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Hi jaybo Cascamite powdered resin is a very good ,totally waterproof and easy to use general wood glue. I buy it from Adkwik. For internal use titebond II is good and reasonably priced from lots of suppliers. The foaming PU has its uses but you need to protect yourself from it and the sanding...

Hi Charlie The TM 3 is a great machine for a one man shop. You need to ensure that its fitted with limited projection tooling since this will add £400 approx to the cost. DC braking is not normally needed since the machine stops within the required time

I have installed stoves in boats and found that the makers recommended flue is much longer than the available space, they have always worked well and caused no problems. I think it's more important o have draft control at tha stove top, bottom, and preferably in the door. Mike.

Pick one that is considered to be suitable for use on a narrow boat. They only have short chimneys as a matter of course. Midland Chandlers site should show a good selection.

It looks like Douglas fir to me, its available from decent timber merchants, also known as Columbian pine and Oregon pine. Mike.

It's hard to see any real benefit from the increased going at the newel post compared to the traditional method of lining up the front face of the risers with the centre point of the newel post. The increase in tread width at the walking line is very small. As already suggested, you can use a...

I would agree that a mitre face on a bandsaw is not a very accurate device and that you will need to shoot the mitres after cutting, that being said it might as well be a home made mitre fence.

You need to know that a small number of people are very allergic to Laburnam dust. They can go into anaphylactic shock.

The right hand end looks like a hoof pick, perhaps the other end is to take a tooth file?

My system has a 150mm range pipe with 100mm down pipes and blast gates. The machines are connected with the minimum length of 100mm flexy. The best tip I have is to ensure that down pipes enter the side of the range pipe to prevent chippings falling down pipes from machines which are currently...

You would be better advised to use the proper metal ducting and fittings that are made for the job. Everything will fit together easily and each machine can have a blast gate to keep up extraction performance. Plastic drainage may look a little cheaper but you need to cobble fittings together...

I failed to notice any great anger in my original post but it seems that some are more astute than me, this issue has needed airing for some time. It is relevant to all of us who use tools. For the avoidance of doubt I am keen to draw attention to the fact that great distress is caused by these...

The less honest will prefer to bury their heads in the sand, as I said, it is possible to make sensible purchases but not if you take the attitude that a bargain is worth turning a blind eye. If you have always avoided dodgy sellers you can't possibly be offended. And no I didn't imply that all...

I've just read another post in which members are urged to search for tools on eBay to get a cheaper buy! It should be blindingly obvious by now that the current plague of thieving toe rags who raid workshops and tradesmen's vans are financed and encouraged by idiots who buy nearly new tools from...

Scaffold boards are made from poor quality white pine which is of no use for any other jobs other than rough carcassing. l am amazed at the current fashion for attempting to work with this material. I know that some people are buying new scaffold boards and making things with them. Any used...

In the absence of bits of radio aerial, a suitably sized roll pin from an engineering supplier can have teeth ground at the end and be used in the same way.

Every router I have used has extracted the collet as the nut is unscrewed. The only exemption being one that had been assembled by inserting the collet and cutter in the machine and following up with the nut, this will secure the bit but not be able to extract the collet after use. If you failed...

Cut the material down the centre lengthwise, machine a half round using router and box core cutter or spindle moulder. Glue the halves together again.,job done!

I've had experience of this size of cutter breaking off at the base of the TC inserts with very little use or abuse. The solid carbide type have been very good and have been hard used. I also have a couple of single flute solid carbide cutters which I bought in the hope that they would be more...

Timber which has been kiln dried recently can suffer from tension in the inner and outer layers of material which can pull the timber into a curve if you take to much material from one side. It's advisable to reduce the thickness steadily taking material from alternate sides and checking after...