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Finally finished a cufflink box for my brother's birthday 2 years ago. :oops: Not sure what the sides are, but the lid, base and tray sides are wenge. Brushed acrylic finish then a teeny bit of beeswax, mostly for the smell. I'm fairly pleased with this, did a few new ways of building. I just...

What issues have you heard of? I've not had any trouble with mine; I added a short fence from a bit of 18mm phenolic ply and a pair of these: http://www.axminster.co.uk/ujk-technolo ... lamps-pair

I've had the Bosch for a good few years now - I didn't at the time have room for a "proper" tablesaw, and I've not since felt the need to upgrade yet (though I accept that there are advantages). Generally I've been pretty happy with it. It has a sort of sliding table which is useful with the...

Hmm - I'd not thought about that. Certainly when I had a dispute that Paypal wouldn't solve, Amex got straight onto it, but that may be more to do with Amex than the consumer credit act.

Ouch. Gaffa?

I've had pretty good luck on eBay in general; only a couple of bad sellers and they were sorted out by eBay. I generally assume that if the price is too low then it's a fake, unless the seller has a lot of them and they're lightly used - I got a few bits for setting up my home office from office...

Personally I'd be wary of that - if you're importing from the US then you're asking the supplier to commit a felony there, and by doing so you're committing a criminal offence here. As I recall the maximum penalty is 2 years in prison. You're fairly unlikely to get caught, but to me the risk...

Aye - sorry, should have mentioned that. The rollback was pretty quick and painless on mine too.

Would some M6 grub screws work? They can be had with quite pointy ends but I don't know if they're hard enough. I bought a set of transfer punches a few years back and they've been very useful.

I've now rolled back my laptop (a Lenovo Yoga Pro) to Win8.1 - most of Windows 10 looked like improvements as far as the user interface was concerned, but there were too many issues for me to continue with it for now. Trackpad gestures didn't work any more, it didn't reliably switch between...

Ply typically comes in multiples of 3mm thickness, so you're looking at either 9mm or 12mm. I built an ugly but functional printer trolley from 12mm ply and it's massively overbuilt - nary a creak if I sit on the thing and it's very, very heavy. I reckon even 9mm might be excessive for your...

I tried one of the Mirkas - I think it was before the Deros came out - and there's no question that that's what I'll get if/when my Axminster cheapo dies. Very easy to handle, very little vibration, almost no dust coming out (with the Mirka extraction). I have not tried the others though.

I think you can skip a step - on my PC running Win7 there's a "Save as" in the snipping tool itself, so you can save as a JPG without the Paint stage.

Ah - I wasn't clear. I didn't mean on the bottom "side" of the case, I just meant having the air intake lower than the exhaust. My tower PC, for example, has the intake at the bottom front, and the exhaust at the top back. Having seen the arrangement of the PC in question, though, I can see it...

Usually, yes (mine's in a CPU carrier bolted to the underside of the desk top) but he said this is an all-in-one with the screen built in, so I figured it'd sit on a desk rather than on the floor.

Dunno about the temperatures, but I'd suggest bringing the cool air in at the bottom - warmer air rises, so let the fans work with that natural effect rather than against it.

Sir would look very good indeed with a Mirka DEROS. Only about ten times as much money as my Axminster was. One day...

It can go straight onto mine, but I got a pad saver anyways.

I think you're absolutely right about the ones you can buy from Amazon or similar, but the Unicol stuff is built to a very different standard and there are various bracing solutions too. It does depend on just how hard you're going to hit the poor thing of course!

In terms of mounting something reasonably rigidly to a ceiling, there's a solution that already exists - my last job was at an audio-visual integrator, and we mounted projectors up to 50kg and flat panel screens way over that from ceilings via 52mm diameter steel columns. There are lots of...