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I’m going to be devils advocate. How do you know that the colouring it is now, isn’t the original colour? Can you prove the different...

Those Irwin quick grip clamps are widely available and come on sale regularly. They are light and very easy to use. Bessey make...

Toy. If I locked myself out of a garage fitted with that, it would take 20 sec to cut it with a cordless angle grinder or tear it out of...

I replaced on my previous property a garage door for a steel industrial roller shutter door. Night and day difference in weight and...

There’s a hilarious vid of young people trying to use an old dial Telephone. “ Youth of today know nothing” has been echoing down the...

I had the misfortune to watch part of a BBC TV lunchtime show today. "What is this?" asked a competitor. "It's a glass paperweight"...

I have some sockets in the middle of the ceiling, and find I use them all the time - e.g. vacuum, power tools, ceiling extractor. Very...

Well I have decided I need to take the weight off the old legs more often working at the bench. I do have an old office chair in the...

Well I have got it on the move. A better quality Allen key and some judicial blows with a hammer have shifted it and separate...

This also shows the pulleys and the weight pocket(later internal style)

Here's a few snaps of a frame me and 1275gt put together. It uses more traditional joints and nailed on front/back which is very common.

@Sideways invaluable advice on moving. You've confirmed my instinct - that moving it myself is going to be better and thanks for the tip...

Last thoughts, I’d swap the motor for a 2.2KW single phase cap start, cap run jobby, it’s a little underpowered with the standard motor...

Just had a look at the eBay link. That looks a lovely saw and appears to have been very well looked after. It is the more modern version...

The very best bandsaw I’ve ever come across that’s small, compact and yet has really good capacity is a Startrite 14S5 (or 14S1) they...