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I'm afraid you are, said kindly, dreaming ...try to get the return postage...eBay is a perfect example...The thing is you want your money back, they have it. They don't give a toss about you...little you. There is no enforceable obligation anywhere to return postage return costs, why would...

The overpopulation was hanged from the age of 6 onwards . The Y shaped gibbet entertained the lunchtime crowds at Tyburn. Many 'criminals' trying to survive or pinching some minor item or upsetting some 'upper-class' precieuse were sent to Australia where shockingly hundreds including...

Before you say it Mike...Oy Oy Oy...!! LOL!! Sunnybob...I get grumpy sometimes...mostly from pain (apprenticeship injuries which have done so much damage...) however the reason I put "Pacific Region' is my significant mistrust of the Internet....too personal, too many questions, nothing sacred...

Over here I have seen a couple of Stanley Jack planes with translucent red and solid black plastic and aluminum totes. I have I don't know 30 or 40 jack and a few bench plans stashed hither and thither and I may have a couple of those totes....I'll check if ever I can get to my tool chests...

Sunnybob...it's the way!...I recall long ago when doing the Film and TV production course at Nth Sydney TAFE...At the end of the nights I had a 20k drive...pick up my young children and drive to home...get them to bed again and get things ready for their school next day. Without even thinking...

Hi Aidan...the answer is 'yes' and probably 2 x 20 A in kitchen plus range etc. You say you have a 13A outlet (never seen one so speculating) and I am well aware of the voltages used in US, UK, Australia, France and elsewhere. I'm not sure whether there was a significant point there in your...

Yes Steve...people who design and sell "junk' to DIY people have apparently no interest in technical reality. They are looking at markets which have money burning a hole in the pocket, or just have to 'buy buy buy'. So long as "it" is "conveniently stored" whether hose, extension lead, gym gear...

Sunnybob is raising salient points I;'l bring some together. Presuming your 1Hp motor is single phase. Nominal current drain of the 746 watts is say 3.5 amperes. 13 amps is (in my country) something not seen. 16A is typically a lighting circuit and 20A the basic power circuit. Without going into...

Hi, my reply was not printed so I'll reduce it. No gummy residue with Marine ply. commercial cutters don't want to shred the edge of course. I use a panel saw for ply and power or hand saw for Marine ply. I agree on cleanliness. Tool maintenance should always be done when the immediate task is...

Not much intelligent I can add, the photos don't tell much If it bows in the middle it was used for putting edge on a blade of some type. The texture where chipped in some places looks to me like lead or galena and oddly enough reminds me of phosphorus. Only the galena is a harder metal of those...

Using planes and glass paper will do a good job for you if you are skilled and a lousy one if you are not. If the area of timber is considerable you can use jointer, thicknesser, belt sander. Just on my experience the jointer has a high speed blade assembly rotating towards the feed...that...

You will go far in life Inspector....this is the method used in some countries in deciding elections. It is possible the vendor bought the planes to re-sell but from some shonky dealer or suckered 'other'. Schrodinger's notional cat may, if one's imagination stretches so far, have purloined the...

Aidan....Sie stellen zu viele fragen!! Wörter wie 'Schraeder and Schrodinger' (I now trying my gut inglish) should remind you of ze real world......when our language usink plis remember you do not ask the questions...you gif only answers...like ze inspector. It is we, ze vendor who choose...

Fair point Woody, so long as one knows what is actually intended by 'tungsten blade' Considering how comparatively little of the blade will be used before throw away and possible costs I'd rather correct mix carbon steel and an ordinary oilstone. Others may see it differently. I still use...

Hi Vann...my thoughts on that are similar but that there was never any intention to provide the cutters....bearing in mind that places like eBay have all sorts and types and your comeback is when they only provide what is stated. So....unless they say 'photos are part of the description' and...

I was querulous about 'tungsten blade' as more difficult to sharpen...last longer but not as easy. Tungsten tipped saw blades for example are meant to be 'throw away'. Unlike some shearers and some tradesmen most I think would throw away the blunt blade ...not do what we do and sharpen them at...

Perhaps I will add to my observations that ply or timber is not the material to use in a mechanical restoration. These machines are designed in metal to exacting spec's and whilst no one probably can stop amateurs remanufacturing parts of them in timber, my approach would be 'don't'. It's...

some wise words from you too, jarno...I read after my own dissertation. (Chuckles)

My first impression is 'Indian reproduction' recently manufactured el-cheapo not vintage quality...though the original is only about what??... 70 years old. That the person had three should have alerted you also (maybe 3 or 23 or 33? ex India rubbish) Actully the boxing itself suggests this...