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The one I bought late last year from this seller had the last portion of the shank reduced to 12.7mm shank and cost a couple of quid more. I thought I'd kept the URL, but I obviously hadn't. I'll see if I can find the original details and if I can I'll post them. Even if you have to spend...

Tried rubber dairy matting or stable matting? £46 or so for a 6 x 4ft piece of the latter, and they aren't the cheapest. There are also EVA mats around as well as interlocking systems.

For routing acrylic is better (especially as you can get offcuts for peanuts from signwriters), Tufnol (re-inforced phenolic plastic) better yet and HPL (high pressure laminate - think toilet cubicle walls, changing rooms, etc - another form of phenolic) is best of all IMHO. The dusts off all of...

It may be an option, but our place in Brussels certainly never had it, neither did the place in Germany. Maybe it's down to the age of the house. Either way we certainly don't have it here in the UK. You do need to be a bit more cautious when wiring it, though - phase to earth on single phase or...

Having lived and worked in a few countries myself my own experiences are to the contrary (based on France, the Benelux and Germany). It's supposed to be a Finnish thing. On the subject of pin routers, even the modern "lightweight" fabricated steel machines are over 500kg in weight. Older cast...

Or alternatively used the synthetic denibbing pads (like Scotch scourers) favoured by auto body finishers, You can also get bronze wool as well these days for use on tannin timbers such as oak, chestnut, walnut, mahogany, etc I suspect that the finish will need to be scraped back, the item...

In Finland I believe that you are fortunate enough to have 3-phase into all houses. Most of Europe is not so fortunate. Pin routers are pretty much always 3-phase and weigh 1/2 tonne and upwards (and because they are top heavy can be a bear to move) As someone who is mainly site based in the UK...

You fit the standard 1/2in collet and nut and just drop it into the hole like you would a router cutter and tighten up

They have 24mm pin centres and are 4mm thick - that's what Euro blocks use

Well, the OP asked for an edging which matched the colour of plywood.............. TBH it was only meant as an aside. Personally I'd hardwood lip because that's far more durable and any hald decent teimber merchant holds lipping materials in stock. Trying to iron edging onto plywood seems to be...

Yes, that was the stuff. Looked something like plywood

To some Belgians WWI is still very much part of everyday life because they are still unearthing dangerous unexploded munitions a hundred years on. They still recover and deal with over 100 tonnes of the stuff every year, everything from machine gun bullets to mustard gas cannisters. That they...

I think I'd have to agree, although square blocks on planers were banned on new kit as long ago as the 1930s and fortunately disappeared on new panel planers (thicknessers) by the late 1960s. They had the advantage of being able to carry pairs or even multiple pairs of profile knives which...

Try 40 years ago, more like, and even then not everybody would have agreed. The design of rip fences changed back in the mid-1970s and we were being taught about using short rip fences and having the crown guards in place well before that at college. Full blown rip saws, of course, had short...

ER-20 is a standard engineering collet - goes from 1mm up to 13mm as this eBay advert shows. ER-20 collets actually have a 1mm compression range so a 12 to 13mm collet (often referred to as just a "13mm") will hold a 1/2in (12.7mm) shank cutter. I should have pointed out that mine came without...

The Internet provides - amazingly from the American Badger Pond. The guy removes the riving knife, which I wouldn't do, but the design itself is perfectly useable as well as a good starting point for a home-brewed model of your own

You surprise me, Steve. There's always the HSE website on the subject, sheet WIS16 Circular Saw Benches - Safe Working Practices which I personally feel that all retailers selling table saws should be forced to print out and include with the machines. Sound advice and best of all it's free Most...

For far eastern plywoods you might be better off with mahogany veneer edging depending on the colour of the plywood - for birch I'd be looking at maple if I could get it. Normally I'd reckon to solid wood lip plywood because veneered edges always seem to crack and detach in use, but I tend to...

It depends on what you need, Dennis. Like most tradesmen the vast majority of my work is done out of the table, hand held. Where things need to be done in the table (e.g. heavy profiling or large rebates) then a spindle moulder or overhead pin router is the way to go if the budget permits. I...

It sort of depends on where your priorities are. I have a DW625 and a DW622. The DW622 is a great little router, almost as small and light as the old Elu MOF96, but with bags more power and very good dust extraction. For smaller and lighter out of the table tasks it's lighter and easier to...