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After getting a quote for 23K to install 3 phase to the farm, and got bored diving into the windings to find the star point to convert old three phase motors to delta so I could use a 240v VFD, I bought a 10HP Digital Phase Converter with soft start. The soft start helps with machines with...

I've been using Bilt Hamber surfex HD Surfex HD | Multi-Purpose Car Cleaner and Degreaser (APC) - Bilt Hamber In a parts washer it will need to be a strong solution, I think I used at least a 25% solution. Its water based. Not bad, I can't say its better than petrol/paraffin but a lot less...

Next job is the utility larder cupboard drawers. I fitted the carcasses last year and they have been full of various junk while sorting out the kitchen, so not all the kitchen drawers are complete, the missus emptied the carcasses so I could set to. I sanded them down and gave them two coats of...

I changed the name of the thread as I want more advice about ducting etc. I was given a pile of 50mm dust extraction orifices by a friend, here's some of them. I've used two of them already, the kit only came with two 50mm hose adapters. I made up two 50mm hoses, attached the sockets to...

A question for the illuminated on here. Now I have 2,000m3 per hour flow, how do people with similar systems use it with smaller tools such as sanders, plunge saws and domino's where the hose diameter goes right down to sub 30mm? I have been cracking open another wastegate a little to relieve...

I've only made through dovetails on the leigh jig so far. The main top kitchen drawers will have false fronts so you won't see the pins, just the dovetails. The drawers within cabinets are also through dovetails as I like the look and as the stock is quite thin it made sense. The small drawers...

This arrived last week, it was on back order so had a wait 2 or 3 weeks. Its now back on backorder and has gone up from £300 to £350. My dust extraction system in the workshop had grown organically, I've been using the Axminster/Numatic NVD750 with 2 x 1200W motors. this was fine to begin with...

All my drawer side stock is nominally 11mm thick and 100mm wide. Front and sides all the same height, I've put a 1/4" groove all the way around to hold the base which is 6mm ply. I made the mistake of buying planed oak "to speed things up" By the time I got around to making the drawers they...

Not wanting to go into too much detail, its about the same price as a full height standard 1000 x 1200 pallet delivery +25%, which is about right given you would pay extra as its overhangs a pallet by a fair bit and there's packing to take into account. So competitive delivery for 300kg+ and...

I've finished all the through dovetail drawers for the kitchen, I still need to make 14 more for the utility, all the same size so I can mass produce the components. I still need make 12 half blind small drawers for teas and other odds and sods though, The packers to one side of the lower two...

Hi Robin It isn't at the moment. I need to finish the kitchen first, I started in July 2019, so she has got a point. If it isn't finished by Christmas then my testicles will replace the furry dice dangling from the rear view mirror in the car. But I do have a plan, I managed to convince the...

Hi Robin This is the base of my DeWalt 625 with a leigh bush fitted. Usually used for use on their dovetail jig but can be used anywhere. This bush is adjustable but they sell fixed bushes to fit too. The sub base is 702R, here it is at Axminster Leigh Adaptors for Threaded Guide Bushes and...

I have my current PT on a mobile base made from thin angle iron and castors, I think it came from Rutlands but they are all very similar. I think the new one is somewhat heavier so I'll do what I've done to some of my other machines that need to be occasionally mobile. I bought a short fork...

I believe they are all spoken for as they have been on back-order. Too late now, money spent. Just made sure it will fit through the door without taking the frame out, the door has been out quite a few times. I can hoist it up through the hatch in the floor but this is easier. It has to up 4...

I had a chat with the wife and she agreed to let me spend some cash on a new planer given I'm keeping my old Disco for another year, selling my old ELU/DeWalt 1150 planer, an Axminster NVD750 vacuum and probably an AGS12 in a couple of months. Axminster are now on back-order with no lead time...

A lot has happened since the last update, I have built quite a few cupboard doors, and lots more drawers, most of them internal to the cabinets, completed a lower folding pastry worktop and all the granite worktops have been added. The following cabinet goes all the way under the peninsula. So...

What's the dust extraction like? I'm still wrestling over buying a Wadkin BAOS and fitting a Shelix helical head or just buy one of these or the iTech 260S equivalent, I'm in no rush.

I have the Axminster branded version with the twin motors, I have had it for a few years. its been good on its own but less than ideal with a cyclone, it works but only just. The NVD is high pressure not high flow, and you need the flow to create the vortex in the cyclone. I now have all the...

I've just received a reply from Shelix heads. The cutter probably fits the BAOS as the planer outfeed table does rise and fall, and there are several versions of BAO cutter blocks, they seem to cover them all but if you want to be sure fill in their enquiry form and they will send you diagrams...

I'm mulling this over too as I'm thinking of upgrading from my DeWalt. Options as I see them Buying new - all single phase but you may need a 16 amp supply. they all look to be "trade" standard but the itech 300C looks to be bordering on "industrial" build Axminster AT260SPT Spiral PT - £1850...