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I bought an Earlex HV5000 from Screwfix circa 2012 and am pleased with the finish I was able to achieve using 2-pack Morrels, super easy to use and clean etc. I did have to buy a smaller needle and jet from the default supplied, however the default jet would have been fine for emulsion type...

I remember years ago whilst on a long business trip in Alabama visiting one morning a local supermarket to get much needed supplies to curb the effects of a severe hangover, at the checkout as I handed over my payment the lady serving me gave me the customary 'Now y'all have a nice day!' in the...

Ah you are correct I mistook the phase # for the kw rating when in fact that is blank -apologies! I don't know what else to suggest, I guess you'll find out when you pick it up..

A quick google peruse of single phase T30's show them with 16A plugs attached, and given that most machine plates show it as being 1KW rated then I deduce that it's only startup current that might be high given the inertia of the spindle itself + some large cutter block...

Having a clear out of my workshop, these were inherited from my dad and never used Whitworth 3/16 - 5/8 + plug spanner + Silentgrip ratchet Collect for free Kelvedon Essex or can post via whatever your preferred carrier at your cost - incl some packing it'll be ~1.5kg

Thanks for your replies, I thought somewhere in that ballpark was about right. I've already given a heads-up to my local men's shed and they are taking 1st dibs on the machines albeit they are pretty well stocked themselves, but I'll end up with a lot of hand tools that they won't want so will...

For those potentially interested my location is halfway between Chelmsford and Colchester just off the A12

Due to some medical issues I am selling off my 4x5m workshop contents and am in the process of sorting out the inside and collating and pricing items some of which will go onto the sale board on this forum. I have an external but covered wood store with 2-2.5m lengths of sawn stock some Sapele...

To be fair MS does contain a lot of click-bait these days and a lot are aimed at migrating your data to their OneDrive offering which often breaks some stuff, and as is human nature for most folk who are using their device to access mail or some other task, when these interruptions present...

Upon reflection a piece of plastic DPC would do the trick albeit I'm unsure how UV resistant that might be, but you have lots of options

Hi @BCS1980UK looks like a cracking good workshop! Only point I'd make is in the photo you posted showing the outside painted green it looks to me as though a small portion of the over-site projects beyond the base of the timber structure - on the right and so you may get pooling of rainwater...

Stuart, I hate to say this however you the end user undoubtedly clicked on some Microshaft pop-up that initiated the move of all your data to Microsoft's cloud services.. My brother in-law called recently with similar, he said - my email (which I host) has stopped working and all my Desktop...

The car I most fondly remember was a banana yellow Dolomite Sprint I bought with ~25k on the clock and despite it having a hard life - after sorting out it's poor handling with some Bilstein shocks all round I caned it remorselessly for the rest of its life and eventually took it down a local...

Haha - I had a MK4 Midget and the road handling was not its strong point, nor was it's performance until I put a tuned cam and Janspeed exhaust, 1-1/2 SU's etc on it. As you mention the cornering especially in the wet was dire, not helped by the amount of flex in the body - did you ever try to...

Was clearing loft of crud put up there 15y ago when we cleared my mum's house and unpacked this from bubble wrap, at first I thought it looked OK but then found this hole.... It's pretty heavy -3.3kg

Totally agree - we get a lot of folk dropping stuff off at our local mens shed and it's kinda random who may be there when items are dropped off to assess them etc. Quite a few are even for us are beyond economic repair and subsequently rejected. I do agree with the idea however of re-cycling as...

Halon is nasty stuff and the concentration required to supress fire is only some 10-15% lower than that for life. Where I worked it was stored in liquid form and could lift concrete filled raised flooring tiles within the datacenter halls. Once after an unexpected discharge we found vertical...

I'd go with electrolysis -12V battery charger, bucket, piece of sacrificial steel and some washing soda. Works pretty quickly/controllably but as others have mentioned, use outside as it gives off fumes and you do end up with some pretty horrid looking scummy liquid afterwards - so rinse...

Those look good and are quite cheap too! I have used Starret both their cheaper bi-metal and tct-tipped hole drills and found them to be very good, albeit a tad more expensive than those Amazon ones. Last time I used them in anger I was cutting solid stainless 22mm dia rod so as to create neat...

In similar vein I remember back in the day we introduced some network security devices that performed 2-factor authentication and each user was issued with slightly thicker then, but credit card sized token generators that produced a rolling set of 9 digits every 20 seconds. I referred to them...