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Morning, I find myself needing a nailer and spray gun. I’ll mainly be nailing a lot of 18mm ply/mdf for home renovation projects. I’ll also be spraying my kitchen doors, built in wardrobe doors, and maybe some walls. I can get a 50l 13.8cfm compressor for about £210. Probably closer to £300...

I have a Record Dual Motor Cam Vac with a 100mm hose which works fine for my planer and bandsaw. I have a tracksaw, sander, and a couple of routers all with the same size outlets (32mm off the top of my head) so need a smaller hose and adaptors. 3m is plenty long enough. Conventional wisdom...

Barely used. Dusty because it lives next to my lathe. £15 plus postage which I’ll probably do at a flat rate of £2, or I can drop it off within reasonable distance of North Merseyside/Preston. Possibly Manchester city centre as I’m there usually once or twice a week. I’ll probably put it up...

Hi, I’m making cupboard handles for my kitchen. The ones we currently have are unusual sizes so the ones we want to replace them with don’t fit. I also just like the challenge of making my own for (almost) free rather than paying a few hundred quid when I have the materials lying around at...

I’m after a bench pillar drill in the North Merseyside area. Ideally looking for one of the bomb proof old cast iron types that come up cheap every so often. Something that will handle wood and metal. Transport is limited at the moment so limited how far I can go to pick it up. Close as...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126345128486?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zwxuij2zt8s&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=pmeKpKbiTuG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Looks like a clear out for someone who passed away. Loads of stuff in there. Not sure how much of it is good. Looks to be a mix...

Hi. Bit of a weird one. I do pottery in my spare time, which requires trimming tools like the ones below. The majority of these seem to be stainless but the good (expensive) ones are tungsten carbide and cost a fortune. Most of these seem to be sold by individual makers rather than big...

I’ve been looking in to getting carbide tools but know someone who’s business buys the cutters by the bucketload and is willing to spare some. They’re identical to the replacement cutters sold in places like Axminster and Rutland’s. I also have some HSS blanks, enough hardwood spindle blanks to...

My Ryobi combi drill is at the end of its life. It has lasted about 10 years but it’s never been great. I’m looking for a sub £200 impact driver/drill set. All my tools are corded so I’m starting from scratch with batteries and don’t really mind which brand. Screwfix have this Milwaukee...

Over the weekend I removed a broken, useless extractor hood from the kitchen. The plan is to replace with a better one that vents outside (nice patch of grease on the ceiling when I took it off). It was a botch job, wired in to a nearby fused spur via a blanking plate near the ceiling. I can’t...

Afternoon. I managed to pick up a Jet 120s for very cheap. Seems like it’s been sat round for a while. Rusty and doesn’t cut well but the tyres are shot at so I’m hoping that’s 90% of the problem. Already done the de-rusting and looking at a set of the orange PU tyres. It’s mainly cast iron...

Morning. Really struggling with dust lately. My most used tools are a track saw, routers and RO sander. My lathe gets use maybe once a month and I’m eyeing up a drill press and bandsaw. I’ve also been making moulds for pottery which uses a lot of (I’m assuming very fine) dusty material like...

We’ve got a baby gate (for dogs) at the bottom of the stairs. Unfortunately someone leant on it and ripped the top hinges out of the plaster. I’ll need to fill the holes with something to rehang the gate. Theres no option to redrill slightly higher or lower as we’re limited by space. Any higher...

Not strictly metalworking but I’ve just bought a few vices (Record and Craftsman) from a local market. They’re in good working order and the moving parts are fine but the paint has seen better days. I’m going to strip them back and repaint completely. I understand I’ll need an etching primer...

I built my workbench about a year ago. I was expecting it to be all singing all dancing but the type of work I have been doing is jigs and tools for my other hobbies (sculpting, leather work) and smaller furniture projects such as stools so I haven’t bothered with a ‘proper’ workbench and it’s...

I bought one of these a month or so ago against the recommendation of some on this forum. I think I probably got one of the only ones that was okay out of the box. After a bit of fettling and a fence upgrade I’d managed to plane and thickness a workbench worth of old hard yellow pine absolutely...

I had a chain bracelet lying round that I thought was gold, but I stupidly followed some advice on the internet and used a homemade cleaning solution of vinegar, baking soda etc and it turned parts of it pink indicating it was brass. I read this is the zinc dissolving and leaving a layer of...

I spotted a Record Ridgeway number 5 jack plane in a local antiques shop. Decent condition and I’ve quite enjoyed cleaning up my other planes and I need a jack plane so considering buying it. I found a bit of info online, Ridgeway seems to be an old Sheffield company who were bought by Record...

I’m finally in my workshop and need a surface to work on. There’s no reasonably priced options available locally so I’m back to building my own bench with the timber I have. I think I’ve probably watched every bench building video on YouTube by this point. I’m working my way through Chris...

I have the opportunity to buy one of two ex-school workbenches being sold locally. I’ve attached photos of the one that‘s in better nick. They’re only small, but my workshop is only 8‘ x 10’ and will probably only be used for light woodworking so would free up a bit of space for something like...