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Noted Andy, though i'm sure somewhere in the literature i've looked at it says 'Morse taper' however I agree it's the 'Hoover' syndrome as not every vacuum cleaner is a Hoover... ergo not every taper is a Morse. An engineering friend pointed out there are Jacobs tapers as well a Brown and Sharpe...

After mulling over how the auger boring box works - several weeks of mulling - an answer which fits the question finally came to me. One of the problems is the scale of the advert drawings and this was throwing me off, also I'd been thinking the mounting flange on the left - in the advert - was...

The ideal would be to have something like the original and it could be replicated with cogs and a spindle and a large wheel but doing so would be a long-winded way of achieving a hole in wood when my traditional brace and bit works perfectly. This is when thoughts turned to a ratchet brace on a...

attached is a catalogue pic of the machine with the boring box in the middle of the page

Not sure if this is a hand-tool thing or not but here goes, my Wilson centre motion mortiser carries the chisel in a Morse taper, the catalogue pics show a boring attachment which fits to the machine and allows the mortise to be roughed out. All attempts to locate such a device have failed so a...

well, my obsession with Wilson mortise machines continues and there are now three in the workshop... the first one inherited from my father and in regular use to make mortises, the second one acquired when I chased some chisels on eBay and found I'd bought a machine as well... the third - last...

Thanks, Just emailed them, they've turned up odd stuff for me in the past

Just taken a pic, finally figured out how to mount the plate, now short of one clamping knob, anyone know of a source?

Nice job

Has anyone got a Multico B2 planer manual i can buy? Specifically the bit which shows how the thicknessing plate is mounted.

just read your workbench vice or viceless post and would chuck my tuppence worth in... I'd say a vice is well worth having and all the benches in workshops I've worked in since serving my apprenticeship had vices on them but I'd say they're not as vital as often thought, what is vital is a...

that's great, thankyou, from initial glances it doesn't look anything fancy so basic will be acceptable I think

well, after more than 20 years earning a living away from my trade it seems joinery is dragging me back and comments such as 'you're a joiner, fix this...' are being heard. Latest thing to turn up in my workshop for repair is a rowing boat... which arrived with a notes saying 'only one oar, the...

hmmmmm yearsago - the 80s - in a joinery workshop where there were four of us on the bench and two machinists in the place, we were given a £5 voucher each for Christmas by the multi-millionaire boss... it was expected to give him a present too... never did find out what he did with the £5...

OK, intriguing idea and one I've followed at various time in various motorcycling magazines I've edited but as I'm a time served joiner with an interest in the way things were done in the old days - which my kids insist were the 70s when I was an apprentice - I'll pick out a couple of...

now, that is helpful, thanks Bingy, to be honest I've only unpacked the sawbench in the past day or so as my lad only dropped it off last week. I'll look at the Incra 1000SE' Thanks.

w will do Roy

Hello forum, a question for users of DeWalt DWE7 485 sawbenches. This sort of stuff is a little new for me and I'm 'storing' it for my son. The sawbench is fine to use, cuts nicely and so on however, the sliding cross-cut fence which fits into the grooves on the bench is unacceptably sloppy -...

Graeme, I'm in the 'desperate from Northumberland' category here and saw your post re Tyzack machines, I had one years ago and yours sounds like the one I had, sadly it was disposed of by family, however I have the chance to buy another and wondered if you had any luck re a manual? Tim

Hi Jordhandson, saw your original post and the spindle moulder you have looks a great bit of kit. I've chucked my tuppence worth in here and hopefully won't upset too many people with my comments. The argument over a spindle or a router being best is a bit like asking if a mallet is better than...