Something like https://www.toolstation.com/cut-end-wood-preserver/p20613?store=OL&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed
Fixings use brass, stainless or external glue
If your ambition is a standard pub-garden style table, then treated pine is generally the thing. Such as https://www.timberstoreltd.co.uk/product/treated-joists-47x150/
You need to treat the newly cut surfaces when you construct and think about your fixings for weatherproofness.
If you want...
Brilliant - thank you!
I love that it says "the pulley will slide off the spindle". I'm anticipating lots of oil, swearing, copper malleting, a bit of heat and many incantations.
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I asked a similar question a few years ago and was recommended Fisch - I bought a set and have never regretted it. Clean, accurate holes are a thing of beauty!
Hi Sideways
Please could you elaborate a bit more on that third para? I've set it up...and it runs, but slower than 2/3 speed and with quite a loss of torque. Just feels like the power is attenuated. You're right that the manual isn't much help! I have the same drive on my planer but that...