Completely filling the eye of the axe-head is aesthetically pleasing but hard to achieve, at least in my experience. I settled for as good as I could get and being satisfied the head was solidly wedged and there was no chance of it flying off. 🙂
I guess that if you created some sort of raised bed you'd still need to remove some slabs and ensure your new bed will drain properly. If brickwork is not your thing maybe use timber? So-called 'sleepers' are a popular choice and will last a good while. Still hard work though. 😊
Thanks, this one's a SIP but they're clearly out of the same stable. Handy to know the bolt length to aim for, and the link. @Richard_C I'd possibly have gone for something a bit newer but this one was pretty much a give-away. 😊
Thanks for your replies folks. I admit to a degree of laziness here as far as the long depth stop bolt goes as I'd pretty much decided on a length of studding. Then I found I didn't have any. But I do have a length of 10mm rod which I'm putting a thread using the smallest die-holder known to man...
+1 for Castors Online. They were extremely helpful in supplying castors for an insanely heavy bed that was around 200Kg.
https://www.castors-online.co.uk/
I've recently acquired an elderly bench top pillar drill. The victim of an abusive relationship, it has lost the drilling depth gauge/bolt. I can thread a piece of rod to suit but I wonder if someone with a similar drill could give me an idea of length please? It's also missing the return spring...
Ha ha! Thanks for that. I'm 75 and been processing some of the same thoughts as yourself. I'm hoping to fund buying the lathe using some of the money raised recently by the sale of metalworking kit so I have a self-imposed budget.
I see that Axminster offer is off the table at the moment as...
I've been keeping an eye on the 'for sale' stuff, and did spot an Axminster a while back, and that was what got me thinking about them. I've seen concerns expressed about the electronics on the variable speed lathes which could be a concern on a secondhand machine. Maybe the newer ones are a bit...
Yes, I found that out to my cost some years ago when I bought a Boxford lathe with no tooling. However, I'm lucky in that I kept my bench grinder and last week a friendly neighbour offered me a set of decent* woodturning chisels FOC. I didn't immediately accept as I was, and still am, a bit...
I've done bits and pieces of turning (mostly knobs, handles, legs and spindles for furniture I've made) over the last 50 years, but I sold my Myford ML8 about 13 years ago to help fund another project. I now fancy getting a small lathe to help use some of the small oddments of timber accumulated...
We nearly came unstuck just before Christmas. Facebook was carrying ads for at least 2 clothing and outdoors kit companies. Looked totally authentic and just like the official websites of the companies concerned. Despite a whole working lifetime in IT ops and networking I was pretty convinced...
Reckon I'm getting 6-8 phishing or scam emails a day that Outlook spam filters are missing. They're just a total pain in the @RSE. When I only had a handful of online accounts it wasn't hard to handle different passwords for each one. Now I think I had around 100 at the last count. A couple of...
I'm familiar with the Graduate and Jubilee models but these are bigger than 3 feet long - unless this is the bowl-turning model? Perhaps you could clarify or post a pic please? Thanks. :)