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unless you need to replace the belt or bearings why bother taking the shaft out. The blades can be reground easy enough and reset carefully.

take the existing belt and get one half an inch shorter should be fine

my calibrated eyebrows used more often then a rule or micrometre, ha ha

I am wondering if it is a tapping machine but the high speed would be wrong for that looking at the base there is a lot of sawdust so maybe a sander of some sort.

Has to be my trusty old Coronet Major with all of the accessories apart from the grinding wheel, I never bothered with that one. Not forgetting my Colchester bantam lathe for which I am endlessly making gadgets, ha ha.

received many thanks much appreciated.

well there is your answer make a lathe.

amazing skill and patience from start to finish. I look forward to seeing it running. Well done it is certainly an heirloom piece.

used litho plates readily available from any high street jobbing print works.

thanks it is the office at my campsite decking all around would cost a bomb and not needed.

functional and solid a surprising amount of work. could do better.

yes please, let me know the postage or send an invoice via papal and will sort it.

This PC world we live in today makes it difficult to talk a lot of the time, whilst some words could be racial slurs they are not meant as such when used by the majority of people, it is only common usage, I am sure when people of colour call each other N****s they are not intending offence so...

a lot of people, like me would only see humour and not even realise a joke was stereotypical, political correctness has gone to far and humour is no longer possible without offending someone, I'll just stick to being a grumpy old sod and not smile at anything.

replace one of the adjustment screws with a longer one that has a handle so you can lock it.

yes it was the Brits who changed the original American spelling on that one.

gerraway you started out British, ha ah

oh they do do traffic circles but not many of them

best thought for a small shed is to build it bigger, ha ha

the 12 inch rule is that there must always be 12 inches of it.