but does anyone even care if they've got cheap netflix?

It's interesting in that when you first start playing and can do nothing with either hand, a right handed person then perseveres to make their left hand make a lot of unnatural movements and hold strange shapes while their go to hand does very little [ at least to begin with ] As you say there are many more RH instruments around so when you're essentially a blank canvas would it matter? So I wonder if a lefty might get on better with the chord shapes more easily on a RH guitar. Just a thought, but there are many instruments and tools that aren't handed so right or lefty you don't get a choice on a piano, a sax or a chainsaw. Someone starting out wouldn't go wrong with either of your suggestions, probably I'd go for a version with a cutaway if was only going to have one guitar and I'd also say that learning guitar would be a help to playing bass👍

I'm planning to put 4kw of panels on a ground based mount in the garden, at least then I can maintain them, It would be a right bugger if you had a roof problem under the panels. I recently read that optimum angle ranges from 30* in the south of England to 40* in northern Scotland and facing south but I'm no expert, I've just been looking into it and trying to decide whether to try to diy it or get a company in to quote for it. There's an 'off grid ' thread running on here where quite a few have loads of experience of this, cheers. I guess I should have read the last couple of pages before posting, but I did say there was a lot of folk on here with much knowledge 🙄

I know from reading your posts that you take pride in the precision of your work so it's no surprise that you can transfer these skills to dialling in fine settings on guitars, something the I also get a lot of satisfaction from. Anyway I wonder if you know of Ted Woodford, a Canadian luthier who puts out a weekly episode featuring an interesting repair or set up to a guitar that's come through his door. He's kind of the Bob Ross of guitar repair as his vids are so educational and have frankly become the highlight of my Sunday night, this weeks is a Tele set up so @stubby will like it too 😁 I liked the ' mother of toilet seat ' pickguard comment.

When I that I saw this being heavily pushed I listened to an online explanation which was followed by a link to recommended supplier of said devices, the first thing that came to mind was that as this will obviously be a large earner for those supplying the alarms.. do any of them in Holyrood have any vested interests? So no one will be criminalised, but will insurances be invalidated as was the threat on the blurb I watched ? I just don't know how these people think they have the right to do so much damage, she needs to be removed and politics in Scotland need to become much more balanced, the situation at the moment is just wrong, cheers.

I consider myself similar and also suffer from finger envy but I've got a good practice regime and pick up a guitar most days.. as long as you enjoy it is the main thing and practice will always let you see improvements.. and then there's YouTube, young folk today have no idea just how spoilt they are to have just about any song broken down by an expert player for them to copy... where might we be today if we'd had that in 1969😅👍

Lucky barsteward😁 what kind of stuff do you play?

I don't doubt that at all,.. so to me the inference is that the as cheap as possible synthetic rubber parts of these machines are even more affected by Ethanol than the equivalent quality oem part of a Husky or Stihl for instance. My village is full of garden machinery that's lasted no more than a season or two of minimal use, so essentially nearly new.... it just seems crazy that this situation is being accepted as ' normal ' and that petrol engines can no longer be run on petrol, most folk have never heard of Alkylate fuel and likely wouldn't pay the price for it even if the local garage sold it, they just keep buying cheap B&Q type stuff as and when.. Like I said being a stubborn bugger. when an engine has compression, a spark, a clean carb and is nearly new it simply frustrates me if I can't get it running, and that often leads back to the non return valve, or removing the welsh washer... ..As a matter of interest last year one of my neighbours brought me an original American McCulloch strimmer from the '70's [ surprisingly good quality ] which hadn't been running for a very long time but had a Walbro carb with a removable blanking plate with a seal allowing access to the mixing chamber... I 've no doubt that the denial of easy access to this by manufactures on nearly every carb is deliberate. When I first started working on engines in my early teens the pilot air / fuel mixing chamber on Amal's was a major headache which took me a number of years to get a reliable sort for 👍

Hi, the non return valve theory is something that I've pondered many times but usually parts aren't to be had so it becomes a sticking point in a repair to a low value machine, but.. Most of my neighbours prefer these cheap chinky garden machines and most have several ' broken ' ones in their sheds which I regularly get the pleasure of just.. ' having a wee look at ' .. They're usually almost new looking [ once cleaned ]and hardly done any work and to be fair I can usually revive them, but the non return valve on the bubble is the one part that I can never really trust and I've long suspected that it's function on these cheap machines is their Achilles heal, .. apart from the fuel !!... and everything else😅 I wonder about the materials used and their resistance to Ethanol damage as the actual bubble itself is often another early casualty of being dissolved into a sticky mush or becoming brick hard and bursting with the first pump, so two different reactions to the fuel, although time may play a part in that. I know most wouldn't bother trying to repair this very new ' scrap '.. but I'm a stubborn bugger and I refuse to be beaten by a simple fuel metering device and totally agree with your ' extra gubbins ' comment👍

Hi, I hope you didn't think I was being negative, I think this visual cue is a great idea and will definitely help anyone's sharpening, cheers.

The witness mark on Stihl chains or others is helpful when freehand sharpening and once set up as normal can have really no on cost, so I can't see why graduation markings wouldn't help folk who struggle with correct sharpening. But I'm sure that most who have experience wouldn't need this, and milling chains sharpened using the Granberg grinder set up, or other, are as accurate tooth by tooth as needed. But I hope it's a successful enterprise for you👍

I'm still no further with my solar project apart from much reading .. but when push comes to shove I'd really like to support a UK business as the opportunity is rarely there to be had 👍

They are greedy and ' would be ' totally controlling feckers, I reckon that's the reason for the push to an electronic cashless society that folk are sleepwalking into.

Yep

Beat me to it there😁 have you seen one the flesh ?

UK company Ebac are producing the first British built washing machine in years which apparently is designed to be completely repairable and has decent reviews.. there's a good pro strip down on youtube. They look well built so I'm thinking about it as my 35 year old Bosch / AEG may be needing a strip down for a bearing and a service which I'll do at my leisure... the Ebac are not the cheapest, but neither was the Bosch which I can still get parts for. I for one am happy to buy and support home grown products if they are, available, quality, built to last and be repairable👍 pity it's not too common these days though.

Sorted that🙄

Eton, a sort of Hogwarts for wankers🤣 brilliant.

What saw / mill do you use, your 790mm Is about the max for a 36" Alaskan mill?

Nearly all of the cookies that I succeed in drying without cracking at the perimeter end up with small + shaped shrinkage cracks in the pith which I just fill with dust and CA glue. If it's any help I've had more success trying this with fast growing less dense wood like Alder etc with 3/8" plus between growth rings

And what do any of you make of this young guy.. ok , I can see that his dad's pushing him... but from watching him I can also see that that's irrelevant as he has music embedded in his soul. If you look you'll find a very talented kid, young man now ... but he's got it for real and I gotta ask .. how ?

This I like very much

Aye, they're just playing a long game with us, todays gormless generation are absolutely laid bare naked to just about any form of manipulation.. and they know it 100%.. the chinks do !!

Hi and welcome, check out @Rough Hewn on the ' today's milling ' thread, he had the privilege of checking it out in advance and shared his experience on that thread, cheers.

I remember @roughhewn doing a preview on it as I'd guess you do as well.. so I'm sure you'll be delighted with it as he reckoned it was way more usable than the 880 , you'll need a bigger everything else now😁