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8mm hemp rope has a tensile (breaking) strength of around 1100 lbs. It is usual to allow a factor of safety of around 5 to allow for flaws in the rope or weaknesses caused by poor rigging practices etc. With soft spliced eyes you need to be very sure of your splicing and you need to be sure that...

See if you can find a secure garage to rent. May need to discuss insurance, energy bills etc with the owner, and consider noise issues for the neighbours

Axminster sell a couple of fences, one of them on offer at the moment Duncan

Draper do some good kit; they do some rubbish. Many of these smaller lathes are similar, coming as they do from the same factory in China. There are often differences, however, between different brands who will specify different QC standards, different bearings etc. For this reason, you're best...

As others have said, tuition is the key as such a low powered lathe will be easy to stall. For now though, how fast was the lathe going? At low rpm, it will be even more prone to stalling. As a matter of interest, the Clarke website says it's a 0.2hp/250W motor. Something wrong there as 0.2 hp...

You may find a solution here: Sticking Chuck

Fitzroy, if you decide to go for a bigger motor, I may be interested in your old one. I have a Startrite Bandit motor with a sheared shaft which may be the same as yours Duncan

Much easier and quicker to jump aside with tool in one hand, and smack the stop button with the other hand, than to jump aside and hit a foot stop at the same time. OP said he wasn't too sure of fitting a knee bar

It's wise of you to be thinking about the safety options but don't think a foot switch is the best solution because wood turning can involve a lot of moving around and shifting balance from one foot to the other, especially when turning long curves. You would have to keep re-positioning the foot...

A few years ago, there was a thread on here about a Milwaukee drill that had a similar problem - and a similar clause excluding the chuck from the warranty. The warranty provided by the manufacturer does not override the legal requirement to provide a product fit for purpose for a reasonably...

They are essentially bevelled strips of wood attached to the workshop walls (all the way round my workshop) and with corresponding strips on the back of cabinets, tool boards etc so that the strip on the mounted item engages with the one on the wall. Usually a spacer strip is needed at the...

....and mount everything on the walls using french cleats.

Interesting, if I've got this right, you're going in from the side rather than the front end. That being the case, the McNaughton could do the same thing, with the added benefit of producing shaped bowls. I seem to recall a video of a traditional woodturner in China producing multiple bowls...

And don't hold the grinder any tighter than you have to - a tighter than necessary grip makes matters worse Duncan

Hi Darren, yes it's still available - in fact I was just about to bump it when I found your message. Duncan

It can be useful to ordinary people in the real world as it can answer all sorts of questions, and I have found that it can construct complex (for me) spreadsheet commands. I've also seen it tested on computer coding in Python with a pretty good degree of success. A great help if struggling with...

I would turn the blank around on the lathe so the split is on the lower part of the bowl and then proceed to shape the outside of the bowl. This will normally be a lesser diameter than the upper part of the bowl which will remove some of the split and give you an idea of it's extent. You can...

That's you started on the slippery slope of tool collection :LOL:

In my experience the Chestnut buffing kit is excellent, and the mops and supplied abrasives will last for ages. The price shown on the eBay link is a little high. Chestnut themselves only ask just under £70 and cheaper deals can be found. It's best to buy from an established retailer, ideally...

Just Google "RC racing cars" - and open your wallet! Great fun and a good way for your son to learn how to fix things. He won't need teaching how to break things - these things are fast. There are often clubs where like-minded youngsters can racethem