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Merry Christmas all. Santa brought me some really nice cabinet screwdrivers and a wood turning course :)

Cheers Mike Here's first drawings of the kitchen and utility, not full details yet, still discussing it. Utility room is relatively fixed but kitchen needs more discussion with the missus. All I wanted is the high level design at this stage. If you are wondering about the size of the "cavities"...

Hi AES Funny you should say that, i do rate IKEA kitchen accessories and was considering reusing the old utility rooms' innards, that was IKEA and wasn't half bad. Hafele and Blum are good but ain't hafele bluming expensive too so will use them sparingly. Cheers Andy

Thanks Geoff I think I'm heading in the right direction now, I'm starting on the utility room first which is relatively simple. 3 x 600 tall larder units, one 600mm undersink unit, a 300mm wide tall unit for that bloody annoying ironing table, a bespoke size tall cabinet to cover pipes and...

When we first bought the farmhouse 17 years ago, we had to burn every bit of wood apart from the pitch pine beams in two rooms and the roof, otherwise every stick went on a huge bonfire, full of woodworm, many floor joists resembled weetabix in strength, and the wife accidentally dropped a lump...

Marvellous, thanks guys, some good information and links I haven't found before that will prove useful. =D>

Thanks Paul and Tim System32 sounds interesting, that's the kind of info I'm after :) unfortunate name when googling it though, keeps coming up with Windows system file information. I have found some interesting stuff though :) Blum and Hafale keep springing up.

I'm about to make some kitchen cabinets and I was aiming to build the carcasses but possibly use some bought accessories such as sliding baskets etc. Is there a standard for size/spacing the mounting holes in the cabinet sides or are they all proprietary? If they are proprietary, is there a...

The belts arrived but not the super duper Dunlop premium, just standard belts. Oh well, I shall use them then get onto the supplier for some cash back - sigh. First, make sure the top pulley fits on the shaft nicely and will move from side to side. I had to polish the burrs off the key. I...

Mine arrived today, the Mafell plunge saw arrives Friday with a bit of luck. I already have Bosch/Mafell track. I have cabinets to make for a large kitchen and utility room plus some other cabinetry involving lots of birch ply. Once I have finished all that, if I'm not using the saw much I will...

After consulting my good friends on the MIG Welding forum for advice, I pressed the shaft and bearings out using my fly press and a collection of bits of old pipe, plates with holes in them and drifts. I really need to make the stand that I bought the 50mm box and 6mm plate for about 4 years...

Thanks Jamie On closer inspection of the diagram, it appears that the shaft and bearings need to come out of the pulley as one, then you take the bearings off the shaft due to the thickening off the shaft in the middle. I didn't think that the pulley would fit in my fly press but it does with...

Just looking at the intermediate pulley, the diagram and the fact that there is a circlip at both ends implies that to get the bearings out, after taking out the circlips, you push the shaft out of the bearings then you pull the bearings out of the pulley. I gave the shaft a playful thump with a...

I've bitten the bullet and I'm going to constantly heat the workshop. This is not a rehearsal, I don't believe in an after life and there's no pockets in a shroud so apart form stopping rust, the workshop will be a much more pleasant and productive place to work. The idea will be background...

Here you go Jamie, here's the spindle lock, not much to it. Diagrams are probably on the Denford forum, you have to search through a vast PDF of various related machines to find the scan. I haven't got around to using it yet, still awaiting the belts which hopefully will arrive today but...

I had to draw a line somewhere, I would lump poly with coatings such as BLO so I decided to just stick to oils and waxes.

I said I would conduct a trial on some rust prevention products, so here goes. Here's the short list of products to test. I polished up an old cast iron surface plate I recovered from scrap a few years ago, it has a few bits of pitting but good enough for my needs, but a bit of light rust...

My dad fitted an extension tube and grease nipple and to their washing machine bearings so he could grease them without taking the as he was sick of replacing them. However they did have the same machine for well over a decade and it was a low end model. My mum washes about twice a day, no idea...

The bill for the roof on the extension came in a lot less than estimated so I've treated myself to a forged starrett combination square with combined metric/imperial 300mm rule. Amazon still haven't picked up the 450mm Bahco combination square and i was sick of tripping over the parcel in the...

Sounds like any smart phone should do that with a reasonable memory card. Alternatively search for tascam digital recorder and you should be able to get a nice one for not too much, they also have guitar trainers with microphones built in that are very cool and will do the same job, so any of...