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No, you cannot use an O ring, you need a leather cup washer. They are as rare as rocking horse ****, but when you find a place that sells them you will find that they come in a multitude of sizes. They used to be used in farm water pumps, especially windmill pumps. There used to be a place here...

I would just ask over the counter at a local welding supply shop; they will have every generic tip in every size and configuration, the bloke behind the counter will just know what it is by looking at it.

30 years since I was there, the border police were more interested in my red beard than what I was carrying (I told them I was red beard, not Red Brigade) They let me through. From what I've seen on Tour de France coverage the border looks pretty open.

Ah, retailing, sell them anything, swap the prices so everyone thinks they've got a bargain.

I need one now for the bottom nut under my injector pump; I used every 13mm I have, every combination of length, offset, angle, and thickness, to get into the NO clearance zone to get the nut off, I'm gunna hunt in Dad's old toolbox, I know he had some from that well known tool supplier "K...

Or will a Torx bolt fit the drive on the end of the shaft? If so, weld something onto the bolt so it won't turn in the vyse. Hope the spline is strong enough to resist deforming.

Can you grip the shaft in a metal working lathe? Or a piece of hardwood 2x1 with a hole the diameter of the shaft drilled in the middle, a saw cut along the long axis to the middle of the hole, all clamped tight in the vyce while you whack the Allen key with a wooden mallet or a deadblow hammer?

How about some solid standoffs, I'm thinking curtain rod or wardrobe hanging rod (although it's hollow these days) with the little flanges. Screw or pop rivet together.

You don't even need all clear tube, just a bit of clear on each end of a garden hose; just so long as the joins are tight.

There is a new rechargeable lithium ion battery iron that has just begun to be advertised in Silicon Chip, Australian electronics magazine. They speak very highly of it in the ad!! No price given, but www.aussieirons.com.au

Plastic welded the bottle of Never Seize that someone put something heavy and sharp on when they "helped" me tidy up!

Worked on the Improved windscreen washer pump for my Peugeot. The bottom seal leaks, (on the last 2 that I've bought!)the motor fills with water, it rusts solid. Recently...(great word, covers a multitude of days).. I removed the pump, took it to work and xrayed it to get an idea of the...

My friends who live in Netherlands are almost local to this place, maps tells me one (in Voorburg) is about 20km, and one (in Berkel en Rodenjris) is about 25km! I'll keep a watch on this post to see whether you get a reply from the company before I send them off on an adventure to get some for you!

I hope I'm not jinxing myself, but... I have an electric HWS with a copper tank and no anode, installed about 1964, still going strong!

Sometimes you've got to travel, and needing something as obscure as a this sized screw can lead you to check out the most wonderful stores in the places you visit.

A decent sized piece of carpet to kneel on in the slush, a pair of garden gloves, a clean piece of rag, a few various sized cable ties. A small roll of duct tape.

As my late father used to say..... " The price is what the punter will pay"

Hacksaw, fine toothed? 32TPI. Or a nice fine toothed mini hacksaw. Drill a 3/8 hole in a piece of ply / pallet wood a couple of inches from the end, cut a slit from the end to the hole, insert your bushing to the desired depth, clamp in vyce (or vice for N American spellers), run the saw down...

The cedar slats from Venetian blinds springs to mind, straight grain, thin, cheap (someone's always leaving them on the side of the street!)

Me neither, just a big minus sign