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@guineafowl21 I watched the video, very interesting, reminded me of the old John Cleese parody training videos Showing you exactly what not to do. I particularly loved the use of the emery cloth. What ever you do, please don’t see this chap as good or indeed safe practice.

The reason you go up through the drill bits is cutting speed. The centre of the drill moves at a peripheral speed much slower than the tip. Each metal has the optimum cutting speed, ft/min or m/min that the cutting edge should removal material. Too fast or too slow can cause chatter and create...

If the drill ‘vibrated like anything‘ there is an issue with the setup or technique, as it shouldn’t. A few things it could be: Drill is blunt Drill hasn’t enough or no clearance. Drill is ground off set, ie the point isn’t in the centre Did you centre drill and then pilot hole to clear the...

Douglas fir is good, Redwood as Jacob suggested or Sapele are all good choices.

Just remember, if you issue the court notice the worst that can happen is you lose your £150 court fee you won’t get a court order against you. If they lose they get a CCJ against their name, that really screws up your life! Hence the other side will usually see sense and come to the party and...

Sideways was a day out, you issue a 14 day letter to begin with, recorded delivery. Plenty of examples online. Look up also Money claim on line, this is your pit stop for issuing a court notice. Dead easy, there is lots of explanation and guide notes, you do this after the 14 day letter. Takes...

Well, if you have invoiced and he doesn’t pay I’d take him through small claims. It will then be on him to prove that the verbal agreement didn’t occur / was different. You’ve nothing to lose, he has the risk of a CCJ. If will I’m sure be amicable resolved before it gets to court. If it does get...

John 8 2-11, adapting it, If any one of you is without accident, let him be the first to throw away any safety system. It’s interesting the perspective that training alleviates the necessity for safety systems. A good safety system enhances productivity whilst reducing or preferably...

@Jacob It’s all the fault of ‘elf and safety. You can no longer attach the crush guard to the riving knife over a certain blade size. I think it’s 10”. It’s so the blade is adequately guarded when tilted. Push sticks with sheet materials on a slider??? Not likely!

I just love the concept of this saw. The saw guard system is IMO far superior to anything I’ve seen before, eg the Felder / Saw Stop system. I can’t wait to see it it real life. If I were in the market for a new slider, Altendorf would be top of my list with this one feature.

Yep, hear you, but I’m sorry, I don’t believe that’s correct. Happy for us to creat a new thread to discuss rather than distract this one, in fact it might be very helpful for everyone. There are a lot of highly qualified electrical and electronic engineers / sparkies on here that have a wealth...

You cannot run a saw that needs 16A off a domestic plug. The arrangement shown of a 16A socket wired to a domestic plug will not work. It will blow most likely the 13A fuse in the plug. You need a sparky to add a dedicated 16A plug in your workshop. Fitting a 16A socket is not one of the tasks...

The boards are simply screwed down they can also be glued down and if a slightly different curve is needed routed out. There are plenty of pre formed track ways to allow the boards to be cut down and not have to route out new channels. The feeds to the different rooms are laid in insulated...

The upstairs, where we are laying the pipe on top of the floor we are using the following system

It’s been a while, but the UFH is again starting to make progress. There was a lot of other jobs that have needed to be done befire the floor was effectively sealed up. The main lounge where we ground out channels for the pipe to sit in, now has the pipe fitted. That went very well and was easy...

When I retired I had considered and in fact started to go down the root of building kitchens etc. For the volumes I was interested in making an expensive slider just didn’t make financial sense. It was actually far more cost effective to buy stuff cut to size, Peter Millard I believe also had...

Has the floor a damp proof membrane? If not I wouldn’t put anything that can seal moisture in the floor. For comfort, machinist always had duct boards, laths simple screwed or nailed with boas between to braces that lifted them off the floor, whilst the boards allowed saw dust etc to drop...

In this crazy world, you can repair but not replace doors and windows without notifying building control. When I had a good discussion with BC on what exactly a repair was, we ended up agreeing that if any of the original remained it was a repair, we also agreed it didn’t have to be a specific...

@HOJ may I ask, exactly how you make your doors? Are the styles abd rails cored or just the panels. Understand if it’s a trade secret, but I’m genuinely very interested and intrigued.

I was asked last week to make a custom oak door, I turned it down, partly because Im too busy with a house, but also because oak doors are a nightmare! They move, and customers don’t understand why they can end up with say a door that gaps at the top and isn’t completely straight. I’ve made the...