Must admit I would be nervous in getting the boss TIG welded. One option may be to put in a threaded insert. Do not know what the screw size is but if it is M8, you woud have to drill it out to take a M10 insert threaded to take M8 and the apply some good filler/bonding agent. I suppose thinking out...

There are people closer to home that we should be sacking. What about the people in charge of the road system. A quick review. 1960,s. 30 MPH in town no speed limit out of town, I was riding about on those British bikes, system seemed to work quite well, the bikes had poor reliabikity and poor brake...

Reminds me of that old Animal song, you know the one "we gotta get out of this place".

If the cyclist is weaving all over the road he can be prosecuted for dangerous ridding, they may think that people will not be able to recognise them, but like my bikes, most of us have cameras and other hi tech devices on our bikes to protect us from all the dangers on the road, probably most of th...

Did you see that H2 licence change, where if you are turning off the main road onto a side road and if there is a pedestrian on the side road pavement, looking as though he may want to cross the road, you are supposed to stop for them. Possible problems: Some pedestrian loiter on the pavement, cars ...

Another how to do file, How to prevent nuts unscrewing.

Another Vintage How to Do file, this time on Reamers.

I am getting really worried that this sort of chaos could happen over here. The lockdowns and COVID have affected us all to a greater or lesser extent. The police over here are generally respected with a few exceptions. If that was repeated over here, it would take us to the end game with a them and...

Reading the UK press reports about the trouble at Rotterdam and the Hague, looks horrendous, with the police actually shooting people in the streets.
I notice that it was not the local police that were involved.
This is all a bit of characher.
Does anyone know what is actually going on?

Yet another one, this time on types of bearings.