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My workshop is a rented unit in a business park. It is a large unit and 5m high under the ridge. And unheated. A couple of weeks a year I daydream about heating it. Then I get brought down to earth by one of two thoughts. The first is the cost. The second is the voices of the guys who taught me...

Maybe you could chop it up. I don’t know. Would it effect the motor cooling? SIP does a 2hp extractor that is the size you want (2/3 as big as what you have now). I bought one recently. It is 2500m3/hr and yours is currently 3900m3/hr; thats what you lose going down 1hp. If the loss in...

100x16 is not a PAR size. You will probably have to buy something close and thickness it. The closest builders merchants will typically have to that in PAR is Ex 100x25 (finishes 94x20.5) or the next size up Ex 125x25. Many stockists have these widths thicknessed down to 18mm. Softwood skirting...

Worst ever purchase. At sometime in the 1970s when I was probably about 9 I was at the Australian Open Tennis Tournament as my Mum had won tickets by ringing a local radio station. It was 42C outside and they estimated it was getting near to 50C inside the concrete tennis bowl in Kooyong. Play...

Please tell your Mum that my birthday is in October.

Cool sled. A lot more impressive than my beaten up old plywood coping sled with one mechanical clamp. I work in metric and if I am doing the conversion right you are trying to make a 1/10th of a mm improvement on performance. You are a lot more precise than me. I make those sort of adjustments...

I doubt you’ll get those dimensions pre-milled from a builders merchant. If you can’t make it yourself why not approach a local joinery to make you some. I’d offer but you are a long way away.

The axminster trade range saw I posted above - they are actually rebranded Harvey saws - have all of these features as standard. They also have a dado blade: although I haven’t used this much as I prefer the spindle moulder. Most of my joinery shop is running gear from this company. Maybe I am...

Last year I replaced an older version of one of these which I had completely run into the ground - probably around 12,000 hours of work - with one of these Although my new saw is the version without the router table attached as shown above. I can recommend them both but the AP254 is probably...

Not telling you how to suck eggs or anything but if you replace that column with something else think about getting your building consent in order or you risk having bureaucratic grief if you ever sell your house.

You’ll probably end up with resin but I would try Fischer brand plugs first combined with slow drilling so you don’t burst out into the voids in the brick. It is amazing what those plugs will grip to.

All my best purchases were at the start of my apprenticeship when I first started getting a paypacket… Estwing 24oz Rabone folding rule Makita 9’’ saw Holden Kingswood HZ ute. 350 chev (5.7 litre) V8 for the above Motörhead Bomber AC/DC Back in Black.

If your saw is running true and your blades are good it might just be the angle of attack on the timber grain. Not many table saw cuts are planer quality after all.

If it is for paint quality what about just regular hardwood ply and lip the edges. It paints really well and its only about £40 a sheet.

This is what I was going to suggest also. And as to the torsion box depth; you are building something load bearing in a residential dwelling so it should meet the code a la the joist span tables.

Well I do love the old startrite but I have to admit that this and the morticer are the least used machines in the workshop. I do try to avoid taking on any curved work these days though; which probably explains how dusty it is getting.

Interesting, they used some low tech solutions for bombing too. I think I am right in remembering from Paul Brickhill’s book that the bomb aimer knew it was time to let go of the bouncing bomb on the Mohne Dam raid when the two towers on the dam parapet lined up with two nails that had been...

Nice work above. What often happens to me is a customer wants a built in all the way to the ceiling and they don’t want a timber moulding or just a flat/blank section to the top. They want their existing gypsum coving style run right around the room. Problem is many of these are no longer...

These will go up on ebay this weekend. Just wanted to make sure that none of you guys wanted them first. They are £90 each to forum members which I think is about a 25% discount on what they are worth.

Got no problem with people taking things out of skips; do it myself. It’s the people who put things in skips uninvited that really p\ss me off. Why should me or the customer be expected to pay for disposing of all their old cr@p.