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Acacia certainly darkens with time; can end up a beautiful milk-chocolate sort of colour. Wish I could find some more!

Out of interest, what mods did you SIP owners do to machines? My turbo 160 seems OK within the limits of my skillm but if there are useful mods, then that might help compensate for cack-handedness!

That bright yellow immediately says Robinia (pseudoacacia) to me. Pretty hard and unforgiving on tools but takes a lovely finish. But my creativity is zero, so can't suggest what to do with it.

Alternative version of Droogs' suggestion, with no maths. Mark out and cut the template, then cut a second version roughly to size. Pin together and using a bearing guided rebate cutter with appropriate bearing to give a 3mm rebate, cut the second version. Simples.

Reviving this thread because I picked up a further load yesterday. It's taken longer than I hoped to get it, so there are now some end shakes in the pieces, but as they are mostly 2 to 3 feet long, there's plenty of useable material there. Happy to drop some off in Northern Aberdeenshire, or...

Having had really bad experience with what ought to have been a decent collet extension, I went for a slightly more expensive option on my Ryobi version of the Record table (assume it's the one with the cast iron top?). A local engineering shop milled out a recess in the top which exactly...

Since noone else has replied, you might find it useful to look at the related thread on the CL4. The CL0 is a very (very) stripped down version of the 4, but it has the same basic good and bad points. Good, it's a solid machine, well made as they pre-dated move to Far East and plenty of spares...

Router mat?

+1 for that. Having spent much of my academic career producing unambiguous marking schemes for dissertations and the like (and trying hard to persuade others to do the same!!) it's mainly the PROCESS that is being rewarded. The particular topic needs to be chosen so as to be able to...

isn't Crappite the technical name for the alloy of which that fan is made?

Thanks guys. The house is actually my daughter's, and son-in-law has gone ahead with the drill holes/inject foam option. Seems to have worked, but difficult to be sure if there are any gaps. Still, whatever gaps are left, it has to be better than the previous howling gale.

Certainly a thought, but not sure how to do it. Presumably needs blowing in with something, and you'd really need to have something along the bottom of the space still? I think we'll probably go along the "drill holes and squirt foam" lines. Anyone got recommendation for the cheapest place to...

Not entirely woodworking, but there are ingenious folks on here who may have some ideas to solve a silly problem. Had an extension built on the side of a 1970s timber frame/block clad bungalow. This means that part of the original cavity wall is now an internal wall and there is a howling gale...

The colour and various of the bits look rather like pre-1970-ish Lurem, but it's not a model I've ever seen. My 200 has a similar arrangement with the saw table bolted to the side of the basic planer unit, but it's a bigger saw table and shorter planer beds. So your's could be a prototype...

That will look super when it's done - I love pitch pine. But have to agree that it will take a long time to prep it.

One other thing if welding CI - make sure the casting is as hot as you can get it before you start welding, or it will almost certainly crack. I've successfully welded a Record metalworking vice (don't ask how it got broken :( ) and an old Parkinson woodworking vice that was broken when I got...

Does the table tilt, or the arbour? The Inca, if memory serves me right, had a tilting table, which was a bit of a pain. But my ageing eyesight can't give any id without a bit bigger pics :(

Was going to ask that myself if noone admitted to similar ignorance!! But intrigued by the TWO vee belts used to drive it. What sort of power is there to need that much muscle?

I THINK that was the size used by Tyme for their Avon lathe. Worth checking with Axy or others as it just might give another lead to bits for the lathe.

How much of a hurry are you in for this? Just wondered if it's worth looking on the 'bay or in local free-ad papers for flooring from old properties/factories or the like. We got a load of very good quality (but FILTHY) maple flooring out of an old jute mill in Dundee a couple of years ago...