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Ditto - been using for about 3 years with plugs: 1) Record dust/chip extractor 2) Small fan heater 3) Radio - preset to the channel I want to hear Simple, cheap - it just works.

Not sure this is much of an answer . . . . the garden table, and bench, I made a couple of years ago used new 2.4m scaffold boards from Wickes so hardly timber of the finest quality. The table is 2,200mm x 1,150mm (4 complete width boards, and one trimmed on the width- fitted in the centre - so...

IME powder coat on outdoor metal "dulls down" after a while . . . the go-to is usually Hammerite paint - in either the original crackly finish or the smooth finish. That seems to repel the weather (as long as any raw edges are painted, and retains the sheen.

+1 for this - excellent tool and good value

I haven't got round to buying anything yet! - I've been doing quite a bit of work that was easier with a normal cordless circular saw and a straight-edge for short-ish cuts. Next time I visit a friend of mine I'm going to try my plunge saw on his Makita rails (and I think he has an Evolution...

Be aware that with John Pye auctions the price you pay is almost 50% more than the hammer price for buyer's commisison + VAT . . . and probably carriage on top of that. Often makes a mockery of prices.

The Festool cutter just has to be on the @petermillard Letter to Santa! . . . but if you're a cyclist this is the one for you PZT-2 Pizza Tool

. . . and don't be taken in by the Ted's Woodworking scam either! [TedsWoodworking© The World's Largest Database of 16,000 Woodworking Plans and Projects] - another bait and switch type site. There ARE some sites with excellent plans, and available for free or very little cost - you just need...

Avoid - you'll get endless emails (more than 1 a day!) to try and get you to spend money. The "content value" is less than minimal IMHO

Agreed on the Banggood item - I've got quite a few of their "Woodpecker style products" and they are up to scratch

In the spec it come with "1 x hole opener" ?? - I wonder if that's the chuck key? There is an identical tool on Banggood for about £50 - with 80+% 5 star reviews - it says it's aluminium allow and it looks it from the threaded holes in the pictures.

Having captured the two pictures in a graphics program and massively enlarged them it does appear that the pictures are one and the same with the Woodpecker brand edited out - the exact same pattern on pixels on some of the detail is a giveaway. ... I have to say that I never cease to be amazed...

Stable door and the horse - but ManoMano should be avoided at all costs IME - bait & switch, poor quality, high prices etc.

Are you sure it's not the remote controller? - I have what looks like exactly the same machine branded Record and had quite a few issues with the speed setting etc until Record sent me a new remote.

If you were using nice Birch ply then exposed edges are very attractive IMHO

I'd go for edging with wood every time rather than the paper-thin edge-banding tape - the slightest knock and the tape stuff chips and looks awful.

The recent project was a dining table with exposed edges - the Stretek was fine with thin veneers almost the same as good Birch (it's 2 x 18mm laminated together and trimmed/sanded to "lose the join"

Absolutely - the Abranet is listed (at a bait and switch price) but not available anywhere - as suggested TS is notorious for doing this with all manner of products. Where I live there are Screwfix and Toolstation stores about 1/4 mile apart - the (only) upside at TS is that you get served by a...

That's just the ticket - I can cut it to size . . . a little confused as my local Mirka dealer lists the rolls but only the 10m lengths at £64. Amazon price per metre is the same - I've got a roll of 120g in my basket to send off an order (and free delivery too)

My "timber guru" chum described it as "slightly better than OSB" !!! - not impressed. I've just made a table with Stretek ply (18mm, poplar faced) - it works well although the "grain" isn't as pronounced as top-grade Birch which is what I really wanted. Robin Clevett on YT has just done some...