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I was about to order a new ledged and braced Suffolk style door for the side door of my garage, the one on there is gently rotting after 35 years. Its an odd size, but having found the almost-right size which can be trimmed within the max-min recommended by the supplier the website asked me...

Thanks, I've never seen HS before and the shiny-ness sort of misled me. I will use them as HSS.

I've just been given a nice set of drill bits by a friend who was clearing out his deceased father's garage. They are very old - probably 40 years plus - and he lived in the USA for a while. All brand new, opening the box released the nostalgic smell of the machine machine oil from when they...

Not got time to do a proper search today, but could that L be a decorated E? Look how it's joined to the C where it would have been more normal to join the C to the edge instead. There was a company called B Elliott which imported and sold all sorts of kit and along the way acquired some...

Rather than enter the debate* about how to backup/store here are some practical suggestions for the OP. Cloud storage for your photo gallery can work in diferent ways - some synchronise fully, so if you delete from phone it deletes from the cloud. Others backup - I have mine set that way so I...

I used to live in a detatched house in a village near a motorway junction on the M56. Burglaries happened fairly regularly: steal car, off the motorway, burgle a few houses, go back onto motorway, whoosh. Mostly small scale stuff, cash, VCRs and so on. If we went out for an evening I used to...

I'm not a great fan of adjustable spanners but you do need them occasionally. With an adjustable, you get a snug full face fit on 2 opposite faces. Just from the pictures, the Husky looks like it won't fit any faces snugly, just the corners, so might not be better. Also might be little use...

Presumably you did this in a workshop not at the roadside. If it was the latter, the Road Traffic Act 1988 S170 applies and you should probably report it to a constable on the grounds that a tracksaw is mechanically propelled.. In this section “animal” means horse, cattle, ass, mule, sheep...

The bulbs in your picture don't look like heat lamps to me, they are the decorative sort that people use in mock-coal fireplaces. I would think about an ordinary low wattage incandescent bulb. Even then a 40w bulb uses about 6 kwH a week, assuming electricity will be close 25p per unit soon...

Thanks all. Slightly delayed reply as my wife's heart doesn't seem to be working properly so got distracted. Tests and more tests in the weeks to come. Good to hear real world experience of M42 lasting well. I will read all of the above - I normally read most things and learn a lot as they...

I've got an Axminster 1950*, small hobby bandsaw, and after some messing about to get it to cut straight its been working fine for a few months. I use a 1/4 inch 6 tpi blade for turning blanks or other things with radii, but mostly use a tuffsaw 3/8 "supertuff premium" 4 tpi for resawing all...

Hopefully the above suggestions work. If you can't find the right fit, ask yourself if you really need it. It's convenient, stops the centre falling out when you move things, but in use it's all under compression load anyway so won't go anywhere. A quick bodge to stop it falling out may be...

Not sure I'm into bright colours but that's just personal preference. Leaving the centre in the log gives me lots of ideas for some maple I have which is not really big enough (diameter) to use normally. I've tried just splitting a log and turning with half the centre in with no great success...

Hexagonal fish tank?

If what you have ordered proves unsuitable, try mactimbers.com They understand timber and, based on my trip to their last open day, they understand planes too.

Thsi afternoon I got out into the workshop/garage to have a look at my chuck and jaws. No idea about the chuck, sorry. One thing I did notice, my chuck key has the manufactureres name set in the cast T handle. The jaws looked very similar to mine, Record SC3/4 type, not identical but looks...

I've used adhesive successfully onto sealed MDF. Don't recall which brand but it was 'proper stuff' not any old gloop. Mirrors must have been there 10 years plus and no sign of trouble. What are the consequences of it falling off? If I were fixing a big mirror above where people sit or sleep...

Some jaws/manufacturers are interchangeable but they are by no means universal. As above, look for stamps/logos all over including under the jaws and on the chuck key. If you can post picture of chuck with and without jaws fitted and maybe the chuck key (they vary and might give a clue)...

I would but....trying to clear out not add at the moment to save my offspring having to do too much of what you are. The NYMR based in Pickering have a couple of shops where they sell donated pre owned books and dvds, it's a charity and money raised helps keep the trains chuffing. Maybe...

I think the previous post is about drills, not drill chucks. You say you want a chuck. Most lathe tail stocks are either #1 or #2 morse taper like the 1MT one suggested above. Your lathe specification should say which, sounds like it is #1. MT is a pretty universal standard and used in...