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@John Brown , @Fergie 307 I'd be interested to know which of these microscopes you chose. There seem to be plenty of models to choose from, priced from budget to expensive.

This is the sort of low grade harassment that all of our wives, daughters, sisters, mothers and too many of our friends are subjected to in daily life. To the men on this forum: discuss this post with your wives and daughters and wake up ! To @flying haggis : someone should have taught you that...

Annoying. Just initiate a return through the ebay returns process. That will drive them to respond to a timetable and ensure that you get a full refund and prepaid return shipping if they want it back. If the seller is that incompetent you don't want to be buying from them in the first place...

I have a biggish 4" lens from an old overhead projector that I last used for reading the part numbers on surface mount components. I should make a stand for it. I totally agree about the need for light. I'm a fan of Unilite rechargeable LED lights and especially their high CRI models. I use...

It was something on hand for making replacement tablesaw fences so v heavy gauge. I think from memory it would be 40mm external in the small dimension. In the later L5A Harrison chose to stand the 2 cast motor brackets off the lathe bade with stubby cylindrical spacers, but they also added slots...

Best I can do. I don't own one. But hopefully you are not trying to figure out if it'll go in the passenger seat while your wife and 2 kids squeeze in the rear during a detour on the way home from from a trip to the zoo :) PS - please share the measurements here when you do have yours home...

Cheers. The one thing that would still be concerning me is the Festool's use - I think - of a universal motor. Just too noisy. For the huge saving in cost, I would even consider a nice clean used Kity 8" tablesaw and make an outfeed extension for it. 1100W induction motor and cast alloy top is...

Serious question. What are you going to cut with it ? If so tight for space, what do you need to cut that a premium MFT, tracksaw and Benchdogs gear can't cope with better ? If you need to rip solid wood, for which an MFT isn't a good solution, what sizes and lengths ?

Sounds like a great idea. You'll be routing etc so any hard, close grain wood would be ideal. As a kid, I remember melting lead off old lead sheathed electrical wires with my dad. Old saucepan on a gas burner outside, and pouring weights for beachcasting. You could cast an insert for the base of...

Too heavy to carry home on the bus or train. Small enough to fit in any car or van you might use. They'll go on the back seat of a car with some padding or in even a small hatchback with rear seats down. Bigger than the little £30 supermarket bench drills of the 80's Smaller than the bigger Jet...

I wouldn't be surprised to find kingspor make SiC as well as Aluminium Oxide. Worth checking. If you have been sent the wrong stuff, just ask the seller to send what you ordered. Their mistake, they have to fix it, including return postage cost if they want the original back. What are the...

Try here (just a copy of the link). Videoclip works for some of us.

Nice clean saw. Nice clear "for sale" listing too. Thanks and best wishes for your sale.

I don't think he can either. There are an awful lot of edits in his videos. Somtimes feels like it's pieced together by the sentence. But his tests are more objective than most youtubers and he includes international brands when he can get them. Good when you're trying to decide on a brand of...

That rather sums it up. Locked.

I kept all my 2.2mm Festool blades when I upgraded to the Mafell. Kept my Festool tracks too. All work fine together. As @Spectric says, if you are fussy about that 0.2mm difference in where the rubber strip gets cut, you may need to swap the strip or keep a separate track for the different...

I found NFU ridiculously expensive. I've just explained my needs and asked insurers to price me up for X amount of personal possessions cover with individual item limit of whatever. This wouldn't work for a commercial shop but for a hobbyist, it can be viable. Make the big list of your kit...

How do you know they are gone ? Have you microwaved it ? The holes do look tiny.

I'll answer one of the above. Diamond is twice as hard as CBN. CBN is fifty times more conductive of heat than diamond. So, if you want to sharpen tungsten carbide tips (most people don't) or you are using a slow, water cooled wheel like a tormek, diamond is your choice. If you want to sharpen...

Trim it in brass or antiqued steel. That should stop him. Or saddle you with a far bigger vets bill to take his broken teeth out !