Recent content by merylvingien

I have a drill doctor, and its one of the first to be imported into the country, had it for many years now and sharpened loads of my drill bits. Works every time, nice and quick to setup and a couple of turns and the drill is just like new. Im not sure about the latest versions as i havent...

I'm not sure of the year, but tommorow i will have a look, to be honest it realy has had its day and i have a funny feeling that it will soon be replaced with an import from the US of A.

Certainly a hell of thing... Looks to me, like the blade tension of that machine is via the wheel that you can see in the photo hanging down from the top wheel. Unless you mean some sort of sidewards tensioner?

Machine mart and salesmen not knowing what they talk about, hmm surley not :D I have just about every welding machine going in my workshop and i have welded allsorts of material and of various thicknesses. I have only glanced through this thread quickly and can see that most of the questions...

I had one of these wadkins bandsaws up until recently, it was pushed off of the trailer onto the spot where it laid for about 5 years with the customary tarpaulin over it. Couldnt shift the thing, so ended up smashing it to pieces with a sledge hammer and taking it to the local scrap yard.

Aha, i see said the blind man! Yep, needs loads of suck and not much flow, tried the dust extractor, but it runs out of steam pretty quick. Oh well, back to the original plan........

Right, firstly i am thick. So can someone explain to me what this cyclone thing is and how does it work? I'm guessing some kind of dust extractor, but what powers it? How much vacuum will it pull in units of mercury? I am after a powerfull vacuum, not for this application but for vacuum...

That is actually a clean version of my workshop, its heavily used :? Thats my excuse and i'm sticking to it 8)

Aha i see said the blind man Cheers DaveL

Nothing wrong with being old :D I got mine for free :shock: Had to buy a new motor and switch though, to convert to single phase. edited: tried to put an image of it up, but it wont work!

Hi all noob here today :D Am still using a very old wadkins 10 incher, very well made and sturdy, just very old :?