Recent content by denboy

I have fitted my own thrust bearing in the past-they are standard and very easily pressed on. I just took the old one to a local bearings company to get a replacement. (Yellow Pages). Can I just add a tip based on my experience with my INCA saw? It is very easy to under-tighten the rod on which...

"Tanalised" means treated with Tanalith, a chemical product which helps the timber to resist rot. It's always applied to the wood by pressure treatment, infinitely more effective than brushing or dipping. Not all tanalised wood has been treated with Tanalith , because it is used as a general...

Hi C-C, this would have been very useful to me before I retired and when I was working out of a van, and exactly what I was looking for. I'm very very impressed. If you want anyone to try it out for you, I would be delighted. One point though- I have no experience whatever in patents or...

A quick internet search under "cherry hardwood panels will bring up at least one (Winwood Products, Newport South Wales). Hope this gets you what you want.

I would not presume to be an expert but Douglas Fir has always been used for back doors (to be painted)

All the advice so far is great but I wonder if the root of your problem is that you are using an electric drill in a drill stand? Several problems with this setup: it is likely that the drill bit will end up significantly out of the vertical, even ina good quality stand. The drill itself, in...

Sorry cannot identify the machine but in case you are not aware of it, the control switch itself should fetch £10-£20, and the motor at least £30 depending on its type and power. The logo on the adjustment knob does not look familar to me and I wonder if it might be American?

I have an identical INCA to the one in the picture. I think they were made around the late 70's and early 80's. They were then marketed as the Euro 260, I think only with the integral motor- Up to that point they were avaiable in an unmotorised version, which saved a lot of money at the time...

I agree about Nobex, have a Proman myself which is a delight to use and super-accurate, and aimed at the picture framer. But Nobex also used to make a larger and more robust one, aimed at joiners, called the 202 which sometimes appears on eBay.It has one big advantage, which is that the back of...

Screwfix Forge Steel 500mm sliding bar F clamps- have survived 6 months in a communal workshop with some pretty clumsy workers, and still going strong.

I think an old Stanley Bridges might fit- are you still looking- if so I will check one that I know about..

Just to say there still a charity that refurbishes tools for developing countries- three of them in fact: Tools for Self Reliance (tfsr.org); Workaid(workaid,org) and Tols With A Mission (twam.org) . All do great work, plenty of stories onthe websites to show how redundant tools can make it...

Just noticed you said " portable". The plans i suggested are for a mobile workshiop unit on castors but perhaps you meant something you could put in the car?

There is a very comprehensive plan and instructions running to 10 pages in Woodsmith/Time-Life book "The Home Workshop". ISBN -0-7835-5951-8. will cost you £3 including postage from Amazon Marketplace. D

I agree about an old fire door- very heavy, and absorbs the blows as it has a dense chipboard core. One bit of unasked-for advice- I see from the design that there is little to prevent racking ( sideways movement when planing). The traditional method is to use a wide board, say 9", under the...