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I recently saw somthing on the internet where an American chap had an aerosol of somthing like nitrogen which he gave a sqirt into the can before fitting the lid, this gas being heavy dispersed the air in the tin and stopped the contents skinning over,,I thought it was a very clever idea and...

The type of wood will have a great bearing on it, however I think I would want to have the piece sandwiched between two bits of flat timber and well clamped as close to where the holes were being drilled and also well clamped down to the table. Forstner bit would be good but for odd sized holes...

I had never heard the term “threaded box” before and had to look it up,,and they are just that, Threaded boxes,,how smart is that, if I were into turning they are somthing I would certainly want to make. Steve.

Its very difficult for me to fully understand your actual set up but re reading your posts am I right in thinking that you are still using the old “programmer” with the segmented dial? Youve changed the boiler complete with stat and reciever so these parts should be okay, but,,and Im no expert...

I dont know about your boiler but if its a “combi” boiler I doubt it will have a 3 port valve, anyway to get back to your original thoughts on it, I installed a Horstmann RF wireless thermostat, all working fine untill one morning I notice our heating is running,,after much head scratching I...

Sorry but couldnt resist showing my version of your magnificant creation, mine was made out of building timber and was built to hide a great big door sized hole in the wall where somone had removed a chimney breast, it made use of the hole as it was inset and covered up the broken brickwork,,the...

I was thinking about a regular glass fibre bath, trim off all the top edges/ reduce the height to your requirements and make sure it sits below the soil surface,,super long lasting and probaly free from Freecycle. Steve

Hi, I have had great success with thermal lining polystyrene veneer covered with the really heavy duty reinforced lining paper you can now buy. We had a mystery patch of damp high up in the corner of the front room, tried everything to prevent it, had experts of various kinds give opinions but...

Quick update, got the spiral upcut bit out and straight away could see that its not designed for plunging, I thought it was, however to give it an easy time I was planning to drill out most of the mortice first anyway and this then became a nessesity. Its a 1/2ins bit and I used the Stanly dowel...

Utube videos are a bloody godsend when Corrie and the “Love” programs are on, see a few crazy Americans, plus a few bumptious “experts” mainly doing things I wouldnt be intrested in anyway, but all entertaining in an informative way even if your looking at what they are doing and thinking...

Well spotted Terry, where was I when that old simple geometry was being bandied about at school? Not paying attention I suppose and now half a century later it comes back to bite you on the ***. Certainly my skilsaws wouldnt posess that depth of cut but I did see one being used by some american...

Perhaps a factor might be how “tall” his piece of ply is when on its edge, on my wobbly saw table the thought of holding a wide piece up on its edge would give me sleepless nights,,,I was just thinking of a simple way around his problem,,but your right a multitude of machines could be made to...

Could he clamp extra timber to the side of the board he wants to cut and using this extra width do the cut along the edge of the sheet with a skillsaw and fence and have a tidy up with the plane afterwards?

Im not a fan of daylight tubes, we were given a load of inset units with daylight tubes which I fitted in a hairdressers, within days complaints about colour rendering and the customers all looked dead! I spoke with Osrams tech bod who laughed when I told him and said that daylight tubes will...

My application is for bread board ends on a table, softwood but around 45mm thick and 160x 300mm, so fairly heavy, Im making it up as I go along but my loose plan is to create loose tennons from some oak I have which will be around 50 or 60mm deep and perhaps 60mm wide. Yesterday was spent...

An Many thanks Johnny, thats very intresting, I had a look at the Leigh Jig, super looking bit if kit, Ive knocked up a simple ply one to go with a 30mm guide bush, clamps to the side in a similar way but without any adjustments short of packing it out with cardboard! Your comments on the...

This is all very intresting stuff, much more informative than anything I could find on the internet in a couple of hours last night, even if there are degrees of opinion they are all valid and very informative. The bit Ive got is clearly designed to plunge so my plan was to plunge in steps along...

Exactly my impression, my router bits get quite hot, I'm not in a rush so I can afford to take my time and perhaps thats the way forward in both feed rate and speed, but its no good hanging around and letting things heat up either,,,a bit of a balancing act I think, the trouble is that thinking...

Many thanks everyone, much appriciated, as you guessed my concern is burning out the bit, looking on the net about suggesed speeds etc for hss bits I can really only find CNC applications, but they do say that chip size and speed are the key to keeping the bit cool, but I know nothing about cnc...

Good morning, Im trying my hand at some loose tennon mortices in solid pine and Ive got a brand new 12mm dia made in china High speed steel up cut spiral bit. Its a great looking bit but being hss Im wary of using it in my router, but thats what I need to do,,,so am I better on low speeds...