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Some mitre saw blades have a rather thin kerf, presumably to cope with deep cuts / modest power - a good recipe for blade deflection. Fixed head saws are generally much more rigid. If you were looking for extra accuracy on a sawbench or RAS, (which will have a much better blade...

Regarding the honing, it's interesting to see the remaining scratches in the honed area, which presumably gleams to the naked eye. How to tell you've honed enough to avoid premature breakown of the edge??

For the full SP you need to visit your local library. In general, motors with brushes will run at high speed especially when unloaded(exactly what depends on design) like router or RA sander. Motors without brushes (induction motors) as fitted to most sawbenches or planers etc run at a multiple...

Good value, but you might find the odd one with the rim above the chippers, so in need of exchange or careful grinding.

I had a go with the DW at a demo, thought it lacked the ultimate precision of the Festool or Mafell. These are robust tools but with precision that might be rather wasted on (building) site work - more the province of the DW perhaps. I'd guess cabinet makers and shop/kitchen fitters might prefer...

Pictures to make you think, Gidon. Since getting to grips with my Tiger 2500 I've been trying the DC method (more or less, DC used 2 grades of waterstone) - grind at a bit under 25 deg, shape edge at 32 deg with 600 or 1200 grit eze-lap diamond till burr appears, and hone 35 deg on 8000...

A V belt pulley held on by grubscrews is rather non U engineering, even if you do have a keyway. This will wear quite rapidly at 2Hp if you try to cut it by hand. PLEASE get yourself a new taperlock bush and pulley to suit your new motor. If it's a small A section pulley, probably cost you...

Try rapeseed oil, available at the supermarket in gert big bottles for a few pennies, also used industrially for lubrication, including I think on underground trains. Some makes declare 'rapeseed' overtly; but if it doesn't say sunflower oil it's probably the stuff. Mine's a Tesco own brand...

Probably a lot cheaper for them to 'print' CDs and mail them out to the punters. Much harder to browse than a paper catalogue! Please don't follow their suggestion to order by email as your card details are not secure within the email system. I think they have gone downhill over the years, for...

Provided the clamp doesn't slip, the fence on a cheap machine can be made to work by using // sided setting blocks (in practice you need less than half a dozen thicknesses, and not all at once): this ensures the fence is set at the correct height and also // to the base.

Probably go right through a suspended floor.... :oops:

Just in case the original poster is still reading this thread :shock: , it might be worth considering what sort of 12V battery could deliver over 100A for 2 hours without buckling its plates and dying on the spot. It might work if you run universal motors on 115V or 240V dc instead of AC...

Pike, shouldn't offer you any advice, as I have a Kity 636 10" x 8" p/t for sale. It was my Dad's, nice French engineering in virtually mint condition, with some unused spare HSS knives. PM me if you are interested, might save you a few quid!

Thanks for the link, Gidon, interesting stuff! Peter Childs says the Tormek has " very soft wheels, designed for plane irons and other wide blades, which rapidly go out of shape when sharpening HSS gouges etc. You need a harder tougher, faster cutting wheel for woodturning tools.." The...

Try to see if the extraction can leave the machine (out and 45 deg down) at right angles to the blade. On my old saw, a 16" Taiwan version of the cast iron Delta 14, this was quite easy. Then the table can tilt down till it's // with the extractor pipe. I found it helpful to use the sq rainwater...

Like others a bit too long in the tooth, if you're not used to 3 ph distribution it can be a bit puzzling - not least because the supply people talk power all the time, and with voltage normalisation, "415 V" isn't really 415 V any more. Living in indian country, I can see the 3 phases and...

I can see why Tormek et al. supply a ~250 grit wheel, it's a feature of the turning/carving heritage, where chisels and plane blades come a poor second. Curvy cutting edges have limited wheel contact, so the fine wheel is needed to keep cutting at a rate slow enough to allow careful shaping...

Shrubby's got the answer. My new saw has this as standard, my old fixed up well with sq. drainpipe, sloped down with blade slot, so air could strip sawdust from blade; partly cut around lower guides, kept these clean too.

Ditto re 'click' pencils. O,5mm leads break too easily, but 0,7mm can be used with care, and are very cheap - last ones from Tesco! Also Lufkin stockist, preferrably on line? I hate ordinary L to R reading tapes which make you usually read upside down. Lufkin do (did?) one printed across the...

Thanks Roger, think I'll get my 18 tpi hacksaw blade out for a recutting template.