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I have a TS 200, presently dismantled (too many jobs, too little time!). Did your adjustment involve applying force to anything? I ask because the pivots for tilt should be aligned with the blade, and the rise and fall mech perfectly at right angles to that. I think it is possible for the rise...

In case anyone is interested,here are two starters for comparison porpoises. Guess which one failed... ;-)

@Inspector: One thing that struck me when the brand was launched was the build quality of the sawbench itself. It certainly looked to be superb. Is that true, or am I just optimistic? I'm in LA in November, so will seek one out (if I have a spare moment), to see for myself.

My workshop has eight four-foot fluorescent tubes in it, four of which are directly over my bench*. All have separate starters, etc., and are (for the technical) traditional neon-switch, mains-frequency units. One blew a starter recently, in a rather spectacular fashion**. The old tube works...

That's "Mummerset", beloved of poor actors everywhere. You'll just have to use the subtitles, like the rest of us. The Archers is by far the worst though: two brothers, born, brought up and living in the same village have quite different regional accents - one slightly West of...

I'm sure you're right - the stain thing makes this one unwinnable (as originally described, I mean).

I assume you are screwing through the ply into the MDF. If using any electric driver, start at slightly too-low torque and work up to the final setting to avoid ripping up the MDF, and you need a fairly coarse but SINGLE-START thread on the screw, so it copes with the drawer being yanked open...

I had a recommendation from a chap at Yandles years ago, when I was looking for suitable wood to make an end-grain chopping board: to hold the blocks together with dowels. Obviously only the ones around the edge need blind holes - you can through-drill the rest in stacks, and if you want to, use...

FWIW (I only have a tiny amount of experience doing windows), I used Idigbo to make a missing casement for our French windows (they are all in Idigbo). It was easy to machine and work with hand tools, and took paint well (it _needs_ paint as otherwise it's an insipid yellow colour), but I am...

It's why we buy from them. I've had nothing but excellent service over many years. It's a handy saw. I hope it gets sorted quickly for you.

Bosch POF 600A secondhand, but treat it to a new collet. The motors are Swiss made and excellent quality. The 500A is almost identical but cheaper as it isn't varispeed. I have both (one from new) and can confirm that the plunge is rubbish (the base casting is too flimsy, and I think the...

That was fun! There's a follow-up, more serious video, where Nick does a tour of his workshop: https://youtu.be/zIA2Xl8P7Es Love Parks and Recreation, too - very frustrated that it's on Netflix in the USA but not here. Thanks for posting it. E. PS: I think the little girl actually deserves...

These are toe-curling, horrid things, I agree but it's SALES-speak. Please don't associate it with marketing - as a marketer I'd have nothing to do with that sort of nonsense. Most people don't really understand what marketing is, but it's not junk mail and it's not junk phone calls and it's...

Yandles have two major advantages over Axminster: 1. They sell sewing and craft accessories, 2. They have an excellent tea room. Both of these come in really handy on the occasions I'm down that way... Seriously, catering for the distaff side is a jolly good idea: full marks to Yandles...

I don't, sadly, but I do have iPlayer on the telly, so I'll look there. Mackintosh was globally important (IMHO), so it's rather,er, racist of the BBC not to give it national coverage. <rant>People like Anthony Gormley and Cow-in-a-jar and the Emmination have been covered interminably for...

Hi Derek, I'm pretty certain mine is nowhere near as wide as that, but I've had it a while and the details of manufacturing seem to have changed a bit. I'll have a look later when I get time. I'll also keep an eye out for a #53, now I've had two recommendations about them :-)

This is a nice article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45019383 It's essentially a trailer for a BBC Scotland programme to air tomorrow. I'm hoping it will be on iPlayer thereafter. After the heartbreaking news about the School of Art, this is more than welcome. Definitely on my bucket...

Try applying heat to the nut before doing anything dramatic. Heat, Plus Gas, repeat. Then If desperate, peen the outer edge of the taper (other side from the nut), with a centre punch, just so it grips. I suspect it's supposed to be an interference fit, probably for some good reason I haven't...

I have the cast iron version, but I think it has a better iron than the ones Rutlands presently sell - it's extremely hard steel, about 4-5mm thick, and takes and holds an edge very well indeed. There is nothing stamped on the iron, but from memory (about six years ago), it was one of the "posh"...

Model Info is the place for all that. There you can set the units you use. You can work in imperial (feet, inches and fractions), but you might find it easier initially to work in millimetres, simply because you can probably work in whole numbers. So it's not "calibrating the axes" as much as...