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Having noticed a somewhat contentious thread about this topic, and having some practical experience of both specifying and using RPE I'd like to address some misconceptions. 1 - Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR) are somehow "better protection" than unpowered alternatives: First off both...

I suspect most of the wood comes from BSW's large sawmills in the area, otherwise there's no sane reason to be based that far north (having lived in Fraserborough it really is a long way from anywhere), the resin feedstock is produced (and exported from) on teesside... I'm personally inclined...

I have a great deal of empathy for your position Nick, having been involved with both importing and exporting containerised goods, it's a huge faff with multiple points to go miserably wrong; I'm thoroughly glad to currently be far away from any connection with ports, international logistics and...

Just been trying to source 28 full sheets of 9mm OSB3 to line my workshop once the insulation is up... MKM and TP couldn't (or wouldn't as a retail customer) source it for me, Lavers were straight with me and said they'd pull the order together but thought it might take a while to fulfill due...

£22 for a pair of drip-feed type oilers, well worth the investment. I've used Myfords fitted with the little cup type oilers with a sprung cap where you fill the cups with 5-6 drops of oil at the start of each use, and they're pretty good, but if you're doing a long period of turning it's...

They are and relatively inexpensively too, I bought a couple of sizes of triangular and "shoe -last shaped" scrapers from a Chinese company last year to scrape in the bearings on a friend's 0-6-0 hunslet tank engine... From that experience I think finding smaller sizes for less gargantuan...

I have one of those, it's 30 this year, and has been in daily use for the past 4½-5 in a heavily trafficked workshop on loan to a community organisation. I've put a new pair of rollers on, replaced the dust extraction adaptors twice and gone through 5 sets of blades (resharpened until you...

I don't disagree necessarily (nor do my rudimentary MIG skills)... But that is something that can be overcome with practice, book/video learning and patience by someone who is even mildly mechanically minded. I suspect the challenge is that most people buy a welder, because they need something...

Speaking to both of your points I remember working on a door casings and linings line in a sawmill which used a CNC crosscut saw, operating along the same principles of your father's design for cardboard. That was a great bit of kit, and saved masses of time compared to cutting even using stop...

Tempering will reduce the chances of it having a brittle fracture, and if it's quite a slim diameter, is a good idea. For a bigger diameter hole, you'll probably get away without it.

Is there a particular reason for getting a mill lathe combination and a separate small mill? If not for similar money you could have a Warco GH1440 Lathe and Super Major Vario Mill, or GH1230 Lathe and WM20 Mill, depending on whether a larger lathe capacity, and a medium variable speed mill, or...

Exactly, at normal power levels, the risk of damage only starts to creep in if there's severe contamination with metal ions in the electrolyte, an excessively high or low pH or a dissimilar metal is used as the electrode. I would however note that applying greater than normal potentials...

I have a 21ft long by 2ft wide run of industrial racking I bought for £80 from a rally spares company who were modernising their warehouse. With 3 layers of shelving on it, that's given me so much space back, when I first moved in I could barely move for boxes in the workshop, but as soon as I...

[Embarrassed Face] Yes! My bad, don't know how I muddled the acronym for TIG, but still got GTAW. As "Gas Tungsten..." Although I'd be very curious to see a Titanium electrode being used, from a substantial distance!

This! I've bought a variety of metalworking tooling from Banggood, and have no reason to think woodturning tools would be any different... Some has been indistinguishable from quality import tooling sold from UK warehousing by reputable importers like Chronos and RDG tooling. Others have been...

Both will perform rather better compared to standard white C.I. with regards to toughness (as in resistance to brittle failure due to shock loading)... Ductile should be a little better, but not so much as to make a difference, and neither will be nearly as good as a medium/low carbon steel.

A lot depends what you want to weld, and where. Thin Sheet Metal (0.1mm - 2mm) TIG (Titanium Inert Gas) aka: GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) is generally held as the gold standard, it's comparatively expensive, generally only usable in a workshop and has the biggest learning curve. Gas...

It's possible via a number of routes, all require adding a capacitor of some kind, but the details vary wildly with motor design... the most drastic modification would be making new connections inside the motor's winding, whilst the least drastic is changing a couple of wires over in the motor's...

Generally Yarmouth Stores is the cheapest source for King **** tools.