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MWinFrance...... thanks for the detailed review......... I wont be buying one although now tempted...... I still have my own full size sheet cutting device....a 16" wide full length strip of decent 19mm ply with another small strip glued and pinned onto it...using a normal size circ...

sounds like an insurance claim to me...... sorry but it's an expensive BIN job..... with the fashion of eng flooring there's gonna be a lot of skips needed in the future..... I have a small area at my place....not in the rental.....absolute carp and it was one of the more expensive types...

would love a router lift and prob a better / bigger table....but from memory a price of £300 or more seems crazy just for a lift..... yes I understand that accuracy is needed....but manufacturers are having a laugh..... I keep looking at making my own but it's on the to=do later list..... my...

u can buy stainless steel ball bearing.....think they'd be softer than the real thing..... or u could go brass and then just paint em.....assuming they are for looks....

u know the reason they call em French cleats..... it's so they can take everything from the kitchen when they do a runner.....not a joke..... Bit like the Brits and a hand cart removals..... the younger members won't understand..... Done right with thicker ply, French cleats will take a lot...

idea's on using the microwave for drying......? seen it somewhere.... try find a cool place here to dry bowl blanks in the summer......hahaha... average 28-32ºC in the shade all summer thru..... just cut a load small diameter Olive n Carob..... left em 20% longer than norm, for the splits then...

here in Crete they use Bacho blades, cut n made to order.....they make the M42 type as well.....all I ever buy now.... but my daughter post my orders from tuff-saw.... no idea what I'll do when she moves to Ozz in Sept.....guess I'll have to try Bacho.....

I've bought many job lots of tools over the years... I'd be happy to pay £200 but £150-175 would be nice..... some of it is worthless so would be give away's.......

not the ones I had........no spares available and the 9" angle grinder was only 3 years old..... the rest I sold on whilst they still worked.... buy another make.....plenty to choose from Makita Hitachi even Bosch etc etc...

guess u mean for a bandsaw....... google gives two manufacturers in Germany..... interested myself.....

I have a lot of their kit..4..but not the table saw....more's the pity...... chop n circ saws I use for pallet wood *multi-material teeth" and the specialist metal cutting saws... gotta say no complaints "does what it says on the tin".....

Firstly using a center point /start drill in a pillar drill will end in tears unless it's a decent/ professional jobby…..u'll end up snapping the tip eventually… they like a drill/ mill with noslop on the main shaft….. I reg drill heavy plate over and above 13mm in a pillar drill…. my procedure...

Will be going down the same route been warned against cheapo chucks…on an engineering forum… so will get German made ones but just 1or 2 instead of four…

Just seen this.......if u lived near me I'd be happy to let u use my lathes n tools..... would be fun..... the older lathes are very simple machines..... often with 3 or 4 pully speeds and 1/2 a decent motor..... most models will have some sort of roller bearings in the head stock....apart from...

Spectric.......what model of woodrat pls.....

bored and found this on the tube.....3hrs old..... I wont buy the Domino, not enough time in my life to get my money back........ cheapest I found the 500 is £700 new........ Besides have done well enough all these years without..... This Festool tool is just overpriced to me.... let the poo...

a lot of dreary homework has to be done when buying new........ it's mind blowing all the permutations..... glad this forum is here.....learnt a lot......

I'd be lost without a few of these..... Old English, Unified and Metric.... thread files......

I'd like to add.....that when I lived in California Makita had a factory there.....I bought a load back to the UK..... Anyone know what made/assembled by Makita in the UK.....would happily buy theirs if it secures jobs in the UK..... Does the overpriced black n green gear have any Chinese made...

I have a friend in a similar situation.....marriage split in his case....... told him he can use my gear until he gets settled..... yes, he's a very responsible person and used to proff equipment.....so no worries..... u just gotta help people where u can...... ps, I'll try to organise all the...