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If you test metric spanners and they don't fit the heads are imperial sized. It is that easy. An English machine from that era will likely have Whitworth threads all over. Be aware that there are two sorts of imperial bolt heads. The old whitworth standard and the newer imperial standard. Then...

Essentially you need to scavenge a stranded whale......... probably a good corona infection or two would help as a first step. Those things stink. On a more serious note I wonder if moose antler would work?

I may be wrong but my limited experience is that there are few customers willing to pay more than the cost of the materials for smaller pieces of furniture. Most professioonals end up doing an assortment of custom jobs of which some involve rather large dimensions of timber. Because such jobs...

I think you are right JoshD. With better filtration of whatever sort one needs a more powerful fan to get as much suction as before. If your filtration is a hole in the wall and a heap of dust outside you can make do with a very small fan.

The bag over bag collectors are essentially chip extractors not dust collectors. The fine dust passes straight through the filter and is ejected into the air of the workshop. All right for occasional use but clearly not a healthy everyday workplace. I got problems with my eyes and sinuses...

Wait a bit........ can anything usable really belong in a skip? Of cause it cannot....... except maybe from a strictly legal point of wiew. It was missplaced in a skip and you put it back where it belongs. In a house being used. Well done!

No it is too wet and slippery here for camels. Which makes mikej460's camel stand out even more. People jokingly call it Pampas because the land is fairly flat and there are rather large open fields.

The difference between cyklone and cyklone boils down to how high percentage of how small particles will it catch. Some cyclones are actually intentionally designed to let the small particles through. For instance of you want dust free planer shavings that can be sold to horse owners at a higher...

The blue three humped one wearing a bowler hat? I though someone would be asking for it.

Welcome! You are most likely sane. Someone who starts a woodworking project by felling the tree is probably sane statistically speaking. That the world around us is totally daft is quite another matter.

If there was a way to bring it to Norfolk on the cheap I think I could supply a reasonably priced fan. It is belt driven so any motor could be fitted. There is a hole in the housing left by the scrapyard grapple but it could be repaired by welding in a patch. The ball bearings have to be shifted...

An oil barrel is good enough for an outdoors cyklone. It is when you use fine particle cartridge filters that you need a good cyklone before the filters in order to catch as much dust as possible and reduce the wear on the filters. I used a standard bag over bag dust collector in the past. In...

I built my Pentz style cyclone from 2mm plate but that was because I stick welded everything and because I used ordinary mild steel plate. Industrial cyklones are often built from 2mm plate so they don't rust and wear through. A thin walled mild steel cyklone would wear out quickly in industrial...

I thought it refered to a certain mr Putin and his type. You dont want to insult your own rear end hence the semi-

You cannot really flatten or straighten anything with a smoother (for instance number4) without wasting lots and lots of time on it. For all flattening and straightening operations you needd longer planes to achive a tolerable level of work efficiency. Depending on the sort of work and the...

The only bandsaw I have ever owned is an old cast iron monster made by E.V.Beronius Mekaniska Verkstad in Sweden in the 1910-s. The wheels are 60 cm in diametre. It has been modernized with modern guards and blade guides and an electric motor. The great advantage with a saw like this is the...

Very different indeed. I have never seen a 110 volt tool used at a construction site.

I have repaired a spindle by stick welding once. If I remember correctly I used some special soft welding rod intended to be easy to machine. I managed to straighten it and to file the built up surface round and to the proper dimension within 0,05mm. The problem was that there remained internal...

Plenty of nice 110 volt stuff was left behind or auctioned off by the American army at the end of the war. A number of makers of small transformers popped up. Most of those machines are worn out by now......... I really see no reason to go back.

My favourite combi machine is Stenberg KEV 600. It takes up less floor space than many of the machines you refere to yet has much greater capacity. Though your likelyhood of finding one in Britain is very close to zero and having a 50-70 years old machine shipped from abroad is often not worth...