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Please do post back the answer you get - I've shied away from Accoya for a number of reasons, cost and difficulty of finishing being but two, so would be very interested to know what they say. Thx. E.

It's not as simple as that story makes it out to be. I've seen some of the daftness locally, and spoken off the record to some of the officials involved. Here are a few thoughts: The article does explain about conservation areas. If we want a nice built environment, one which keeps the better...

I often drill across and let in a bit of fattish dowel (and screw into that). It depends how tidy it needs to look and the strength required.

Toe-in/out as above. My old mitre saw does it, and it's jolly awkward to fix. Basically the front edge of the blade cuts, and the back scuffs (if it's not set up correctly). As an experiment, do a full-depth plunge into say, 18mm MDF, and advance the saw by about 2/3 of the blade width, then...

I think Porker found it. I didn't realise Google had a patent search site! I knew they had had trouble with the locating pin arrangement on the original Domino 500 (my 700 has flip-down stops instead) - it seems to have been covered in a Black and Decker patent of the 1970s! OK, skim-reading...

It's a converted gas lamp - commonly done in the 1950s and 1960s. You can tell because the standard has a bar against which the lamplighter could rest his ladder. Here in Bristle we still have a few streets that are gas-lit. They're in the Kingsdown area: There's no lamplighter now, just a...

Thanks Noel. I assumed that the patents were quite a bit earlier than that (to allow for protection in the development process). But it also shows you can't trust Wikipedia (it says 2007 for the launch of the Domino, however that might be the American market (Americentricity!)). Reasonable...

I've read that Festool's patents expire soon on the Domino system. It's just about plausible, as the machines first appeared in 2007-ish, but the implication is they took ages in development, which isn't all that credible. There are many novel features of the Domino that set it apart from other...

I have one, boiught in the 1970s, and it takes two sizes of blade, but is otherwise identical. Yours would be both cheaper and probably a bit stronger for tensioning, but I suspect it's simply a "war finish" type of economy - I can't see why the RAF would want to keep two sizes of hacksaw in any...

Acetic acid worked beautifully. Thanks everyone.

My current one is "old" Axminster, pre-UJK. It's anodised gold/yellow, 6mm aluminium and I got it drilled for my T11. It has been very good, but I'm upgrading to Incra (I have already bought the plate, but it's a different shape, so I have to find time to do the whole tabletop). The only real...

Update: the acetic acid (diluted roughly 50:50 from whatever it was in the bottle) is slowly removing the zinc, leaving a dark grey/black surface. I've left it in a clear ice cream tub in the sunshine (warmth might help). So probably a success. Shame about my welding though - good if Swiss...

Thanks everyone. I had quite forgotten I have a half bottle of once-glacial Acetic acid, glass stopper'n'all (yup it got wet!). So, given the warnings regarding HCL, I'll try that first and see how I get on. After all, it only attracts seagulls*... It's all very well making something from...

I'm knocking up a gallows bracket for SWMBO... ... for a hanging flower basket (what did you think I meant?). I'm using some scraps of rebar - I could just about get it hot enough to bend with a Mapp gas blowlamp, so I've made the hook for the end. So far, so good, but I want to weld on some...

Kity 439 P/T It has non-ferrous, fixed tables with a narrow gap and fingers around the drum. I had a set of those magnetised things with a micrometer-style scale: completely unusable. Like MikeJhn, I use a piece of plate glass or aluminium (latter doesn't blunt the knives if I'm clumsy)...

I see you are in Kent. If your dad is too, how about Stephen Bungay's book on the Battle of Britain, "The Most Dangerous Enemy"*? ISBN: 978-1-84513-535-5 It's a jolly good read, with lots of maps and illustrations too. I got my copy from Abe Books "secondhand" (probably remaindered, as it was...

Epoxy will certainly work, but personally I'd use DS tape in case you ever want to remove it again. In that case running an iron over it should loosen it sufficiently to be peeled or prised. I am a little surprised as the base on my T11 has countersunk machine screws holding it on. Does it not...

For what it's worth (one small machine, so not much), I've just changed quite a few bearings on my little 12" SIP machine, getting rid of the last few originals. It's now all SKF, and has a British-made drive belt. The guides are all standard 608 bearings (rubber sealed, 8x22x7mm). the rear...

Get a replacement of another make - Festool, Bosch, Makita, DeWalt... their bolts ought to fit and will be much better quality than the original ! Check first, obviously...

Sammy, I thought I sent you a PM yesterday. It's not showing up in "sent" messages. Not sure why. Will try again.