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I'm stripping the lath and plaster out of an upstairs room* so I can insulate. After one small wall of the dormer I had 4 bags of plaster at about 40kg each, three flights of stairs and a rapidly approaching 50 year old body told me I needed a different solution to carrying the estimated 40 more...

How durable will be the question. Larch for example will give you 10yrs, is that long enough? Larch is in the durability class of 3 – 4. Durability is the measurement of a 50mm x 50mm cross section of timber left in the ground unprotected. Class 3 is 10 – 15 years. Class 4 is 5 – 10 years. When...

Bandsaws are often talked about in terms of wheel size , 12", 14", 16", 18". I think your 315 is a 12" model. Charnwood tops out at a 14" model. Record 300=12, 350=14, 400=16, 450=18". I upgraded to a 430mm/17" model a year or so back and find it a good sized machine for both small and large...

This. I like different saws for different jobs, and old saws I can tailor to my needs. My fave saw is my 1908 ex military air arm, sharpened rip to 4TPI, it eats through a 2"thick board with ease, trying to make that cut with a generic hardpoint saw would be painful.

I’m in the old saw gang, just make sure the one you buy has a decent amount of blade depth left. I see many on sale with lovely handles but little depth left in the plate for sharpening.

Rather off topic now but I first noticed the wasps chewing the wood many years ago in a garden with large fence panels. Sat outside in the summer my wife and I could hear 'someone' chewing, after much investigation we found it was wasps on the fence panels which must have been acting like...

Aligned with Distinterior that you need it to equalize with your indoor conditions before you fill any cracks. Wood drying is oft stated as 1 year per inch thickness, but that's from green so 3-6 months would be my thought. Epoxy fill, sand and finish and it'll look much better. As above that...

When I got my new (to me) bandsaw I set it up as follows. Blade riding in correct place on wheels with correct tension. Adjusted table so that T-slot was parallel to blade, so fence bar is perpendicular. Adjusted fence so it was parallel to blade and t slot. So, yes some table twisting took...

I’d second the wasps as the culprit. The light lines are the timber colour showing through where the wasps have chewed the surface off.

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Wasn't the empire state building supposed to be a mooring tower for a zeppelin? You could go the whole hog and make a model of that.

That's amazing! My brain looked at it and assumed/decided the connecting rod must be about 5mm, once I read it was a bicycle spoke and realised the tiny scale of the window, nacelles, props etc I was even more amazed. Top work Fitz PS: Love the little photo-shop in the first image :)

Whilst on holiday at a friends mountain cabin I was attempting to chop wood with their 'axe', it was more like a cudgel the edge was so blunt. Asking about a sharpening stone or a file and I was met with bemused expressions as to such a thing 🤦‍♂️. I went out searching for a suitable stone in...

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-screws-allowable-withdrawal-load-d_1815.html no idea of its validity

looks great but think you're running a little low on 'blue roll'! ;)

You don't need the finger jointing, you can just glue them together, a couple of biscuits would help with alignment.

My relatively uneducated thought would be that PCBs are now so cheap they represent an easy/cheap way to add some protection/control to any electronic device. Traditional control and protection systems are likely more expensive, although more user maintainable. Your Wadkin will still have a...

As the cost of labour has become disproportionately greater than the cost of materials there are more and more of these solutions. Ground screws are the other similar solution. Having a brief look these can take considerably more load (1500kg ish) than the ground screws (600kg ish), but are 3-4x...

Likely an overnight tariff, what used to be economy 7, is that still a thing? When electric demand is low pushing the excess into batteries is a great solution for the providers.

Hi and welcome. I looked in to carbide tipped bandsaw blades a few years back. I came to the conclusion they were unnecessary, but I can’t for the life of me remember the rationale! The other main learning from that exercise was to use a blade with the correct tooth count per inch for the job...