Nice tip Eric, have used very low pressure from my air line to do same.

George.

Just tried it, works a treat.

Thanks,

Dave

Airduster.

pick up a few wooden coffee stirrers from Costa (Other outlets also have them). They make ideal Araldite and Humbrol stirrers etc.
BobH

People think I'm pigging the cheese and pineapple at buffets, it just so I can collect the cocktail sticks.

Neil

Keep a small first aid box in the workshop, masking tape for elastoplast, small clean magnet for removing steel splinters from sensitive parts, surgical tweezers for gripping small parts – like 12 BA screws, antacid tablets and a bottle of New Skin.

Stuff footie get out to workshop!

Which footie, footie down this end uses an oval ball, and you did do the Aussies rather well, but we got the Welshmen, or are you thinking of Iceland. I use skewers and wooden spatulas from the $2 Shop. Ian S C

Long bottle cleaning brush for cleaning crud from the bore of the lathe mandrel and other such orifices.

Gordon

I have a lamp with a circular fluorescent tube and magnifying lens on double joint arm mounted to the workbench.
The shade has a small magnet to which I have added a sewing needle for digging small milling splinters out of fingers. So, needle to operate, strong light to see and powerful magnifyer to locate tiny source of pain.

cut down some rolls off lining paper.

then use toilet roll holder screwed to wall to hold it.

always got scribble paper to hand for notes or quick drawings.

A discarded roof slate screwed to the wall of the shed over the lathe and a bit of chalk for jotting numbers and reminders. I live on aprox 12 billion tons of chalk so no shortage.