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A while back I asked about the cost of reclaimed pine floorboards - my need was for some 10x3/4 inch boards to patch an existing floor, and it was looking like £35-40 /sq metre. I've now come across some 9x2 inch reclaimed pine boards at about £7.50 / sq metre. At that price it would be cheaper...

If you are thinking of an 1.8m rise inside the garage and the outlet protruding horizontally outside the wall without any external vertical flue, the answer is an unequivocal 'no'. Apart from safety considerations, you simply won't get enough updraught to run the stove properly. You will need...

Thanks for replies. I have indeed lifted some boards (some disintegrated on lifting, pretty wormy) and the are certainly 3/4". Ish. I assume they are original - nails like this: Looking at LASSCO (thanks MusicMan, not come across them) I guess £40/m^2 isn't unreasonable . I guess I struck...

I need to replace some boards on my upstairs landing. It's an oldish house (mid C19) and I'd like to keep the flooring in character. The original boards are about 10 by 3/4 inch. I've had a look on eBay and Gumtree and it seems I can get reclaimed boards at about £40 per square metre, or new...

The 'snail' type countersink bits - eg these Fisch jobs are good for deburring. Maybe a bit spendy for a one-off job, but (depending on what you do obviously) handy things to have around. Rob.

Thanks for replies - and especially to Robbo for the first link to quantitative tests. Looks like I may get away with what I want to do by relying on the plasterboard without having to locate the battens. This is a 'temporary' measure to address a problem which started with a window. Me: I can...

Sorry if this is only indirectly woodwork related, but I'm sure someone on here will know about this... I would like to make some wall-mounted bookshelves for a room which is is clad with plasterboard. I've never done this before - all the places I've been in before were wet plastered over...

Have you slipped a decimal point there AES? Assuming you're talking imperial, a tenth of a thou is about 2.5 microns? If not I want your Rexxon and chuck! My Fobco Star has about 4 microns runout on the spindle taper, but with a chuck (Axminster 'precision' ) that goes up to about 60 microns on...

UKP 150 + VAT at Rutlands https://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+xact-router-motor+RTX5003#nogo Robin

In a moment (well, quite a few moments actually) of madness I made this: (steel, brass, bubinga). It's a pimped up version of the Edge Pro - apart from the absence of nasty plastic bits it has the advantage of a screw for micro-adjustment of the bevel angle :wink: . It worked well, but I...

Thanks for the clarification marcros - having looked Poolewood's website I see what you mean. I perhaps misinterpreted the description in the original post: which made me think the OP's chuck had an M33 x 3.5 internal thread. Do you know what the actual thread size on the outside of the...

JWD's Patriot has an M33x3.5 RH internal thread - Sorby make a variety of inserts including one to bring the internal thread down to M30x3.5 RH which is what JWD must have to suit the Woodfast lathe spindle. Further thought confirms (to my mind anyhow!) that if it were possible to make such an...

I'n not a woodturner (yet!) but I'm interested, so dip a toe in this part of the forum occasionally. I do dabble with metal turning though, and this caught my interest. Even if it were possible to machine such an insert (I'm assuming we're talking about 30x3.5 LH internal thread, 33x3.5 RH...

The Fobco Star doesn't have an internal taper in the spindle - instead the spindle is made with an integral JT6 male taper on the end. Mine is also missing the chuck ejection ring - I use wedges, Arc Euro Trade do them for JT6. Robin

I'd agree with Trevanion that running a 2.4kW induction motor from 13A mains is a bit near the edge. Induction motors pull many times the rated continuous current on startup. It could be that motor is perfectly OK, but something else has changed which tips the circuit breaker over the edge -...

Thanks, and apologies for delay in responding - this window business has left me incapacitated, I underestimated the weight and ended up wrestling the thing in (it's an upstairs window) through the frame at an awkward angle, which has knackered my back. I'll go for three hinges and perhaps hire...

During the sweltering summer my other half opened an upstairs window, but it's getting chilly now and it won't close again... I've tracked the problem down to a bent hinge: My question is: should I just replace the bent hinge and rehang, or was hanging a a 1 metre by 1 metre double glazed...

Thanks Paul, I'd got as far as tipping out the old and refilling with new, but haven't looked at the plug yet. I should perhaps have been more persistent in my attempts to start the thing - it used to fire on the first pull, so I thought it must be gummed up and I'd have to dismantle it. Since...

Last winter I had some health problems, and wasn't able to lay in firewood in my normal way - buying logs and cutting/splitting myself. Stupidly, I didn't drain my chainsaw fuel tank, so it's been sitting with two-stroke in it for over a year and perhaps unsurprisingly won't start now. Do I...

The inefficiencies of the NHS are the cause of many a gripe - but... 0:830 Wednesday arose with a strange flashing in my eye. Rang up surgery, appointment with a nurse practitioner that PM. Preliminary eye exam, nothing terrible, but see a GP tomorrow. Thursday PM GP says nothing wrong he...