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Coming back on thread (!!!) - does anyone know if the reciprocating carver head that Axi do will fit these machines ? Rob

Wiser - unless you live in a remarkably remote area, there are always suitable trees in other people's gardens. I've a bramley, as has my mother and neither of us have any others and we still get good crops. Rob

I'm the guy that raised this topic and I think you have all covered most of the points on sanding sealers - many thanks for that. Actually '..most of the points..' has missed the one that I was really wanting the answer too, but didn't clearly ask. Dial up 'sealer' on Axminster or any supplier...

I've found a fallen and partly cut up elm with significant burring on it. Now let's not worry for the moment about the legal side of obtaining the wood ! What I do need to know is how to check if the burrs are worth pursuing, and (ummm) we did liberate one 15k lump with two good sized burrs...

Hi Narrowboater Did you make the screw chuck that Richard used or is this a 'commercial' one ? I followed Richard's WIP too without the problem you are meeting, but I did run into the problem that screwing a long screw through a turned block with a dovetail for the chuck always ended up with...

I have a garage attached to my workshop (what is attached to what is a question of the relative importance !). I can throw my wife's car out to use it. What I couldn't do was to carry sheets of any size, until necessity triggered the memory that up amongst the rubbish on the garage roof beams...

That thought had crossed my mind too. These are cheap pine chairs so a line of brass, or brass looking, screw heads along the back of the seat to tightening up the back rest are unlikely to be of any significance visually; plus as you say piloting and injecting glue before the screw, can only...

Superglue would be unsuitable - it's PU glue that I'm thinking of and Axi do this http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp? ... e=1&jump=0 I've edited this to ask Hamburglar what Titebond he used. Rob

Some 20 years ago I was out of work and was helping my cabinet maker kid brother install himself into an old stone barn on the moors near Lanark. The back wall had had no guttering for some time and was absolutely sodden. We were astounded how quickly that dried out after replacing the...

My son has just got his first house and has got a re-cycled set of cheap pine Windsor (?) style side chairs. These will do him fine as a starter but some of the joints are a bit slack. I don't really want to go to the extent of dismantling and re-gluing, and wondered if the injectable Gorilla...

Steve - thanks for your link to Screwfix; this supplier is what I found but at commercial quantities ! http://shop.comdir.co.uk/Products.aspx?intGroupID=1001 Rob

Pete Is that meths based or cellulose based ? And is that a tin from someone like Chestnut ? And just to add another element to the discussion, isn't anything cellulose based now meant to be hazardous? Isn't the case that cellulose paint is now being phased out ? Rob

Many thanks Jake, that's what I'm after. Great speedy reply too. I'll bookmark those people as no doubt they'll have something else I want at some time. Rob

I was fortunate some dozen years or so ago to get a sufficiently large sheet of a thick SRBF type material to make myself a router table top with enough left over for another. I'm now passing what's left over over to a friend but cannot find a source of a small quantity the type B serrated...

I'm still feeling my way on turning and getting a good finish is something I'm not achieving yet. We had a demo at the club on Saturday which did help, but having looked at the Axi pages I'm now confused more !! The demonstrator sealed with a brush while the item was stationary. His...

This Thursday - at least in the Edinburgh area ! - £12.99. http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2827_13039.htm As I don't know how much use I will have for one of these, this is the way to go for me. Rob

.. but rubber deteriorates, and my Elu is dead because of that. Rob

On the other hand you could far wrong with this Ebay 260550977384 (I need a Smiley at this point !!) Rob

Paul Your profile doesn't say where you are but I would strongly endorse the recommendation that you need to get some contact with turning before you launch into buying things. Let us know where you are and someone will tell you where to find a local club. The reason basically is that to get...

Steve M certainly recommends doing that to take off the sharp corners. There may well be some merit in running on the back a bit prior to that too to give the thrust surface a reasonable chance. I will admit to being quite intrigued by the concern about the ball type bearings being allowed to...