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Many thanks for pursuing that, Kev, and passing it on. If I had thought I should have mentioned originally that I found that manual about a month after getting the machine, plus from a source I cannot now trace, photos of each motor, but taken in situ and so close up to the details plate that I...

I bought one of these some 9 months ago and totally unrelated to the effort in moving it, I ended up with a slipped disc and the refurbishment task went to the back burner. There's a problem with the thicknesser feed motor which involved dismantling the motor and unfortunately I didn't at the...

An NVR switch on the side (ie a push button switch that drops out if the mains is cut) feeding a 13A socket mounted beside the switch and the router plugged in the socket. Something, eg cable tie, round the router to hold the power switch on. Electrically straighforward but an hour's work for...

In my ignorance of the niceties of wiring, but being a graduate electronics engineer of course I knew all about electricty (!!!!), so some 40 years ago I wired my garage/workshop with at least a 30m run from my house CU with a buried 2.5mm cable. There's a local CU with RCD and suitable trips...

My old workshop had a concrete floor and in my relative youth that never bothered me, but a new workshop was built on retirement again with a concrete base and I found foam rubber mats in Costco that are 7mm thick, 600mm square and interlock. I would strongly recommend these; inexpensive...

I would tend to agree with cherry - the bark of the piece at the back is certainly not apple, and is like cherry. But with so many varieties of flowering cherries around the wood colour will vary. Rob

One of the things that came up in the answers to Smouser's query on the ON/OFF switch is that the replies failed to make it clear (as far as I could see) that the switching signal is only 5 or 10v so light weight sealed (to keep out dust, etc) switches are acceptable. Well done by the way in...

Again I am with JobandKnock on this. I imagine 'german' beech is much like the UK variety, and you just need to see how quickly moulds get into it ('spalted' beech) after felling. It's never a pleasant thing to have to do but my feeling to the OP is to get 'unstuck' with this wood and seek...

Is there someone here with qualifications that can clear up these dry rot opinions please. I've always been brought up with the guidance that dry rot is a fungus and as such it will produce fruiting bodies - the fruit being spores, like any fungus, which are really very difficult to get rid...

Several miles down river from Dunkeld there is the 1km square site of a Roman camp. I visited it some dozen years ago with a knowledgeable guy. Seemingly it is about the only one in Europe which has not been built over, but according to some records somewhere was only used for about 10 years...

Thanks guys - memory says I played around with french polishing very many moons ago - like 25years! - and might possibly still have some shellac. Rob

This is for a planer, so is a wood working project !!! I'm converting the 3 phase motor from star to delta to run on an inverter. I've had to cut and replace a number of the cord bindings for the windings and am wondering whether I should paint them over with a varnish and is so what sort...

The trouble with shipping containers is that they get horribly hot in summer and miserably cold in winter.

I suspect you are talking about 'furrings'- 'firing' is lighting a fire or shooting a gun!! Sorry to be pedantic, but then just to be doubly sure I was correct, I did find this on Google as a touch of 'questionable' humour https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=furring I did enjoy...

On the basis that there is not a section of the Forum for this query, I have fallen back on "General Woodworking". Apologies as this is the mucky end of wood working!!! I have a Cooksley P/T which has a separate motor and associated gearbox for the thicknesser rollers. This integrated unit...

The problem in my opinion of batten lights in a workshop is that like the fluorescents they replace they cast shadows, and if the ceiling is on the low side they are of significant glare. The other factor too is that I wonder if the tubed LED has as much light output against the batten...

I would back up the non-use of Meranti - it was used as the bottom frame element of sliding glass doors we have and rotted out very early. And I also join those with the lack of enthusiasm for stable doors. I helped a friend with such a door for his house some 15 years ago - and it has never...

I wouldn't. My daughter who is clearly in a grey phase of her colour life, had a professionally one cast for her kitchen. The guy knew what he was doing and did a good job but the finish is a PVA skin to prevent stains (think drinks!!) entering the concrete and I am not convinced that will last...

Driving over the Devil's Elbow to Braemar some years back and on the quite fast descent from the Glen Shee Ski Centre, a young red kite was feeding on road kill in the middle of the lane; realising rather late on that the monster approaching was bigger than itself, it flew up very late and...

I'm not too sure of this claim, but I have been in the Sahara Desert and I've been in over warm houses and strange though it may be but the claim is that such houses are actually at a lower RH than a desert. In order to get your product to remain in the manner wanted you may not quite achieve...