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Axminster TS 200 with sliding carriage and side extension table, and very good it is

Sorry puff-paddy - the defunct draper went to recycling when the new saw arrived. David

Thanks for the notice. Good luck with the NHS. David

Smashing idea Rog, Count me in please. Some demonstrations would be good SWIMBO is dead keen as it means she can spend the day with our daughter (shopping if I know them) in Norwich, and we can make a weekend of it. David

Thanks for that Janos. I live and learn. So I will go and take it out again, and wipe the oil off with an organic solvent, then dry it all and take it out at the end of each session. This site is fantastic - I have read dozens of books on lathes and woodturning, and would never have come...

Thanks guys - I have managed to shift the pineapple. No signs of corrosion or other reason for it sticking. Will give it a bit of oil before re-fitting, then keep fingers crossed. I now know more about morse tapers and arbours than I did yesterday Cheers David

Thanks guys, but the arbour seems to be hollow. Using a rod I can just about feel an edge where the arbour ends, and the hole through the tailstock continues, but this is not large enough to hit. David

I have found a problem with the tailstock of my Axminster M950 lathe. This has a MT2 taper, and I want to take the live centre out, so that I can fit a chuck. However I have thus far failed to shift the arbour of the live centre at all. I have been told to use the screw advance mechanism...

If you are a gardener, and have the space then follow this plan: Put the shavings in a black plastic sack, get them good and moist, add a generous measure of nitrogen in the form of a solution rich in nitrates, tie up the bag and leave for a year or three. Wonderful top dressing material. I...

This is quite stunning, love the shape. What lathe did you turn it on? David

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get it home and turning on my lathe. Wish me luck. David

Hi guys and galls I have been offered a substantial log of accacia, felled last autumn. Does anyone have any experience with this wood, does it work well or badly. The log is large, and I will have to spend a fair ammount of time and effort to move it, and would like some assurance that it...

thanks for posting these pictutes Worsley. Just wish that my first pieces were half way as good as yours, so congratulations. Now can we have lots of pics of your further work, best as WIPs. Good luck David

Hi Mike, I have a masterchuck 2 on my Axminsdter M950, and yes it works really well. Just make sure that you cut a nice clean shoulder on your spiggot and do the ring up good and tight, (and then do the locking ring tight) and away you go. Perhaps not as quick to use as some modre expensive...

Nice work Hudson, hope your MIL has a bedroom large enough to take this. You have not described the runners for those monster drawers. If it is not too late I would think that using some sort of metal/ b.bearing slides would make sense. Even if the drawers are to be filled with only wool...