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    Engineering measuring, templates....??

    Ok, thank-you. No "special things" used by real engineers, then? :( Proper factory stuff is always spot on, as are model steam engines etc, indistinguishable from factory stuff.. I thought someone was going to say. "What you want is a rectangle centre-finder-marker". Or a plank centre-finder...
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    Engineering measuring, templates....??

    Ok, thank-you. I should have given examples of the difficulties... For instance: Drilling a series of holes in a line, equally spaced. Finding and marking the centre of a small area (eg 2cm x 1cm) I understand that a long pivoted guide bar will give a much better accuracy near its pivot as...
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    Engineering measuring, templates....??

    For instance, one good thing I got at a market, rather superceded by the digital calipers, is this collection of measuring blocks. They must be quite high accuracy, as they can be "wrung" together. Anyway, I'm still thinking more in terms of accurate hole placement, finding the centre of an eg...
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    Engineering measuring, templates....??

    Hello. I'm not sure this is the right forum, but it's the nearest I could guess. I'm currently making measurements, cutting, marking points for holes etc etc etc, in wood, metal and plastic using the most basic devices, eg a ruler and calipers. But everything ends up fractionally off, no...
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    Removing excess filler

    Ok, got all that. Thank-you.
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    Removing excess filler

    Hi - Unless you insert the filler very accurately into cracks and gaps, the knife is going to spread it over the surrounding area. Afterwards, sanding spreads it further and probably drives it into the wood surface. How can this excess be removed? Thanks,
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    Digital Vernier calipers ~£3 on Amazon

    I don't know. Mine were from Lidl, about £7.99 I think, and seem fine. (Dunno about the 2nd and 3rd decimal places, of mm.) What issues should I look out for?
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    Glue gun prob, recommends?

    Yeah, I guess, ok... It's not unusual to find things these days that after little use need fixing, which can be done to about 10x the original quality/reliability. It's a annoying though, esp imagining how many people must just chuck them away. Thanks,
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    Glue gun prob, recommends?

    This is just the glue rods, right?
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    Chucks jaws

    Hello - I'm getting very sick of fiddling about with an allen key whenever I want to change the 4 jaws on my Nova chuck. Anyone know of an easier system, eg and ideally, snap-in/out jaws? Thanks, Graham.
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    Glue gun prob, recommends?

    Hi - I've had a couple of glue guns, one cheapo, the other the Lidl Parkside one (inexpensive but not quite cheapo). They were both let down by the ultra-feeble plastic trigger/feed "mechanism". Putting any pressure on the trigger, which let's face it everyone does to see if the nozzle is hot...
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    Tidying steel

    Ok, thanks. Regrettably, I don't have a metal lathe, but I do have a sort of mini-grinder. Flap discs, ok - do they have to be something extra tough & special? Like I said, belt sander #60 paper (it was actually #40), admittedly held by hand, wouldn't touch it. Securing it should be no prob...
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    Tidying steel

    Hi - I have some steel discs about 6mm thick and between 4" and 8" diameter. (Units? I'm flexible!) They're pretty rough, and have some surface rust. I want to tidy them up, nice and smooth and shiny. I've got the first one mounted on the woodworking lathe. With aluminium, going up the...
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    Does this "scoop" exist...?

    AndyT: Thank-you! That's ingenious and sounds like it should work! No, it's not so easy when the hard and soft rings "fade" fron one to the other. You just have to use your judgement as to the crossover point. I'll give the blowlamping (Pete M) a go, too. Thanks to all for help & links. Merry...
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    Does this "scoop" exist...?

    I've found tbat hard wire brushes tend to take everything off and aren't flexible enough to dig just into the softer bits, and softer brass suede brushes don't do much at all. Maybe there's different grades.
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    Does this "scoop" exist...?

    Lol, don't worry about it. We all get to that age sometime :)
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    Does this "scoop" exist...?

    "Spoon carving" - ok, got it. I was hoping for something considerably less pricey, but I'll look around, thanks. "Very on trend"? How/where do you mean?
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    Does this "scoop" exist...?

    Hi - I want to scoop out the soft part of the grain of some cedar. Sandpaper folded in half a couple of times and used like a breadknife works quite well, but it's pretty slow. I'm trying to imagine an ideal tool, and am guessing something like in the pic. The "bowl" would be an oval shape and...
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    Making hexagons?

    Hi, and thanks. They want to be the same size, so they can be tesselated, yes. I'm using avocado stones, which when dried out are pretty hard and take a nice polish. They vary in size and quality (voids etc), though. I've made a nice attachment to the band saw for slicing them evenly. The...
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    Where can I get a 100mm self adhesive vertical metric rule?

    Does it really matter if the numbers are sideways? You'd get used to it in about a second! What about getting a thin metal ruler and cutting off 10cm of it?
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