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Hi, looking for some advice, I am selling up and looking to move into more suitable accommodation due to failing health and need to dispose of the contents of a pretty much full 4 x 5m workshop. I know I can sell some of the larger kit and hand tools on the For Sale forum however I have some...

No not another tale of woes like two recent threads posted by BarbaraT and Mynewka but some deliberate hacking of flesh, sinews and bones... A couple of weekends ago I'd bought a 1.3kg blister pack of beef short ribs from my local supermarket and planned to cook them in my Instantpot pressure...

Picked up a long time ago in a London flea market with the view to re-purpose, ill health precludes this now. As per picture one of the 3 has a chunk missing 510mm to tip of castor excluding the thread x 160mm dia. Collection only due to size/weight halfway between Colchester/Chelmsford Ed

In prior posts I had expressed misgivings about these organisations based largely upon my experiences with a local charity whom I volunteer with, and am now posting this because I visited a local one last week where I was pleasantly surprised and perhaps realise I was a little unjust toward...

Some years back I had an old flat roof extension demolished and they guy doing it had neatly stacked the quite chunky 190mm x 60mm x 4.2m long beams onto some bearers onto a concrete hardstanding. I knew a lot had some rot at the ends and today I went to chop them into 1.4m lengths to load into...

I was in my workshop yesterday processing my 2nd pallet load of Baltic pine woodblock flooring described here and found that with this batch I was getting ~25% wastage since these blocks had shrunk such that when viewed on end the block sides were almost v shaped top to bottom and by the time I...

I have a collection of old wooden planes all in need of some attention to go to a good home. Some well known makes Tyzack, Atkin, C. Nurse, Greenslade, Varvill, Popple, some without blades and one with a rather unsympathetic attempt at restoration! To go as a job lot if possible, collection near...

I have a 2nd hand but boxed and unused Zyliss vice for sale - I obtained it as part of a job lot clear out of a garage and as I have a purpose built bench and don't do any site work I have no use for it. The box is a little grimy and faded but the contents are all pretty much pristine aside from...

I have a quantity of solid hardwood engineered blocks that I lifted from underneath a carpet during some renovations and wonder if anyone can recognise the wood type? This is a block as lifted - they have an extremely thin layer of what I assume is varnish and is laid on top of some recently...

I developed this technique whilst laying parquet flooring described in this thread -Laying reclaimed parquet and am posting this here since the method is applicable to any woodworking where you want a fine fit and can perform incremental cuts to achieve the required size - In the process of...

Hi, I was recently abusing a much loved Ward & Payne 1/2 inch mortise chisel and the handle started to split. I say abusing, I was chopping some thick branches of a conifer and since the sap is rising in the fine weather the blade kept binding so I used the chisel to releive the blade by...

I've not posted for a while and this is going to be a long one but I hope of interest to folks - Preamble - a while back I bought an old property circa 1920's which had part woodblock and part quarry tile flooring and as part of a new extension wanted to lay the entire ground floor with similar...

Found this gem yesterday - Wooden box too - I've only seen cardboard ones before. ..and inside looks all complete :) It looks almost brand new too Blades show little wear and all are quite sharp :) It's pristine! Given that I don't own a plough plane and will make good use of it I...

I have a heavy cast iron spindle moulder which I need to make a moveable base for since it's too heavy to lift/push around (am guessing +300Kg) and which needs to have retractable wheels so that when stationary can spread the load over my suspended workshop floor. For the design I am planning to...

I recently bought a Startrite PT260 off of ebay which needed some attention - motor start start capacitor and a few stripped threads now fixed but have discovered that the tables are not flat :( The outfeed table rises by ~.18mm toward the end (well actually over 12 inches - the longest...

I am looking for advice as I need to replace my current front door, here are my thoughts - Material - Oak or Sapele - issue is the bottom 3rd will get exposed to the elements as we get strong winds that carries the rain under the porch, so was thinking maybe Sapele over oak and using Osmo UV...

Hi everyone -I've been lurking these forums awhile and really appreciate how informative and friendly you all are :) I've been building a workshop cum home office for a bit - well actually over a year and have captured most of it here - http://www.image-electric.com/home/albums-9 It's not...

Hi folks, I'm looking to purchase a 2nd hand planer thickneser and have found one I like, however it is 3 phase (Wadkin BAOS) Can anyone advise whether it is viable to convert this to single phase i.e motor & switch change? Cheers