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On your own head be it - this is bypassing the safety and exposing you to harm - but just unbolt the "key" from the inside of the door and push it into the switch, then you can start the saw with the door open. Do this only while you diagnose the problem, not to keep running the machine. I'd...

Fair point. If my solid carbide end mills are anything to go by, they are also ground to a near mirror finish along the shank and I imagine a 3 jaw drill chuck wouldn't get a good grip on them.

I'm not sure why they would use a metal fan over a plastic one. I don't imagine the tool drags significantly dirty air through the motor to need the durability of metal. The added mass means that simple pressed metal would need balancing for smooth running. To be fair, balancing the metal fan...

Local toolstation or screwfix and get a "cobalt" jobber drill bit. These are made of a high speed steel alloy with 5 or 8% cobalt that greatly improves their ability to survive and cut through harder steels. To be honest an ordinary HSS bit will probably do the job but "HSS-E" cobalt bits will...

It's almost certain to be an induction motor. These draw a very high peak current while they are speeding up. If the motor wasn't able to come up to speed quickly for whatever reason, it would carry on pulling that surge current for longer than it ought to and that will heat it up. Startup surge...

From the colour, is it copper ? £5 a kilo if you weigh it in at the scrappies ...

Is there room to fit in some thin plastic to separate the alloy on alloy ? Those thin flexible kitchen cutting mats for example. Even plastic milk bottle. I had to bodge my loft ladder as there isn't space horizontally for the normal up and over hinging mechanism to work. The ladder "stores" at...

If you're not going to kill them, don't waste time setting traps. If they're causing damage, toughen up. If they're doing no harm, leave 'em be.

Of all the tools in your workshop, the router spins fastest and stands to benefit from some precision parts for smooth operation and precision. It's a versatile tool and will see some use. I'd buy the best you can afford and consider a reputable brand. At least look at what's available from...

Eat fewer sprouts :-)

Personally I would hard wire the oven via a fused switched isolator. And keep the fixed wiring in 6mm all the way into that as the fixed wiring capacity must be matched to the breaker that supplies it. You don't just reduce fixed wiring where you want without downsizing the supplying breaker...

Likewise. My 2nd delivery made it and these were like everyone else's. Less scruffy but even less packing that the first.

Here's another speed controller option that would be compatible with the job. This has a display and push buttons instead of a knob. The display would presumably show voltage or percent, there is no way to know the rpm of a universal motor without it having a sensor on the motor or some...

It all looks eminently sensible. I look forward to seeing what you build. I have a suspicion that 2000 rpm will be too fast and that you may end up fitting a smaller pulley to the motor shaft to slow it all down and increase the torque. That means including a simple mechanism for moving the...

I drilled an arcylic pen blank like that once and the drill got so hot it melted the plastic and the two welded together. Both the drill and the blank went in the bin together. My own thoughts from your video: I would slow your speed down. It looks too fast for the diameter of drill bit. I...

An amateur reviews a "sterling facetter" machine, claimed to be in widespread use worldwide and hailing from sri lanka. This is the way I would build one of these. Sub £100 variable frequency drive, 3phase fractional horsepower induction motor and a simple belt drive. That would be both powerful...

One of the best quick jobs I did in the workshop was to knock apart one of those cheap, mass produced beechwood mallets and smooth off all the sharp, machine moulded, edges on the handle using a a power sander. It's now plesant to use instead of making me wish I had gloves on every time I picked...

Is it difficult to empty the drum on the camvac that you need to add a cyclone drum to empty instead ? The dust commander cyclones are good - I use the black plastic one on a 30 L blue plastic drum, but that is 1. To save the cost of bags in my dust extractor and 2. So I can also vacuum up oily...

You are right. A motor designed to run continually on 240v probably won't start moving with less than 20 or 30 volts, maybe more (and ac or dc), but it will start. In practice, choose a motor that gives you the 2000 rpm you need at it's rated voltage and you should be able to reduce the voltage...