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Heh heh heh! Now for a small consideration-------

John Welsford

As someone living in a place that does not have these complications, I can appreciate the issue. I read somewhere a while back that the Europeans simply posted an edict that all sales taxes were...

Away from the flames and back on subject, I can understand the tax being of interest to the legislators, and I'd imagine that if there is deemed to be enough money in it then the technical...

Right on the button Mik. My thoughts are that almost all of us have within us a need to be creative, a need to make things, and a need for a connection to reality.
Too many of us are confined for...

As you'll know, and what a lot of the postings above seem to have missed is that a competition target shooting rifle is a very specialised form of firearm. Some of them look like they belong on the...

I really like Pratchetts writings, he has an extraordinary ability to build a complex character in just a few words.
Plot wise I most like the books with Vimes and the Night Watch or the ones with...

When you say "World" bear in mind that yours is the only developed country on the planet that runs its health system the way it does.
In all the other countries, the governments run the hospitals....

On October 17th 1989 at about 3.20 in the afternoon I broke 4 vertebrae. One of those moments when you wish you could go back in time and do the last few seconds differently.
It was a long time...

Clean em yourself, from pet shops you can get paste that dogs like the taste of, and a toothbrush with rubber bristles that is designed for dogs. It might take a little while for her to tolerate the...

I helped set her up on the trailer on which she was shipped out to her owner on "the lakes" ( I forget which one but it might have been in Michigan, my USA geography is not the best)
No, not 4 ft...

Recommended, great food and reasonable pricing, take your coffee across the road and sit on the dock.

John Welsford

A very large proportion of that money will be paying the wages of some worthy craftsmen.

I like the thing, its even got the steering wheel on the right side, ( in both respects) .

John Welsford

A short term fix would be to run a cord from another circuit to feed the fridges or the kettle.
Tape the lead to the floor so it stays in the corner up against the skirting board and doesnt trip...

Meli, kitchen appliances today use a lot more current than was the case not very long ago, and we have a lot more of them so your problem is a very common one.

I'd suggest that you go to your fuse...

During the sea trials and workup of the Navman Mini Transat with its canting keel it was evident that in certain conditions that the keel, when canted out to the max was giving considerable lift when...

You trim it so that the leech woolies on all three sails are streaming, usually the jib is out further than the main, the main in a little, and the mizzen out a little as with a yawl there will...

I've been running very low bp, have woken up on the floor a few times and when my doc, who is a very presentable woman of about 40 and who has a great sense of humour, told me that was what my...

There are some very similar developments going on in military ships, they purport to be faster and ride smoother than conventional hulls, and use a lot less fuel per tonnage mile.

John Welsford

I use the yawl rig on quite a few of my cruising open boat designs and find them good for several reasons.
Downers are that there is more to do when setting the rig up and striking it when putting...

I just spotted your posting Iain, a month or three late but, welcome to the forum, its very nice to have you here.
You and I live about as far from each other as its possible to get but hopefully...

I have a set of splines from MacNaughton, dont like them. I have made quite a few of my own over the years, and find that the ones I use all the time are the ones Ive made of PVC. Using a sheet of...

I really like Singapore, its one of the safest places I know to just wander the streets looking at the sights. The locals are invariably helpful, the food good, the service in the shops a treat and...

Hey Meli, take up with a policeman. "The long arm of the law" and all that.

JohnW

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

T'was an ancient mariner,
and he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye ----

John Welsford, who has a reproduction of the original...

Thats a step, in the right direction.

JW

Good luck with that,good to have you back by the way.
Rellos? Aussie slang is somewhat impenetrable to the outside world, unique! As an example I wonder how many of the guys here would be...

Something that perhaps you and the rest of the library crew might be able to do. A while back, in response to growing issues of shoplifting and minor thuggery in a shopping mall somewhere, and from...

It sounds as though you have some of the physical things under control, at least some good advice in that respect but its worth looking at the mechanical issues in terms of the rowing geometry. For...

I've 42 steel or cast iron bodied planes and shaves at last count, two more coming that I bought second hand on line. I'm not so much a pack rat collector as liking to have multiples of certain...

I've used inverters on really big sawmilling machinery to control the speed on feed systems, wonderful things and one of the suppliers I dealt with has, since I started telling the manufacturer about...

Here's a question, who pays for the hospital care in a case like this?

John Welsford

Butt blocks work fine. They do though tend to leave a visible line at the joint and dont bend quite as evenly as the rest of the panel ( an unfair bend) due to the extra stiffness at that point. A...

Nice work Ken, well done. Congratulations on the launching.

I think that if you fit that rudder, lock the motor straight ahead apart from close in maneuvering and work on steering the boat with...

For a few years I drove a dropside flat deck pickup, rust and grey primer patches on both front wings ( no rears of course) bullbars and towbars both ends and a fairly noisy exhaust. I found that...

I've seen the boat, and been in that cave on the facing page pic. The cave is a lot darker without the camera crews floodlights and I didn't find any mermaids in there. Just as well as I had wife...

I am building a SCAMP right now, and appreciate the issue. I put a fillet of glue mix in along all the joints, about 4mm radius, let that cure, sand it lightly then put another fillet of...

It doesnt have a mainplane and elevators in the conventional sense, the afterplane is fixed, but the foreplane is able to have its angle of incidence changed by rocking it back and forth on its...

One of my dayjobs is my little woodworking machinery servicing and setup business, and although I get my helper to do most of the electrical work I regularly replace switches and capacitors. We...

Ah, take note, he does have pluck!

John Welsford

Compost it and plough it back in.

John Welsford

I bet he got it for a song

John Welsford

I love hard work, can watch others doing it for hours at at a time.
John Welsford

A while ago I had to pour pile footings for a small cabin, no electricity and rather than go hire a gas powered one, I borrowed a little device advertised as a "hand powered concrete mixer". It was...

Nah! Probably an udder boat.

JW

A few years ago a model airplane guided by GPS made it from Nova Scotia to Ireland, I have models that will carry quite a load, a friend has a model chopper with a camera in it that transmits to a...

Great, thanks for that. I'm keen to watch your progress.
Yes, Chucks one of the very good guys, he puts a lot back into the small boat world and his business surely does deserve our support.
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The mail from New Zealand to the USA tends to be both slow and expensive, so we have Duckworks magazine print our plans and despatch from their base in Harper, Tx. He does a good job, the orders...

As an outsider, America has some wonderful things, including some of the most hospitable people I've ever met. ( thanks guys and girls) . It also has some of the most scary things on the planet from...

Good idea, but how much is your time worth?

Do you have limestone in your area? Thats cheap and very commonly used for farm roading here. You'd scape off the topsoil and run about 8inches of it...

I've been doing some ongoing market research into whats happening in the sailing world in terms of what the demographics are, and like many activities the formal yacht club scene, whether big boats...