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I have made an adaptor for my new Axminster 1950 dust port by heating {heat gun} a suitable rainwater fitting and pushing it over the outlet. Fortunately my 50mm hose pushes in the other side with two layers of duct tape. About £2.50p.

I shall call about my handsaws, thanks for this! Doud

I'm sorry, no. It was fitted when we moved in, and has a rectangular section wooden lower slat than hooks into purpose machined stops at various positions down the inside of the tilting frame. It appears to be a Velux fitting.

Any saw doctors known to members in the SW? Apologies for the topic drift but eyes\age make fettling my tenon and dovetail saws difficult.

I have a 1.2m square velux in the roof section of my office which gets all the afternoon sun. It has a roller blind with a white back which is translucent and lets a deal of light through when drawn but reflects 90% of the heat. It can be a bit of a fiddle drawing and clipping it with a hooked...

JSW,,, "Instead of a pin, mine have a thin strip of rubber matting CA glued to the underside of the nose." Wie hadn't heard of CA glue in the 1970s! Poop-poop..

As Recipio says... "A birdsmouth pushstick is not ideal as the wood can lift as you push it into the cut. A homemade 'L' shaped ply jig with a notch at the end is better as you can apply downward pressure." How I agree! With a pin for'd and one in the notch you can even exert a sideways twist...

Oh! Insert embarrassed emoji... Sorry, another million wasted electrons.

Whoa! Ensure your thicknesser will cut and feed a strip that thin without something making a loud, expensive noise, AND clear the chippings. If it all looks a bit too tight and cramped in there, make a narrow smooth flat board with a noggin at one end to act as a false bed for the thicknesser...

A tip worth passing on given to me by Charlie Malia, my woodwork mentor in the Shipwright's shop in HMS St Angelo in the 70s... He had several thinner push sticks into the tip of each he had driven a fine brass pin which he snipped off almost flush with pincers. Just as snipped off panel pins...

A plastic cyclone from Temu fixed on top of a 50 litre blue plastic food drum, odd lengths of 50mm -ish flexi pipe from the tip sucked by a Nilfisk shop vac. Does my 10" Metabo planer or Axminster bandsaw or Makita tables away. I have used various plastic plumbing fittings to join them, if not...

No-one has mentioned a router and 45 degree chamfer bit? As said above, identical lengths are paramount so if the stock is wide enough joint 2 sides from one piece and run through a table saw? That's how I like to do pairs of tenoned rails.

I had just this problem when for 15 years I lived in SW France until I took a £5 monthly subscription to 'Tunnel Bear', a very simple VPN (virtual private network) so by telling it I was in UK we could get all the BBC output. I still use it now to search obscure subjects happy in the knowledge I...

One of the cheapest yet most useful things I have is a clear plastic draughtsman's 45 degree square measuring about 10" along the hypotenuse. It tells me if things are square, (especially mitre fences to saw blades which it won't damage) accurately marks 45 degrees, doesn't mark finishes, and...

Apropos of post 45 above... Education teaches you that a tomato is a fruit but common sense tells you it doesn't belong in a fruit salad.