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Good answer from Nelsun. A couple of extra thoughts: 1. Over-tightening the rail clamps causes issues for me, as I think it compresses one of the two strips underneath too much and tilts the saw. So not just not straight, but not perpendicular to the surface either. I was a bit put out when I...

I don't know about the costs, but I used to operate a small machine (as a teenager - holiday job). You will need: Probably three phase power, Compressed air An industrial oven or heating system for the pelletized stock (nylon in particular is very hygroscopic, which causes serious issues when...

Word to the wise: I'd coverthe bolt tops with something relatively soft, either wooden plugs or resin or something. I've got holdfast collars in the surface of my bench and have got rather too close to reshaping chisels on a couple of occasions. Mine is due for a rework (sometime real soon...

You're asking the impossible, probably. If you want to keep a gun, you need to clean it well, as soon as you can after use. Although you can switch chemistries with some tools, unless you totally clean from one (and dry), the old chemistry will contaminate the new and spoil the results. I have...

I bought from Peter Sefton - Plate (Incra plate, drilled for DW 625 and/or Trend T10 T11) + various inserts and an MDF template for routing out the aperture. Haven't had time to do it yet, but it is superb build quality and Peter's service was excellent. Just sayin' E.

The spec on the receiver you have is a bit odd - Yamaha's web site is misleading: it says 6 Ohms without giving much more detail and quotes two different power outputs. 20W and 30W per channel. Even if I believe the lower value that's a bit small - in a small room that should be fine though. I...

Last time I was in Sears was last November, during their Black Friday sale. Only very overpriced junk on the shelves - everything worthwhile had gone. AS stated a few stores remain, but Sears as-was is over, sadly (I, too, liked Craftsman tools). Stay away from Harbour Freight: it's too...

Peter Millard (of this parish) has some good MDF painting tips on YouTube, as does The Gosforth Handyman. Peter recently tried some 4" rollers with a concave cone at each end (so the "corners" were really thin), which are supposed to minimise roller marks. He liked them, and I got some myself...

You can get at least one model of Bosch 10.8V ("12V") drill/driver on its own in a zip-up case with two batteries for around $100 USD on Amazon. Daughter-in-law has just bought one for my son's birthday. The brushless version is quite a bit more, but much more torque too. I have the trad one and...

I think it's fed by fibre (because of the satellite lag, amongst other things), but judging by the Google imagery, the site does have a dish, unimpeded by foliage (probably used as the earth station for outside broadcasts, though. Usually secondary transmitters take their signal off-air from...

Impossible to say at this distance. Given the signal strength* passive "Y" splitters _ought_ to work, but a far better solution is what's called a distribution amplifier (a "DA", one-in, several-out). Those use a small power supply, usually sited next to one of the TVs, and are powered up that...

If you really are less than two miles, the fabled bit of damp string (cut to the correct length!) would do it fine, dangling from the back of the telly. Try not to soak the electrics when you water it... ... seriously, you are very close and, as Flying Haggis says, reception ought to be...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/news/item234 https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Beaco ... 0/#pagebar To answer your question exactly: there was an acknowleged fault on Beacon Hill's Freeview output, some three weeks ago, which is receiving attention. The BBC reference says it affected the HD...

Did you try the glass-plate-plus-copier- paper method? Any flat surface would do instead of a piece of glass. For example I have a piece of 5mm aluminium plate I intend to use next time. The wideness is important though, as it allows you to not worry about the blade along it's length - you can...

16A is VERY useful actually. It's not that you need it continuously, but the arc isn't continuous (which is why you get that nice frying sound when it's right). The trouble with 13A is the fuse in the plug: it's a resistance, and lowers the current when you strike the arc. And current =...

But the. grammer and punctuation And Bad spellin, do gets boreng afer a wile. . . . The question is, what do you want to use the router for? 1/2" gives less vibration (the shaft is more rigid), and can be driven harder, but that suggests a more powerful motor is helpful. So a low-powered...

If I get a sec later today, I'll take some pics of the new standards in the street next to ours - they don't look at all bad. I think the thing about swapping out old for new is sensible (even round here), and I don't live in Clifton. I do, however, show it off to out-of-town (and foreign)...

I don't know what the exhaust temp of my old BMW R80 should be, but it has a Keihan all-stainless exhaust, and the downpipes go a horrid muddy brown after a while (They all do that , sir.) You can polish it out (thankfully the pipes are thick enough so that repeated polishings don't matter too...

I tried flush: not nice. I get better finish by adding a piece of paper on the outfeed table, with the glass plate on top. I've also tried fussing about with a dial gauge, and moving sticks by a specified amount. Both work, but take ages compared to a piece of glass (or anything flat you can...

Can you arrange it so that the glue isn't doing all the work, for example with drawbored dowels? I have built very little for outdoors, but I made a stand for the tomato growbag that was glued up with Titebond 2 and used drawbored tenons. It's out in all weathers and probably six or seven...