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Thanks for adding the update ! That's an oldie. Minimax became part of Italian SCM through aquisition as I remember the story. Your minimax is in the SCM two shades of green that were used for a period during the 80's and 90's. Before that SCM had a shade of paint that I would call mustard...

Jazz CNC (username and small business name) has been posting on the forums for a lot of years. I've looked at his website, read his posts and studied photos of his builds. If you could stretch the budget I suspect it would be a case of only cry once.

If the maths floats your boat, there is a classic engineering text: Roarks Formulas for Stress and Strain pub. McGraw_Hill Now upto about the 7th ed. This includes all sorts of formulae for beam deflection under point and distributed loads with fixed and free ends. These don't care if you are...

Nice ! One to be proud of, and a useful tutorial for the rest of us. Thanks :)

Yes, I was being bullish, there is a risk as you say, but the linked retailer is offering "This is a dimmable lamp. We have not had any reports of issues when dimming this lamp on UK dimming equipment. If you do encounter any problems we will give suggestions on what dimmer module may perform...

Get some dimmable mr16 led plug in replacement bulbs, those should work fine with no need to alter the wiring. Buy 1 to try it before you swap them all. Something like this maybe - just as an example https://www.lightingstyles.co.uk/mr16-osram-advanced-65w---dimmable-led I used to buy non...

A bathroom is a special location in terms of wiring regulations for electrics. Damp / water increases the risks of electrocution. As Terry says immediately above, are you sure your lamps are GU10 not MR16, as GU10 are a 240V lamp with a transformer built in, not a separate transformer. If you...

Excellent! Thanks for the feedback, it's always encouraging to get that. Please share a photo or two when you're ready. It's always good to learn about variants of machines. Your own new thread or add them to ours whatever you prefer. 👍

I'd go talk to a trade counter that sells welding gear and not risk messing my eyesight up using some cheap no name protective gear off amazon or a market stall ! Seriously, you can do yourself some harm ...

The terms you want to look up are " flange" and "face" mount. I'd want to make a new part 94 and change the mounting scheme to a standard "B3" aka "foot" mount motor.

For a drill, I'd be grabbing a big cordless with a 25mm auger type bit. I second Noel and the axe / hatchet with plenty of resharpenings. Japanese pullsaws are good for this too - either a cheap, v.coarse tooth version in the style of a woodwork saw but intended for pruning etc, or a folding one...

I snagged a pair of the Britools above. Very much as I remember the brand. Here they are alongside a long slim pair by Teng which were bought for pulling long stringy swarf out of the metal lathe. You can't always get the turnings to run hot and break into smaller chips they way they should, so...

I used to carry a classic black moleskine notebook when I walked around my job sites as a project manager checking on progress, safety, housekeeping and all. One of my buddies said this always reminded him of a pastor, but thankfully that never turned into a nickname !

The meter can't be owned by the retail companies that we buy our power from, we can change these every year and they don't buy and sell meters between each other aeach time we change. Nonetheless, it is the retailing companies who take responsibility because those are the people we people we...

Erk ! Me too 😯

I think there's a lot of unjustified paranoia around smart meters. I refused one too for a long time but the reason was the well publicised mess that the industry and government jointly made of the initial rollout. The industry created a SMETS1 meter type that didn't properly handle switching of...

For a minute I thought I was about to meet a surgeon with an interest in robotics :) Welcome !

Maybe worth looking to see if Renaissance Wax might be a help after you treat the mould. It's a museum grade wax used to seal the surfaces of many materials including wood and paper.

Torque and vibration are the enemies of the morse taper join between chuck and spindle. Side loads creating vibration without a decent end load to keep the taper snug are also a recipe for morse taper shanks falling out of the spindle. Forstners, saw tooth hole cutters and flat bits are all...

If it's the one it appears to be from a quick look, you'd be better referencing the original work by pedullastudio and not some other channel scoring clicks off someone else's efforts. It's a great bench and an interesting build.