A lynch pin? You would be hard pressed to spend more than a couple of quid for one, from any decent supplier!

Can’t see where a rotary table could ever be used for making one, let alone ‘justified’ for the project.

A bit of off-centre turning on a suitable piece of square stock, two drilled holes and a piece of high tensile fencing wire. Job done? Your ‘inheritors’ must be totally blind to your modelling needs! Keep it up.

What category linkage?

Keep it up! We're saving the planet!

A rather complex cast-iron baffle in our old log-burner eventually burned through. New spares no longer available (Blimey! Is it really that old?). The last replacement was stupidly expensive, so non-availability seemed almost a relief. However, winter was approaching and Something Had To Be Done.

Local engineers (Bodgeit, Bashit & Run) provided bits of plate for a pittance. The old buzz-box welder was eventually found, but then I thought that the TIG course that I had done should be put to use. Rather a lot of beer vouchers later, and I was the proud owner of a new TIG set, gas bottle, regulator, etc., etc. – and a beautiful baffle.

Now, that's what I call good value!

Do you mean one of these?…

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Look further at the bottom of page… 'lynch pin'…

George.

pgk pgk – Don't get me started on 'new woodburners'. The local clean air campaigners want us all to have new stoves with fire-brick-lined combustion chambers. The idea is that the higher fire-box temperature results in less particulate emission. But the idea is to let heat out into the room, through the walls of the fire-box, not up the chimney. The 'new' stoves are said to be 'more efficient', but efficiency is not defined. I'll continue to repair this old one, until it's like Grandpa's axe – it'll still be the right tool for the job.

Re tractor dilemma: Well, of course, if you make the pin a tad too big, the decision to get a bigger tractor sort-of makes itself, doesn't it?

PGK, our inset logburner that we installed in our lounge 3 years ago is rated at 5 Kw but it don’t half chuck out some heat, our gas bill has plummeted since it was installed, we leave the lounge door open and the heat percolates right round the house. It has a smoke control fitted which means it burns hotter anyway and keeps the clean air campaigners happy, our four cats are always in the lounge whenever the fire is lit, the Siamese loves keeping warm in front of it but even he admits defeat and retreats to the sofa because he gets too hot, the modern wood burners are incredibly efficient.

Dave W