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There are only two reasons that I can think of why you'd lose so much off the diameter - firstly there was some damage to one or more teeth meaning that they needed to take so much off to make all the teeth equal (but TBH before taking so much off they should have contacted you to see if another...

I've always been bemused by the way visitors to site react to the boots rule (I.e. they are supposed to be mandatory for all). Seeing a woman walking round in her best dress wearing a high viz vest, hard hat, goggles and massive daisy roots is pretty funny. Don't they realise that skirts...

Wow! They were made by Ryobi and were not a bad router back in the day (the day being about 1980). Plunge action and a fine depth adjuster built in

Certainly quiet, and enough for a small 2nd fix pinner, although not up to running a 1st fix gun. I've seen upholsterers use them loads of times for staples and brads

No, that's perfectly correct. You position the saw at the far end of the rail and pull the plunger . Then plunge the saw (it will stop at about 1mm depth) and draw the saw slowly backwards to the start of the rail. "Unplunge" the saw and press the plunger back into the home position before...

I think I'd try to stick with the same kerf as the saws comes with, which is 2.2mm, isn't it? A very good reason to standardise the the kerfs of all your blades (and for that matter to get all of them reground together and ask for them to be resharpened to identical kerfs - something they can...

For sheet material with little or no internal stress, e.g MDF. The problem is that even man made sheet materials can and do have stresses sometimes (especially Chinese plywood) Or if you are doing multiple production cuts with the fence locked at the same setting all the time and where the...

Sounds like the white guy was speaking English (at around 1:10 he says "...coming after us..." and at about 1:46 he says "...phone Robbie, phone Josh...") with what could be a South African accent to my ear (TBH I thought at first he was speaking Afrikaans), and they appear to be driving on the...

With the correct set up and the correct method a circular saw shouldn't scare you - but it should make you wary. Over confidence is a real enemy of safety

I spend 50+ hours a week in boots in a construction environment, so comfort, warmth and ventilation is all! If you want a boot that can be used outside you need to specify an S3 class boot as they will resist the weather. I'd dissuade anyone from wearing safety shoes or dealer boots in any...

I recently bought a second Katsu plunge base. Like yours it has proven to be a disappointment, especially as the first one was quite good. My 110 volt Katsu motor has recently died as well - a combination of the speed controller working intermittently and the lower bearing getting noisy. Oh...

If you need to earn a living in the main part of the market for carpentry, joinery, interior fit-out, etc then the materials alone tend to dictate the use of power tools over hand tools nowadays, but so do the economics of the game. By that I mean that a carpenter or joiner from 100 years ago...

2.8mm is actually the sort of kerf you'd use in a table saw. Festool TS55 corded saws have blades (these days) with a consistent 2.2mm kerf. Makita haven't learned this one, yet, so their blades are all over the place in kerf widths, just like Festool used to be. Cordless tools always require an...

The main difference between a 6 year old iPhone in seemingly good nick and a Domino in good nick is that the iPhone is worth next to nothing (and probably doesn't work any longer) whilst the Domino is probably still worth 70 to 80% of its' original sticker price if not more. No wonder Peter...

Agreed, but when it comes to portable, hand held saws the options are much more limited. AFAIK Festool are one of the few firms who make a proper rip blade for their plunge saws (the Panther). Another factor with portable tools, especially cordless ones, which affects static machinery much less...

I was just surprised that it wasn't from Hebden Bridge. There's a shop there which sells all sorts of stuff made from copper plumbing fittings. Let's just say it's not my taste and leave it at that

If you bought the plunging rail saw I'd recommend the deWalt DT99561QZ 165mm 165mm 42t thin kerf blade for sheet materials. If it's a conventional cordless saw look at the 3 blade packs if thin kerf deWalt blades (2 @ 24t, 2 @ 40t) which Screwfix and others sell - the 24t is good for general...

I would have thought so, but would it achieve that much? If the timber diverges as it passes through the saw teeth and is free bend away fromthe blade are you going to actually need to control any kick back? This is because kick back occurs at the back of the blade, where the "rising teeth" are...

Not the same machine, but many years ago I owned a Volpato oscillating belt edge sander complete with 6 wheel power feeder The flat side of the machine could be used for square or angled sanding (it had a table that tilted both ways), the "pointed" side for edge sanding of panels (using the...

I'd say it is merely reduced rather than "almost eliminated". Pushing the stock against the fence if the fence is a long, through fence (like yours) still doesn't cure the problems of reaction timber, such as badly kilned black walnut, which may bend uncontrollably away from the blade and...