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Our local council are considering limiting the number of visits you can make to the dump in any 1 year. So presumably granny who lives down rhe street from there and hand carries a shopping bag full of waste gets the same 12 visits as the family with their chelsea tractor full ?

A lot of the generic chinese hobby machines are copies of Kity designs. I don't think you'll find a new original blade guard but you might find one made for a chinese lookalike that would fit. If it's for a saw, perhaps take a look at the machines in the Axminster Craft range.

Dad used to keep some of his more delicate kit in an old fridge. Not plugged in. Just as an insulated store cupboard.

Rust is a chemical reaction. Reactions slow down in the cold, so rusting does too. If you can keep the humidity down, winter cold of itself isn't a thread to your tools, actually the opposite. But warm and humid hitting cold metal is the devil...

No. The company is long gone. You are 20 years late to the party and stocks of spares have been scavenged by many dozens before you. There aren't even many left in France where they came from. Your best chance is a used machine sold for parts. But after that reality check, what are you looking...

If you buy something modern and decent, it will have a 3 phase AC motor and a proper VFD for electronic speed control as standard. It will have a moveable belt giving a few ranges as well so that you don't lose all the torque at low speed. The upside is all that will run off a 16A single phase...

Much more like it. Ernest Wright is a real success story. A business that was near it's end as the few remaining skilled craftsmen neared retirement was rescued, young employees taken on and traditional skills preserved. It has similarly old premises but you can instantly see that the place is...

Some very good points there. I'm still curious though. Do we think @OldGitEd works or is volunteering in a school or college ?

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/thomas-flynn-saw-making.149378/ This is not a good advert for British industry. Their workshop is a tip. It looks like a shoestring operation that has seen little investment and is is bleeding the last dregs of life out of machines that were innovative and...

Cutting disk on a dremel or a 1mm slitting disk on an angle grinder will be as thin as a junior hacksaw blade and easier ?

Forget battery powered sanders. If you are going to sand flat horizontal surfaces, weight isn't an issue. Mirkas ceros / deros are lovely machines but a big step up from a supermarket middle aisle model and you are paying a premium for light weight and ergonomics that suit car body prep, etc...

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/any-archdale-machines-stories-photos-out-there.120783/ @honza992 is related.

+1 My dessicant model works best in the workshop, a compressor type is more efficient in the house where it's warmer.

What's GBT ? If you are going to cut wood, why would you use a 4 flute HSS mill ? Think routers for a minute. No one uses HSS. We use TCT cutters because they handle abrasion and stay sharp longer. They are readily available. When cutting it's essential that your combination of rpm and feed...

Question: That British Standard applies to Design and Technology in Educational & Similar Establishments. Are you one of those ? Says who ? On what basis ?

@momo hasn't been here for 12 years but that was a lovely thought.

The HSE consultants to the men's shed I once attended were equally incompetent. It's no consolation but drill chuck guards really are a joke, even the good ones from a brand like silvaflame. Look for some way to make a workable compromise : a guard that surrounds the chuck only could fulfill...

Single car garage workshop. Single brick. OSB and edpm flat roof. Zero insulation. What works for me: Tools in boxes as far as possible with big 50 or 100g bags of silica gel. (It's cheap by the kilo and regenerated in 20 minutes on defrost in the microwave. Cast iron machinery: keep the bare...

More gas, more power. Dial it up until you do blow through just to see what it's like, then wind it back. Learning is about trial and error and experiement. And cleanliness never hurts. Give your metal a swipe over with a flapwheel or whatever first.

It's a one trick pony and not small but a big morso or similar guillotine cuts a clean mitre that has to be seen to be believed.