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The plastic totes on yours look more comfortable than on 3 of my my MIE planes that somehow worked their way into my numerous others. There is a four and two fives...Dad may have bought them after his home was burgled and stripped even of windows and doors. He was such an old school craftsman...

Hi yes thanks....all a bit hard in a way so I recommended getting 3 phases to the place....it ads value and makes buying gear one shouldn't have previously bought, ok to buy!! If you have a purpose e.g. 'workshop facilites and welder' the electrical authority might connect for no charge to the...

Hi Rob. I do know a fair bit about motors and also that at 1hP which is a small motor it would be cheaper to buy a single phase motor (maybe for both motors is sap;ace permits)and same base, same shaft and adapt it. Ok I am not 100% clued-in yes...is this a planer? You probably know much of...

All ok and I'm not extending it I hope but just for a smile and a different angle...By curious coincidence I just (an hour ago) watched an old Australian (filmed) advert from 50's with "Chipp's" Rafferty... asking Australians to take in English migrants to their homes and to help them find jobs...

Caps on dc motors are for "applied' voltage maintenance. Mains voltages wander up and down and do so also when you load a electric motor driven machine. Your cap. must have shorted. Replacement is wise to have several times the VW (volts working) of the supply. Whilst a common practice, shorting...

I should have added typically in 3 phase motors under 5Hp star is use...when required the motors start in star (reduced voltage/torque...a little like a soft start on inverter) then using a timer, switch to Delta. What Hp is your motor and is it star/delta? How does it start? What is the point...

Why are you doing this (what's the point? what do you hope to essentially and practically achieve?) What's your actual theory in converting 'two' star points to delta'? What sort of control presently exists? ...respond if you want. Inverters range come in various forms and some are programmable...

Hi well I didn't suggest being proud of it...however if you can think back and see what you have done experienced and achieved before the X-Y's came along dragging pixieland along, you might have a lot of which to be proud. Life for me is precious, mortality is a sort of dark shadow ...however...

Mike...let me follow that through with you to get more of the thoughts....We can glue or leave cracks. Longitudial cracks (say like our friend's) may stay stable depending on seasoning and season...My concept there was to fill the crack with say horse glue (melted) and not squeeze but just...

Hi..You haven't mentioned the Lathe details..(timber turning? or steel?..weight... length) which Mike and others thought about. Ideally the bed for a lathe will be quarter-sawn seasoned hardwood wood. The legs of course have to provide stability and not get in the way. One looks for perfect...

Firing a salvo of philosophy eh....LOL!! that's a giant step from the old "the person who never made a mistake never learned anything"?...Breakage isn't an essence of success and I with head hanging down admit to breaking four small diameter drills in 57 years....three x 3mm recently when they...

Hmmm....you must be about my age!!! I still give a moment's advice when I see someone filing 'both ways' or dragging a file backwards across copper....scoring the work. It's worth the risk if they listen. That commutator job I had to redo in a week was only 4 hours of workshop time.....I filed...

Hi I did read it but not past part 1....I scanned (speed read) much of the first part and admired the effort and sketches and your intent to educate...As a once-was Tech teacher and remedial trades teacher who helped lads find their brilliance I thought it great....however I wondered whether it...

Hi I am a raconteur also so I can say to you what applies to me...'get to the point'. Your safety good, remove handle....I can think of better....file types good but I think 2 x para's could have sufficed. Let's get onto correct filing procedures, file type Vs metals, chalking, file...

Good thinking ...very good!!...Before reading your comment I was about to suggest a strong magnet...which at least can give indication of ferrous metals. Much of the wonderful old timbers are today just smashed up by demolishers...who are far more expensive per hour than dentists...when they...

But it gave you memories..... My opinion of sporting heroes and icons is not high. I can recall some disgusting 'away' trips with footballers. British soccer brings out the worst in Britain's bovver-boy louts and psycho's which excuse their ratbaggery on 'paasionate support' for the dull game...

Thanks for the advice based on your purported situation.I am speaking of facts not the theory fantasised to drive facts. The facts, of course within my panorama, are as I stated...You can how whistle whinge and wave papers at reluctant vendors and still not have your return postage returned...

LOL!!...Sunnybob You have seen things I haven't including the 'stinger posts'....We do enjoy rain though we only call hot days 'good days'. The place is about 80% desert, is being 'culturally rebuilt by cultural fascists and we did welcome 10 pound pommies...although some found the penal colony...

I realise mike and ohers really want this stuff to go away and I agree yet I want to make some points to sort of I hope, help it finish. I'm not looking to enter into discussion,just a sort of 'that's it". This is an era of low concentration span, disconnection and confusing freedom with...

That's a really good reminder Jackal...but even worse can be unseen nails or spikes... I realise others may disagree but as I see it, thicknessers and planers are tools really 'only' needed for repetitive preparatory work...say a factory where time is 'of the essence' . A really good...