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Why do you think that BB ? As DougB has said, belts are available in all sorts of grits including the trizact polishing belts at around 3000 grit ! The Tormek system has had it's day in my view, best out there for many years, but if coming to the market for a solution now I would personally...

Wooden worktops, and especially drainers, need regular maintenance, it's unrealistic to expect them to perform like granite or corian or similar. Cheers, Paul

You've lost me there BM, way too technical for me, I'll stick to my instinct that more is ultimately better :lol: Enjoy your new lathe when it arrives Alan, as I said up front, they are both good machines and I'm sure you won't be dissapointed :D Cheers, Paul

I think they do ship now with a separate magnetic control box Duncan, so that's probably fine then and obviates the need to move the main box. On my earlier model they didn't have the separate control box on a lead, hence my mod, gives me some magnetic rack storage for tools too on the same...

Same here Duncan, I mounted the box on a free standing timber frame at a good working height and can move it around to be close to hand as needed. Also wired up a magnetic mounted emergency stop button that can be positioned anywhere useful such as hip height for no hands use. Cheers, Paul

Interesting, makes me wonder why we don't all drive around in cars with just two gears, or bicycles even ? Perhaps there are fundamental differences in efficiency or power delivery characteristics that render the analogy invalid, I'm not technical enough to know ! Seems to me that the two...

The Jet seems to be a good machine too, and if the price difference is significant then it must be tempting, don't think you'll go far wrong with either :) Cheers, Paul

The wivamac headstock locking was an occasional minor annoyance for me, but only needed a spanner top and bottom. I superglued the top nut in place inside the headstock and added a hefty bristol lever underneath, works great, just turn the lever and slide the headstock and nip the lever up...

Welcome to the forum Billyboy ! If you don't mind me saying so you're going about it back to front ! :) The trunk is what may interest furniture makers or joiners or others, and the limb wood is generally more suited to firewood, although some can be of interest to turners/carvers. If the...

Won't be long till your kitting out the inside Steve ! Great to see the build progressing :) Cheers, Paul

I already chose the Wivamac :lol: Both good machines though. Cheers, Paul

Hi Chris, danish oil is fine and won't stay sticky if you wipe off any surplus after ten minutes or so, it will dry hard in one to two days, maybe quicker if warm. It does make the jaws a little shiney/slippery though, so maybe just leave them untreated and see how you get on ? Cheers, Paul

It's a sensible question Roger ! Pea shingle driveway in front of the garage doors so could be a problem. Hoping to reverse a truck close enough so that the tail lift will land on the garage concrete floor. Should work okay, access is good to the front of the workshop. Cheers, Paul

Thanks for the advice, and I thought the tail lift would be the easy bit ! Off to pick up a pallet truck in the morning, an ebay winning for £40, supposed to be in good working order but we'll see !!! Cheers, Paul

Don't think they do Graham, but still very good lathes indeed ! Cheers, Paul

Thanks guys, had a busy day in the workshop and shed yesterday sorting through and cutting up some timber so didn't get a chance to google much and obviously didn't use the best search terms either as I didn't come up with much ! The wikihow is helpful, seems to rely on catching some layers of...

Due to some impending building work I probably need to move a lot of workshop equipment and timber into storage for a while, and think it would be most practical to put a lot of it onto pallets for ease of handling and movement. Things like timber turning blanks could be stacked on pallets and...

Hi, PM sent this morning :) Cheers, Paul

I used to have a CL3 (same machine essentially I think), and think you would find the motor would struggle to turn that size blank, or at least would stall easily when you try to take a cut with a gouge, as well as the reservations others have mentioned. I upgraded to a big wivamac to be able...

Hope the young man is over the worst and makes a good recovery Rob. Cheers, Paul