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I think the banana stuck to the wall with duct tape was my personal low point. And there will always be some sycophant gushing away about how to interpret the artist's message :ROFLMAO:

On the big ones they have the pick up tube within a large tube. I think the idea is to ensure that the media doesn't get compacted around the pick up. Probably a variation on the same idea. Mine just had a bit of pipe fitted in clips in the trough at the bottom of the cabinet. Pretty sure mine...

It was what I think is commonly referred to as a joke Jacob. Never mind.

I would have thought the rest of it would be a shapeless blob long before a 25mm plate was getting too bothered by the heat :-)

Can certainly see where they are coming from with the grate plate, always the first thing to sag. 25mm ought to do it :-)

Agreed but why make it heavier than necessary. I would probably have expected it to be something like 1/4 inch in old money.

Agreed if it's only 2/3 mm thick. 8mm still seems a bit heavy duty, but may well be to avoid it taking on a glow, which might be disconcerting for the customer :-)

Only in so far as not much more than half your original 10 mm thickness estimate would probably do the job. One of the advantages of a fabricated steel design is it could very probably be lighter than cast iron for a similar capacity.

To be fair it does get some pretty good reviews. I have just converted a Clark CBS 190 for use in cutting thin sheet metal. Similar sized machine. Mine wasn't that old and had clearly not had much use but the tyres had completely dried out and disintegrated.

I think the material they use for the tyres on these little saws is not up to much. Good tyres are actually surprisingly expensive, so would seriously eat into the margin on a small relatively cheap machine. Once they start misbehaving I would change them. The fact that the tyre can just come...

Don't see any old batteries, best you do it again :-)

The farmers I used to work with years ago used to mix old engine oil with diesel as a wood treatment instead of creosote.

Given the fun involved in fitting new tyres, having to stretch them over the wheels, I would say that if the tyre can just slide off then you need new ones.

Would be interesting to know. 10mm would be massively OTT I would have thought.

Always strikes me that people use what seem, to me anyway, very coarse grades. For finishing clock cases and similar I would wet sand with at the very least 400 grit wet and dry. If french polishing I would probably finish up with 800 grit. As Triton says, dampen, sand at least a couple of...

You could go straight to your idea of skimming them, then nickel plate them yourself. Very easy to do. You just need a small power supply to 3.5 to 5 v DC. A piece of nickel rod and some plating solution. Maybe £25 for the lot. Bear in mind that the finish will not hide any flaws in the metal...

I bet that was a new underpants moment :-)

Oh I don't know. I could see the zeppelin shape lending itself to a bath :-)

I have one of the bench top ones, bought when I only had a small compressor. I found the biggest problem was that it didn't pick up the media well. They tend to have a V shape trough as the cabinet floor. The pick up tube sits in that but is just an open ended tube. So the end of the tube...

You can use one of the small bench top ones but even they need a good air supply if you don't want to have to keep stopping to let the compressor catch up. Ok for occasional use on small things, really frustrating otherwise. The benchtop ones are also not generally very good at keeping the media...