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Sorry for the snotty reply earlier - I misinterpreted it. This shows a typical wormdrive saw: [/img]

It's a circle saw with the motor driving the blade through 90 degrees, so the motor is in-line with the saw. Slower turning blade but more torque and a compact design, also a lot easier for a lefty like me to use.

Speak to any American chippy and worm-drive saws (i.e. Skilsaws) are the next best thing to a threesome with the Minogue sisters, but no-one seems to import them or make them for the UK or Europe - what's up with that? Any reason why not?

Cheers all for the advice. I did think about lying blatantly to the BCO such as 'it's always been like that since we moved in' but it would be blatantly a lie, as all the wood work around the hatch is nice and shiny and new looking compared to the manky old 70's off-white gloss. So I need...

1972 mid-terrace house, truss roof. Installed a big drop-down loft ladder a couple of years ago, which meant chopping a section out of a (just one!) Fink truss chord, in the middle bit, between any diagonals. Fitted the ladder with the chopped truss ends bearing on the frame, one side of the...