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I’m sure I have contributed to these debates in the past, experience says that it all gets heated quite quickly. Suffice to say, if you are worried, thread a bare copper wire through your plastic ducting and ground. I did this in a school workshop and it’s been working without incident for 15...

Short answer is……you need an electrician and his test gear !

Indeed it could be the run capacitor or some of those motors might have a centrifugal run switch, this could be malfunctioning. Any feedback on progress ?

Difficult to say, but, if the switch (nvr ?) is already playing up I think I would suspect it and start there!

A clean cross section would be interesting. You mention laburnum - that will be very obvious from cross section.

I think you missed / misunderstood the mention of a hole saw in an earlier post. They are like drills with a saw blade around them. Ideal for the purpose you describe.

Hi Richard. Yes, this should be fairly easy to sort. Firstly you are looking for capacitors (years ago called ‘condensers’) not any form of ‘coil’. A good place to start is somewhere like ebay, but for a quality go to RS online. You need motor start / run capacitors: 1x 160 / 200uf (sometimes...

4.3 cfm displacement (no idea what that would be in free air delivery FAD but it will be lower) is going to struggle spraying anything of any size but all ok for low air use tools like staple / nail guns.

As robgul says with all the joints fully soldered.

Good result !

Where are you / can any of us do the alteration for you? Gerry might be right but the contacts you want may be missing just to save the manufacturer a fraction of a penny on each unit of production. What you need is indeed simple - if you know what you are doing / understand it !

A few thoughts…….(allow for the fact that I undertook upholstery for a living for some years - so hard won experience!) firstly stretching fabric over foam to get a nice uniform edge radius is tricky, any lack of uniformity in tension distorts the edge. You may be experienced - then please...

It’s not a roof void - there is a room above.

I think damp unlikely in this set up. Firstly if well sealed from the room below any moist air won’t get into the void. You are not planning to heat the space so not increasing the moisture carrying ability of the workshop space air in relation to the void or the room above. I’m sure someone...

Tell us more, is this an integral garage that you are converting?

I suspect the text book answer is that you should check building regs! To be more helpful. Two layers of 12mm fire board (the pink plaster board) will get you in the right direction. Stagger the joints on the two layers. Insulation optional. I don’t think you really need a vapour barrier in this...

I may be wrong, but doesn’t the differing pulley size give the same rotational speed (at the cutter) assuming that the cutter block pulley stays the same size (perhaps a different belt length though) ?

If you do go for it, check with care, it may be 3 phase, mine is, but it is possible to use on single phase with a rewire and some capacitor magic. Take care moving it, the oil tank is open topped, so will dump oil very easily! Don’t tip it on it’s side!!! There is a correct oil to use. From...

Several possible issues. Is the stock the correct diameter?Have you actually measured it? Telling us the exact size would be useful. What ACTUALLY is the mild steel you are using, there are different ‘blends’ , some will cut better than others. What is the state of the die (old, new, worn...

A bit off topic, but, for vermin issues with cable, use ‘flexishield’ but do make sure it is correctly ‘glanded’ and terminated.