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Too good to scrap. The stand doesnt look original & it may have been a treadle lathe when built. The Mig welding forum has an excellent lathes & machining section & some really knowlegable blokes on there. If you do decide to get rid in favour of something more modern, the above forum or...

There are plenty of elm saplings as described over Hadleigh country park where i walk the hound every day, the trees grow readily as suckers from the roots of older ones that die of dutch elm disease, once they get to a certain size & age the bark fissures, the beetles get in & they die off. The...

I wouldnt buy the stuff on principle, Its marketing snake oil. There are equivalent & better glues & cheaper.

I had just acquired a boat hull & I decided to split some old hosepipe to clip over the hull edge to protect the cover. Thought to myself "Better cut away from yourself" I was using an old lino knife, very sharp with a pronounced hook on the end. Anyway it slipped out & i was driving it with...

Yes. Record 52's, Trouble was all of the vices had been dismantled by the school, about 30 of them, I reassembled 4, we had trouble selling them & we we ended up scrapping the rest.

There is a recent thread over on the mig welding forum, one of the members just bought an Archdale milling machine, a serious monument to cast iron, Archdale Milling Machine,

It is good to remember that it is classed as one of the most toxic woods, Dust from it causes asthma & other nasty conditions, i had a bad reaction to it about ten years ago & cant go near the stuff now without a full powered respirator.

Plenty of ex school benches about, dealers tend to have the emir ones around the £300 quid mark. Last lot i had we sold for £45 each just to move them, couldnt buy the wood for that!

My last job was as a D&T technician in a secondary school, mobile phones were the bane of the teachers lives. The kids were on them all the time or trying to. Some went to extreme lengths to hide what they were doing in class. However as the technicians desk & computer was at the back of the...

I bought some last year from toolstation, swivel wheel 50kg capacity grey rubber wheels. Just the job for a light startrite table saw. Put them on the base pushed it into its parking space. A week later went to use the saw pulled it out & the wheels just collapsed, tyre, wheel just...

My dad's favorite glue was Aerolite 306, I used to use it a lot in the boat trade. Its a good glue & economical if you use enough of it. If you dont use it up & it goes past its use by date its not so economical! Its still used for aircraft construction & i like using it for wooden masts & spars...

I spent most of my career in the boat trade & have worked with some thoroughly entertaining & good people. I miss the cameraderie & banter which was often hilarious. Then worked in the education sector as a school D&T technician. I enjoyed that as well & was lucky to work with some great...

It looks like ordinary Luan or Philipine mahogany to me, related to Meranti but softer. Doesnt look like Kapur to me, ihad a quantity of that years ago, It came from Southend Pier workshops & was used for decking on the pier. Kapur has a pink colour but is hard as hades & has a distinct silky...

The spoked ones look very like the ones on my Boley, if they are they will be desirable for someone.

Sounds like a W10 upgrade, It installs tons of unwanted crap & you dont get much of a choice if it decides to upgrade. I go through settings & programs about once a month & check then uninstall the junk. Few weeks ago it uninstalled a good malware program i use & i only noticed when i went to do...

Im just at the point of replacing the workshop roof but it will with be insulated steel roofing sheets, expensive but worth it.

My Dad was a good turner & taught me, I ended up with his tools & had a union graduate lathe out of a school, I enjoyed turning occasionally but usually used it just for making components for other things, musical instruments, boats, tools etc. Sold the graduate last year as i needed the space &...

For most young people their first experience of CAD/CAM is the school laser cutter, they are fast & can show an outcome quickly. The next thing is the 3d printer but the fact remains they are slow & with print times running into hours they simply arent accesible to all the kids, sure they are...

I was a secondary school D&T technician & recently retired. Schools across the country started buying into Laser cutters ten or more years ago as they offered an easily visible route into CAD / CAM manufacturing. This meant the kids could see a modern machine working & they are always fascinated...

Mig welding forum mentioned as a possible selling place. Im a member & it is one of the friendliest forums on the net. A mine of useful metalworking knowledge. Older good quality lathes like this are always worth saving unless they are absolutely worn out. As for Myfords, they are extremely...