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This was my first foray into incorporating resin in a turned piece. I learned a lot, especially not to use polyester resin! Although it does't require a pressure vessel to become clear, it shrinks a good deal when curing and you get a lot of break-out during the turning. I did manage to fill...

If you are going for a used RAS check for wear along the length of the arm that the head runs in. If this is excessive at any point the blade will tilt there and the cut will not be square vertically. Many years ago I bought a DeWalt industrial RAS with this problem and the cost of replacing...

I have some ides for filling routed pockets in wood blanks with coloured resin before turning them on the lathe. The pockets are 6-8mm deep and the bottom would be removed in the turning to make the resin visible from top and bottom. For my first attempt I have used a polyester casting resin...

If this is the kind of thing you have in mind, I'm happy to share how we cut the corner joints (or anything else you'd like to know). (It is square in reality, it's just the lens making it look to be leaning.)

I too have just acquired a used Axminster dual drum sander which looks identical to the AP365 and I have been looking at Deerfos 100mm wide stiff emery cloth sandpaper rolls, which at £2.20/m (from Dr Abrasive) are less than 1/3 of Axminster's price. Does anybody have any experience of this...

I have a Nilfisk Buddy II 12L which works very well, but whichever one you go for I'd try to get one with a 13 amp socket on it that is wired so that the vacuum starts working when the trigger is pulled on the tool and stops when the trigger is released. (My Buddy II didn't have this feature...

A friend of mine's grandchildren are being christened at the weekend, and when I asked what they might like as a gift a personalised eggcup was mentioned. I think this was traditionally a christening gift, along with silver bangles etc. The wood is maple and the lettering is routed out on a...

For painted cabinets I use MRMDF for the most part and Tulip for small section parts that need more strength, like window bars and carcass frames or mouldings. I have made cabinet doors entirely out of MRMDF using 22mm for the frame and 12 mm for the panels. I made my kitchen using this and in...

Mark Too good to miss! Put me down for this as well please. John

Mark I'll have this as well as the Tormek please. I'll collect them both next week. R John

Mark I think I've sent a PM (initiated a conversation in the mail tool), but not having done it before ...........? Please let me know if you don't receive it. R John

I'll take the Tormek if it's still available. John

I had to accept that in the world we live in there are things that steal pencils. My solution was to buy one of these, https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-home-50-pack-pencils-131448075-p-44 I now feel pencil secure.

I am refurbishing a pair of built-in cupboard doors from a house build sometime in the 19th century. As you can imagine, there were many coats of paint of unknown manufacture be removed with my plumbing blow-torch and scraper. I'm sure that at least one layer will have been lead based. I also...

I'm intrigued. I investigated adding a ground source heat pump to my oil-fired system a few years back. Apart from the cost (the bore-hole alone was £60/m and the various suppliers wanted it between 150m and 360m deep) the major issue was that the return water temperature to the oil boiler was...

Betterbo I'll be watching this thread with interest as I have exactly the same problem with the Axminster WD16F I bought new some years ago. I too have removed the quill and tried to find where the run-out occurs, but nothing seems to fix it. The dial gauge shows the quill is running true*...

I've had a Sedgwick (I think it's a 571) for the best part of 40 years (scary!) and it's been brilliant. I have used it on just about everything from MDF to oak and it just works. I had to make a few collars for the various auger sizes but apart from that I can't fault it. The last big...

We have a cat, but he shows little interest in mice in the house. Too well fed is suspect. As to an earth wire, the lamps are all earthed through the metalwork of the fitting and then through an earth wire back to the consumer unit etc. Although I do most or my own wiring, I always have it...

I'm decorating my kitchen and decided to replace the GU10 downlights with integrated LED units, as they had gone a bit brown from the heat of the incandescent bulbs originally installed. When I removed the GU10 units I found this with 6 of them:- We live in a rural location and mice...

Mike Jhn said "Mohair suits and spend most of my weekend evenings in the West End, Wardour and Carnaby Street mostly" Aaah - Two tone Tonic Mohair trousers (with turnups), Fred Perry or Ben Sherman shirt, Squire shoes and Harrington bomber jacket or Crombie in the winter. A weekend millionaire!