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I remember those my dad had one, motor assembly & housing is very different, thanks for the offer, im going to see if i can get the motor itself out & see if i can match it with something.

I have had one of these Racal Airstream powered respirators for many years, its a good bit of kit & a couple of years ago i rebuilt it & bought enough filters to see me out. However the fan motor has just conked out, has anyone replaced this with a viable alternative? Only place i have found to...

There is a lot of disinformation about lathe tools, Most carbide tool sets that can be bought cheaply are just junk, good replaceable tip carbide tooling is excellent but far above the needs of the average turner, its meant for serious production work. A properly ground & sharp HSS bit with the...

I have used several grades on boats, Ordinary 304 (A2) will show surface discoloration quite quickly & need polishing often. 316 (A4) will polish up & stay bright for ages. The secret of drilling stainless is sharp drills, slow speed & firm feed pressure with plenty of cutting oil.

I bought two last year they do the big double sided one & a smaller single sided one. I like them, the smaller one was so good i went back & bought another three so i could have one on the boat one at work & a spare.

I was involved with a club some years ago that got taken over, in all my born days i have never experienced anything like it, it was orchestrated by a small clique & it held the club back years. In the end i walked away & left them to it. It is still rumbling on years laterr. I dont know the...

My wife & i had a large extension built 12 or so years ago, at the time i was at home doing the househusband thing so it made complete sense as i was there most of the time. We had one builder do the foundations, shell & roof with windows in, i worked alongside & i did the rest. The builder was...

I would use whatever i could get my hands on at a reasonable price, all the timbers quoted will do okay. Im surprised that some say Iroko is an oily wood, i have used lots of the stuff in the boat trade & never found any that was oily, it always seems to be dry & dusty stuff. Lots of it today...

Anyone recomend somewhere that sells decent quality 4mm marine ply? 6mm is too thick. I have a wooden sailing dinghy that needs a new deck & its got to be good stuff, definately no exterior junk! Timbmet have a local depot but they have a minimum order of £350 & havent even had the courtesy to...

Think outside the box, It is difficult to get timber from demolition contractors, they havent got the time to deal with members of public who havent done the required H&S training, Its worth asking joinery shops on industrial estates, Also house clearance places some of which are charity run...

Araldite will work providing the joint is grease free. Use the original stuff that takes 24 hours to cure not the 5 minute version. 30 years ago i dropped a cast iron Record rebate plane of the deck of a boat i was working on. It landed on its handle & shattered it. I stuck it back together with...

Woodworking can be the cheapest pastime you want it to be or as expensive! I have been a boatbuilder most of my career & timber seems to appear its a matter of looking. Skips obviously, beachcombing, recycling the lot. People are always throwing good timber away in fact anyone would think that...

Alarm guns are quite legal, they have no barrel just a ring to hold the base of the blank. This is the one i had, there are others a bit cheaper,https://www.amazon.co.uk/BISLEY-GAUGE-BURGLARS-INTRUDERS-SECURITY/dp/B0049ACMC6, Obviously you need to think about where its pointing but i shouldnt...

You think a compressor starting up is bad? Years ago i had a workshop on a farm & we had a couple of break ins nearby. I bought an alarm gun for less than a tenner from the gunshop, Its a nifty little device that holds a 12 bore blank & is fired by trip wire. Came in to work one morning after a...

Sounds to me like you should be teaching people how to make stuff, short courses in your own on site holiday acomadation that sort of thing. All the sucessful self employed blokes i know had a good lady in a steady job to back them up!

I had a reaction to Birch ply & or Yellow poplar a couple of weeks ago, (I work in a school as a D&T technician) It wasnt good. My own fault for using a crappy nuisance dust mask that are not really fit for purpose. THis list of woods givs more...

Back in the 70's my music teacher decided that i had no musical ability whatsoever & i assumed this to be true. Years later my son took up classical guitar at a local music school & got pretty good. Then just over 2 years ago we were at a small blues gig at our yacht club, the guitarist had...

Back when i had a 1500sq ft workshop i used to lose lots of pencils, when after 15 years i moved out & cleared it i think i found two? I still lose them today, since i started wearing glasses i cant stick them behind my ear any more. I think that there must be a hole in the space time continuum...

Often known as a lancashire pattern vice, essential if drilling sheet metal freehand. Gives the operator something solid to hold & stops the workpiece turning into a bacon slicer if the drill catches!

I used to run a propane space heater, sure it heated the double garage but it got smelly & the walls ran with condensation, All my machines & tools went rusty. I insulated the roof & walls & lined it out with ply. Up & over doors had the foil covered bubble wrap insulation glued to them. Now its...