Recent content by Londoner100

As said before cleaning and waxing the bed can make a massive difference.

I have a Inventables X-Carve which I have upgraded to 750 x 1000 mm. If I was doing it all again I would go for a Workbee from Ooznest in Essex simply because of local availability and support.

I have an X-Carve from Inventables, if I was in the market now I would get one from Ooznest in Essex. Very good back up and support according to those that have bought from them.

Not near its just over an hour from me but well worth a visit, Tim is a great guy and it is alway well stocked and great value.

I use FinishKare - 1000P High Temp Paste wax Sample £4 from cleanyourcar website, lasts forever. Ian

Try a saw tooth picture hangers, all you need to do is cut or router a slot. Ian

Brilliant Nick so glad it was the right one, I find that I need to clean the filter normally every time I change the bag, keeps it going for a while, I turn it upside down and place a bag over the hole and give it a good shake up.

Yes that looks like the one. Ian

Check out the filters for the SPA 1200, I pretty sure this is the one I have.

Nick just been to look and sadly no stickers or markings, I know Metabo and record do extractors that are similar to the 01924. Ian

I have the same dust collector as you and fitted a metabo fine filter cartridge, I believe that Record do one that is almost the same as well. Mine fits with just a single strip of door sealer, if you do get it you will really notice the difference. Ian

I Also have a X-Carve and was only using Mac's. In the end I ended up buying a cheap Windows PC for it as I wanted to get into V Carving and using the Mac was limiting my choices. I started using F-Engrave which is free and finally last year bought Vcarve desktop which is a massive improvement...

I have just purchased my first welder, there is a great mig welding forum based in the UK which is helpful, I ended up driving to a welding supplies shop and along with an hours training (he was quiet) ended up with a GYS Easymig 140 which will easily do 3mm on a 13 amp plug. Ian Although it...

Tims a great guy, very friendly and I always seem to spend more time chatting about woodworking than looking for wood. I drive up from West London and even with time spent on the road, its still worth going with the prices up there and the welcome you get, the only problem is explaining to the...

Have a look at Alec Steele's youtube page, he is a 19 year old Blacksmith who does courses in Norwich.