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I have this drill and have changed the chuck a couple of times, the instructions posted by NazNomad work fine.

Just replaced an old 25W Antex iron that I'd had since childhood, the plastic finally went brittle and cracked after 37 years of sterling service. As for bits - well I already had them, but you can get replacements online from Rapid Electronics. For general purpose electronics I find the Antex...

Amateur 2p worth: I'm a big fan of pocket hole joinery - but I find that using 6mm dowels for alignment and for preventing workpieces creeping when the screws are tightened makes a huge difference to the quality of the finished item. I wouldn't normally consider using glued dowels on their own...

Sounds like either the jig isn't set for the appropriate material thickness or the stop collar isn't allowing the hole to go deep enough.

You can make a reasonably accurate square with a tape measure and eliminate cyclic and other inconsistencies in the tape by using the same measurement all the time. Mark out a rhomboid (i.e. try and mark a square) which must by definition have 4 sides of equal length. Draw lines between...

Hi all, I'm a big fan of pocket hole joinery and use my UJK jig extensively. Recently I've been drilling some bog standard softwood, and have noticed that the holes are requiring more force than I would expect to get them drilled, and once they are the holes are discoloured and burnished...

^ wot 'e said :-)

Axminster's service is indeed legendary. However, they have in my opinion just completely ruined their website. It's been revamped, presumably with the cackhanded chip-grease-smeared touchscreen iGeneration in mind. Call me old fashioned, but I find huge empty spaces and massive fonts...

A lot of these remarkably don't have an earth pin - probably not such a good idea unless you can find one with an earth connector.

All home made from ply and 4x2s. Table frame collapsible for storage hanging on the wall, dust box comes apart for storage, table top is just 18mm ply with the router (a cheapo B&Q thing I got off Gumtree and MAN is it noisy!) permanently attached and a home made split fence with dust...

Fantastic! Congratulations well deserved - this has been an epic build! =D> \:D/ \:D/

I find them a joy to deal with and what's more I have found that they will publish negative product reviews on their website unedited.

It is, but I'd like not to have to use it. Plus it keeps getting shorter and shorter for some reason :mrgreen: Also I have to make sure my sacrificial timber is flat and straight so I can make repeatably orthogonal cuts, and that often means taking time out to prepare a planed and thicknessed...

That's the one, Rodders - and mine is brand new. Gah! It does also snatch a bit occasionally. I'm just starting to delve into the enormous subject that is circular blades, there seem to be a daunting number of different blade types. I only bought this one as it was clearly suitable for the...

Hi folks, Apart from using sacrificial wood behind the cut I can't seem to get my CSMS to produce anything like a clean cross-cut. It's an Evolution Fury 3XL (a great big heavy monster of a thing) and I've fitted it with Evolution's 255mm 40-tooth "wood blade" but still I get a fair amount of...

Loving the bungee zapper - I've been considering remote control sockets for my own dust extraction but have been put off by the idea of constantly wondering where I put the remote, this looks like the ideal solution 8)

I recently used a slight variation of this guy's technique - very easy, very accurate and no jig needed, just a few bits of hardboard or similar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy72BfqSX4I I too was vary of installing these beasts until i saw that video and realised how much more simply it...

Thanks chaps! They look better in these photos than in real life, my rubbish phone camera has smoothed out all the rough bits. It's bare wood throughout and certainly looks like shop furniture close up :oops:

My first go at making furniture of any sort (so be kind!) - some plywood drawer cabinets for my workshed (it's not big enough to be a shop!) to fit under the "workbench" I made a while back from recycled wood. Two identical cabinets side by side (I don't have room to make anything bigger in one...

+1 They are fantastic blades, no doubt, they transformed my cheapo hobby bandsaw into something I can actually cut wood with - repeatably and accurately - as opposed to just mucking about with funny shapes in ply, which was all the saw was fit for beforehand. They are also great value and the...