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Another great model Chris. When was an aircraft mechanic in the late 70's and early 80's wrenching Douglas A26 and DC6 fire bombers I saw the Canso (Canadian service name for the Catalina) a number of times. Big, tall and slow compared to our air tankers. Giving your work is an honourable and...

When mounted on a wall we call them dead deer.🦌 Pete

The pipe was used here a lot in water systems in the past but gave way to copper and in the last few decades plastic. It is used extensively for natural gas piping too but some portions are being replaced with flexible stainless stuff. It is stocked pre-threaded in the various Borg stores and...

You might want to read through Ttrees thread about boring holes. He went through a lot to stiffen up a drill press. You won't be working it as hard but might have to deal with repositioning if the bits and reamers you need are not all the same length...

If you have a solid drill press (not a dinky thing one person can pick up) and drill in a few steps without moving the part until about 0.3mm under the bearing size and then use a reamer with lubricant you might get a decent hole to press the bearing into. You should also be using a micrometer...

If you can still edit the post remove the phone number. If you can't then use the report button and ask a moderator to do it for you. Don't put email addresses down either. Leaves you open for bots to harvest your address and you'll get spam up the wazoo. Pete Very generous of you to offer the...

Nice Camelback. Beautiful work. Pete

I have a box of ripped up bedsheets, T-shirts, tea towels, cotton socks, etc, anything that isn't full of synthetics. They do all of my excess glue wiping, spill soaking, and finish application duties. The only time I don't use them is for CA finishing pens. For that kitchen paper towels work...

And here I thought from the title this thread was about being overweight. 🙄 Pete

Digging up this old thread because I found blades that are either the same or very close. They are called CentroLock Planer blades. They show the width as 16mm and the thickness as 3mm. They don't give the groove dimensions but is sure looks close when scaled up...

Digging up this old thread because I found blades that are either the same or very close. They are called CentroLock Planer blades. They show the width as 16mm and the thickness as 3mm. They don't give the groove dimensions but is sure looks close when scaled up...

If they know that much about my passwords and financial institutions etc then they don't need me to send them money. They could just take it all themselves. Oh wait! there is nothing to take. 😭 Pete

Send the crooks to Australia. Oh wait you guys did that before and just made more room for new crooks. Arctic is melting exposing new ground. Send them there, preferably barefoot. Pete

There is one Youboob video where someone was using those kind of push blocks while video taping for his channel. It was a piece of plywood, no riving knife, that climbed on top of the blade and spun the plywood off to the left and back. The guy's right hand was carried along with the push block...

Fitzroy got it. It's a slick, especially if the bottom has a slight curve across the blade (side to side) and the handle is kicked up a little to allow it to kay flat on the board. Use by timber framers and boat builders. Nice score. Pete

Push sticks to push push sticks. 🤔 Pete

DNA. 😉 Pete

I feel for AndrewG and would advise him that the same thieves may be back in a month or two to get the new tools the insurance company has paid for. Bolster the shop "defences", locks, barred windows, etc. Pete

Won't patching it now and dealing with it in a few years turn it into a bigger mouldy toxic mess? Aren't you are by tiling over it becoming a silly person builder too? Pete

There is a Oneway seller in the UK. https://hopewoodturning.co.uk/lathe-accessories/chucks/oneway-talon-chuck/287/talon-chuck-2-jaws?c=73 Pete