Recent content by Duncan A

It may depend upon exactly which variety it is but my experience is that it is a lovely creamy wood with pink to blood red heartwood. Like many woods, the colour will fade over time but still an attractive wood that turns well - if you can stop it cracking! Very often, it becomes available when...

Personally, it would drive me nuts, all that faffing around. It should be safe enough, done with care, but, as ChaiLatte points out, you may well have to true the wheels up after every change, even marking them and always installing in the same place as he suggests. I would seriously consider...

Your answer is here: https://www.wood-database.com/wood-filter/ You'll just need to do a bit of simple maths Duncan

In brief: Vacuum generators require an air compressor to be running. Noisy, and can use a lot of electricity but should be able to generate near enough 100% vacuum, not that that is necessary or always desirable for a vacuum chuck. Rotary vane vacuum pumps are generally quiet and small and...

As well as not holding the chuck, he was feeding the drill in by sliding the tailstock, rather than by using the handwheel. If the tailstock is free to slide, it's also free to wobble which may have loosened the arbor. He also drilled in a long way before withdrawing the tailstock to clear the...

Do as is commonly found on window blind brackets. One vertical elongated hole and one horizontal elongated hole. At a guess I'd say the holes are about twice as long as they are wide. Duncan

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The Faithfull set is a poorly chosen set in my view. Two scrapers, two spindle roughing gouges, and two skew chisels (one of each is adequate to start off) but no bowl gouges. Phil's five, above, is good; perhaps plus a scraper and you'll be in a position to try most things. Duncan

Buy one hose from Charnwood (cheaper than Record Power), cut in half, attach to Camvac, put socks over the ends, and direct away from work area Duncan

Andy Harrison in Burton Latimer was always very obliging when I went to his place. His website looks somewhat moribund but it can do no harm to contact him. http://aharrisonwoodturning.co.uk/ Duncan

The diamond belt does look rather thick but, if it's not touching the tool platform as suggested above, I'd try adjusting the belt tension with the eccentric adjuster right at the top centre of your picture. If it is touching, I'd put shims under the tool platform before grinding the platform...

A lovely and generous offer, although not of interest to me. Good on yer! Duncan

Would this help with your dilemma? https://www.classichandtools.com/sterling-tool-works-combination-rules-metric/p1594 Duncan

Good quality circlip pliers are vastly superior to cheap ones so get Knipex or similar if you're struggling with poor quality ones. Duncan

Mark Hancock is in the USA - a long way to go!