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they will get paid from insurance for every visit....... most white goods are not worth fixing out of warrenty....... If we get a three year period from any apppliance, after that it gets binned...... I hate waste but it's spiral of future repares....... with electronic controls that cant be...

PS, I'd wait n buy a washer from Lidils etc...at least u get a 3 year warrenty.....well u do here.......

small Karcher p/washer have a bad reputation....my £300der blew up just outside warrenty.......prob a rebadged or rebodged chinese offering...... mind their shop vac that I bought at the same time is still going strong.,.... I did look at the cost of parts for the K washer, crazy money..... in...

Henniep it's an ally pulley...they will always expand more than the steel shaft regardless of the temp..... Steel on steel is works as u describe.... ally to steel carrosion would be the biggest prob here I guess..those two metals dont like each other.... Skippy, if u dont need to take to take...

sikkens.......

or use ur iPhone's camera.......use mine all the time now...... even for stupid stuff....... or use a center pop for making while everything is still conected origionally..... glad ur fixed up......

Hi Fergie, just wish I could do more with power feeds but all my work is of the small nature... antique vehicle parts.....most have to be hand sized/ fitted.... No CNC for me, it's all done the old way.....wouldn't know how to use CNC anyway let alone Auto Cad etc.... My safety screen is made...

try a 13amp fuse..it'll still blow if something is wrong....would take a milli sec longer to blow, thats all...... 5 amp is whats in a tooth brush charger or a small food mixer.......

we also reg leave usable stuff by our communial bins....drop it off and when u come back from buying bread its gone..... only to pleased someone can make use of it..... got rid of a BBQ rolling metal unit with 1/2 a bag of charcoal...they helped me unload it.......hahaha... not bought a dog...

Rob... plse tell what the bamboo structure is/will be next to the copper thingamybob.........

how about an articulated beam.....thats with two hinges.....commonly called a dog leg.... or a telescopic tube.....thin wall metal telescopic tube is available on line...... 3m is about as far u can go without special hinges and added stiffness...... easy to make a brake / stiffener to keep it...

Eric I read your stated safety attachment fully...... life is a risk what ever we do.....but calculated is the way to go......... As a note, elf n safety standards are generally a joke..... How can any lathe manufacturer sell a machine where you have to pass/reach around a spinning object to...

dont worry...it'll add character...... besides, homes for spiders.... take a look at some stately homes..... some of their timbers u can get ur arm in the cracks........

same thing happened to my works 30odd years ago......had 5 men working.... made more money with less stress working out of a Transit van 3-4 days per week......... eventually got fed up with that *rain n cold) and went to work abroad again.....

u can see why machines have taken over..... ideal job for a robot..... 2 years ago I stripped out the grout from between the tiles on my 14x5m swimming pool...... using a demolition saw with a carbide blade...... re-did it with 2pack grout.... anyway my back is still bad.....any jobs like that...

I half asked before about using a pressure pot or a vac chamber....... seem to remember that most use pressure to eliminate air bubbles from resin..... Is this because of cost as most have a compressor.....? I always thought that using vacuum would be best.....seems more natural me but what do...

take extra care about the fitting of the handle to the head....... I also polish the inside of the head with a die grinder just to smooth things out..... when fitting the head I use a little oilive oil on the shaft and it get's pressed in on my workshop hyd press..... never had one come...

take a look in France.....plenty of parts there....... a few members are over there...... lathes.co.uk is a good place to look for the manual..... u'll prob be able to make something for the fence.....they are quite simple machines....

I had a prob getting parts from SIP.....the machine parts are not stocked for long..... luckily what I needed I was able to make..... On another forum SIP stuff gets a bad right up but my machine have stood the test of time.... Mostley metal work machines....

here's my offering coz there's no wooden handles here other than those for garden tools and I still need at least 6 more different sizes and a flat sided/oval one for my dads claw hammer.... the garden tool handles/shaft feel very light and a decent size engineer's hammer shaft is to big to make...