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Then there is this set, from 20mm to 50mm, 7 pieces, usually less than £10, Can be used wit a press or a mallet. I have three sets of these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315979279210?_skw=7x+DIY+Leather+Punchers+Craft+Cutter+Mold+Die+Round+Hole+Punching+Tools+Kit&itmmeta=01JH6X1EFRZV6FQFEDP8E4H4N0&hash=item4991d52b6a:g:HS0AAOSwWttnPaVE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAABIHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKmPVtfR0YsX0%2Bpz0o6ncUHPgCClkmP1vVdaJOl4FoQUOF2A4OFxHxm5c1edWVp35xCxz9XcBtjBu2tanqTd5Ew%2FtaVycWi878i8F6UEGe5SJG66zFY%2FACdTH1fWPW8uYV92kt6kLYwW%2Bzdidt7B%2BraN8pTTeJno0iwQtiI9%2F1GrZgFMmMAHXUKEjcnot5qV1xEaEDzCSdKw729bKSdC4gQx5TqfEUchrZeN5gRPfCVjOYMVybV7qK%2B5NRWk0ZHLjdAhAubnBQ9AOfW6fDZh33dYT179B96iNdx%2BjVLjL5vFe7Jvtk0qeOnfzKXrrBbRnnh63xmas3zB9Cwd6OaHnpEeo5sJwWaamIMzPHX3rCd%2FfQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBM_ueF3Yll

I would say to look for old second-hand Gasket punches. They go up to at least 3"

Make that a 5 count

Its hard dealing with Amazon when things go wrong. In my case, a year ago, I ended up with a free 3D printing scanner (£160 approx)

This is true Doubtful. I never had it happen or come close to happening. A groove a maximum of 0.5mm deep in 4 or 5mm leather is hardly significant. Although I don't do saddlery I once made and fixed medieval style shoes and I always grooved for the stitching IMO buy a good groover

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Over Christmas I had some of that German spiced cake 'Stollen?' Certainly not! I paid for it ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A farmer was encouraged to buy one of a new breed of farm dogs. He was told it was well behaved and a good worker On the first day the farmer got out of bed late, at 8.30. When he came down the stairs he found the dog asleep in front of the fire. He kicked the dog awake with a 'huh, so much for hard working!' To which the dog replied ' I say, there's no need for that. This morning I was up early and patrolling round the farm. I came across three rustlers in the lower fields and I saw them off, with a bite or two out of their bottoms. I then repaired the fence in the lower paddock, then I re-hung the gate to the hen run and then I rounded up the sheep and put 100 in the trailer for you' '100 sheep?, but I only have 94' 'I just told you, I rounded them up'

Whilst I found that my 15K would put a #16 needle through 1.5 -2mm upholstery grade chrome tan it could not advance it. I had to get a 'roller' foot attachment

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Pre-nuclear age metal is highly desirable. At the time scrap iron was very valuable. The bridge was from the 19th century. It served only about 10 homes on one side of the river. A gang dismantled it and took it away. Within 1/2 hour of that area you can be in another country - untouchable to the law. The local police saw it happening but the gang were wearing hi-viz jackets, had signs erected, powerful work lights on as it was night time. Everything indicated that it was on the level. So police ignored it.

Here the tax on plastic bags is allegedly used for 'green' or environment projects such as tree planting. But we, the public we, see very little of its supposed beneficial use so I suspect it goes into the general government coffers But it has reduced the use of the flimsy thin plastic bags by about 95%. We no longer see lots of them hung up in trees or bushes at the road side, and fewer being eaten by cattle and sheep

We spell it shillelagh; and its a walking stick which can be used for whacking in self-defence

We are hijacking this thread. I'll ask for this discussion to be moved In the mean time; if honest shoppers return their cart to the cart park to get their coin back it stops there being a lot a loose carts in the car park which are easy pickings for the thieves. In the UK scrap metal gets a good high price, so if you can get the metal for nothing, ie steal it, you're 'quids in' as we say I was just reading that in area of England thieves stole £100,000 of electric cable which is part of a railway electric system. The trains can't run until its replaced. I've known thieves to have stolen a 15t bridge! as well as man-hole covers, the plaques on war memorials, a town's metal public artwork and so on Some shops have tried a self-locking wheel on the cart. It locks up when the cart tries to go out of certain area but that didn't stop the thieves, they just lifted the cart away, so they went back to the coin operated chain lock. Of course most regular shoppers keep a 'trolley token' on them because it happens you never have that £1 coin on you when you need it Over here paper shopping bags are rare but free. The plastic bags range from 40p/50c to about £1/$1.25 but plastic bags used by butchers and greengrocers are free. Nearly every one has a 'bag for life', about £2 to £4, that they use all the time for their shopping

Here is definitely this