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Been through that, a harrowing experience and one that made me question the care home business model - the fees are eye-watering and the fact that the care home does best out of residents that die before they run out of cash makes me distinctly uneasy. I was disappointed to see no mention of...

Can't wade through all of it just now, but I was pleased to see a decidedly leftwing budget that tried to redistribute wealth. I say tried because it's hard to predict what will happen. Would have preferred a broader protection of small businesses and less chipping away at the relief for...

So, current threaded bar is M20x2.5mm, and has an unthreaded portion which passes through the bottom planer casting and receives the retaining collar above and driven gear below. It's not bent but it is worn, major diam varies from 19.97mm in the virgin section to 19.30 in the middle, and the...

Current plan is to fit a new leadscrew and bronze nut; the other shaft is v short. And actually, I was unclear before - although it did appear at first to bind in one spot I later realised it was consistently binding up after about a half-turn, regardless of where it started, which is more like...

Thanks I already did that, and they will - for £329. If in a commercial workshop the machine would already be back up and running with whatever new parts it needed, and I wouldn't have bothered posting. But this is a hobby for me, and part of the fun is making and fixing things myself...

It seems you have access to the internet, and that books are allowed. With those resources you should be able to identify your trees from the leaves - do it quick before the leaves all drop (if they don't, well that's a big clue!). You might know willow by sight - it's usefully bendy and the...

I've always thought most machine bases are pants - flimsy with small wheels and I've never seen one with four swivelling castors. I'm quite impressed by the Felder/Hammer system - Been pondering bodging up a generic version, eg a square angle-iron frame with rear wheels out behind the...

Hmm, interesting, thanks - I'll get a better look at the lifting bar when I get it out, but I expect even a small manufacturer might use rolled threads in something like this as it's potentially just a length of standard stock. I don't know a lot about Sedgwick, this is the first of theirs that...

Thanks all for your collected wisdom. @J-G it's probably rolled as you said which does harden it - point was just that it's a lot harder than the cast iron lifting foot :) And 'plain thread' just meant it's not not square, acme or trapezoidal. Still haven't found my thread gauge but crudely...

Are the old Sedgwicks metric? Can't find my thread gauges but with a dial gauge it's possibly M20x2.5 (seems too big for 3/4-10). I thought it was trapezoidal but actually looks like a plain thread, in which case a tap might be worth a try, though to me it looks like a fair bit of material has...

Yebbut I think it's a special thread...

Whipped the rise/fall threaded block out. Thread looks mullered to me…. I guess the next step is to find a machine shop, but are there any other suggestions?

Definitely worth getting some quotes to quantify the DIY 'saving' - that might be a good way to move them off plan A. My first kitchen installation was an IKEA, and having done a few Howdens and B&Q etc things since, I still prefer IKEA, but they don't have a rear void so you need to plumb...

Got hold of an Edinburgh church pew, uncertain age but looks like machined joints with hand-cut screw slots and cut nails. It's very dense for softwood - rough estimate 750kg/m^3 - but my best guess is scots pine - thoughts? It was a ~5m pew so I've got quite a bit of this.

Morning all, inspired partly by the excellent refurb thread from @deema and @Sideways, I have acquired a Sedgwick MB in green, but I think I've already broken it getting it home. It was slung under the thicknesser table as per the manual, with a block of wood jammed between thicknesser table...

Grew up with dogs, including one that I rescued when I was 12. To be an adolescent nursing a sick pup is to get a glimpse of the all-consuming love of parenthood I reckon. It's impossible to relate if you haven't been through it, but lots of us have and we feel for you. If it's possible to...

I can. I've also been a director of a company which chose not to invest in tax avoidance. Tax loopholes tend to be exploitable only by those with deep enough pockets to do so. I don't believe this is a force for good, so I'd rather not do it. Obviously not everyone thinks the same way...

Bit of an old thread but excellent reading. I have a question about the method of aligning the tables by (IIUC) tapping a side casting to move the slanted bearing faces and therefore the tables that bear on them. Wouldn't this also (slightly) cockle the cutter block bearings, since they're in...

When we did this in an old house we used two standard interior doors (nice and flat and rigid) and just put a batten at the top and a short stop at the bottom to close against, and used magnetic catches.

On the design, keep in mind the openings of the sliding doors and make sure they don't foul anything inside. For instance, if you have three doors on two tracks (common) then the max opening is a bit less than one door's width (because the doors need to overlap) - any drawers etc need to allow...