OneGuyFromBarlick

I was recently parked up in my campervan beside a reservoir somewhere up above Haworth or thereabouts. I'd been there overnight and when I got up to find a bush at about 8.30, there was a young lady in green with binoculars round her neck and a clipboard in hand wandering along the track beside the ...

I've just finished O by Anonymous. It sounds suspicious, but is in fact a well written novel about Barack Obama's re-election campaign. The one that's on the go at the moment. There seems to be a much more structured and managed approach to elections in the US than we have, though perhaps I'm just b...

That's an edge finder. Used on a milling machine to locate the edges of an object so that you can adjust the object's position under the spindle accordingly.

It's a dial test indicator (DTI). The bit with the dial is the gubbins (as you might have guessed). At it's left hand end is a 'feeler', movement of which makes the needle on the dial whizz round depending on how much the feeler is moved. Stanley's one has (as they usually do) all sorts of clamps an...

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