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Well you are quoting correctly - as if I doubted you would be !! :D , but that's not what the website is charging. Has Mark got it wrong or is there something that I am missing on the website ? Email to Mark called for - will do and report back. Rob

I've a small set out of MDF and they're perfectly OK. I keep on meaning to make something better but as I only use them occasionally to tidy up a bowl base, or the likes, which is gentle turning, that's a little on the back-burner. Rob

Just out of interest how large are your workshops ? Melinda's we know is tiny and an oil filled radiator will warm it up quickly, particularly if she does something about insulation - no point in heating the outside world. Mine is 2.5m x 5m and a 2kw thermostatically controlled fan heater...

So I take it then that you are quite happy to buy and collect 90+ paper pages, of which you will read less than 20, and then add all those pages to the bulk on a shelf of which equally you have read less than a quarter. Does that make sense in this day and age of attempting to cut down on the...

Thanks Blister - I'll pursue that. I now need to eat some humble pie and say that I quite incorrectly slagged off the viewer on the pocketmags site. For some reason they have the option to button select either "New Reader" or "Old Reader" - now don't laugh but I took it that I was the reader...

"Interlocking floor mats" seems to be the thing to search on but none of the sites I'm finding approach Costco's price - maybe they've gone up significantly since in the last 5 years, or my memory is failing faster than I thought. Rob

Hmm - that's as said a bit ironic; there must be a token number there or something as that is not the prices on the website. I didn't buy this month's copy as it didn't have anything in it that interested me; perhaps I'll go and have another look. I went back to the website this evening and...

Interesting to know where you got your figures from Blister as it's £1.99 on that website for one and something like £26 for 12 months. I'm going to investigate this a little further as there was one month's which I've mislaid so I bought it, and found that the download is the magazine complete...

Any floor is all the better for a bit more insulation, so if you can get to Costco, or scrounge someone's ticket, get a pack of their clip together rubber matting (I'm sure it's available elsewhere too). It's about £10-12 for something like 10 x 600mm square tiles industrial grade rubber foam...

A little coincidently I have just given advice in another thread ("Best books for Newbie") against a book, Keith Rowley's "Woodturning - a Foundation Course" as it is now over 20 years old and doesn't mention scroll chucks. In your case this may be the book you should consider getting as the...

Ruth The club I'm a member of has had such a rush of new members that we've had to set up a Train the Trainers course. This thread will roll for several days by which time I hope the club webmaster will have posted up the guidelines we are using, and I will post the link for that. One of the...

Many thanks Roger - it'll be interesting to find if this is a problem in the UK that the timber millers face; wetter here but not so warm. I found a website for the stuff you mention http://www.archchemicals.com/Fed/WOLW/P ... efault.htm The oxalic acid use is useful as well - thanks Rob

I think the path I will take from all the advise that is around is to cut the timber into bowl appropriate lengths (it is ~180mm in diameter), take the bark off on the lathe and then split it lengthwise. Does zapping wood in the microwave kill organisms down to spore level even if the burst of...

No - you spend a tenner on the hot air gun and a quid on some sticks of the hot glue, and a few pence on a blade to cut the glue, if you are really counting the pennies !! Actually if they still are making them, the variable temperature hot air gun from Makita is the one I would recommend. Rob

Ian Thanks - that certainly confirms that a) it is difficult to dry and b) it is prone to staining - the latter I didn't know. It would appear that the staining is fungal rather than chemical as Jon was attempting to address with lime juice (vitamim C), though the high acid level might be...

Ahh, great; then I claim the prize !! Though I can't believe that someone hasn't got there before me!! I cut small lumps of the glue from the stick, place 4 of them around the surface and gently heat both the workpiece and chuck piece with the hot air gun until the glue is well melted, and...

Hi Jon and thanks. But I will have to start by asking what your 'EMC' is - from the my working days it is 'Electro Magnetic Compatability' (possibly more easily understood as Radio Frequency Interference), neither of which have much dealings with wood and it's moisture content. I don't want to...

There is a sector of me that says "p*** off", John. 8C and thundering with wind and rain. Rob

Things are too cold in Scotland to be able to do that. The moment the glue hits either the block or the workpiece it is beginning to become inadequately fluid and the join line is thick and uneven, and therefore weak. I hadn't realised that Peter Child had pinched my idea of using the hot air...

Yes, but you are meant to work in the shed, not sit playing on the 'puter ! :D What's BLO ? Rob