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The anti-kickback pawls are specifically for ripping - something I just don't do on a RAS as it can be a bit hair-raising. For crosscutting the park or home position of the blade should always be behind the fence for safety reasons. The standard guard has two sliding "skirts" and should also...

They're OK, but the batteries last about 10 minutes! (well, ok, 20) Scrit

DW720 (10in) - circa 380mm DW721 (12in) - circa 610mm DW728 (14in) - circa 610mm these machines are the modern equivalents of the DW125 (1251, 1253), ??? and DW1420. Bear in mind that if used with dado heads the brakes on modern radial arm saws can introduce hazards into the operation unless...

The serial number doesn't necessarily indicate anything about the date. The Test Number gives you a date within about 3 to 4 years of the date of build, but not really much better than that. Scrit

Worktop ends can be a bit difficult to manhandle onto a bandsaw, especially 900mm wide breakfast bar sections.... My worktop jig actually has a radius designed specifically to do this task with a 1/2in plunge router, 30mm guide bush and a 1/2in diameter cutter. I do tend to rough out the cut...

Of course if the width you want to cut isn't that great, or you're concerned about accuracy of mitre angles there's always the mitre saw or sliding compound big brother. That way you don't have to have the space to manouver a long piece sideways across a small shop Scrit

DW1420 arbor size is 30mm, saw diameter is 350mm

It now gets easier. A BRT10 is a 10in table saw with a built-on sliding carraige. A panel saw is a very different beast designed to handle full sheat of 8 x 4ft plywood and by definition should be able to cross cut one. The BRT has a crosscut capacity of 40-3/8 x 1in (1025 x 25) or 39-3/8 x...

Do you mean a Wadkin AGSP like this? In which case the DW table isn't really a lot of use I'm afraid to the OP - did you get a solution in the ned? I believe wadkin still sell the tables at around £450, but the fence would probably run you another £300 or so if that is missing Scrit

Why are you so amazed? The design of the round block rotary cut planer goes back to the mid 19th century and is fundamentally unchanged except for details since about the 1870s. Modern industrial machines since the 1960s have some improvements not seen on Far Eastern home shop clones including...

Samco were absorbed into SCM along with Minimax about 20 years ago, so any machine bearing the Samco label is at least that age. As far as I am aware SCM no longer supply user manuals or spare parts for Samco machines other than those items which passed into the SCM-Minimax range such as the T40...

In the older DW radial arm saws the DW1751 had a 24in crosscut capacity (one of mine is a 1751). Biggest downside to the bottom of range of machines, i.e. the 10in saws (DW also made 12in, 14in and 16in industrial saws) is that the frame beneath the table does tend to flex a bit (like 1970s Jap...

It certainly does! PowerGen have been known to price this one into five figures and won't normally supply three phase to anyone other than an industrial user (i.e. a company, they like the idea of being able to recoup their costs). So it's probably better to either change the motor (but to a...

The traditional "quality" approach I was taught was to add a small bare-faced tenon to the end of the flat part of the scribed piece with a matching vertical mortise in the flat part of the non-scribed piece. That way any cupping will be effectively checked and glue won't be necessary (in any...

It looks like a Wadkin RA (or RAA) 6in overhand planer (as opposed to a panel planer, aka a thicknesser), but it almost looks as though somebody has been messing about with it. The factory normally supplied these machines with the motor mounted onto a frame at the front/rear of the main base...

The Elu flip-over (TGS) range lives on in yellow as the deWalt DW742/DW743 flip-over saws: These use the same table extension system, etc. as the older Elu machines so I suspect that items such as the rip and mitre fences will also fit as the same style of pressed steel fence was used...

Let's see now....... MOF96 (c.1981), MOF177e (c.1995, ghad an even older one, a Typ 1, till someone nicked it), MOF69 (c.1985), MKF67 (c.1985), MH265 (c.1990) and DS140 (c.1980). All used regularly commercially, all PAT tested and serviced/maintained - and ALL in full working order. So yes, I...

One plus point is that many of the spare parts are still available for them. Is yours a Typ A, B or C? Scrit

Only partially. For applications requiring a scoring blade whilst you can get by with a high AT blade the blade life will be much, much shorter and you tend to get less grinds out of them (went that way years back before I bought my first scoring table saw). The cost/longevity factor is really...

The fact is that most people setting up a (commercial) shop are already in the joinery field and have as a consequence had some formal training (try getting a bench or site job without it and you'll see what I mean, not impossibnle, but also not that easy). Anyone who is not formally trained and...