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Good ideas above, but also vacuum along the sponge and rubber strips, and possibly wipe over with meths (nothing more aggressive!) to degrease them thoroughly. My rails, when they _are_ clean(!), usually don't move if I try to slide them sideways. Either yours aren't sticky enough, or there...

It does look rather like something left out for the dustman. There are several recent threads on here about making your own table very inexpensively, including a rather good idea for a fence that is fixed at one end and swings across the cutter rather than moving in a parallel way. Search for...

Sorry for all the typos - typing on a tablet this morning, via my mobile phone's internet connection, as my broadband is down. My fingers evidently don't like it.

****, as I said earlier, what you describe is normal behaviour for modern digital TVs, to prevent digital copying through the TV and to force you to buy an audio "receiver" (daft name!). The normal outputs are only from the tuner, unless intended for headphones (or any similar analogue audio out...

'Fraid I do the same thing. On my Panasonic there is a separate set of adjustments for the headphone hole compared to the TV's speakers. Yours might be the same. Worth a quick wander through the menus just in case - bot don't get lost: it took me several hours to get back out to reality last...

Formatting: I think it's down to some very long URLs posted in their completeness. Ali channelling: Mitre slot extrusion is merely like other T-track, just 3/4". Fixing exposed chipboard needn't be a big issue - simply paint it or use thinned gelcoat resin to seal it. There's another huge...

Apologies if I have attributions muddled above. Loudspeaker cables making an improvement is down to simple physics/electronics. The lower the cable impedance, the better that low-impedance speaker systems work. Fit thicker cable and it will really work better, because the cable resistance...

I'm hoping to get a new 12mm lens (for panoramas) in the new year, a Laowa. The optical performance is amazing for the price, considering the image circle (for full-frame). It has several aspherical elements. Laowa explain that it's in part down to computing power.

I've some old Monitor Audio MA7s. I had to change the bass drivers recently. Whilst I was doing that, I put a small roundover on the rim of the port, which changed the tuning slightly (probably no more than 5mm radius, max.). It transformed the sound, from having a nasty honk to being a smooth...

Natural wood is acoustically inferior to many man made boards, and it's also inconsistent. The speakers I'd like to refurb are mostly birch ply, with deadening panels inside. I have others made from MDF and chipboard, albeit with veneer, and I think the venerable pair of 3/5As that I have are...

Thank you XY, but sadly no. I need around 18 1/2" x 30", plus a bit for wrapping around the frame. But I'll ask them if they have larger pieces. I suspect, though, that it's NOS, as they seem to have only one style available: Ideally I'd like black or very dark brown.

About eight or nine years ago. I went twice (with two different children). The second visit wasn't for the Media school, but I popped in quickly. It hadn't changed.

Makita have a router sled for the rails. I'm pretty certain that most professional 1/2" routers will fit on it, and some 1/4" ones with the correct fence bar size and spacing. I think there's a de facto standard, as I found that the fence from my Trend T11 will fit my little Bosch POF 500 &...

I joined BBC engineering straight from school (they used to advertise in Radio Times!). Our first three months was intensive physics, electronics and operational training. The lecturers said it was the equivalent of the entire first year of an electronics degree* (back then), and that was just...

The Makita cordless is pretty much exactly the same as the corded version, except that it requires a pair of Makita system batteries (it will not run on just one). And yes, it will run on either Makita or Festool rails, but you will lose the anti-tip feature unless you use Makita rails*. There...

They are breaking the law, regarding misuse of personal data, although it's presently almost unenforceable. But... in the middle of May next year, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gets the full force of law here (in the UK). It covers all sorts of records and is very...

Does anybody know a source of Tygan these days, or anything similar that tightens with heat? I've found quite a lot of grille fabric on-line, but nothing equivalent. I have repairs to make to what ought to be nice speakers, but which look far too scruffy. Redoing the grilles would be a good...

Brill. That was heartwarming at many levels!

On the groove side of the soffit T+G, remove the inner "tongue" of the last joint so you just have an overlap. Offset scribe it in the normal way (clamp it underneath the last-but-one bit of T+G, exactly aligned with it, but offset towards the wall by whatever gap you want in the finished...

That is a jolly good idea, as it gets round almost all the usual problems in one go! Filed for future use... E.