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But my original questions were, "When did they come in?" And, "what was used before them?" I understand rods/story sticks, and I will follow up on AndyT's recommendations, but you can't build cathedrals entirely without measurements! Yes, I know they had setting-out floors, where the master...

A question for the tool collectors... when did folding boxwood rules come into general use? I'd guess it was some time at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, but I really have no idea. I'm only curious because I'm having a clearout and came across a simple 2' one (just one hinge). It...

T-track is a PITA: If you can't use the pre-drilled holes you are left trying to countersink any new holes you do drill, through the narrow slot in the top of the track (see an older thread of mine, somewhere). I ended up with a long strip of emery cloth and the drill press, reducing the...

I have an old "Gem Red". No I wouldn't recommend it - the idea is excellent but mine isn't properly set up and I cannot correct it. It also eats batteries. It was the type with a spirit level on top, which never worked properly (again couldn't be properly set up), and eventually the vial went...

This is my work-in-progress. I had to dig around to find the SketchUp file - 2008 and I still haven't started it! I will make a few changes before I do make it, even now. Basically, the extension behind the pillar is to allow the fence to be easily clamped. I'll probably move the long...

I too have an old Kity p/t and guess where my knives come from :-) Really pleased with both the service and the product.

I had a County-pack Defender 110 Station Wagon, with a Disco TDi fitted, which was quite superb. I miss it terribly. I still have the wheel brace (well, crowbar-thing). That must be getting on for 40mm across the flats.

Certainly does for the smaller sizes, but I don't have any socket with an OD of 40mm (first thing I checked). I'm also not sure why they used circlips to position the bearings, when a simple flange (step) in the middle of the wheel would have done. It's two distinct machining operations, plus...

Materials have changed too. That blowlamp was intended for wiped lead joints - in lead pipe. Now we use copper (or plastic), and the more heat the better. I use propane, but I prefer MAPP gas as it's hotter. Even my roofer, whose leadwork is superb, uses an oxy-propane set to do lead boxes...

Posting this in case it's helpful to someone: I have an old SIP 12" bandsaw. I have had it pretty well fettled in the past, but it's had a couple of years of almost no use, and last winter didn't help it, being out in the damp gar, er, workshop. Now I need to use it, and I need it running as...

In this case they are Irish. Their Mercedes estate cars and the caravans have Irish plates, although I have no idea how often they change them (the number plates I mean). As for the morality etc., it seems to be the same group that were only removed by injunction last year, illegally in...

Like the Nun above, we live in Bristol: we have (nominally) Irish tinkers just arrived on the Downs again, over the weekend... ... We went for our usual Sunday afternoon walk yesterday and there was a foul smell coming from something boiling, next to a table with a bench grinder on it...

Ditto <red face>

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The black bits you can see on mine are the plastic inserts, and they are "easily" removable. But one reason the tape is angled is because the right-hand bit of plastic is always covered by the fence (the LHS one is clear if you swing the saw all the way to the right). If I did do a home-made...

Yes KGS 300, but unusually a 110V version. It has an 80t Axminster neg-rake blade fitted in the picture, which I really don't like (it rings like a bell, which makes the cuts unnecessarily sloppy), but with the 80t Trend blade that came with it, it's excellent, (although that blade has a slight...

You know that frustrating moment: you want to trim a gnat's nadgers off the piece you just cut "exactly to length", but you can't easily guess exactly where the chop saw will chop... Step #0: put the saw's mains plug somewhere you can see it (so you know it's off): #1: Assemble the apparatus...

"Patents, patents, Glasshopper!" It's just my opinion but I think DW rushed their saw out when some of the patents belonging to "other people" expired: at the time they needed something novel to suggest they had thought it through better than other people, too, hence their different approach...

How much floor area do you have? I've not owned one, but I understand combi machines need a lot of space all round them. Right there with you on the bandsaw, however - easily the most useful machine I have, with the pillar drill a close second. The bandsaw needs little space, incidentally...

I have had to deal with several companies' service/quality departments over woodworking kit, and I think Axminister's team is pretty good. I had issues with a machine bought from them (their own brand), and they were _extremely_ keen to (a) help me as fast as practical, and (b) find out the...