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To point out a small innacuracy, the blade is a scoring blade..... As to whether or not you need one I think your budget precludes one in any case. They are advantageous if you are dealing a lot with veneered boards, e.g. veneered MDF and I've found the quality of cut on plywoods to be very...

As far as I'm aware they've not been legal for years now (circa 1974) ........ I very much doubt it. The emphasis in Europe is on training and safer initial design rather than trying to apply technology to a fundamentally lesser design (the Saw Stop saw has a straight through fence, etc). In...

Yes, sounds like the same people. Scrit

With a router cutter you tend to get multiple lacerations and sometimes the end of the finger will be removed, however the finger will normally be thrown out of the cutter as a result of the cutter design. With a stacked saw dado head the hand tends to be drawn inwards by the chippers and much...

The higher end Wadkin PK and PP from the same period (in fact the PP was made from 1928 or so until the early 1960s) actially had a short/sliding rip fence. This is the PK (note the SUVA-like crown guard useable over dado heads): I doubt it. The reason for having freeboard (or "toe out") is...

Just out of interest I've located a photo of a 1920s Brookman dovetailer, as made for Guillet: Amazing how similar it is to later models despite being overhead lineshaft driven Incidentally, could you perhaps supply a comparison of the Omec against the Brookman for my benifet (if not for...

Doubtful. Router cutters sold in the EU are all of chip limitation design. I can attest from personal experience that you are more likely to have your hand ejected from the cutter than drawn in Scrit

Yes, but it was Wadkin's "bargain basement" model (the top of the line machines were the PK and later the PP). As early as the late 1920s and before UK manufacturers recognised the need for the short position rip fence on rip saws. Trained wood machinists were being taught by the 1960s (in...

Except at the start and end of the cut when it's not buried in the work........... As you should well know the issue is one of guarding and without a SUVA-type crown guard how does one guard a blade in a table saw which by its design and use precludes the use of a riving knife? My biggest gripe...

Not all CE marking is self-certifying. Some categories of machines require a test house to certify them (although not circular saws). I know of at least one woordorking machinery dealer importing from China who had to recall a number of woodworking machines which they had sent out with "CE"...

Well, as my name was mentioned....... It's as much to do with increasing the life of your tools and air lines. A reinforced poly airline run at 150psi simply won't last as long as one run at 100psi. Similarly if the tool is rated at 80psi, running it at 120psi will do for the seals earlier. And...

If it's one like this: then it's an RA (in pre-WWII literature sometimes referred to as an RAA). If it looks more modern it might well be a BJR or BFT (both would be badged "Wadkin Bursgreen") or possibly be an RR (not very common). Scrit

If the machine is CE marked then it is illegal because it is not CE-compliant. If it is not CE marked then the machine has been imported/sold illegally (it is illegal to sell machinery which is not CE-compliant and marked as such). Either way it's a case for local Trading Standards. The Health &...

Firstly braking isn't really the issue. The requirement is for a machine when powered down to come to rest within 10 seconds. That is a requirement within PUWER98 (the Provision and Use of Work Related Equipment Act, 1998 - which applies only to trade establishments) as well as within the...

I've seen the Omec in action but never used one, whereas I do have some experience of the Brookman 15- and 25-pin manual machines. The Brookman is indeed a very heavy piece of kit with a solid cast iron frame. Its' durability is one reason they have such good resale prices, so if you do buy one...

Yes. In order to be CE-marked new table saws need to be capable of stopping within 10 seconds, so the requirements for stopping have nothing to do with the requirements for industrial use (which come under the PUWER98 regs as well) Scrit

I'd say that was damnably poor design. I'd have thought that failure should always be to the "off" or "safe" position in a properly designed piece of kit Scrit

Even though I've owned four V6 Capris (mk1 2.3 GT, mk1 RS2600, mk2 3000S and mk3 2.3S - well I lived in mainland Europe) I still wouldn't want any of them again..... Well possibly the RS which had 235bhp in Group 2 trim, but cost a fortune in clutch and brake linings, and half shafts, etc. My...

Really? Kickbacks often have little to do with the height of the blade above the workpiece - in the main they are caused by the rising teeth catching the workpiece and ejecting it forcibly at the operator. A positive rake blade in a table saw will tend to push the work downwards onto the table...

What you are referring to, mailee, is a procedure called "deeping". If you are doing this on a table saw then your table saw is probably inadequate for the task you are trying to make it perform and you should, if possible, find a safer approach such as using a bandsaw or even a jigsaw...