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OK, provisionally sold to Julian. Thanks everyone.

So I did the stupid thing (despite a warning on the vendor's site): and used a cheap blade on my SP6000 rail saw. It's bitten into the splinter strip far too much, and I did it to 2x 1.4m and 1 x 3m rails -- numpty! After a lot of faff I've got the strip off the 3m rail and cleaned all the...

I'll add a picture when I have time to scale it to (256kB - really??). Anyway it's an unused Axminster planer knife height setting jig, as far as I can tell identical to their current product. I'm embarrassed to say I bought it before I realised it needed cast iron tables (or at least...

I have a set of Winbags from Axminster, and they are very useful indeed, especially for things like door hanging, or simply holding the door still whilst you work on the edge of it. They're tough as old boots, but only rated for 100kg each. If these are as strong as the spec says, they're a...

Yes it is supposed to glow when switched on: There are two heater filaments, one at each end of the tube. There's a neon in the starter: they have a very low resistance when glowing. It's in series with the two filaments. It allows them to heat up, but once there's a strike of the main tube...

I've got caught in the same way myself in the past - that blue paper roll from Toolstation. So thanks to Memzey for bringing it up and Custard for sharing a Really Good Tip. There are two differences though (a) I haven't dared attempt breadboard ends yet, and (b) if I did, bits of blue paper...

I thought it was a bit of a bodge, too, at first, but I took a closer look: The template stays the same, with 1/4" holes. The drill stop does too. To switch from 5mm to 1/4" you only need change the actual drill bit. Drill bits around ten quid (plus postage, etc. prob.). So you get the same...

Good catch. That's very similar to the one Wacom supplied with my tablet (2016 version). I can't see that the 4.0 spec makes a difference (energay saving protocols, as older BT is jolly thirsty for battery-powered devices), but it looks like Wacom have "supported" DW ambiguously. If that's...

Not a whole engine, but I do have a timing belt and tensioner pulley (both NOS), which I keep moving from one place to another as they're too important (to someone) to throw out. Reckoned to be one of the best engines LR ever made, my TD4 was trouble-free for the 10 years I had it (even though...

No it is NOT a "BT 4" dongle - there is no such thing. The product name you have been given is "BT 4 USB" which is supposed to be an abbreviation of "Bluetooth for USB" (well, it's my educated guess!). Bluetooth is an add-on for almost all desktop PCs (but common on laptops, phones and...

You mention Wacom, John. I have one of their tablets (for drawing and as a mouse replacement) It came with its own Bluetooth dongle (a tiny thing that plugs into a USB socket on the host PC). Doesn't yours have one? I don't think mine has any ability to link to ordinary Bluetooth, but it does...

Scholar: thanks for both your posts - read avidly. I think I posted pics of the problem years ago, but TBH you wouldn't want to look really. The doors were dip-stripped with all furniture in place (hinges and mortice locks, although they did take the brassware off, mostly). They were never...

I have a Makita (110V), together with a few add-ons, including a 3m rail and Festool rail clamps. I like it a lot. It has a very marginally deeper depth of cut than the Festool, because of the larger diameter blade (both sizes, 160 and 165mm will fit and work). It could really do with a double...

I'm reading all this carefully, and taking note of everyone's comments. To reply to a few things: Domino: I've looked at the XL 700 Domino now. It would almost certainly do the job, and it would save huge amounts of time - I'm "time-poor" for this task, so it's very much under consideration...

Absolutely my first thought too. But the Domino thing is a realistic option (from a practical if not a financial perspective), and it does change the method rather a lot, in a good way. I hadn't actually considered it until now, but it might be a really cunning plan, as it avoids nasty bits...

I'm contemplating a Really Big Project: replacing our ruined interior doors with copies. They were badly dip-stripped some time before we bought the place more than 20 years ago, which has wrecked them. I think there's nothing that can be done to save them. Snap from my initial Sketchup model...

You prompted a big wave of nostalgia with that post, Custard. My grandfather (a sawmill owner and timber merchant in Haslemere) often used to get reps from timber importers turn up with exotic samples. He collected these, glued them together and then made candlesticks and lamps by turning...

I've never done this (although my comb-style jig supposedly can), but I have made a router-table jig with small success. Steve Maskery put a how-to on YouTube a while back for doing it on a RT (use YT search - can't remember the URL, sorry), and it definitely works, but I found the devil was...

Very nice stuff. I'd mention in passing though that he's probably nearer to Bath than Bristol, and most of us would consider Tog Hill to be right out in the sticks. It's a pain to get to for me on the West side of town, but much easier if you're out Kingswood way...

I think this belongs here, because it's definitely "on-topic" if you are a tradesperson, but if the mods want to move it elsewhere... I got this info from the local Neighbourhood Watch distribution: cooperation between Avon & Somerset and Gloucestershire police: Bear in mind these thieves...