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  1. JakeS

    What glue to use for melamine to melamine?

    You're undoubtedly right. Unfortunately my wife is the one who broke the second one, and she's definitely capable of feeling guilty about it for longer than that! I'll have to have a go with epoxy, I guess - at least it'll hold together a bit longer and should be safe for milk. Thanks to...
  2. JakeS

    What glue to use for melamine to melamine?

    Unfortunately I've found ThisToThat less than useful for real-world applications. It doesn't list melamine specifically, it just has a generic "plastic" entry, then gives specific advice for PVC pipes (?!) and suggests "probably epoxy I guess" for all other plastics. I know there's better...
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    What glue to use for melamine to melamine?

    Hi - I've not been following the forum for a few years as I had a bout of someone-filled-the-garage-with-junk-from-the-house-and-now-I-can't-get-to-my-bandsaw, followed by a stretch of trying to build a built-in wardrobe, followed by the birth of our first child 16 or so months ago. (And I say...
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    Biscuit jointer.

    So now I'm curious. I have a cheap old Draper-branded biscuit jointer that I got second-hand; I gave up on the fold-down fence within about fifteen seconds of opening the box, and reference everything off the base-plate of the tool and a common flat surface (sometimes finding the common flat...
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    Garden waterwheel

    Ah! Sorry, I got you mixed up with Mike Jordan for some reason! If you want to slow the speed the wheel spins at, then you need to introduce some resistance into the system. Gears aren't necessarily the best option there, but there is a way to shoe-horn them in if you fancy a bit of extra...
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    Garden waterwheel

    Gearing slows down or speeds up your system by having gears of different size. If you have a drive gear with ten teeth meshing with an attached gear with twenty teeth (and thus twice the circumference), then the attached (teeth in mesh) gear will rotate at half the speed of the drive gear. The...
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    Marking out stuff

    I can see that these two points are advantages, but this bit: "I find it easy to use after some practice" is not the same as "it's easy to use". :P I find a bicycle pretty trivial, but thousands of kids who are sat on one without stabilisers for the first time would argue with me if I said it...
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    Marking out stuff

    Perhaps you could expand upon why? I've only ever found the pin ones thoroughly unhelpful - more likely than a wheel to follow the grain and/or gouge than actually make a useful mark. But maybe I'm using them wrong! I kind of suspect it's one of those things where the "best" option is the one...
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    Digital Pen advice please.

    Counterpoint: if you use the tablet for art, then both a larger size and also the wide border are potentially quite useful. Artists are trained to draw from the shoulder and elbow, not the wrist, so larger sizes simply allow for larger expressive strokes. Not really useful if you're using the...
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    Triton TRA001 dust extraction

    That would gel with my experience only if it means that the ID of the inlet is 38mm at the widest, with ~1.5mm of thread on each side. (Certainly 32mm is far too loose in mine unless LancsRick is talking about a wider hose that just happens to have a 32mm connector on the end.)
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    Triton TRA001 dust extraction

    I hadn't noticed that the protrusions on the inside of the fitting were actually a screw thread! I'm using the "tool hose" that came with my trusty Lidl wet and dry vacuum; the end of the hose that doesn't fit on the end of the regular vacuum hose fits perfectly into exactly two things that I...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Cheers, guys! Unfortunately I spent so much effort getting the dovetails all nice and tight and glued up square in the plane of the tray base that I didn't think to check how square they were in the other direction, and ended up having to sand two corners down about half a millimetre on the...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    After using a temporary screwed-to-a-bit-of-MDF-in-a-workmate job for more years than can strictly be considered "temporary", I made one of these: And to celebrate, one of these - to replace the temporary-old-glass-placemat which we'd used for more years than could strictly be considered...
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    jointing bowed timber

    Out of interest, what is the particular advantage to starting it convex-down as opposed to concave-down - just that it's easier to balance the board and find the right 'flat' to plane, where starting concave-down would potentially make inefficient use of the board if the bend is all up one end...
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    Lidl powerfix digital caliper and angle finder - any good?

    The nice thing I found about the Lidl one - as opposed to another battery digital vernier calliper that I have - is that there's a little nub you can push from the opposite side of the body to the battery compartment which pushes the battery compartment open a little. Meaning not only that it's...
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