Recent content by JSW

Comfortable to sit in, impossible to get out of!

Just read that article earlier this morning, there's also an episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage dedicated to the wood wide web, with Suzanne Simard on the panel. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00193mg

As above, superglue and cramp, wait to dry, then make a simple jig to centre an 8mm drill bit on the screw holes, insert 8mm dowels with wood glue, redrill the hinge holes to take screws.

Company I worked for used these sheets, when you see them in the flesh, so to speak, they are HUGE The poor machinists face every time there was a delivery ... having said that, he used to load them (ever so carefully) onto the forklift, then manoeuvre up to the extended bed on the SCM 3 meter...

Yep, totally agree, for cutting up 8x4's in a home user environment a track saw has to be the go-to. But it can't replace, or be as versatile as a table saw, in my opinion. My workshop is a dedicated double garage (5.2m w x 5.0m deep), all the gardening type stuff, lawnmowers etc are in their...

Who mentioned anything about getting clean cuts?

As you say, each to their own, but from my experience, being able to see the blade extends me a degree of control, whether that be an intuitive feel for what the blade is doing in relation to the work piece, that feels missing when it's hidden/obscured by a guard. With a tracksaw that's...

Can't sneak up on a cut with a track saw either. Or at least not as simply as just tweaking the table saw fence. I'm not convinced about the amount of room a track saw takes up vs. a table saw either, it pretty much requires it's own dedicated bench, for want of a better term. Great pieces of...

Yep, we used these for soldiering RSJ's for the plasterer to fix his board to, hold a 2x1 up to the outer edge of the steel, fire the nail through the 2x & RSJ, then hammer another 2x1 onto the protruding nail, 'spit gun' we called them, but pretty certain they were Hilti's They had a small...

Buy a pack of self adhesive sheet labels, load them into a printer, use a drawing package on a comp to set label size boundaries and text, away you go. Works for me, and I label everything

Made a couple of these recently (just the benchtop caddy part) find them very handy

I have one from 2005, do you mean for the spindle? Edit: I may have some older catalogues from the '90's I believe, but they would take some finding, the 2005 one I knew exactly where to look

Except elephants don't drink through their trunks

Every days a school day, interesting read!