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I bought some 75mm glue lined heavy duty heat shrink with a 3:1 shrink ratio, 5 quid for 450mm, works a treat, as sunnybob says, the stupid things never just fit. You need a heat gun/paint stripper as it takes a bit of heating up and also a while to cool down and the glue to set so needs...

I did something similar today with my vac system, I put two tees and blast-gates onto it for and reduced them down to 51mm ID, the first one is for the sander, the second will be for anything else I use on that bench. I'm using tees because that is all I had in the parts bin, they're not as...

I was out most of the day with the wife and kids, but got about 2 hours in this afternoon. I swapped the keyed alike mortice locks on the front stable door, supposedly with identical make/models but they needed loads of adjustment and new keeps fitting. Then I finished fettling the marples no.4...

Thanks Chris, I used it tonight again and got better results on the secondary bevel but may just ring them up anyway and see if they send me a spare roller :) When the missus goes out of an evening, I can't sneak out to the workshop with a couple of kids upstairs as you can guarantee they will...

it made me very sad as I had to buy a load of oak flooring for the house renovation not long after, I wish I had known.

Evidently when Mons mill in Todmorden was demolished around 2000, all the floors were solid maple and there were two layers of floorboards perpendicular to each other on each floor and it was a big mill. There was so much maple in the area that people were making garden fences and sheds out of...

The smartest move I did today was stay away from the workshop :D Over the last couple of days I have made a drawer box 100mm too short, dropped my phone and cracked the screen and lost the keys to the toy landrover I'm selling and broke the chuck guard on a bench drill #-o

Beautiful work!

No time to do much today, I was working and lunch time was taken up picking up some stone from the local quarry for a bedroom extension, mullions, heads and cills for the windows. However I did get a delivery of the veritas honing system mk II kit with standard and narrow tool holder with...

Hi John, the more the merrier :) I like that a lot, I've already screwed sliders onto all the sides where I'm having drawers but it's made me think that I may not need to make drawer boxes where stuff is located in holes like router bits. So I could do something similar for some of them, just...

I'm still finishing off the router table, building a bedroom extension, putting up some stock fencing in the field, putting a roof on the field shelter and re-assembling the tractor engine and have a day job but hope to get the timber for the top sorted soon. It's a split top Roubo so I was...

Fixed :)

We went to the curry house for Sunday "roast" and today the Italian Job springs to mind "you're only supposed to blow the b****y doors off" :)

Thanks Cammy, I haven't got a door on it yet so I don't know if it will pressurise the box or not yet, as you say, with extraction I'm not sure it matters. I shall find a suitable vent cover on the shelves soon, I think I have one from the Toylander I made a couple of years ago as I had to put...

Nice work Bob! Both me and the missus are into making not buying so may make our coffins out of old scraps of wood from odd projects at some point. A bit big for a bandsaw box me thinks, unless I buy a bigger bandsaw.......... :D

Thanks Bob Now completed, I used an aerosol can top to seal off the unwanted tee, just need to tidy up the cable without making into a coil there are some bolts hanging down from the top so will cable tie them to that. Next onto the drawers and cupboards. Cheers Andy

I have an idea that might work for the fresh air, maybe buying the flange wasn't a mistake after all :) I'm thinking of using the flange on the inside of the cabinet, cutting a 100m hole to the outside world and blocking off the tee, then attach some flexible 100mm hose to the flange and I think...

I have the extraction finished, firstly, a bit of a ****-up on my part :oops: I ordered said 100mm flange from Axminster, it arrived then whilst rummaging through my box of 100mm fittings I found I already had one, and three reducers. The reducers don't fit on the flange, they are the same...

At the moment I have all my static big stuff like table saw, band saw and soon belt sander and router table connected to a Numatic twin 1200W motor vacuum via 4" plastic pipe and waste gates almost down the full length of the workshop. I use a remote control socket to turn it on and off. I have...

Thanks AES :) The number of times I have waited in anticipation for an adapter to fit a specific tool only to find its the same size and I then need a sleeve, or it is just too big is annoyingly too many. I have a plan to sort this out, I shall reveal all once I get the router table, bookcase...