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I have an earlier version - it even survived falling off scaffolding - a bit chipped in places, but still functional. When it finally dies mechanically, I will try to separate out the power take-off and put it in a separate box - very useful extra to have. That said, I suspect the EU rules on...

We have a local independent (Kellaway) who are excellent, at least they are at their main depot (not the Kellaway Rd. branch, ironically). I have an interesting test for them today, as I need some doorstop urgently (daughter's new house). I could run it myself, and will probably end up doing...

You're half right: there was an aquarium and a broadcasting museum co-sited in the old BBC art deco transmitter building (same vintage as Droitwitch, Daventry, etc. I think). The museum has moved out into a former pub in the next village, but it hadn't yet reopened when I was last down that way...

IIRC, the family were woodwind players: Leon, and Sidonie (daughter) also. She might have been Clarinet though.

The BBC had studios like that. In a training studio in around 1978, an EMI TR90 tape machine caught fire under my hand ("they all do that, sir"), and we had a studio in Bristol where you could set the faders, but not actually use them during a recording as the contacts were too dodgy. There...

Not that old. If you had said Garrard 301, for example... :-) The Garrards were good turntables, but we had very few 401s. The 301s got little proper maintenance, and used to rumble terribly. They had a BBC drop-start design, with an aluminium platter, around 13" diameter, on which the record...

I have just had a follow-up to my emailed response. It is written as if addressing a 10-year-old. Not a single technical question was answered, nor was any acknowledgment made of their ridiculous data sheet. I probably have little choice but to use the device and just busk it. At least I know...

Yup. For those of us who were part of the old HP, Pete's picture sums up everything that's good about what's left carrying the name. That would be, "... not a lot", as Paul Daniels used to put it. And don't get me started on Apple. I have just got a new iPhone SE (for family reasons - don't...

Baize is a good choice for the surface of the shelves, as it won't wear the sleeves as much as a solid wood surface or Melamine veneer will. The gramophone libraries in the BBC used to have that, but I am not sure if it was a mat or stuck to the surface. And you really do need extreme...

This was a pre-sales issue too - info I need to complete a project.

This comes from the audio industry, this week. I have anonymised it to protect the guilty, but I'm pretty staggered: This is a brand leader in their field, not an ebay seller at all. I wrote to them outlining significant errors and omissions in their datasheet, and asking for sufficient...

I have both 1.4m and 3m Makita rails. When I have room to get my peg table set up, I will probably cut down one of the 1.4m rails, and consider getting a 1.5m Festool rail for width-cutting sheets. I wholly agree with other comments above - you _can_ do it with only 1.4m but it's awkward, and...

Their original wall plugs were made of compressed jute (before the invention of thermoplastics). The hand tools forum was discussing the "hand drills" they also used to make - "thump, twist, repeat" - hitting it with a small lump hammer. Putting up a set of shelves could be the average DIYer's...

Er, and that would be a right pig to disassemble too. Just sayin'. In case there are any bandsaw manufacturers who might be tempted: Please do NOT do this!

Yup, that's the badger, although you need a longer piece of studding (probably) instead of the supplied bolt, and a second nut, arguably two, to lock it on the thread... ... I'm going to check what I think I used against the old bearings later this morning (never throw anything away, at least...

Gladly, but it's probably better with pics or diagrams. As I've done mine recently, I don't want to disassemble it again, but I'll get drawing...

^^^ Wot Eee said (as usual!). Slow speed, water lubrication (if you can contrive that) and/or dust clearance, probably quite a lot of "remove-drill... clean... continue". If dry, you need to have a vacuum running to remove dust as fast as possible and keep the hole as clean as possible. I'd...

Not a pro, but I learned that one the hard way!

Are you sure you have the correct model no.? The earlier CMT routers are similar to Elu/DeWalt/Trend ones, the later ones look to be made by Triton (or their manufacturer). If it's an earlier one, most parts are available from Miles Tools in Yeovil. But a common problem on the Trend...

To add to Trevanion above, the actual coin you use depends rather on the chisel and the stock: You need a bigger gap for softwoods, smaller for hardwoods ans smaller chisels. Some tuning (choice of coin) may be required. 1. Fit the chisel, using the coin to give you a gap; 2. Snug-up the...