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If they ever do dovetailed ones in wood, sign me up! What do you have against having a way to carry two or 3 tools in one hand at a time? A bit of price work up on the 15th floor would soon sort you out :ROFLMAO:;)

I find it helps if you don't use the Trend hex key and instead use a decent one - I have a set of Wera hex keys which are both harder and fit the sockets better than the cheapo ones Trend supply. I didn't realise they were a problem, but I really haven't had your problems with rounding the...

Look for a signwriter, label maker or engraver/trophy maker in your vicinity. They often either have or have trade contacts for firms who make and can engrave or rout metal and plastic signage/tags

They are faster to change over than conventional arbor-mounted hole saws, to be sure, but just how often are you doing a job where you need to change the diameter of hole saws, and how much time will it actually save? I tried them a few years back and to my mind the biggest downside is that with...

It's a TCT holesaw. Most use the same arbor sets as conventional bimetal holesaws. They are a lot more expensive than HSS or bimetal and not all of them are good - I have a set of Faithfull ones and they aren't the best

Not at all. But 20 million under Stalin alone?

Yes, but the Soviets did use it as an excuse to grab a large part of eastern Europe after WWII.... Which is a point we've already covered, surely?

Congratulations on the hair shirt. Some of the other issues with pre-war machines include deficient guarding, potential electrical safety issues and the fact that a lot of old stuff is simply worn out and generally time expired. It depends on whether you want to spend your life doing mechanical...

The last Bosch ones I bought, about a year back, had the SDS device on top, but when it was removed (vice and adjustable spanner) they accepted the two threaded bit with two pins of a Starrett mandrel like all the rest

No, I'd already mentioned the Holodomor - that last lot was to illustrate it wasn't Stalin's only bit of nastiness. At least Mr Blair got a good book out of it...

Some of the best hole saws are made by Starrett - you buy the hole saw and then an appropriate mandrel, but they generally don't come as a kit unless you want to spend a lot of dosh. Other reliable brands that I've used include Bosch, Heller, Makita, Milwaukee, Morse and even deWalt. The...

Lord knows I am not a supporter of the USA, but there is simply no comparison between what even the USA have done and what Stalin did. A very small, partial list of Koba's works: 1936 - more than 35,000 Poles living alongside the Ukrainian frontier and some 20,000 Finnish peasants deported to...

Neither has Russian

And what makes you think the West could ever trust the USSR of the 1930s? The Russians were happy to form alliances with the Germans after WWI which allowed German manufacturers to construct aircraft, etc inside the Soviet Union away from prying eyes in contravention of the Armistice, something...

Before the 1940s there was still a lot of machinery which was on belt drive, not integrated electric motors. The industry quite rightly scrapped a lot of that by the 1960s. Before the mid to late 1920s a lot of machinery still used plain bearings rather than roller bearings. Again a lot of that...

Oh, so that's why in the early stages of the invasion of Russia the German army had so many problems recruiting volunteeers from the Baltic states and the Ukraine - nbecause the Russians had treated them so well? No, but what they did at Warsaw, where they halted their advance and allowed the...

I'm sure that the many Poles, Czechoslovakians, Romanians, Latvians and Lithuanians I've worked alongside over a fair part of the last 20 years would regard the loss of freedom and human rights in their respective countries as being a necessary part of life to preserve the rights of the...

Oh dear, there is only one of those which keeps your hand anywhere away from the blade, and even that looks too short (should be 450mm or longer like the HSE design below it): The rest of them just don't work well on a table saw or planer. The one from the HSE site I've illustrated is...

For want of a better term, "eye candy" 1:6 and 1:8 were being taught at City & Guilds as far back as the 1920s - so before even your time. No idea exactly where they came from. I was taught to use a sliding bevel. Mine happens to have been an unsolicited, unbidden present from a customer. No...

It wasn't expensive. Last time I did it I think it needed about £30 worth of parts (bit difficult to be exact as I was repairing 3 or 4 other tools at the same time). The fence lock is a bit of a so and so to get at as you end up taking the fence off and flipping the saw on its' top to do the...