On 14/03/2020 22:04, newshound wrote:
On 14/03/2020 14:28, John Rumm wrote:
On 13/03/2020 08:26, alan_m wrote:
On 12/03/2020 15:07, wrote:
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 09:53:52 UTC, David WE Roberts (Google)
wrote:
Back in the day I worked from DIY manuals, including a very good
Readers
Digest one. We are talking 1970s though.

Is my memory playing tricks or did one vintage of this manual show
you how
cover a panelled interior door with plywood (or quite possibly
hardboard),
while a later vintage told you how to restore a door that had had such
an atrocity perpetrated on it?


Slightly before my time but I believe that was down to a DIY expert
on a TV program of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bucknell


Also master of the spiral ratchet screwdriver. With flat blades.
Obviously everything was pilot drilled *and* assembled beforehand.

Yup, I don't recall seeing many of his programs (A bit before my time
really), but the prowess with the Yankee driver did stick in my mind. I
recall using one for the first time, and being a bit disappointed :-)
But then, I had not appreciated then that for the TV shows all the holes
were pre-drilled, and they had rehearsed the build first - so the screws
already knew where they were going!


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Cheers,

John.

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