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Evening all, I have two questions I hope you can assist me with. 1. Does anybody have a recommendation of where or who sells 4" blast gates? other tha Rutlands which charge a bomb for a little piece of plastic. 2. Can anybody tell me how to connect 110mm soil pipe to 100mm spiral flexible...

I'm no expert but I wouldn't have thought 1/4" routers evr had an 1850W motor?

Some wonderful old machines there for sure but being the clumsy git that I am it wouldn't be five minutes before I was tripping over drive belt taking belly floppers onto spinning metal if it were a working shop. I wonder how many of a crew worked in that shop, it must have been quite hectic...

Sorry to hear of the damage to the machine, a bit of a heart breaker for you when it happened I assume. I've been racking my brains but what is a BAOS?? .................sorry it's late and I've had a long day so the old grey matter is slowing down a bit. Anyway, I wish you lick with it and...

I've just come across this thread while perusing the web and looking at Mitre gauges (sad for a Friday evening) Anyway, I have the Osborne mitre gauge, shipped in from the states by my sister who lives out there. Her husband is in the military so I have taken advantage of the domestic shipping...

Mike - sounds very good, I built my router table/cabinet similar to Norms. The cabinet, fence and drawers are made from 18mm MDF. The top is made from 40mm plastic laminate kitchen top edge banded with 1" oak. I've had it for about 8 or 9 years and still going strong although I have recently...

Thanks fellahs, info and breadth of knowledge as always very helpful, much appreciated. David

Chems - Thanks for the tip, I guess I 'll have to re figure as I was thinking of 20% waste. I still think it will work out cheaper than buying the blow moulded vynl doors and look 100% better.

Yes, I am more familiar with the US means of calculating timber ( Iread too many yank mags), which to be fair makes more sense, at least to me. Cubic metres, doesn't even bear thinking about, although it does sound like a lot of timber, much more than a weekend WW would need to buy in one go.

Marcros, thanks very much, not teaching me to suck eggs at all. I don't but that much timber form specialist mills, most of my timber is reclaim or bought in small amounts form local timber merchants so the terminology can get a little confusing when not used to it. I suppose I didn't want to...

Thanks Waka, very helpful , just so as I get it right, how would I calcul;ate what a cubic ft is? What would it be in say a 6" x 1" sawn planks, how may feet would that be. Thanks again. David

Morning all, We are having our kitchen re fitted, long story short, swmbo was looking at shaker style vynil doors in Maple effect. Of course they are not cheap to buy so I got to thinking about making our own. If I was in the States I'm sure I could pick it up anywhere but does anyone know...

Thanks for all the feedback fellahs. I have by chance, had a couple of local suppliers slip their fliers through the letterbox so I'll have a look at local suppliers and ask a few pertinet questions. Thanks for taking the time out to respond, very useful. David

So you figure £1K is a lot for a composite front door??

Thanks Alvan - its a nightmare out there, perhaps I'll keep looking.

Bob, thanks for responding, that hdoes help I guess the figure quoted is not too far off what a normal punter would have to pay for such a door, assuming you are in the trade and get it at trade prices. I have checked their website again, they seem quite confident their doors have the ability...

I'll put a word in, see if I can get a temprature rise for you

The tank suit may be fine if you just want to stand in the corner admiring your shop or perhaps a little vertical painting. I wouldn't want to be doing much more, it would be like wading through treacle!

Glad to hear it, I have a wooded floor too, kinder on the feet back and joints. Kinda reminds me of an old joke from years ago (Les Dawson I think) When we were kids, we were so poor, my mam used to buy a packet of polo mints when it was cold then breathe on us to keep us...

B&Q have a special on Bamboo flooring, the strips are in 3ft lenghts and about 15mm thick. A box of 1m Sq is on sale at £15.