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The lower tyre of our Kity 613 bandsaw has a groove in it and probably needs replacing. I've read quite a lot of posts about these new urethane tyres from the USA that can be fitted by stretching on the wheel after a soak in hot water. Has anyone actually tried these type of tyres on a Kity 613...

Grrr... The element in my electric kettle has failed and it is under 2 years old. It was a catering kettle (corded, stainless steel no frills) and was an identical replacement of the previous one which lasted 6 years before the switch failed but neither switch or element are replacable :-(...

Not sure if this is right place to ask about this - but here goes... What is the difference between a Whitworth and a UNC thread? Say I have a tap which is 5/16" and 18tpi, (both measured, BTW) how do I know if it's Whitworth or UNC?

Hi there, I've just been given some small pieces of a mystery wood that is bright yellow and wondered what it might be. It came from a bush growing in a garden in mid Wales and is obviously some exotic garden plant. The lady who gave it to me doesn't know what it is - although she said it...

Does anyone know the trick to get a Sorby Spiralling Tool to cut consistant spirals - rather than just putting a vague spiral texture on the wood? I've set the thing up as they suggest in the supplied instructions and am having big problems getting anything sensible out of it! I had better luck...

I've been asked to make a freestanding kitchen roll holder - which is easy enough, until upon inspection of kitchen rools on sale in the local supermarket, I realised that the size of the inner cardboard tube varies between brands :-( In particular the cheaper rolls have bigger holes up the...

... Or, Ouch - I just turned my lathe into a Wimshurst Machine! Just been buffing up some small items using my Chestnut buffing system mounted on the lathe. Today the workshop was very cold and very dry. (Makes a change from very cold and damp!) Hmmm - after buffing a few pieces, I noticed pain...

Botheration - my partner was using our old Jet lathe yesterday evening (making a tool handle) and there was a bang & flash from the motor area and the lathe stopped. On investigation it seems at the very least the start capacitor had gone to meet it's maker :-( The vent was blown and the...

A friend turned up last night and delivered a trailer full of walnut to me for free :D Events like this should make any woodturner happy. BUT The tree was cut up by a tree surgeon, so I have the main trunk of a large walnut tree which has been sliced into rounds about 12" or less deep -...

Hi all, hoping for some advice from the scrollsawing community here (I usually hang out in the woodturning section!) I have acquired an old (1992 vintage) Draper FS400 fretsaw which I am hoping to use to rough cut the "hook" shape in turned crochet hooks. I currently use a full size bandsaw for...

I was just pyrographing the wood name and my makers mark on the base of a box I'd just finished (I think the wood is Iroko, it was a piece from some old hardwood joinery offcuts someone gave me) and as I finished the first O in Iroko, I heard a strange little cracking noise - then watched a tiny...

I've just been roughing out some boxes and found some wood that wasn't what I thought it was. It started life as a log that came with a load of acacia & holly I acquired a while back. This odd log was heavy and gnarly and at the time I thought it looked liked hawthorn. My partner processed it...

Just watched my partner attempting to remove woodshavings from a pair of thick woolly socks and the front of a knitted pullover using the vacuum cleaner with brush attatchment. His efforts did remove most of the shavings but not all - leaving (in his words) "the nasty itchy bits that catch you...

I've just acquired a second hand KUFO SK-2000 SD large belt sanding machine - which looks like it's going to be very useful :D It came with one belt on the machine and two spares, but no instruction manual. Although using the machine is pretty obvious, how to change the belt isn't obvious at...

Hi there, We've just broken the little plastic insert thing with the slot in it that goes in the table round the blade on our Kity 613 bandsaw. Anyone know where we can get a spare?

The blue **** around here are getting very cheeky these days. It's getting to the point where we can't leave a window or door open unless we are in the room as the blue **** will boldly come inside to investigate, leave their little "calling cards" and forgetting which way they got in, panic...

I know, I know, I should have bought the Carroll sanding drums, but I was tempted by the 4 drum Axminster set when they were on special offer at around half the price of one Carroll drums. And I then put them away with no real use for them until now.... When I need to use them in anger and have...

I'm helping a friend make some prototypes of some steel & wood furniture she has designed and due to a rather tight deadline, the wood we have available is pine (rather than the ash we'd have preferred). As I'm really from the spinney side of things and more used to dealing with hardwoods, I'm...

I'm trying to get some idea of cost per cubic meter for different native timbers (ash, oak, sycamore, larch etc) and am having trouble finding any online suppliers who list this info. I've found one with a 2008 price list online, and several who only show prices either in cubic feet (duh!) or in...

Well that was a darned stupid thing I just did. I was polishing up some tool handles I've just made using my Chestnut buffing system. The tool handles have brass ferrules. Stupidly, I polished the ferrules too (made a lovely job of them!!!) and now my second wheel (white compound) has nasty...