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Router with an up cut bit?

Depends on your risk assessment of the task (literally yours, not the governments, or the councils, which is what 3 pages of this thread can be summarised as) for equipment I design I’d struggle to justify the risk to a client for any operation with one person handling that load unassisted...

I think you’re missing the point, there isn’t one number.

Really, just go read Jelly’s post on it and save yourself. If you think 25kg is there as the minimum for legal reasons, go ask your 95 year old granny to pick up a 25kg bowling ball off the floor with no finger holes and raise it above her head. I recon most will struggle with 1/10th of that...

I recently made a run of built in units, used turbo gold #8 screws into the side of cheap and nasty 19mm veneered MDF with no pilots driven in by impact driver. Not one single split. Yes, I did several tests first. Aidan

I’ve not made a wood stay yet, but just like a metal one, but made from wood, adjust proportions to suit, maintain the same aspect ratio and it’ll work just fine Aidan

Anyone who considers MDF as only for disposable cheap furniture has been living under a considerable misunderstanding. We used to have a desk in the show-room/office and people would occasionally come in and demand pieces “in solid wood... like this” gesturing at the desk, made from MDF. Aidan

People should be free to make, buy and sell whatever they like so long as it’s inside the law... and I’m free to say it’s junk. Think of it like a fuel guzzling sports car, they aren’t morally acceptable in themselves, but creating them employs people and selling them liberates money from...

That is special.

Sounds like you’re looking for complications that might not materialise. If you have current supply problems look for alternatives or carry more stock. Being UK based only I’d expect to make things worse for you as you will have a minuscule range of options Aidan

London screw, GWR, OSC amongst others for fasteners. Armeg for SDS and there are plenty of companies supplying surgical instrument manufacturing with drills and reamers. If you’re after specifically wood screws and drill bits you probably need to buy very old second hand ones, quality may be...

Jelly mate, you can’t educate the uneducatable, laudable of you to try though! Rather like that irregular large mass with no accessible lifting points, some things just need to be left on the floor ;) Aidan

There’s no way that’ll work well unless you have significant drop edges on the shelves or make them as torsion boxes or also fasten into a backboard whatever fastening you use into the sides you’ll have sagging shelves and they will pull the joints apart. If you’re painting you should be able...

He wants to sell you some uranium... the eyebrows used to move in the avatar but alas no more, shame he wasn’t made by B&Q, I’ve heard their old tools never break

Unfortunately there are many types of PP too, some have additives to help you stick to them, some have additives to do precisely the opposite too. Cyanos have some interesting properties that facilitate bonding to plastics, but the same properties can also cause stress cracking which develops...

I’m not normally one for these kind of things but that does look smart Aidan

That is a very long door, is it live edged? you could conceal a piano hinge depending on where the unit is, on the floor you’d not see it. there are a great many stays available, most seem a bit ugly to me, you can still get the brass quadrants but they may be too small for that weight, chains...

Polypropylene is notoriously hard to stick to, usually that’s a good thing. Pipe solvent may work well, in which case you get a weld not an adhesive bond, but I’m not sure how you’d be certain both paths are the right grade to work well, so I’d go epoxy after a good scuff up but ideally back it...

I’d definitely go for a decent track saw then. As I don’t do site work I’m not convinced about battery driven versions as I’d always have a vacuum connected to it (and a good power take off one of them is also a great thing) Aidan

If it’s just for your garage renovations I’d not pay all that money, even doing it by hand might be better value. However what you want to make afterwards should be driving the decision, if you’re going to do a lot of sheet work etc... I really would buy a good plunge saw, they’re fantastic Aidan