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A cement mixer engine might fit the bill,but it would need a supply of cooling air and be a bit noisy.You would also have to sort out a dry exhaust and both insulation and rain repelling solutions.

If it cheers you up,the knife adjustment on the old Danckaert planer I once shared a workshop with was far harder to get right.It needed a long parallel punch and an hour or two to get it spot on.With the Sedgwick it ought to be a case of applying enough torque to the locking bolts to just...

I'm on Jacob's side of the fence.Sharp is all important and if you develop a jig dependency,you will be stuck with it forever.Which might not matter if you need to sharpen a tool in your zen like workshop for a job undertaken with great reverence but no urgency.Away from the calm of the workshop...

I'm quite sure that the only people who have never had an incident with a CNC machine are those who have never pressed "start". I'm a little surprised that Nick had his machine go to X0,Y0 without lifting to the Z home height first.Is there an option in the post processor variables to make such...

Equally off topic,a man I last saw in the 1980's had spent some time working in a boatyard that had formerly built 50 foot wooden fishing boats.He told me that on the wall of the engineer's shop they had a thirty foot long boring bar which had been used to bore for the propellor shafts.

I'd be surprised if the 3M product is anything other than silicon carbide.

I've done something very similar in the preliminary stages of making a standard lamp.I had a tame welder attach a 1 metre length of tube to a drill bit and made a couple of drill guides from 25mm ply.The whole collection of parts was lined up on a long cast iron surface table and I drilled from...

This needs to be emphasised,on two occasions I have found a rule to be inaccurate and I took them out of circulation.I trust Stanley tape rules and I trust Rabone steel rules that carry the phrase standard at 20 C.Others gain my trust if they compare well to those mentioned.Good tools to...

I bought a workzone version when they were on special offer.Its OK but a bit noisy,which seems to be quite common with the palm routers.

I live reasonably close to Norwich,but haven't visited Magdalen street for quite a while.Its either inconvenient or expensive to get there,so I don't often bother.The street isn't exactly thriving and there is a fair chance that somebody selected on of the numerous empty shops to associate their...

I completely agree.There is a big mental hurdle that seems to prevent some people grasping the difference between drawing on three planes and actually creating a 3D object to work from.The great benefit of a parametric 3D modeller really gets appreciated when you realise one of the features...

I'm a bit in awe of that,I find Inkscape the least intuitive piece of software I have ever tried.Yet I have seen a youtube video of a fellow using it to generate Gcode directly. I don't see quite as many posts of the various CNC forums these days from people saying that you don't need software...

I found the whole business easier after discovering this document on the woodweb.com site https://woodweb.com/knowledge_base_images/ms/Process32_041204.pdf . Since there is more than one supplier of hardware competing for the same European business I also looked at the information from...

I have a few wooden planes and they get an occasional workout.Because it has become known that I do sometimes use them there have been occasions when I have been gifted one,such as when an elderly parent's house is being cleared.Twice I have received jack planes that had hardly seen any use and...

It may just be a bit of moulding,but it needs to stay in one piece until it reaches it's destination.If you lift it off the bench there will be quite a load imposed on the joint just by the weight of the overhanging length. The glue joint itself may be up to the job,but will the fibres of the...

Much depends on the type of thing you make.MDF isn't too bad until you break through the surface and then it becomes a nightmare to finish-but it can be done,as you can see by taking a look at the painted doors on some kitchen furniture.A good sealer is the foundation and then serious...

Dyneema is great once the initial stretch has been dealt with.It needs to be stretched,just once,for the structure to become stabilised.The comments about UV are quite correct but if Kevlar is available at a tempting price,ignore the temptation to buy it as it too is subject to UV degradation...

I don't know if you have ever replaced a set of knives,and I suspect the answer is in the negative.They do have adjusting screws solely for the purpose of aligning the knives with the outfeed table. I have a suspicion that you may henceforth find the thicknesser cutting out of parallel across...

Its your machine and your time,but wouldn't it be simpler just to set the knives accurately and forgo the frustration involved in trying to move the castings?It is entirely possible that they have "settled" a bit since they were machined.If one knife will need to project a little more than...

I think you have worked out the way to eliminate the rubbing,but use restraint and maybe a very thin washer to hold the gear away from the metal strap,if there is no other means of preventing the gear moving in sync with the strap re-locating. I have only used the slightly larger Sedgwick...