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It's not the only way to do it but for engineering / machining, it is the best option if you have it. When you get to that level however you end up having to confirm the tolerance of the tools you use to check the tolerance in the first place - but then that's engineering not woodworking.

As others have said, that's up to you and your needs. If you are not happy with the tolerance then that's the critical point. There are multiple levels of acceptability to most people as noted on the thread. As mentioned previously, combination squares can be reset and there are standard...

What is this, a rally round for MikeG? At what point did I say anyone MUST? I said; And at what point did I compare the Moore & Wright being dropped comparative to the elusive £8 tool being dropped? I simply said I personally didn't think it was reasonable to drop a Moore & Wright from 1m and...

Suction will decrease with friction and 10m of hose will add to that, not a huge amount but it needs to be appreciated is all. A lot will depend on how straight that 10m is as bends will have more impact than length. I would stick to 32mm with a TS55 in use myself. As you have probably seen...

Fair point and I appreciate your own civil response. I will take it on board and keep it civil. On a related note, did you think MikeG was being civil in his comments, again genuine interest?

The irony of the broad statement of a cheapie being '100%' over 30 years aside, not sure what your definition of calling someone a liar is but I guess it depends on what or who you think you're defending. My initial comment and initial response were reasonable but he went out of his way to...

And yet no comprehension of why you were asked to be nice or the request to not be a sphincter (subtle difference). You attacked me with your comments, you pulled imaginary numbers out of the air suggesting they were my own, you made wild assumptions about me, called me a liar and told me to...

I have to agree with that and personally I'm happy to pay the current prices, just commenting on the increase itself. I appreciate it's a little rich to gawp reasonable prices for 100 year old tools that have patina, history and still out-perform some of their modern day equivalents.

Have to admit I have seen a significant shift in on-the-ground availability and prices in the last year alone. I've built up a fair collection over the years as I work across two shops and am always on the look out for the older style Stanleys (Type 11 and earlier). I could pick up a No 4 for...

Going back to the suggestion of resettable blades, these do work and deal with the issue of keeping a square square, certainly within the requirements of woodworking. I use a Trend M3 for general marking out on wood and use a known reference to adjust and keep it in check. It's actually a decent...

My opinion, nothing more, nothing less; I suggested a £30+ square would be better than an £8 one and that collective word salad response was how you decided to tell me that you're more right than me in the most ironic fashion? Put me on that list please, for the love of God, put me right at...

An £8 tool is going to be the absolute bare minimum in quality of materials and build, if you buy it expecting it to be true for any long duration, that's a tad wishful. As for a Moore & Wright surviving a drop of around 1m or less, no I wouldn't think it reasonable to expect it to be square...

And yet the retort is your own broad statements? Play nice MikeG, I get it you don't agree with me but you don't have to be a sphincter about it.

When you buy a precision tool you are paying for precision, not the better chance of it actually being precise in an open skeet shoot. They are built to tolerance and checked before being sent out the door, that's what you are paying for. Yes, you will occasionally luck out and get a cheap...

Incra and Bridge City have decent precision squares made specifically for marking wood. Also consider something resettable like the Trend M3. Failing that a Starrett or Moore and Wright is the way to go. The short answer is if you want precision, put more money down IMO. I'd also add that this...

And it plugs into a standard 13a socket as well. Nice work, simple and clean. Can I ask what are the boxes / doors made from?

Just to add for possible distributors of CMT, I've used these guys in the UK for CMT as well; https://www.applebywoodturnings.co.uk/c ... 0250%20saw The guys on the end of the phone use the tools themselves so will be able to help if you call them Sunnybob.

+1, I'm really liking their cutter blocks and saw blades. I'm getting most of the cutters from Italy via Mobiltecnica (https://www.mobiltecnica.com/) and they have just been superb. Delivery is faster than from UK distributors. Sorry Sunnybob, slight tangent.

That should have been alarm bells right there. I appreciate the situation sunnybob in the options available to your location but modifying a safety feature to cram a spinning blade into a table saw beyond it's defined limits is never going to go well. It would be useful to measure the blade...

Freud are not the best for info so no, I checked a few suppliers that had reviews against the blade to make sure it was what it says it is. When I googled it there are quite a few online resources for swapping the 745's factory shipped blade to a Freud - it seems this is the default upgrade for...