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I put sawdust and small shavings on the compost heap; mixing it with vegetable waste and grass cuttings of course. Larger shavings (eg from chainsaw) makes a good mulch and is excellent for putting on the muddy patch in front of the compost heap :) Burning sawdust would be a good use but it does...

Nice! Could be good for chess pieces.

Climate change being 100% man made or not is a red herring! What is clear from the measured data is that average global temperature is increasing and this corresponds with increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It doesn't matter a jot whether that is 100% our fault, or 98% or...

Thanks for all the replies. It seems like most people use it for turning. I don't have a lathe, but maybe I should keep a few bits which would be suitable for turning as it's always possible I will get one eventually. I plan to make some boxes from it. It is indeed pretty wood. The heartwood is...

A few weeks ago a neighbour had an old hawthorn tree removed from their garden. I was lucky enough to get some of the timber for free. Some was cut in to 6 to 8 inch slabs by the tree surgeon so that is now drying as firewood. However, there were a few logs and branches which were long enough to...

akirk, given that having one on one lessons is proving a problem, have you seen Matt Estlea's videos? He has a free "online school" which is a series of comprehensive videos some covering specific topics like "how to sharpen a chisel etc" or "how to saw properly" and some dedicated to actual...

I'm happy with Yandles too. Very good on price, good sales personnel. They don't always have every item in stock but will go the extra mile to arrange it. Great advice on machinery. Very nice timber (ordered unseen); I must take a trip there some day, but it's a long trip. However, as...

You have to be sharp to get these planer jokes, or am I just going round in circles?

Ha ha, you make a good point. It should be Planer not Planner. Alas, I suffer from a certain amount of dyslexia with regards to certain words (or spellings); no matter which way around I write them, they always appear wrong to me. However, I'm long enough in the tooth to adopt the attitude...

I'm not sure what a "dizy board" is but the electrician installed a distribution board (...er is that what you mean by a dizy board?) in the garage from which the ring and two radial lines originate. As mentioned, the lights radial is protected by a 6 amp mcb, the shed radial has a 16 amp mcb...

I have seen jigs made to sharpen the blades but I am hesitant to do it myself as unbalancing the blades won't do the machine any good. The blades I use are plain unslotted.

Those are the beasties. Ah, I see you are using fuse wire. I didn't realise that was still in use.

Sachakins, it seems that you really know your steel! Alas, there is no indication of which HSS is used. As Mark says, I will (eventually) report back on how they perform. However, I will first see how the prefitted ones perform, so that I have something to compare them to. I suspect that they...

Right, which is the reason for my enquiry. For some unfathomable reason I have an aversion to paying vastly more than is necessary for an item! :dunno: PS: I like the Einstein quote :)

Hi Sideways, you obviously have a lot of knowledge in this area. Indeed a 16A CE socket with an integral 16A mcb would be a simple solution. However, a quick search on the internet only produces CE sockets with RCD protection, which seems to be something different, not to mention the fact that...

No, both products say HSS steel. The physical dimensions are the same. The price is different. Usually, that implies a difference in quality.

Ok, I see. I was just wondering why some sets of 3 HSS blades (of the same size) cost around 30 pounds and others around 60 pounds. I assumed that there was a quality difference.

Yes the cable to the garage comes directly from the main switch box (fuse box) for the house and has it's own distribution board. The MCB in the house fuse box is rated at 64 amps. From the garage distribution box there is a ring for power sockets on a 32 amp MCB, a spur for lights on a 6 amp...

My new planner thicknesser is wired to a 13 amp plug on a ring main dedicated for my power tools in my garage. The MCB circuit breaker is rated at 32 amps, the cable is 2.5mm armoured cable, so the system can easily deal with any power that the 2.75 kW motor should pull. 13 amp fuses are able to...

I have a set of 3 HSS planner plades (SD31/A) for a 310mm wide planner thicknesser. The manufacturer is "Ilma". Can anyone comment on the likely quality of these blades? I don't see anyone selling blades under the name Ilma. Startrite, yes, but not Ilma.