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Sounds like a worn pot. The giveaway would be if it happens again tapping the speed knob or giving it a tiny speed tweak puts it back at the right speed.

You have some nice tight joints there, only question would be the end grain on the lid, seems to have saw marks still visible, or it that just the photo? It would probably have been easy enough to clean up before finishing. The thickness of the lid is what is it is, it's neither right nor...

Comparison with my Diamond which depending on your viewpoint is either trivally simple or highly integrated: https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/speed-control-switch.145228/

Just opened mine up, there are a few photos below. I'm not entirely clear what needs replacing, the switch or the speed control? The speed control is a 250K linear pot, since it is wiring as avariable resistor as opposed to potentiometer I'd try to match that resistance value. Shaft is 1/4" D...

This is truer than often assumed. I used to work in insurance claims and the Ombudsman will always err on the side of the customer and throw out many provisions they perceive as unfair. Most policies don't have small print or legalese simply because the Ombudman doesn't like them. Ditto Act...

Common one for many here will be a towbar. It typically won't affect premiums but should be declared regardless.

Personally I wouldn't be tempted to overthink it. Never done it for vices but always used generic PVA for mounting strops, never had any issue. If I was lining vice jaws I may be tempted to pre-line the jaws with e.g. hardboard panel pinned in place, simply so that if/when the leather needs...

No it's not just you, it does seem to have gone the way of the dodo. Wouldn't be a bad choice, on first reading this my first thoughts were you really want some solid wood in there since most manufactured wood will inevitably sag with time. From stock blockboard can be depended on to be flat...

To me this begs the question "What are you trying to do?" I've looked at these before and been put off by the same kind of reviews you mention. When I looked at the job in hand I figured other ways around it. Drilling through the base of a bench drill comes to mind, even in circumstances you...

I did want to reply to multiple recent posts but can't remember how to get the multi-quote thing to work, particularly across page separations, so I'll just summarise my thoughts instead. This is a design that has clearly evolved over time - e.g. those vertically mounted highish power resistors...

Actually I'm taking that part of my analysis back, just realised I had mixed up units.

Be aware of you are in Greece it will be set up for the wrong side of the road, yes really, even on a bike. My Dad bought a grey import BMW from Europe back in the 80s, had MOT'd it without issue until after perhaps 15 years when the tester noticed and failed it. The (original) headlight was...

Where do you think Korea is?

I'm surprised to, seems done on the cheap to avoid the need to step down the voltage. It appears to connect the motor directly to the mains for up to a quarter of the mains cycle, it's that duty cycle which allows a 60V motor to be used (240 ÷ 4 = 60V). I've sketched out how it seems to work...

I was thinking more of this kind of thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BBQ9ZNMV although I'm not recommending that particular model, it's simply the first that came up in the search. The silver scraper attachment pictured is bevels on one side only, so you can lay the blade flat on the floor...

Interesting. Not what I expected to see to be honest. There's no caps chunky enough in there to be smoothing the rectified power to the motor, must be cutting the waveform as traditional light dimmers did until florescent and LED. Just to make sure I've reading the board correctly, I take it...

@AES do you have any updates on this yet?

A scraper fitted to an oscillating multitool would be my first thought.

I can see some use to it when screwdriving, sometimes you want speed and at other points torque. Generally drilling I find you want high speed, low torque to control blast out. Curious though, how do you dis/engage the gear to switch gears? Hope it doesn't simply depend on wobble in the main...

Wouldn't fancy your chances. A lot depends on the drill of course but I'd imagine the motivation here is economic in which case we're unlikely to be talking about a top flight drill. Two concerns. Firstly vast majority of cordless drill lack a mounting collar raising the question of how you...