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Your 12.7 x 13 equates to 1/2" x 13 tpi which is just common UNC (unified national coarse) an American thread ?

Actually, there has been a requirement to respect health and safety for some time here in the UK. It is simply that regulations change in the face of knowledge gained through experience or the advent of new technology and, hence, the assosciated hazards. When I started work in the 1950s, aged...

Hi John, Unfortunately, I have no photos as I didn't have my camera with me. It is a very nice place and you can take as long as you like to view a room as there was someone in each room. The following day, I visited Glamis Castle which was totally different as we had to go around in groups...

Hi. John. No it's not there is a floor in Scone Palace (Scotland) laid using wide Ebony (yes Ebony) where every board which is end jointed has a dovetailed key in it. I would think today it would be impossible to replace it like for like definataley regarding the width of the boards...

It's not a gunstock door, it is an ordinary door with gunstock shoulders on the middle rail. Years ago, I made a joiner's shoulder square from a pattern seen in one of George Ellis's woodworking books. I decided to make it out of stainless steel and slightly different from George Ellis's in...

Hi. I bought one when they first came out and my opinion was they were over priced and useless. The two piece cap-iron i had it welded together and then milled to a perfect fit to the plane iron that made a big difference to the performance but i could'nt get used to the norris type adjuster so...

I bought a Wadkin 20"BZB bandsaw new in 1967 and have never detensioned it in all that time and have never had to replace anything in all that time and it is used most workdays the only blade breakages have been caused by the operator me included We always used Starrat blades untill they stopped...

When I was attending technical college back in the late 1950s/ 1960s, we were always advised to purchase books by W. B. McKay, our tutors considered them to be some of the best authored textbooks available at the time. In fact, I actually received one as a prize. I have attached the original...

Definitely in my opinion no contest

Yes used one years ago before they were available to the public we were fitting doors at a local to us HMYOI and they gave us one which was larger than they ones now available as the prison doors were thicker. When i rang Souber to purchase another one they wanted to know were i had got it from...

Hi, i bought one of these bandsaws new in 1967. Which had the guides which were just brass, I later upgraded them to the modern guides which were ball bearing guides. And had the problem which you are experiencing. I cured this by making the knurled wheel into a hexagon and the end of the...

Thank you Jacob

I am an 82yr old time served joiner reading this at work and i have never heard of a "Torsion box" and presumably there must be many more like me?

By saying Baldwins i presume you mean cast butts they seem expensive we've just had a box of 10prs of 3" delivered at £3.00 a pair plus VAT. I know i am past my sell buy date but if you asked most reps and ironmongers for a pair of Baldwins they would'nt know what you were asking for

Sorry missedout point after the eight

You used to be able to a 5/8" eight point socket (Britool) but not made anymore. the Americans are still makeing eight sockets probaly expensive with carrige etc