Hello Dougie, it would help if we knew roughly where you live.

Brian

So is that "The West Lothian Question"?

"So is that "The West Lothian Question"?"

Good one Neil.

Edited By norman valentine on 26/02/2018 19:25:18

The West Lothian question,^[1] also known as the English question,^[2] refers to whether — etc.

Dougie – try wikipedia

Cannot add any more as Neil recently told me that posts about politics, sex, etc, etc , were not allowed.

Dougie, good luck with trying to find a home for your mags. I had an almost complete set from 1940-1995 and advertised them at a price that would cover my costs. Very few takers, instead I am reading them, keeping the few that seem important to me and the rest go in the dustbin. I have got rid of threequarters of them and am still working my way through the pile. I am currently reading wartime issues from 1940, the staples are so thin that they have rusted away. It is such a waste.

For the last few days I've been working through my collection too, no one wants them even free, they're a mine of information and too good to throw away, so I've decided to put them in lever arch files, working a treat so far and coming across many articles that are revving me up to get my backside into the workshop …… but maybe when it warms up a bit ………..

I remove the staples, lift out any centre pages with full page spreads – usually the general arrangement and dimensioned drawings, guillotine off the spine, then take out the front cover, index and all project and interesting articles, the rest, such as back covers, adverts, postbag and other general guff goes in the bin,
So far, I'm getting two full years plus front covers and index pages in a single lever arch file, all index pages at the front for easy reference with front covers on each month as per the mag', the heap of chuck away pages is thicker than the stuff going in the binders by a mile,
Wish I'd done this years ago instead of wondering what to do with all the paper wrapped volumes on my garage shelves.

John.

Thanks Bob, with hindsight, I really should have done it years ago, they'd have been nearly done now

Similar problem to you as well, unfortunately those in the loft are on my side, hey ho, decided I needed to shift things though when we started finding doors getting hard to open, stud walls ain't what they used to be.

Another big plus of putting the cropped pages in binders, I can pull any of them out to scan them into the pc as A4's or whichever flavour they were printed,and run copies off in A3 on my printer, makes them much easier to read without messing up the originals, coming across some very interesting stuff too,

John.

Edited By RJW on 28/02/2018 10:21:04

Hi D

Sent a PM.

M

Had the same result when I had a clear out last Sept / Oct when redoing the bungalow; had over 100 + mags' that no body wanted, even on here, so they went to the recycling bin, pity. Now continuing digital & print subs so have two avenues for ref.

​George