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Thanks guys. Was obviously being slightly paranoid. The table is cast iron and while I knew oak reacted with metal i did not make the link, I just saw a bit of straight, quarter sawn oak but my shop is too small to leave anything lying anywhere it should not be! As a slight diversion from the...

This is a stupid newbie question but I cannot puzzle which way is best: I have a length of quarter sawn oak I want to use to make the runners for a table saw sled. Which way do I want to insert the wood to minimise the expansion and contraction? Growth rings running vertical or horizontal...

I've just had a lot of fun using a no7 plane for the first time :D . After reading all about squaring stock in Robert Wearing's book I thought I would give it a go on a 3 foot length of walnut I'm going to use as part of a Christmas present. It did take me the best part of 45 min but I...

I remember reading in (I think an American) woodworking magazine last year about a guy that made wooden spoons by hand. These were beautiful but he was competing against the 40p wooden spoon that we would buy out of any supermarket and basically the only appreciable household income was from...

This is a fantastic build. If only I had such a paint cabinet in my wargaming days when painting miniatures! My only worry would be an open door load of paints toppling the whole thing but it is difficult to say if this would be possible from the pics. Can't wait to see it finished and loaded...

Thanks Howie. Just saw your post after I'd had another look at it. I reckon the previous owners had just never set it properly. It really was pretty obvious but you do need to take the table off (I hadn't fully reassembled it so wasn't too bad as I can lift the individual sections easily...

Hi All, I recently acquired a Record Power TSPP250 with a busted motor. Good news is that I fixed the motor for a grand cost of £4.75 after a motor repair company quoted me £250 for a full rewind :shock: , so I am now onto setting the thing up properly. Next problem is that the blade cannot...

When I was a teenager I used to volunteer at vets during the weekends and school holidays thinking I might one day be a vet (never happened). I saw a lot but the one thing that has always haunted me was kitten a few months old and the owner had brought it in complaining it smelled. Turns out...

I am a newbie but seem to have gone very American as I get Fine Woodworking (machine heavy; yes) and Popular Woodworking (definite handtool bias) as digital subscriptions. Just to give the UK some custom I also pick up Furniture & Cabinetmaking, but not every month.

Update: I took the motor to a local repair shop who gave it the once over and diagnosed a short in one of the windings. £250 for the rewind. So, repair is not an option. Record-P want £210 for a replacement motor whereas axminster and machine mart offer 2 hp motors for ~£100. Unfortunately...

I like the table. Have you never been tenpted to leave the graffiti intact as a kind of historical reference? Perhaps not for tthis piece but i think it would be cool.

I just made the same mistake when making the trifold doors for our workshop and the bottom of the doors will largely be over nothing. Luckily there will be a 5 mm overlap with the workshop base so I can still draft proof it but the security bolts I bought will enter fresh air!! (At least I...

OK. The motor has been stripped and nothing looks disastrous and burnt out; bearings are fine and everything. We checked the capacitor (thanks to misterfish for links) and it looks dodgy. I've never bought such a large capacitor before and am slightly confused :? There is lots of info on...

I've been trying for the past year to do the evening classes at Adam Smith but they keep cancelling the course due to me being to only person applying! It is good to see the full time courses are still running. Oh and welcome to the forum. I have been frequenting here for the past year and...

I cannot comment on those two saws you mention but I had the ETS-1825 as my first table saw and it was fine, if very noisy. The fence was solid when locked in place but I never trusted it was parallel to the blade (maybe just beginner paranoia). The 1825 also had a funny mitre slot which would...

Well my dad is away to strip the motor but all is not looking good for a cheap fix. We got the motor running when removed from the saw but the plastic fan was totally melted and the whole motor was getting hellishly hot even after running for only a few minutes. It looks like the previous...

There is a rather large looking capacitor stuck on the side of the motor. With smaller capacitors you can tell they are blown because the top blows out. How can you tell with these larger ones?

Well I just had to go for it. The guy I got it from was a truly top bloke. He said he inherited it and just had no use for it. He knew exactly how much it was worth but just wanted to see it used. It even has all the full sliding carriage which is still in its original rappings!!! He even...

@ gardenshed. Could you please qualify what you mean. I seem to have read a lot of positive reviews from when the saw was first released and then lots of insinuations that things are bad/annoying (ie plastic bits breaking) with it which seem were fixed in later iterations of the saw. Could it...

Hmmm. Thought it was maybe too good to be true. The guy has just fessed up that the motor is not turning but that there is power going to the motor. Is it easy enough to get spares for Record machinery?