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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😁

Lucky bar steward, I'm still looking for an excuse👍 much envy !!

👍 They were smelting aluminium 2000 years ago when we [ the Scots ] were running about naked smeared with blue paint and they do have a space programme with a rover on the far side of the moon.. it's just that they know that we'll buy endless amounts of complete crap if they make it🙄 Say's more about us than them really !!

Apologies for the slight derail but it's closely related to what your trying to do in respect of preventing radial cracks. I've done this with thin cookies 3/4 to 1/2" or less with the intent of making end grain platters and as you say it's very much hit and miss, I've used Alder, Ash, Birch, Oak and Beech all with varying results, once they get bigger than about a dinner plate size it becomes less likely to succeed. One welcome and unexpected accident of doing this was that in slicing the cookies and discarding any that weren't to my satisfaction by chucking them to the side on damp grass I noticed that with one side damp and the other drying in the sun this encouraged dishing which relieved the stress very often without radial cracking, so I've experimented with this and tried to find ways to allow this to happen slowly. Now when I'm ringing up something I'll often take some thin-ish cookies in proportion to the size of the log and see if I can get them to dish rather than cracking radially with care I can get about a 2" dish in around a 12 - 14" cookie with best results being in the wettest wood which then sands into a very nice plate sized dish that when soaked through with Tung oil becomes a stable and durable piece of kitchen ware. In respect to your post I agree that oblique cuts will give you a better chance of avoiding your splitting problem.

I've been using fuel stabiliser in all my fuel for quite a number of years with no issues, I just automatically add it to any petrol that I buy as some machines can lie for long periods without use. There are many brands but I use Ethanol Shield.👍 B3C Ethanol Shield Fuel Stabiliser 118ml WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Triple antioxidant fuel stabiliser eliminates then prevents ethanol related problems, promoting easy engine starting...

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I would think so, I've been using Ethanol shield for 8+ years in all my small engines, many of which lie for a long time between use and have had no issues, including gas guzzling 2 stroke outboards which there's no way I could afford to run on Aspen. Some of my neighbours on the other hand, who are unable to grasp the concept find their carbs full of cottage cheese each spring😁 which I often have the pleasure of repairing😬

Cracking video, thanks. Quite a few of my neighbours houses have shingle roofs but up here in the north west mostly Cedar and sawn by the looks of them.

Excellent... I had the pleasure of seeing them many times in the Glasgow pub gig scene probably 25 + years ago where they played with a lot of different folk, they were good then and by feck they've not got worse👍

Had to google when it closed, June 1973.. I was nearly 17 but by then had been there quite a few times. it was pretty wild back then.. I can remember whole rows of seats collapsing when everyone used to stand on them and jump up and down. Also the balcony used to literally wobble up and down about a foot if everyone was stamping in unison. Was at some really great gigs in Green's and many more after it became the Apollo but I wasn't at the Who gig you mentioned although I'm sure I saw the James gang but I can't remember where or when.