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They sure don’t make them like they used to. Your machine sounds like a beast at a 60cm wheel size. I’ve heard that scm bandsaws are quite well engineered, even though steel. I watched something about scm models in the USA where they were using a triple hollow box sections for the ‘spine’ (for...

Thanks Ttrees. Although this machine is only a hop, skip and jump away, I feel that Deema’s offer is a good one and is worth the wait and distance, particularly after reading his and Sideways thread on the Wadkin table saw rebuild. Not knowing much about these machines, I feel much more at ease...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading through all of this thread. What great work you guys do and very interesting, your engineering skills and knowledge are obviously greatly needed to do a job like this properly. I have an old Wadkin Bursgreen UOS 18” PT, works really well although I think the feeder...

Sounds like the most sensible solution to me.

That would be amazing! We do have a forklift for backup. The compound where I work is open 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday. Because my landlord runs a plant hire business from there, the place is secured up outside of these times although it may be possible if planned to have access on a Saturday but...

Hi Deema. Thanks for the offer. If it’s accurate and works fine I’d be interested. Is this the 18” wheel model? What is the year made? Just so I can get info online about it. Where about in the country are you? I’m in West Lothian Scotland.

Thanks, I had read one of these but not the other.

Thanks. It’s a good idea to keep some back for blades/ installation if possible. I’ll take a look at 18” machines and get an idea.

Thanks. I did notice that the new machines at this price range were possibly not industrial enough and heard from Axminster videos that the capacity of a machine is the maximum capacity and best not to use a machine to its maximum capacity all of the time. It’s a grey area for me and very unsure...

Happy New Year to all. I am currently in the market to purchase a bandsaw. I’m currently running a business making hardwood tables and have been using steel bases until now for the larger tables. I would like to be able to cut larger sized timbers i.e. in excess of my current limitations which...

I bought the festool rotex sander too and my god what a difference. That thing, although a fun challenge to control, is probably as close to an industrial machine with a hand held tool as I have used when it comes to sanding. It ripped through the router marks and scorch marks using 60 grit, 80...

Thanks bro, I shimmed it with a coke can wedge in the end. Solved the problem for now at least. 👍🏻

Thanks for that. Always trying to improve these things. Generally the finish is deep pour epoxy and i route it down to the wood so that it is a real wood to resin finish. Many people just do flood coating but is a different finish to what I do. Sure the resin has a little shrinking when it sets...

I’ll take a look at the drum sander ideas. Currently using 60 grit but tends to chip epoxy slightly, difficult to see until polishing stage, I feel that if I go to 40 grit it will be more uneven and harder to finish. I can’t skip grits unfortunately, resin will not allow it, it is a more...

Yes I generally have to get lads for a few minutes to help me lift them out of the epoxy room (timber kit room built within the workshop, It is a controlled dry atmosphere in there unlike the rest of the shop, basically a steel shed with no insulation etc, not ideal for moisture in the air and...

No belt sander as yet, I guess the wider the better if fixed well onto a jig.

https://www.stonecoatcountertops.com/slab-jig/

I agree, I think the router is the problem rather than the jig, the router used to do better flatness than it does now but still not great. It’s a workhorse machine alright but think the accuracy has slipped a bit. I am currently using similar to the Wealden bit in the picture with replacement...

I like the sander jig idea. There are systems out there that allow power tool configuration with sliding arm but still costly and they tend to do more than I need to do.

In-house help with the process in future would be great but the thought of shifting one of these to simply take a millimetre off and then shifting it back to the workshop would be more hassle than 4 hours sanding to be honest. Even 2 men moving these is a graft and I generally work on my own and...