Getting well off topic now but about 4 years ago I heard David Coulthard on a podcast saying that all the success he'd had is mostly down to being over organised. The tag line was basically "I can show you a method that means you'll never ever have to look for something ever again....Once you've...
Forgive me for not adding anything useful at all to your for sale post,
but your name being so close to Matt Hancock + you selling off a bunch of surplus PPE did make me giggle!
I used self adhesive plastic film on mine and it was a terrible idea - wasn't long before it scuffed up and bubbled then ripped off. Really did look tatty with in a month or two.
A caveat is that I did use pretty much the cheapest of the cheap but it's really made me think that even with better...
+1 more for Phils blocks, and Fergies explanation.
With the plastic being softer you are more likely to bend it if you overtighten - but the benefit of it being plastic is the drill will require less force to go through it so you wont have to haunch it up so tight.
If your machine is stalling...
I'm in Andover but spend quite a bit of time in Basingstoke/Newbury and I've been struggling to get to the bottom of a "where to get any decent, preferably Baltic Birch Plywood" saga for a long while, on the Creffeilds website there was a button for "opening an account" with them which to me...
I'm very new to MFT tabletops, (and this forum in general) but also a metal machinist by trade so this was a very interesting and inspiring read!
The results looks perfect!
Top job!