Recent content by LoveMonkey

Good evening. In complete contrast to my previous post, a rather magnificent Cherry tree in our front garden is coming down in a couple of weeks. Looking for the silver lining, I would like to save the lumber so that I can make something special with it when my skills are more developed. What...

Thanks Tom, It's alright for larger pieces of metal, such as a broken off nail, but I can set it up to as sensitive as possible, wave it around a hole several times in several directions and get nothing, then poke a drill bit through the hole and find one of the slithers mentioned. Perhaps I...

Thanks for the responses. Ttrees, it's not that I'm particularly drawn to the different timbers look, but I don't think I will have enough of any one particular timber to make the things I want to make. I have a metal detector, a Little Wizard 2, but I'm not that impressed with it. It seems...

Sorry for a slow response. I often browse the forum, but don't usually log in to post. I have used my planer thicknesser a fair bit since buying it. After the initial set up and getting used to it I find it easy to use and it gives me square wood. It is quick to switch from planing to...

Thanks Mike. Just wanted to make sure with the new information that your answers were still relevant. Is there a term for the 'not panels' that would produced like this? Thanks

Thank you for the replies so far. People seem to be hung up on the fact that it is pallet wood. That's probably my fault for mentioning that in the first place, but if you replace 'pallet wood' with 'wood off cuts' the questions still stand. I have already done a lot of reading and research...

Good evening. I have been quite busy recently accumulating pallet wood to have a go at a couple of things for the workshop and garden. I have a couple of questions: 1. I plan on ripping the wood to thickness and gluing it face to face to get the widths of panel I need for each project. In some...

Thanks for all of the replies. The company I was supposed to be visiting emailed me to say Health and Safety wouldn't allow me on site, so I didn't get those pallets in the end. I did manage to pick up a couple of pallets from other random sources that I took home in one piece, so I've had a...

Hi Hovis, Thanks for the tip on the guide. I had actually called Scott and Sergeant who had told me the same thing, but as of yet I haven't had a chance to check it out so didn't want to post without testing first. I have the same thing going on with my fence as you, but it hasn't been an...

Good Afternoon, I am going to collect some pallets next week from a company down the road from where I work. I don't have a very big car so I want to dismantle the pallets on site and then I can fit more into the back. Last time I did this I took a hammer and crowbar, but this took ages, so...

Thanks for the comments. I will have a look at that handle tomorrow. Here is a picture of the guide that isn't square. Thanks

I decided to go for it an buy one of these myself. As I haven't had a planer thicknesser before there are a couple of things I'm not sure are normal. Regarding the fence, the guide at the back of the fence that screws into the body of the PT is not straight, so the fence sits at an angle...

I'd be interested to hear how you are getting on with this item after a bit of use. I was previously considering the Axminster Craft CT260. This is quite a lot more, similar in price to the AT260SPT, but I do prefer the spiral cutters and also the idea of the tables and fence moving together...

Hi, No mention of the power supply on the Wadkin. Assuming it's three phase, what's involved in a phase conversion and is it pricey? I've only got a regular 240v supply to my garage. Thanks

Good Afternoon, To follow up, I have been looking at my options and have broadened my search a bit. I have found some different planer/thicknessers, both used and new, but would like to know what I would be getting for my money vs the cheaper Axminster AC250PT. My short list at the moment is...