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Heat treated is non-chemical - its what you want to be collecting. Personally, i would not sleep on a bed made of reclaimed timber unless i could be sure that it was not covered in chemicals. MB is methyl bromide, etc. Just looked it up, its IPPC. Wikipedia will tell you stuff -...

We pick up no end of pallets - our home is heated on them! The pallets in the photo look like theyre probably euro pallets, which is a type. Otherwise pallets are just made for the job in hand, and considered disposable. Euro pallets are much sturdier and generally re-used. I believe they...

I'm curious as to what has written off the machine? I'm interested rather than suggesting you should fix it. I keep eyeing up wadkins. I have an Axminster 106. I'd rather a solid old machine, but I suspect most of them would require some attention. My woodworking experience is minimal. My...

Virtually all of my work is musical instruments, but you probably won't like them.... http://www.thebeast.co.uk (no animal guts or wood on any of them!) Edit: I lie. There's some wood on this one, but I only did the control panel -

Tyres are new. Theyre a tight stretch fit, no glue. I went round them a few times after fitting with a roller under the tyre to equalise the tension on them. The clamp is because someone in the past has overtightened the fixing for the guide, and cracked the casting. Clamp is holding the...

This is where the wheel is rubbing - I have now shimmed the base of the cover to angle it away slightly. This is an example of the results i am getting with a simple make-shift fence - Im guessing that is not so bad. The thin section in the photo was cut both sides using the bandsaw...

Was it you who posted this one - https://youtu.be/0EVHAdlSAvg If so, that is the same saw (again, pretty much) that I have, and the chap seems to be ripping ok on it.

Two new blades from tuffsaws. Blades seem to cut straight, just not in any way parallel to the table. I'll do the suggested test on a bit of scrap today.

It's got blue polyurethane ones from bandsaws warehouse, or whatever that eBay seller from the states is called. I assumed they were crowned, but that may well be an incorrect assumption!

Sorry for the slow reply. The bandsaw is a warco sw-1405, however, as stated, its the same (in most but not all ways) to the Jet JWBS-14OS (jet manual here - http://content.jettools.com/assets/manu ... man_EN.pdf ) The main difference is the warco has a gear box for slow speed metal work...

Im sorry - bandsaw setup is all over the archives (i have looked) but still im unsure. I have a warco 14 bandsaw. Same unit as branded under jet, nutool, etc. It rips in pretty straight lines (which is what i want) but those lines are at an angle to the table. I suspect this has to do with...

Cable should be sized for application. If your porch is going to have six 500w floodlamps over your yard, then 1.5 isn't going to be enough. If it's going to have one 20w led fitting, then 1mm will be fine. If you have a roll of 1mm and your wattage and distance are tiny, then use it. If...

I use okgoogle daily. When I'm on the machine, and I need a timer, I press a single button on my phone's case, which I can do with my hands covers in metal splinters, and say - Ok Google, timer one hour eighteen minutes And sure enough, it tells me it's set the timer, and started it. It's...

Most tips that I've seen take wood for free. I would be quite insistent that the shape of the wood was irrelevant.

Tony makes a valid point above. Insulation only slows heat loss. Go sub zero for days, and insulation is not going to keep a pipe warm. Trace heating if you're really worried, I guess.

I spent some of yesterday working on next doors burst pipe. It was a lead pipe (the houses are old) so had survived many many winters prior to this one. There will be no insurance claim, but, if there needed to be one, I'd suggest that it was not my neighbours error.

When you "burn" something, you are interested in the exothermic oxidation reaction. The issue is that not everything is easily oxidised at the same temperature. Say you have something nasty that, say, boils at 300c, but it's autoignition is 400c, then there is a possibility that, when your...

Dont you have a bench grinder that would fit it? ....where there's a will there's a way! : )

Just because it's said with authority, does not mean it's true! : ) If you want an outside opinion, maybe run a handful of Google searches?

The reason i mentioned anodising before was not in relation to rigidity at all, but resistance to abrasion. Rigidity can, as mentioned, be controlled to some extent by the alloy, but, like you say, ill just make one from steel if that time comes. For an insert, an anodised surface would, im...