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:shock: ...Pete, thanks mate. I knew none of that. Just picked aluminium out of my head as the first thing I knew might be ground into shape and would clog a wheel. Coloured me impressed and "Thank you" for the 'heads up'. :shock: Sam P.S. edit: as a biologist, I know aluminium dust is...

Yup. No sense in abrading a fine particle size, white or pink wheel. The coarser 60 or 80 grit ones though can really load up with, say, aluminium and need cleaned to expose a fresh grit surface. Sam

Love it! Just my kind of gadget! Sam

Trevanion? Wheel dressers are a different tool: for cleaning "glazed" wheels where the surface voids are full of gunk. The rotating wheels 'bounce' a little as the grinder rotates and dig out the offending foreign material. They also reveal ' fresh' stone material. You can then apply the...

"Uhhh...that's a negative Mr President"

Uh hunh. One.

I'll have thenm please Rob. PM later as up to eyeballs just now. Ta. Sam

I'm that man Eric; Hi! Lastminute! Mine has worked fine, but merrily eats batteries! As to precision (Hi Mike!), mine resembles that of digital 'very nears' and gets me 99% accurate, sometimes better, and then test cuts finesse the settings into "spot on". I will confess to using it initially...

S'right. Mine are 1.25" front'n'back. If anyone has access to a rear casting for one of these, please get in touch? Pretty please?? Sam

Absolutely Noel; there or Newton Stewart. I remember well the days before the by-passes. :D Sam

We had two of ‘de travellers’ try to force their way past me in my open (6 bar) gateway “ta just touch up yer tarmac loicke”..I am 6 ft (pre-decimal) and when my two sons, who are both taller than me and have represented their country athletically, strolled out to flank me and (temporarily) bar...

Howdy Paul. Agree wholeheartedly with you re A75; its easily on a parr with the (one carriageway!!) A1 just north of me here on he north east coast. But, amazingly, it - the A75 - is SO much better than it was. I first came across it in 1972 and I can tell you, that was...epic. Sam, who saw...

[u ] Not so much 'blue sky thinking'as "rainbow thinking"? Also, given Parkinson's Law and CNC laser machining advances, surely we are approaching, quite literally, " making light work"? :shock: Well, a man can dream can't he? At least any cuts using this gear would be instantly...

Shed? You made me cough up my slurp of tea with that last sentence mate! :D Now fully understand your comments ( and agree about cliques, no names though) and confess I was unaware - and will continue to be so - of the square thread dust-up. Life is too bloody short for playground posturing...

From many years commuting from N.I. across Dumfreeshire et al to central England and to north-western Scotland up the Ayrshire coast, I am only too well aware what "the wilds" are regarding Brian. If his 'local' hospital is Stranraer, he's far out indeed. You need a lot of concentration on those...

Thanks AES. Good that Brian has 'kept his hand in' synonymous with a very difficult time. My circumstances are such that I identify very strongly with Brian ( and yourself) and can only convey my utmost empathy and best wishes for him. Sam

Shed9? Care to elucidate? If my guess is correct, the thread in question was conducted with civility as a deliberate and direct contrast to the appalling name-calling and personal abuse of the 'rant' thread. Sycophancy, no, but a demonstration that disagreeing with another member's post can be...

Seen, replied to. Family are the priority. Always Sam

Life happens. I retired Sept 2017 and haven't stopped 'working like a nailer' ever since. Events not unlike your own, and including a move from one country to another...Haven't managed one single day pleasure woodworking in all that time. So, nae probs, AES, you'll get to it when you get to it...

I weighed in once against MikeG, begging to gently disagree and I'm going to do so again, agin several of you now: Firstly define "precision"? If I am using a microtome, I want a cut of single digit micrometre thickness, no way a blue marples chisel does that. Horses for courses. But...some -...