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I havent looked at this thread for some time so all i can say is "i am not worthy". I thought i was bad buying machines & selling a few, i realise i am but an amateur! Keep it up. By the way, dont want a big acdc tig welder do you?

There seems to be a bit of a fashion for appallingly dangerous tools & attachments at the moment, Adverts keep popping up on my facebook feed for Chainsaw & Circular saw attachments for angle grinders, Adverts always show men ripping up pallets or trees in stupid ways with no safety gear. You...

Some years ago I knelt on a sharp copper nail in the bottom of a boat i was working on & got an infected bursitis of the knee. After several bouts of antibiotics that had no effect i found myself in A&E & shortly after was on a ward awaiting an emergency op to open up & wask out my knee. In the...

I can sympathise as i have just finished clearing my Dads workshop. Difference is i have been in the boat trade for 40 years & have bought & sold a lot of machinery so know pretty well what stuff is worth. It might sound funny but i avoid ebay like the plague, it attracts the lowest common...

I have spent most of my working life in the boat trade & have seen a lot of penetrating epoxies used on old boats. It is marketed as a cures all ills panacea & many people get sucked into this idea. It has its uses but for large items like boats it very rarely works & in fact often causes far...

Not Inca, Long before that! No model number on it. Will have photos in a weeks time.

I have never had grief (yet!) Trouble is its the only way to contact me as no internet access when up there.

My late Dads Startrite sawbench, he bought it new in 1958 & its done some work in its time, 8" blades, Tilting table. Its a cracking little single phase machine that has never been rusty & is in excellent condition, Pile of blades to go with it some are carbide. Its located in LA5 near...

We used to use a lot of sleepers at our yacht club for blocking boats & some of these were Jarrah, i tried cutting some up once, The saw was a big old Dankaert circular saw with a 24" carbide rip blade & a 5 hp three phase motor. Even that found it hard work. Loads of embedded grit & simply not...

I would keep an eye out on www.homeworkshop.org, great site for selling or buying tools, a wanted add will work well on there too.

When i was about 14 a friend & i found a couple of old hatchet heads, we put new handles on them & practiced axe throwing in the woods, no safety cages or stuff like that, we used trees as targets. We got pretty good. A couple of exiting richochets happened but the worst near miss was when...

I watched that & drooled. Wonderful.

They were still making them until the early 90's & they had an extraction port.

38mm is under 2" thick, a sharp 6tpi blade should go through that in no time. Sounds to me like the blade is inside out so the teeth are facing upwards, i have seen this done, we didnt let the bloke forget in a hurry!

Iroko for sure, i have a pile of them just like it.

Dont forget to strap the lathe down when its in the van, worth checking for tie down points first! You do not want to go round a corner a bit sharpish & have it fall over in the back. I with a friend once moved a heavy steel workbench in the back of a Bedford Terrier, It fell over as we went...

If its in good nick its a good price, if its got chucks & tooling its even better! Now to the sensible bit! Lathes are heavy, also they are very top heavy with the centre of gravity up over the tray. This means they are very easy to tip over. If this happens lots of expensive bits will break or...

I have a similar but longer shoulder plane that is cast from brass or gunmetal. It is a finished piece & quite well made. It has decorated side panels that look for all the world like the pattern was cut from lino. Wording on one "Bristol 1943", I suspect it was an apprentice piece.

I still have one just like that, It was my Dads, Its an absolute beast of a saw & still in use. I can never understand this trend of good tools turned into poncy lights.

For what its worth i have seen similar breaks welded up, its a matter of veeing out each side & preheating the cast iron parts. Rods are a nickel alloy if i remember correctly. Alternatively as its basically just a flat plate with bosses you could cut a plate from steel plate & weld two bushes...