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Showing today at the Bath and West showground in Somerset, the Woodrat has had a mini makeover, apparently generated by the introduction of their template acessory. More interesting than the templates, to me at least, were the new extruded ali fences, replacing the glass filled nylon ones, which...

Looks suspiciously like the 8"Scheppach?

Possible ways to jam a single phase motor: 1/ jammed cooling fan (easy to check for small offcut, not very likely tho' from original post 2/ cracked ball in ball bearing (some fitting skills needed but cheap to replace 3/ loose (and now terminally damaged) centrifugal switch inside motor - but...

The pulley that drives the quill shaft is often just held on by a nut and a taper (no keyway). If so, warm it up and pull it off.

Just a quick vote for mothballs; mine are in 35mm film pots with drilled lids.

Clifton 2 piece cap irons are worth persevering with, not becuase they 'make sharpening easier' (a somewhat dubious suggestion) but because they don't bend the blade. 1 piece cap irons distort the blade as you tighten the fixing screw, and the lever cap cannot straighten this out, so the middle...

Connecting an induction motor driven bag collector to 2 1/2" pipe will strangle the air flow down to 100-200 cfm which is not enough to capture the most dangerous fine dust. Most modestly priced mobile type bag collectors are best used with a couple of metres of hose and moved from machine to...

If the motor/saw is an import, check the motor label which almost certainly says 60 cycles, not the UK's 50. 60 cycle motors (and transformers too for that matter) contain less iron (to be magnetised by the windings) than 50 cycle motor, and are thus a bit cheatper to make. If rated as 230V (I...

There is a electroplated finish called 'black chrome', usually a black matt (actually a v. slight gloss) If the job's important ask your local metal finisher (Yellow pages) Dilute acids won't etch for paint, you'll have to have the chrome stripped. (done electrically too)

Used to have a Freud, now Lamello. Fence actually works accurately, excellent machining and clear scales. Also, can be fitted to base for extra support for certain cuts.

I think you'll find the DW265/Trend and CMT lookalikes have just about the biggest bottom bearing - the one that takes all the load. Can't comment on the Triton, though.

Just another way of saying both work OK and neither constitutes an absolute of precision!

Provided you roll the template steadily from side to side, ensuring that all parts of the template's curve touch the tool rest, and don't linger too long in any one place, the camber will match that of the template about as well as a jig ground straight blade will match a square. Don't forget a...

Big beds in Europe are often one bed frame with 2 mattresses liked by a pad -Ikea do this here, then each sleeper can have a firmness according to their weight. They do all the bits separately so you could use their springing in your frame. I think Ikea bedding (duvets/linnen etc) is of...

If you get really stuck (no pun intended) try yellow pages for electric motor servicing/rewinds, as they may have a blind bearing puller (for extracting bearings from blind holes) small enough to do the trick. If you are very lucky and have a twist drill that just slides in where the bit goes...

A quick best wishes for youur recovery, and a very big thankyou for having the courage to post the picture and share it's cause with us. According to accident research, apparently there's about 600 near misses for every actual accident, which should get all of us thinking a bit more carefully.

This was more or less why I suggested in another post (about the Scheppach version) that this type of grinder appeared to be designed primarily for wood turners and carvers, for whom it may be an ideal complete solution. But not an ideal & complete solution for woodworkers. The horizontal...

Yes, it's true that if you didn't move the blade, you'd get a straight(ish) edge. That's also true for a standard straight jig. ??! you say? The point is you have to slide even a straight jig from side to side whilst grinding, either to even out wear in the stone, or because the blade's wider...

I have a US based sis in law, and have ordered through her on line over the years from several FWW advertisers, + Japan Woodworker, LN, LV and Amazon.com (much better than .co.uk, plenty of trade and industrial stuff) Absolutely no problems. USA is so big, they have plenty of customers at our...

Roger, is the tool rest bent? Assuming the shaft was not damaged in transit, and bore of the wheel is also undamaged so it fits the shaft closely, the 'wobble' is due to the manufacture of the grinding wheel. This is fairly normal, as the wheels are fired in a kiln and like bricks, distort...