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Arundel K4 had a long bed version, two round steel bars, you can alter one of those to be as long as you want.

I have one just like it, bought it 30 years ago for £50 mind you its fence was missing so its been replaced with a homemade version. Good machine, really i ought to rebuild it properly!

At work (school) my trusty W7 machine was unceremoniously ripped out by IT & replaced by a laptop, as i use it for 2d design drawing work for the kids i was not a happy bunny. I find it painfully slow & a pain to get to grips with. Our home pc is being replaced by a new one with W10, Im keeping...

Well it depends on if the management see fit to share it with me. I wont be working there much longer if they dont!

Last week i was assisting an Occupational Hygenist conduct a dust monitoring exercise at work. So two 15 minute sessions cutting 10mm mdf on a circular saw, a 15 minute session on a bandfacer & a 15 minute session on a union graduate turning a bowl. All the machines are fitted with numatic nvd...

There was a Type 17 DSG lathe on Fb marketplace just over a week ago, just had a look but as often the case with fb couldnt find it again, It was advertised as spares or repair & was cheap at about 600 quid. I sold one 6 months ago from a workshop contents a friend & i bought, you see them up...

The school where i work bought one, very expensive for what they are though works well. Buy a Vac pump of ebay for a lot less. If the bag gets a leak you will never find it & end up running the pump continuously. Out of interest the sealing profile is simply standard electrical conduit with...

Sold to Deadeye pending pick up. Will be sad to see it go!

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Why thank you! Re the chuck, i am not sure what make it is as there do not seem to be any markings on it, Its actually a 4 jaw & came with the lathe & im pretty sure it was original equipment. It is definately a woodturning chuck as it takes the standard axminster jaws of which there are...

Top tip, It is usual to pluck & gut it first otherwise it wont taste nice.

On the Colchester square head lathes the gib strip is on the rear & underside of the saddle, cant remember if its a square strip held on with bolts or a dovetail strip like the cross slide! there will probably be approx 6 of them, Cross slide & compound slide have a dovetail gib with small...

I replaced the tyres on an ancient 30" Wadkin some years back. optione were rubber, rubber cork compound and Polyurethane, I went with the latter. It was bonded on with epoxy & a scarf joint. Crowning them was fun, Bottom wheel we ran the motor with the blade off & a jig to hold a sanding block...

I have seen these Boschmann tools here in Essex, they exclusively seem to be sold out of white transit vans by Irish travellers. They are not even that cheap. Sold alongside cheap spanners made of lead alloy & copies of other stuff all obviously made in china & designed to fail within 5 minutes...

Interesting comments re education! I have some experience as i am a D&T technician, I started part time at a local college 18 years ago & 6 years ago started in a secondary school, I have seen the curriculum change & d&t become so academic to the point that the kids could not hope to gain any...

Down here in south essex all the mature elms died back in the 60's, we had a few stands of wych elm? that survived until about 5 years ago over Hadleigh country park but they too succumbed. The trees do survive in a way as they sucker from the roots readily & keep growing this way for a long...

Career or Vocation is way i look at it, I worked in the boat trade from when i left college in 79, wooden boatbuilding & restoration, GRP repair & new builds, general repair work etc, went self employed early on & wouldnt have changed it for the world. Then did the house husband bit (best job i...

Price drop to £750 Treat yerself to an Xmas bargain & i need the space!

You may well be right, the casting is definately a bronze, probably gunmetal & is very finely done, would have been a lot of work for a user to make though, could have been an apprentice piece? Going to sharpen it up & see how it works!

I recently acquired this bronze plane at an antiques centre oop north, perhaps polished a bit too much but at least it hadnt been subjected to the wire brush & angle grinder treatment like a Spiers that was in the next bay! Got it for what i thought was a reasonable price after knocking the guy...