by David Aldred | Feb 28, 2019
Here is one for your local pub quiz, what is the second most common natural polymer in the world? If that has you stumped (no pun intended), the answer is a component of wood, called lignin. So what is lignin and what on earth has it got to do with the building of our...
by David Aldred | Jan 28, 2019
Well here we are at the beginning of a new year, with Christmas already a distant memory, stressed out mothers glad their kids are back at school and mechanically minded father’s wondering why they didn’t receive that fitted out tool chest as a present,...
by David Aldred | Dec 26, 2018
Merry Christmas to everyone and thank you for tuning in to our monthly update during the festivities. To begin with Dave Warby reports back as follows from latest testing of his jet hydroplane Spirit of Australia II at Blowering Dam in Australia at the beginning of...
by David Aldred | Nov 29, 2018
As mentioned within last month’s diary update, Coniston, within the Lake District, UK, saw its annual power boat ‘Records Week’ take place from the end of October through to the beginning of November. As part of that international event we are very...
by David Aldred | Oct 26, 2018
Summer has definitely left us until next year and as the temperatures fall, on come the electric heaters in the workshop kindly supplied by our sponsor Sealey. This is not because we are a bunch of softies (we do after all live up north by the sea) but to maintain an...
