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The gingerbread monarchs, from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth herself, have been hand-iced to depict every sovereign.

Without your help, I think I would now be ankle deep in twisted guitar strings. With reference to my latest photograph in my John Stevens Skeleton Clock album, and a section of Machinery’s Handbook about mandrel (arbor) sizes , here are some of the facts built into my first respectable attempt. Method The mandrel was machined down to size and cross drilled 1.0mm diameter next to the root radius. The free end of the guitar string was threaded through this hole, and the unsupported (cantilevered) mandrel given a couple of turns to `catch’ the wire. The guitar string was then passed over a...

Now in possession of a well-known brand of (wet/dry) battery-driven shaver, I was surprised to discover that embedded (pressed) into a recess of each cartridge of cleaner fluid is a single 2mm diameter steel ball. The cartridges are injection moulded PP. Two mouldings, (a base and a top) are welded to form a closed tank. Moulded parts of the cleaner’s mechanism are POM. I’m guessing that in production, the presence of the steel ball could signal that the cartridge is complete and ready for shipping; OR – that the razor cleaner mechanism has a means (electromagnetic?) of sensing that a...