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You could do worse than covering each with a plywood box that goes over the top, with something soft, like carpet underlay to make a gasket on the bench... That way you can exclude dust pretty well when not in use.

You're right. The Line (Live, brown) wire from your flex needs to join with the brown (L1) from the motor and one of the white wires from the capacitor; I did this using a soldered t-splice and some heat shrink, using a connection block is probably better practice. The remaining White wire...

I had the misfortune to be in a DT class when one of my classmates dared another one to press his nose to the pedestal grinding wheel... Luckily the guard saved his face from being pulled onto the wheel and the Technician spotted him leaning in and hit the E-Stop that cut off all the machines at...

Yes, I will probably re-harden using the same hearth set-up to heat treat as last time, when I forged a carving tool... Only now I have access to an IR thermometer so can try to control the temperature better. Unsure if I'll temper it harder, as it won't be resharpened, unlike a gouge.

For all practical purposes, hex nuts stop around 1½" to 2" (and the metric equivalent), shaft and axle locking nuts extend up to those sizes, but if you want the aesthetics of gigantic nuts that's unlikely to do. You could machine them from solid bar hexagonal bar easily enough on a modestly...

I was given some truly awful Chinese rifflers about a month ago, worse than useless in fact... So i'm still planning on buying a few nice Italian or French hand cut ones... But they did present an opportunity to have a crack at making some of my own... I removed the awful uneven stitching...

I hope I didn't seem like I was having a dig! It's more I'm curious as to how and when the woodworkers cross-pein became distinct, as the two types of hammer are pretty different animals, and the woodworkers pattern is probably more important (certainly these days) than the metalworking...

The HSE has a lot of data on this from RIDDOR reporting, how much they're able/willing to share I'm unsure, but they're generally pretty diligent and helpful when you contact them (if glacially slow); it's analyses of this data that use to develop the Woodworking Information Sheets and...

I've PM'ed you, but will add more detail here, the gist is that within the wood machining world there are quite a few bleeding edge mechanical engineering problems, mainly focused on how you reliably make a non-standard board of wood into a standard part, without significant human input. As...

Are Warrington pattern and continental joiners hammers "Cross Pein Hammer" though, or just specialist hammers with a cross pein... I've always associated "Cross Pein Hammers" with metalworking and smithing, where the head is materially simmilar to either an engineer's hammer (like a ball pein)...

I have two things on that list, one if which is tangential to Woodworking A versatile wide-band bandsaw, I would like to own one, if I had space... but a big part of me would like to build one; i've been increasingly drawn away from woodworking in the last year to machine...

I'm in my mid 20's, guess I'm part of the middle class "affluent young professional" cohort too, though it irks me to admit it... Most of my furniture is heirlooms that my parents, aunts, uncles grandparents and great grandparents had no room for, but didn't want to let go of, mostly vernacular...

I'm another in the camp that doesn't really understand why anyone would want battery tools if they don't Need to be away from mains... I do use (but not own) a Bosch blue 18v drill which is adequate for most tasks, and have access to its Ryobi equivalent which is adequate for wood (for which I...

That was interesting... The box joints failed by the mode I'd anticipated, but the finger joints yielded under tension perpendicular to the grain, which would be the second most likely mode of failure... I wonder why.

Following on from the Sagar Morticer, I'm also helping to restore a friend's Wadkin BAOS. It was bought at auction as a pile of bits, yet is in good mechanical and electrical order, mere surface rust to deal with... Apart from one thing, it's missing its fence and guard assemblies. Are there...

Wood is stronger in compression than tension, and it's shear strength in a plane parallel to the annular rings is its weakest strength characteristic... Yet timber which is quarter sawn (generally accepted as best quality, and of superior dimensional stability), then unavoidably results in the...

Sorry Jacob, I think I've articulated myself rather poorly here. I was trying to say that your suggested method of cutting to length then planing convex side down (using a push stick to apply pressure in the centre of the bow at the balance point), was the most appropriate way IMHO; sometimes I...

THIS! Are we seriously saying that dropping on, on a Planer is anything other than an unsafe practice? Especially when common sense solutions like the one above abound.

Interesting. The machine in Question is electrically powered by its original custom built motor, running on standard 3 phase voltage and frequency... This all points to being of post 1938 manufacture at least... I'm not sure if 19 years prior to the end of production counts as "near the end"...

Where I worked, we had a small set of chisels for each cell in the factory, the cheapest Cromwell would sell us... To be abused as much as required to get the job done. Each Semi-Skilled and Skilled man who required hand tools to do their job had a tool allowance and a lockable cupboard... It...