"Wally" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

I've never bin in one - Swim travelled to a Homebase the other day
looking for the *right* door handles and said it was rubbish.
(Virtually a furniture store..??)

Aye, more furniture, paint and garden stuff - their actual diy/builder
stuff
is pretty bad (the wood is absolutely shocking - hardly any of it, mostly
bent/warped crap, and overpriced to hell). B&Q's 8x4 birch ply at under 32
quid a sheet is way better than anything at Homebase.


I got my last lot of ply and MDF from a specialist supplier just doon tha
rood from here - half the price of B&Q (in 8 x 4s mind...) and good quality
stuff.




In fact, actually not 60's *style'*- they *were* the bloody 60's!!
The box was/is postmark dated 1962!!

'Mazin' innit!!?? :-)

The oldest thing I got in eBay was a flint arrowhead - Middle Eastern,
about
2000 years old. :-)


When I had a tour at a brickworks one time I was given an ammonite - about
93,000,000 years old!! :-)

They had hundreds of them!!


eBay's well cool - click buttons, stuff shows up. :-)


Unless it's an amp from Hong Kong....!!



Have you heard of Freecycle? It's a 'movement' based around mailing
lists -
the basic principle is to not chuck stuff out, but pass it on to someone
for
nowt. I scored a Phillips CD-60 tonight - 120V jobbie, but came with the
adapter. Also has an optical out which works better than that in my DVD
player, which seemed to pause the data stream at each track, resulting in
a
drop-out when tracks would otherwise blend together. The Phillips player
seems to keep it together, so it won't be going into the bedroom after
all.
:-)


That seems like a very good idea - I hate chucking stuff out!!



Seems to me that there are always ultra-cheap tools to be had. I've got
most
of what I need - anything I don't have, I'll just buy when I do need it.


Sre, I don't buy for buying's sake - apart from the little tiny screwdriver
in the set I mentioned the rest of it will get the usual thrashing!! :-)



http://www.melodolic.com/3D/

Those pages are not working for me (IE) - is it my machine?

Works on my IE - it'll want to install an ActiveX control to look at the
3D
drawings (should be something like an eDrawings control from SolidWorks).


OK, I've just swapped machines - nothing works yet!!



Can you take a multiway extension lead off that?

I don't see why not. It has a maximum capacity of 2.2KW. The no-volt bit
means that cutting the source power and resinstating it won't put the
power
back into the other side of the circuit - have to work the switches first.
It cost 15 quid plus delivery (about a fiver) from...


The reason I ask is that my garage is a bit of a trot down to the bottom of
the garden, so 'yer tea's ready' is a couple of 1 second power cuts in quick
succession - so far it hasn't caused any problems!!! :-)

(Thankfully me drill press and table saw's got their own zero volt reset
switches!!)


www.charnwood.net

Easy click-buttons-and-stuff-shows-up online shopping, and nifty delivery,
too.


Excellent!