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I know what you mean, although the link just leads me to a pile of random FB sales. I guess you meant something like this. https://excelmachinetools.co.uk/home/shop/grinding-machines/pbm-450a-universal-tool-cutter-grinder/ Funnily enough I was only looking at it's smaller brother yesterday...

I hand sharpen anything over about 3mm. Under that I've got a 3d printed (but easy to fabricate anyway) "boomerang" style sharpener that holds the drill in a pin chuck for manual sharpening on a flat diamond stone. Works a treat. Although TBH, I haven't used it much. Friend who was a...

Only the other day, the OHs mobile had a text come from O2. "We're stopping supporting the old type sim you have in your phone" The phone immediately stopped working, which is a pain due to OTPs etc. She doesn't use the phone much, but I've got her a cheap monthly contract on my own contract...

Doesn't look like any single point thread cutting tool or thread chaser I've ever seen. And why the hex handle if it is? Lathe tools are normally square to fit in the tool post. It's a hand tool surely.

I'll stick my neck out again! 😊 Face veneers look like they might be some sort of oak. American red or white possibly? Lipping definitely isn't any oak I've ever seen. As said cheap tropical hardwood of some sort. Seen it before, but don't know what it is.

I really don't know. Looks like it's not had a hard life, or been used much. I'm guessing at some sort of specialist kit. What I did come here to say though, is I'd ask at the Science Museum. Someone there might know...

It all seems to me that they are all desperately seeking some sort of answer, without actually grasping the nettle. The required message still isn't being sent.

Certainly worth a try that is. Looking at it with fresh eyes, it indeed looks like the colour and figure are ash like. An ash desk I made 30 years ago has gone like that.

Now all we need is a "deeply dull, but generally competent and honest leader" Well I suppose one out of three ain't bad.

Looks like oak to me. It's cut from near the outside of the log though. Quickly grown as well by the look of it (French?) Internal pores in the grain and so on make me think it is as well. But having said all that, timbers are hard to identify by just looking. If you can take a shaving off the...

Sand the loose bits off , fill, and sand that down would be my choice. Getting it to ever look right again though is a black art. It looks like a coloured varnish or lacquer of some type. Certainly don't try to stain the wood. Apart from anything else the filler will take up stain differently...

Never actually cut one, but everything I've seen, both online and in Machinery's Handbook point to the tool having to be just right, and that the threads are a pain to cut.

Depends why there is play in the original. Wear or damage? Can it be fixed? Seems a lot of money to spend on a fence. I'd be looking around, especially if I wanted originality.

Hi. I'm a new boy myself. It's a good forum I reckon. I'm from the West Midlands myself originally. Ow am yer? :)

I've made several ledge and brace doors in the past. One big heavy one for outdoors, that was still there after 30 odd years last time I saw it. And some indoor ones. I've made most by screwing them, and I've never bothered with the "one line of screws" theory, and they've been OK, and a couple...

Supply and demand. Get one made for 90 quid. I agree it's a cheeky price though! Good luck with it being the right part samweb132. I'd say being a LH square thread, it's "special".

Well the more you clean it, the thinner the metal will get. It ain't going to get no "less rust pitted" So I'd clean it up the best you can with whatever you have that works, and then I'd paint it with a good thick coat of paint brushed on. Preferably primed first with a suitable primer.

We lost our dog in 2007. I don't think I felt any worse grief at the passing of my parents long ago. We have just lost an older cat who had in the last couple of years "adopted" us. The "owners" knew all about it. She was old. I still look for her, and listen for her little greeting. It's all...

What I thought as well. One of the mahogany types. Could be anything, looks very like some Keruing I had ages back.

If it is metric M25 2mm pitch then looking online it would seem to be a standard thread.