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I think a commercial retail price of £90 is very reasonable. It’s a square thread, so, I don’t believe there is an available insert to cut it, it required grinding a HSS blank to form the correct shape. Equally couldn’t find a commercially available checking jig for grinding the tool (they are...

I’m only used aluminium paint once, I painted ten windows (old, stripped to bare wood) with it then the usual undercoat and top coats, and ten without using it on my own house as an experiment. They were distributed so that there were equal amounts of each type facing each point of the compass...

Looking at the outside of the control box, the bottom left wires are for the traverse motor, which look to go into the black box inside the cabinet, that would make the black box the speed controller / direction controller. The upper connector is for the main user switches, so this is the...

Not so fast, the 110v is typical machine control voltage and will not I’m believe be connected to the motor.

@Ollie78 have you had to repaint any windows that have been painted with your suggested paint? The reason I ask is to understand how easy it is to prep. If I’ve read it correctly the top coat is water based, my arch nemesis to prepare! Very nice airless sprayer you have, did you start with it or...

There should be a threaded hole in the end of the shaft to allow it to be extended, this can be used with a collar / bush to create an alternative nut arrangement.

Just from experience, I’ve found water based paint to be the stuff of the devil. It forms a hard shell that cracks, water gets under and rots the wood. First time you know is when a hole appears. You can’t burn / heat gun off, so your down to trying to sand back to bare wood. Oil based paint...

The T30 is a nice small machine, and if size is the main determinant and you want a really good machine have a lookout for the SCM T100 also. As standard I believe they should have a sliding table, for some this has been misplaced over the years😩 The T100 is IMO a better built machine than the...

Unfortunately that members workshop is in storage at the moment! Life should be returning to normal in the near future with a lot of help from his friends getting the machines back out of storage. The safely getting them moved is something I’m not looking forward to! It felt like a Herculean...

I don’t fully understand why you’d be unplugging the PT. You should have an isolator on or next to the machine for when you need to stick your fingers into it.

A big bucket of cold water. The first and most important rule for starting a business is know who your customers are, how to get your product noticed by them, and exactly what they want. Otherwise, you’re basically wasting your time and money. From your initial post I suggest you get a job, do...

Ahh, I’m sorry, I was being thick. Im hopeless at being able to plan how to lay a workshop out on paper and pen, so I have to plonk the machines and benches in to the space, have a few moves around until I feel I have a reasonable layout. Then I will run the electrics and services to where it’s...

I’ve had 3 phase installed. Since April it’s virtually the same cost as getting single phase, just the price of the cable that is higher.

Well, it’s been a long Journey but I’m finally finished )a little of using needed around the replaced Pad stones) The resin floor install encountered issues and had to be ground off and redone. The contractor was superb, no issues in getting it redone at no cost and we had the resin...

I’m not familiar with that saw, but most Wadkins have a bolt on the side of the spindle housing which you slacken and tap the spindle forward it back to align with the riving knife.

That took some doing, you must have had 3 weetabix that day🤪…..

Yes. Liberon machine wax is excellent. Put some machine guard in first

The blue and white Sedgwick have longer infeed and outfeed tables, the machines are fully supported and you can get spares although they will be expensive. Some of the later green models also had longer tables, which is an advantage. Again the machines have soares available. Maintenance and...

I had BiFolds installed (aluminium frames double glazed), you can have flush and raised cill units depending on what you want them for. I bought them for Northwich Glass and they installed them. They worked out cheaper than a single or a double garage door!

A gift versus a bride is dependant om your financial position, that is according to the law. So, giving a millionaire a bic ball point pen isn’t a bribe, giving a person who can’t afford a pen a Bic biro is a bribe. So, taking the analogy further, taking a person on a salary of £20K / annum to a...