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Sounds to me like the employees are working in an area where high vis to a certain standard is required. The rucksacks may be shiny and visible but if they obscure the required high vis components of the jacket then I would have thought this is not permissible. Once years ago I was working on...

An acquaintance asked if I was interested in having a lathe he was throwing out in a house move. Never one to turn down free machines I borrowed a trailer and headed round to collect a pile of cast iron and machined parts that he assured me was once turning metal..... I managed to partly...

I use West epoxy regularly in my boat repair work but for this job I agree it would be overkill. If you do decide to use epoxy, especially at this time of year you need to be aware of temperature and humidity as per the manufacturers recommendations. I keep my resins in the house so they never...

Thanks for all the input folks. This job is a bit different to my usual racing dinghy refurbishment...... It is a large batch of pidgeon hole type racking for a customers mail order warehouse. There are over 200 sheets of MDF involved! I am having all the material cut and the shelf housings cnc...

I have just got a job which will involve screwing and glueing a lot of MDF together, with screws going into the edge of the MDF panels. My normal go to screw and glue for general woodwork are Reisser Cutter screws and Everbuild D4 PVA. Is there a better choice for this job? Thanks Graham

I love the opening sides at the same level as the benches and table saw. A genius use of available space. Graham

The trouble with epoxy as a surface coating is that most epoxies are not very u.v. stable and whilst pretty impervious to water if they are damaged in any way and get water underneath them it cannot escape easily. This can cause the bond between wood and epoxy to fail. I use them as a waterproof...

I doubt the parrafin blowlamp will get hot enough for the op even with a hearth ( which is a very good tip for any metal heating). The charcoal with a hairdryer is probably the best idea in my opinion. I once repaired one of those Sheen flame guns for a mate. I tested it afterwards - what an...

I don't know about Meddings in particular but I have had a few return springs fail on drills. In my experience they fail at the end and generally can be repaired by heating the broken end and forming it into the shape of the bit thats snapped off.... Hope this helps Graham

In my experience West with sawdust is considerably darker than the original wood. You should get a better match using their 207 clear hardener but as Pete said do some testing first. Graham

Sounds like a hexagon grease nipple to me... Graham

Good grief - I cannot believe they put that on their website....."it's cracked, don't show that bit...."

Welcome - this forum led me to a second hand TS200 years ago and it is still going well. For your lathes in might be worth having a word with Alec Vallance - alec(at)budgetmachinery(dot)co(dot)uk. He is based in N Yorkshire and is a very nice bloke to deal with. He normally trades in larger bits...

That looks really good. I have a fire door waiting for the same treatment. With all that weight in the door I hope it is going to be a really solid work bench.

My shop vac is one of the lidl Parkside ones bought 3 or 4 years ago and still performing brilliantly used daily in a commercial workshop. My first question though is what sort of tools are you going to be extracting from? A table saw or planer will have different needs to a sander....

I am a big fan of a lot of the things he does but in this video the tablesaw stuff had me cringing and looking away....

I showed that to a machinery dealer friend who does a lot of Ward turret lathe refurbishment. He reckons he used to sell the chucks for those lathes for £1500 a pop but nowdays its worth f all. In fact as it's down in Cornwall its worth less than that....

Sorry folks but it's all my fault - I put the summer tyres back on my car this week. Expect snow......

He does mention earlier in the thread that the slides he chose have a quick release at the front so the drawers are easily removable. I would think the meter access is probably easier than through that little door he had previously...

Fantastic work Steve - looking forward to seeing this build progress. You mention threading electrics behind the wall panelling. For workshops I like my electrics run around the eaves in trunking with conduit dropped down to wall plugs. Not pretty but so easy to alter as you move machines around...