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I got a Lidl belt sander last year. Noisy and a bit small, but 100% better than no belt sander! Also, their clamps are pretty good, I try to get more when I see them, budget permitting. I got an Aldi crimping tool set in about 2003, and it's better than any other I've seen apart from an old...

It means "we don't know what these are for, but you could clamp a heap of wires with them"!

Well, that was interesting. After cleaning up and a lot of tweaking on the sander, the first one is square and looks fairly decent. But I realised that when the bottom screw is tightened, it pulls the angle piece in at the top and it lifts at the bottom. Maybe the end isn't flat, dunno. So, I...

I'm making some shelf support brackets because I need 8 and the wood was free. Simple 3 pieces, upright goes against the wall, top piece has a little rebate cut so it looks better (due to curved edges), fits on top of the upright. Then there's the 45 degree piece that connects them. I decided to...

I did some small drawer fronts with a similar setup. Actually just laying the piece on the laminate and squidging hot glue at the corners on the grain end was secure enough and easy to remove with a twist. Came out flat with a very cheap cutter! (Though, I had to run it slow else it really...

And now I look at the link, yep, much like those!

I used to juggle with clubs. Decent ones (I think mine might have been Beard) have a dowel core and 2 part welded blown plastic casing, handle being another piece. They have a wooden spacer where the handle meets the body, and both parts attach to that. Rubber bumpers screwed into either end...

Pallet wood is both a blessing and a curse. Yes, you can get some nice pieces that way, but often it's very rough, splitty and splintery, and reverts to wibbly-wobbly shapes once it's no longer a nice, self-supporting structure. De-nailing them is an art-form in it's own right (I started my...

That's really good! There are people with much more tooling able to produce much worse work ;) I'd be very happy with your table if I'd made it. Are you sure you're a beginner? I never buy wood unless I absolutely have to. Inveterate scrounger that I am I now have a stockpile of reclaim I can't...

You can do a great deal with just hand tools. Even just a saw and a hammer go a long way.

This is such a clever idea! I use perf-board all the time, too. Thanks for sharing :)

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Hey Clogs... I even hold a 4lb lump hammer in the correct fashion because I am Manly. Hngrrrr! I hold girls completely differently...

I wouldn't say it's technical, just common sense and a bit of skill. The way I was taught was: Clean crap from inside head. De-varnish the handle unless you like them shiny. Plan wedges. Trim end of handle so it's a snug fit. The inside of the head is tapered towards the middle so you need to...

I think, and I'm having to stretch my memory back a very long way here, but I think factory made tool handles are compressed (same as cricket bats) to make them stronger. Something not easily done at home.

Bloody hell! Thanks for that!

(Ugly alert!) Had to do this on the driveway because I just have no space! I bashed together this garden plant-pot stand. It's made from the remains of the garden shed so it was never going to be pretty, but I also wasn't really expecting the design to work very well, if at all, so it's even...

My local hardware shop, Nuneaton Toolbox, has them, and wedges too. Mind you, they sell pretty much everything. Re-hafted a hammer with one of theirs some years ago, seems decent enough. Old fashioned shop like this is probably your best bet if you can find one. NT has a few sister shops...

That's a nice idea. You're right, it does smell lovely! No branches though, apart from a short section, just a good length stump (a very short trunk, I suppose) with some forks on it. I might cut the top section off and see if that will work. Maybe the start of a fairy-house type of thing. Hmmm...

I would have thought the cost of rewinding would be greater than the cost of replacement. Going back to that capacitor, it's likely to have gone short circuit, hence tripping the c/b.. Try starting the motor with it disconnected. Should run in either direction if you give it a spin. Caps very...