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You have what's known as a fink truss and you need to convert it to an attic truss. That's the core of a loft to room conversion so yes it can be done but it's not trivial. Fink trusses are used because they offer the best load and span whilst using the minimum of materials, ie. they're the...

There's some useful info here, including dealing with the chrome bits. https://aplanelife.us/downloads

I've found this style of hook to be reliable plus don't represent a spike hazzard when the board is removed. When removed completely the 4 small pin holes are hardly visible and disappear with a bit of paint. The short pins represent no risk to the core building fabric just a few mm of plaster.

Watch out for bowl gouge size confusion between the US and Europe. In the US a gouge is measure by the round bar shank size, in the UK it's the distance between flutes, but even this sometimes changes between manufacturers. So a 3/8 flute measured gouge (UK) is the same as a 1/2 shank measured...

Ooh, a sharpening thread….. If you’re happy with spending that much just for the primary bevel then go for the ProEdge. It will do it quickly and with minimum heat. However, from my experience, it’s not good for the secondary bevel. It is excellent at grinding the same angle every time and is...

Use your hole saw to cut a hole in some 18mm MDF. Remove the drill from the hole saw, and use the 18mm MDF to guide the hole saw on your desired material. This will cut out circles with no centre hole, quick and simple.

The AC400 does a good job of filtering the air and I have been vacuuming / blowing out the filters as needed but I've just managed to blow a hole through the outer one with my compressor and should have really replaced it some time ago....Anyway I thought I'd buy 5 filters and keep some on the...

It's such a shame we have stopped using all our old measurements. The last hardware store I knew where you could still ask for a Gross of nails and be understood has closed :(

You could look at a concrete groover/planer. I've seen a few milking sheds where the concrete has been grooved after laying in order to keep the hooves out of the water. By having so many grooves even a flat surface will drain. https://www.pwm-sales.co.uk/shop/ct320-concrete-groover-shaver/

This fire resistance when close to a boundary seems to be a bit open to interpretation. I built a 3 bay garage, one wall was within 2m of a field boundary but tapered to 1m as it ran. There's a page in the building regs which allows you to calculate the fire resistance needed, it turned out that...

You could think about cutting off the other wing and then grinding to make a flat platform. Fabricate a new part from a steel block (hacksaw and file) and then drill and tap the casting to fit.

There are several after market fences out there and l'm sure you could make the RP sabre kit fit, Sabre Fence Upgrade., as its only needs two holes in the table. Search bandsaw fence upgrade on this site will give you several options as well.

No idea how Axminster can police this if it goes wrong during the guarantee period but it doesn't seem fair use to me. Fortunately there are a lot of manufacturers who have no such limits and in fact rate their products for trade use at similar prices so buy from someone else.

I see that it's the top bearing that is causing the problem, loads at that size but the bearing is at the bottom. Could you use a standard straight flute cutter and use the shank as the bearing surface? So an 8mm cutter with 8mm shank or a 6.3mm cutter with a 1/4 shank.

Yup, Shows were such a great way of viewing machinery in the flesh and having someone on hand who new the machine inside out, made choosing so much easier, although I did actually buy mine from FFX on one of eBays 15% sale days....

I used some dowels and then butt joined with glue.

I went through the same choice a few years back and managed to see both machines before buying the Metabo. They looked to be the same core machine to me but the record has a few advantages but I didn't think it was worth the extra memory. From distant memory the advantages were. Tables were...

I would make a 45 degree shooting board and then use a block plane as JobandKnocksays. A standard plane will work as well as long as its sharp and setup correctly, even the best mitre saw will not produce perfect cuts. You can tweak the angle as well by using small packing pieces when planing.

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Thanks for the details on the other options, I think I'm going to stick with the Por-15. It may seem expensive but I love the way it removes surface rust and leaves a zinc coating all ready for painting. I've also found it acts as an good etch primer for clean steel so multi-purpose. The other...