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It's possible the friction material from one of your rear pads has fallen off, worth a look before you drive it again. The brake reservoir should never be empty, some use it as clutch fluid as well but the clutch fluid is always taken off further up the bottle for safety reasons.

My Dewalt Lithium Ion combi drill has done 15+ years and still going. The chuck is very important, Dewalt is Jacob's which is very good. Used some drills with terrible chucks over the years (none were mine!).

We've just got nicely settled again money wise and this is going to be a bit of a disaster but what can you do.

I think we'll have to get cut off if it goes that high!.

I was watching Fred Dibnah repairing one of his Traction Engines and he commented on how each nut and bolt were hand made and matched as pairs. Amazing when you think at one point there was no standards at all for nuts and bolts and all were hand made.

Putin's maser plan is a work of art, infiltrate a DIY forum to bring on World War 3. Genius.

For me you look at the head, guesstimate the size and try the socket/ spanner for a good fit. You can tell before you apply any torque if it's likely to round or not. I could probably pull 4 or 5 M6x1 metric fasteners out of my tool box with 4 different heads (10mm across flats, 5mm Allen...

Most American vehicles manufactured over last 15 years or more have gone over to metric fasteners. I bought a load of Imperial kit for working on Harley Davidson's and even they have gone metric (amusingly when you get genuine Harley parts they have "made in China" on the packaging). The idea...

Was that Alan Howatt with the Mondeo?.

@ReganAndCarter , sounds like you got the right man for the job second time around. Expensive but you get what you pay for (including their experience which is priceless imho).

Yeh they were Ceramic floor tiles.

We had laminate down in kitchen for 10 years, it was in a sorry state by the end of it. Best thing I did was tile our kitchen floor, a bit of effort but far better.

We had a similar setup where our old water tank used to sit, it took the load down the side of the bedroom door frame.

Get hold of some Quick Step laminate, not the cheapest but very good quality and hard wearing.

If he's been on the job for 2hrs why shouldn't he get paid 2hrs?. I was thinking of this today while stuck in an engine. You could have a set rate for a job (ie major service including valve shimming on a bike), but to make that work you would have to charge some people more than the time...

Engine hoist or platform jack for me to take the weight when fitting gearboxes, makes positioning it a doddle too.

Highly unlikely the shaft is bent imho. Hanging the gearbox off the the input shaft is bad practice but the most common problem is bending the clutch friction disk. This could cause clutch drag and poor gear selection.

We're in a hard water area, it's a pita. 1/4 turn taps last 5 years tops and kettle is covered in no time.

I cut ours down to soil level and the bloomin thing grew back, ended up digging it out (that was not a fun Sunday!).

My Kuga DMF was steel, and bloomin heavy!