What tool did you buy today?

[yetloh]

One of those stainless steel window squeegees from Screwfix, about a tenner. Sometimes you need to earn a few brownie points!

Jim

 

[DiscoStu]

My most recent purchase was a Stanley Sweetheart jack plane...

m waiting to get a box to send my TS200 back! The blade and riving knife are badly aligned and as such it makes cutting (especially ripping) very difficult as the wood wants to stop when it reaches the riving knife.

hmmm...mine does this.

I thought it was just my technique...I'm going to have to take the knife out to take a look at it.

When I first raised this with Axminster they sent me a new riving knife but it made no difference.

Mine appears to be out in the vertical and horizontal


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[adidat]

if you lay on a flat surface (mdf etc) does it seem to wobble?

if not then the whole assembly must be out of kilter. this is pretty dangerous if it means pulling the work piece back past the saw blade!

adidat

 

[DiscoStu]

No, the riving knives are perfectly flat. Mine is going back to Axminster as soon as I get a box big enough to stick it in. It is dangerous, especially when ripping as you have to force the wood past the riving knife. Essentially you're pushing the riving knife square with the wood. The pressure from the knife forces the wood to be squeezed between the knife and the fence. It's not nice at all.


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[MusicMan]

It looks like the alignment of the riving knife that is at fault. I don't think that changing the knife will do any good, as it would have to be changing or aligning the mounting. Examine this to see if it is easily adjustable in any way. The knife should be close to the blade (3 mm) and centred on the centre of the blade. There is usually some adjustment in the direction of the spindle, to allow setting of riving knives to blades of different thickness. But the thing that it fixes on to may have got bent or improperly seated.

 

[ED65]

No chance a bit of percussive maintenance would sort out the riving knife? Or how about relieving the front edge so it's rounded or has a bevel?

 

[DiscoStu]

Sorry this seems to have gone off topic. Mine is going back to Axminster and they'll sort it. I was only posting the pics to show the issue I had as it might be the same as the other poster.


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[yetloh]

Sorry this seems to have gone off topic. Mine is going back to Axminster and they'll sort it. I was only posting the pics to show the issue I had as it might be the same as the other poster.

Very sensible, proper adjustment provision aside, why would you want to mess about with a brand new machine that should have been right in the first place? You wouldn't do that with any other consumer product. I suppose it started with crappily made Stanley and Record planes back in the 60s and we learnt to accept what should be unacceptable.

Jim

 

[JungleJim]

I picked up this eBay purchase today
Startrite TA145

 

[DiscoStu]

I bought these today:

I'm going to use the top two together to be my tool box.

 

[biskit]

Nice Stu 8) being on the basic pension I managed to run to 3 sheets of magnetic paper, so I can cover some dust holes in my new table saw.

 

[DiscoStu]

Well they arrived and for the hell of it I stacked them with my other systainers and being the sad guy that I am, I like what I see.

Now all of these came in a nice big cardboard box from Nuts and Bolts. I need to send my table saw back to Axminster, do you think it's bad form to use the Nuts and Bolts box (logo printed all over the box)? Will they treat my saw badly!


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[Stu_2]

No, it will do them good to be reminded of the competition

 

[DiscoStu]

Slight concerned my saw might come back worse than when it went in! I bet it comes back in a different box!


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[ColeyS1]

Picked these up last weekend

Should come in handy for larger jobs.
30 quid each I thought was cheap ! I've added a removable plywood top now so they double up as small trolleys.

Coley

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[adidat]

Got this nice little compressor the other day, it has a very small tank but fills very quickly as its a twin cylinder pump. This compressor hasn't got switch that turns off the motor when the tank is full, instead it pops a valve which lets the air out before it reaches the tank. lovely little thing! useful for wheeling over to a wheel to run the impact gun of pump a tire up! not bad for 50 squids!





also something else i got recently over in the metal work section!

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/reunited-with-long-lost-heirloom-shaping-machine-t96843.html

adidat

 

[Roughcut]

Triton Dowel Jointer

 

[AJB Temple]

Veritas NX60 block plane. And very good it is too: immaculately machined and blade was ready to go apart from a few light honing strokes.

 

[Bm101]

Well, last night actually. I was nosing round ebay. 'I'll just have a look....' Nothing on the scale of you guys but I'm quite chuffed with these. More than I should be probably. I like stuff like this. I'm just sad I can't discuss it with anyone I know in real life without them looking at me a bit odd then taking tiny steps away from me and looking for the nearest exit.
A set of Stanley 1916 WW1 War Office brass dividers.

*mumbles... also some rutlands jig screws to make jigs for the router jigs that I swore to myself I wasn't going to make just a few days ago.... Oh and a couple of router bits from Wealden. Yep that's right it's your fault UKW. Go to Wealden they said. Oh, and a collet adapteroo. Oh! AND a sheet of 12mm ply from my local store. Turns Out 8 foot sheets don't fit in the back of my Renault Traffic with out cutting 2 foot off the end with a borrowed saw while a load of builders sit very very patiently waiting for a parking spot in the most congested builders yard in history since they knocked down that one they built by mistake on the M25. No hurry then. :| My arm was going faster than John Henry's Hammer. (hammer)

 

[Bm101]

Also ... some files....

BEDFORD SHEFFIELD ENGLAND
GENUINE STUBBS ENGLAND
W.TYZACK TURNER & SONS MADE IN ENGLAND
WILLIAM SPENCER CAST STEEL
FIRTH SHEFFIELD
F B TOOLS SHEFFIELD ENGLAND DREADNAUGHT RASP

These and a few others. I need to stop looking on Ebay. :shock:
Pound each though.