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I've used eBay for rolls of Mirka - can be gotten quite cheaply and seems to last for ever in comparison to the cheaper stuff. The only time I use wet and dry is when paint finishing, and then one has to be careful how thin you go in case the wood starts to swell. As others have suggested car...

As others have mentioned, there are lots of ways you could do this however to my mind this is better suited to perform on a spindle moulder albeit you need a large workshop to cope with 5m lengths of in/out feed. Would it be worth reaching out to a few men's-sheds to see if any has one that you...

Reading through this article may give you a clue as to root cause - Bearing Lubrication It looks to me as though the pitted shaft is item 7 in your parts diagram, but it is unclear to me what sits within that shoulder - an inner part of a bearing shell perhaps? Or has a bearing seized in the...

Hiya, I subsequently laid all the rest of the blocks I had pre-processed - I needed to do this to liberate enough room to allow stacking of the next batch, however I then had multiple events that were a bit of a curve-ball and now tbh I am unsure how to proceed, or more realistically if it...

After a clear-up I found the missing piece

Picked up a long time ago in a London flea market with the view to re-purpose, ill health precludes this now. As per picture one of the 3 has a chunk missing 510mm to tip of castor excluding the thread x 160mm dia. Collection only due to size/weight halfway between Colchester/Chelmsford Ed

i would also recommend electrolysis, it's super fast and gives a very clean finish, albeit the rusty scum left behind in the bucket is pretty disgusting, I used a couple of pieces of angle iron as the sacrificial +ve electrodes and an old car battery charger as the power source. I don't have any...

Use of this tech goes back way before smart phones and the internet - for a time I worked for a CAD/CAM company which was an offshoot from NASA - it was used to design Challenger, and as well as the usual Oil & Gas and Utility companies as customers was one outfit who used the system to...

Like NewbieRaf I'm an ex IT guy working mainly in infrastructure and operations however in the last 20-odd years I used to typically report to Director types resolving seemingly intractable problems that their usual teams were unable to fix - having more than a little understanding as to how...

Depends on how much you need, it does go a long way, last I bought was from here - https://tungoil.co.uk/product-category/tung-oil/ b) I usually thin ~50% with white spirits and apply 2-3 thin coats 1st allowing sufficient time for it to go off inbetween - as in overnight, and then one or two...

Your replies echo my initial misgivings and I appreciate each shed is likely to be run differently, and I think I was very lucky in finding this one. I had a long chat with the secretary of it who actually lives locally to me and he said they were nearing capacity in terms of members and that...

In prior posts I had expressed misgivings about these organisations based largely upon my experiences with a local charity whom I volunteer with, and am now posting this because I visited a local one last week where I was pleasantly surprised and perhaps realise I was a little unjust toward...

I had to give up my modelling career....;)

A few years back I was moving a full sheet of 25mm temporary flooring ply in a 1st floor extension, I managed to pry it away from the wall so that I could get behind it and lift it up with my back to the wall for support whilst standing on the joists and when I tried to lift it BANG! Immense...

Wow, some impressive blooms, I'd not thought about it till I saw both your beautiful pictures - for sure the unusually long and hot summer we had last year has played its part. Further south here in Essex my viburnum has gone nuts this year and produces the most heavenly scent in the mornings...

Take a look on eBay 2nd hand Stihls are good and most can take a brush cutter blade as opposed just nylon twine. I bought an ex authority one from a dealer in Wales a few years back and it is still going strong and from memory under £200

They look fab and I like the stand and nice detail on it where you have relieved the hard edges! I have lots of small sapele and maple offcuts and your present has given me inspiration to put them to good use!!

Hi Pabs - your board build looks top-notch! My own is made from screwed and glued 18mm ply and looks way inferior than yours however and as important it does the job! As Derek noted the ramp helps achieve a smoother finish with less vibration and user effort - its a bit like skew planing when...

Whilst reading this ancient but fascinating thread I ended up going down a proverbial internet rabbit-hole.. I looked up the reference Bugbear mentioned to the book by Raphael Salaman in the hope that perhaps his collection of tools were available for viewing perhaps in a museum or similar -...

I've owned and used many Avo's over the years - I worked for a time at Marconi's in the mid 70's at New St. Chelmsford and latterly at their Avionics division in Basildon. Back then we had a mixture of analog and digital test equipment, the newer scopes were mainly HP models were used for high...