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I've fitted two Direct Drives inverters to lathes - one a Graduate and the other a Wadkins Bursgreen. I've also done a motor change and controller installation on another older lathe for the local wood turning club - I can't remember the lathe type but it was a Speed Genie controller. My...

I've only just discovered this thread and would like to ask Lee why he has discounted the club at Broxburn which I recommended to him when he first started posting here. Broxburn is only 15 minutes away from South Queensferry and has facilities that would be the envy of any woodworker up and...

Hi Chris - Glad to hear that apart from the motor everything is actually OK, though having said that it is a little odd that the motor bearings are away - that does sound ominously like lack of maintenance of the greasers. I'm a pretty recent convert and am probably not unique in thinking I can...

Chris If it looks like the pictures of the one in Oz, then it certainly isn't Myford. There are a number of similar style British made cast iron lathes of that period. In general they are of simple construction and built like tanks so take a lot to damage. Can you expand on what you mean...

Cornucopia - that is beautiful and so satisfying to the eye. I'm not going to enter into the pedantic discussion on names but I have no difficulty with describing something which is artistic rather than functional with a specific name. I'm probably not nearly far enough up the learning curve...

I've just been to look at mine that were made approaching 40 years ago and show (at least the one I checked) no signs of failure. Rebated, hot glue (I think - though it might have been cascamite) and lost head wire nails. I know it's nice to use 'decorative' joints, but who's going to see them...

I've got an old cottage and had the bar and batten doors paint stripped when we did the first cut at improvement. They are now many years later a lovely set honey colour, but getting modern pine for facings and so on to match proved an interesting challenge when I came later to replacing all...

I'm no great shakes at SU, but I persevere because the one attribute I do find is that it allows me to think through the design and build properly. Just too many hand sketches on odd bits of paper, or even a notebook, very often just do not work as you haven't really seen the end item in the...

HI SB I'm attempting to do this with a B&Q 1250W router which is presenting greater difficulty in dismantling; on the bais that monkeys put it together then this monkey can take it apart. One question - did you put the springs back in? Somewhere else I've seen a not dissimilar mod and the...

I faced the problem of matching modern pine door facings to old bar and batten pine doors. In the end I found that if I gave the wood an initial stain of well thinned down red mahogany and then light oak stain I got near enough the 'set honey' colour of the doors. I then did a wipe coat or two...

I had a period out of work about 20 years ago and went to 'apprentice' with my younger brother. One of the tasks I got to do was to strip and scrape a small drop leaf table that was fantastically inlaid - it wasn't Chesterfield, but something of that ilk and period. It sold for >£20k when we...

Hi Dibs Don't know if I'm the last in but the plates turned up late this afternoon - driver seemed to be regarding yestrday's guy as an a**e !. The plates look great - and all those rings too ? I'm sure I must owe you something for all the tape you had to use - Ebay type feedback says...

Hi Dibs - communication from the north. The City Link system says they tried to deliver it yesterday - slightly surprising as some businesses took a local holiday yesterday. The screen says they tried to deliver at 14.19 - no-one in (correct) and left a card (incorrect!!). Phoned them just...

Yep, done that, seen the video, etc. The system is working. Well done Sir Dibs Rob

Hi Dibs I now fully sympathise with your headaches over the Google Spreadsheet - yesterday's link now doesn't work but the one on the 23rd which didn't work last night, now comes up perfectly happily. :cry: :cry: Rob

Thanks - that works. Rob

Have to say that it's refusing toilet me in also - by refusing I mean it says I am not allowed to have access. 20.00:28th July Rob (OldWood)

Thanks Paul - when you say you stood on end on beech chippings, just what was stood on end ? The reason I ask is that the tree in question has been cut to 6 ft and 3 ft sections, but still full 28" diameter. I could ask the farmer to bring these down to the house, but I suspect that I would...

Hi Paul - great shape and something to aim for. Can you pass on your 'spalting technique' please? I've a beech tree available that's some 28" diameter and 20 ft long. It's been down for 3 years and I've had some nice turning of spalted bough wood, but the main trunk isn't showing much signs...

Hi Dibs Do we do an Ebay feedback report on this ? Zero for everything so far as we haven't got our mucky fingers on anything, but 5 stars for communication; and actually 5 x * for price too. Dibs - you're a * - a 5 x * Rob