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often go to local sawmills and see how they "treat" the timber, obviously not all are the same. But I no longer have faith in the preservative properties of them.

what make is the saw and yes a picture would help

timber is no longer dried properly or really pressure treated only dipped, same has happened with fencing stakes etc, best answer is old engine oil it soaks in and dries fairly quick and more effective then creosote

good luck with the new course

if it fits on a 2mt it was probably used in a rotary table to hold small dia stuff for precision drilling

whatever they darn well please; given that Road tax was abolished in the 1970's and extra duty added to fuel instead so the heaviest users paid the most. Road tax was around £250 by then and too expencive for a lot of people so they dodged it, it was replaced with a £5 charge for checking your...

I suspect once you have removed the centre you will find a 1MT hole.

I don't think there is a standard adapter to do what you want but it could be made.

sorted I ended up making one using a variac and built a rectifier. Cheers all

aniseed balls, pineapple chunks, winter mix, blackjacks, everton mints,, chocolate honeycomb

finally turning the outside taper on the sleeves, can be done the same way as previous taper but easier to turn on a mandrill between centres and offsetting the tailstock. Though in my case I used my adjustable centre and do not need to reset the tailstock afterwards. The beauty of this is I...

topslide remained at the same setting and lathe run in reverse as I cut the male taper on a mandrill, as both the sleeves and mandrill were cut at the same setting they were a perfect fit.

having drilled a pilot hole the smaller taper was bored. Rust has been a really bad problem in my workshop this year as you can see

as long as the charger has a lead that plugs into the battery it does not matter I can change the plug 21v max 2amp charger is fine but the drill is a cheapo deworx

Having bought some chisels for an 1880's hand mortiser I found they were not all standard tapers, the ones I bought were smaller in Dia than the ones I needed so the decision was made to sleeve them. I started by drilling then boring the taper to receive the smaller taper. Then without changing...

Sorted thanks everyone. the charger for my 21v dill has died and a replacement form china will take a month, anybody got one lying in a draw someplace I cn replace the output lead if need be

1" 8TPI would be some old chuck threads so you never know. https://www.fastenerdata.co.uk/whitworth

I'd love to find the original speed reducer, but if not will rig my own