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I’ve got a couple of alternatives: 5 or 6mm acrylic sheet. Easy to work, with the caveats about cutting on the table saw, clear, holes cut well with Forstner bits, nice smooth surfaces. Made an extended base for the trimmer base this way. 3d printed. I’ve made a 200mm square sub-base for...

Just done a quick trial print of the 1 3/16x20 thread. Works perfectly! Geoff

Thanks for that - just what I needed. Geoff

I want to make - 3D print - a router baseplate that will take the threaded guide bushes (like the Leigh, AUK or Katsu ones) without needing the separate locking ring. Does anyone know the dimensions of the thread? Best I can do by measuring is 30mm diameter and 1.2mm pitch, but I’m not that...

Some years ago, there was a very successful dinghy sailor, John Oakley - with his partner Robin Hunt, he won Olympic gold in the Flying Dutchman class - who published a book called (IIRC) ’Winning’. In it, he described the painting process for a centreboard or rudder, usually made from plywood...

There was (still is?) a manufacturer of electronic test gear called Wayne Kerr. Try saying it quickly.

My experience too. I’ve got a variety of cheap digital calipers, from about a fiver up. They all check to within +/- 1 least-significant digit on a medium grade gauge block. What my experience does suggest, though, is that the types that use a lithium cell (CR2032 or similar) have a much...

Was just now

Unless, of course, you’re using Abranet or one of the other mesh discs

Dishwasher on ‘hot’, then spray liberally with WD40;):p

You might consider one of these: https://cpc.farnell.com/powerconnections/scp3-black-13a/schuko-to-uk-plug-black-13a/dp/PL06738?st=schuko%20to%20uk

I’m using a twin-motor Camvac, admittedly without a separate cyclone. Mine is connected to a number of points around my small workshop with 63mm plastic ducting, blast gates etc. Plenty of suck everywhere, even using the planer-thicknesser at the very end of the most tortuous duct run. Bear...

Axminster RDC100H dust extractor. Only lightly used. With a pack of new filter bags and a length of 100mm flex duct. £50, either collect from EX22, or courier at cost (less than £10)

Try bearingboys.co.uk, who offer a range of plastic gears. Otherwise search online for plastic gears - throws up loads of potential sources.

Agree with @julianf - the float glass is flat enough for this purpose, though it does need to be supported. I’d guess that the thinner toughened glass would be poorer, both beca it is more flexible, and because the tempering process may have affected the flatness.

I’ve been offered some branches of parrotia persica - Persian Ironwood - by a friend who has just had a tree reduced. I can’t find any decent references to working this species. Wondered if the collective wisdom here could throw any light. Of course, the advice may be to light a fire and...

That is truly worthy of some of the American YouTube videos.

Many, many years ago, I lived in student accommodation where each 10-foot square room had a floor-to-ceiling window nearly 4 feet wide. Heated only by electricity. Marginally less well insulated than a tent! I fixed transparent plastic shrink film (can’t remember where I got it), stapled to...

Standard Abranet.

I use Abranet discs with a Mirka pad saver on my Makita BO5041 - cousin to your BO5031. The work extremely well, dust extraction is excellent, using the Makita hose. I’d give that a try before getting into Festool or Deros money!