Recent content by Mitch Kelly

Sorry I can't do a photo - I'm not a Luddite, I'm just too cheap to buy a digital camera! It's roughly a 6-7cm flat, then a concave quarter-circle, radius roughly 20-25mm, followed by a convex semicircle, radius about 20mm, then a 10mm square to top it off. It's similar to (at first glance)...

I’m doing a bit of extension work and a problem has arisen with skirting board. The profile of the twenty-odd year old skirting doesn’t match (actually it doesn’t even closely resemble) modern profiles I can get. I’ve now scavenged all the odd bits around the house (e.g. inside cupboards)...

Warning - doing this can have unintended consequences! I did this with a chisel, and the sparks "detonated" the wood flour residue in the dust bag (it had been emptied, but there was some residue). All that was left of the dust bag was the zip and a few fragments of gently smouldering...

In reply: "ah so why did you not say "i am a cheap skate and want to find the lowest cost way" " I didn't realise I needed to! I thought it went without saying that cheap is good, cheaper is better and cheapest is best :D This isn't one of those places where people don't scruple about...

Quoting Paul: "how about using the trend floor cutting kit which is designed to make removeable pieces in your floor for checking pipes etc??? " Aaarghh! That costs money! I greatly prefer the idea of a jig made up from scrap MDF (not that it isn't a great idea, though!) - I wasn't born in...

I need some guidance - for a series of project I need to cut a number of circles, around 12cm diameter. Exact dimension isn't critical - the fact they are all the same diameter is, and they need a good degree of "roundness". I've been using a hole saw in my drill press, but at the best speed, I...

One of the major parts of the tool (or most other things!) buying decision process is post-sales service / warranty / spares. If you pay a lot of money for something, you need to be able to have some faith in the manufacturer supporting the kit. This isn't simply breakdowns but things like...

Two of my uncles were apprenticed as carpenters / cabinetmakers just after the war, and they started off by working on coffins, apparently because (back then when everything was built proper...) a coffin included examples of all the skills and joints that you would need on any wood butchering...

Well, I'm not sure if this is really the place, but... I've proven the old engineer's adage, that with time. patience and an endless supply of oil, anything is possible! I finally managed to get the last rod / bushing combination apart yesterday. The bushes are a bit graunched up on the...

Thanks for the advice so far - I'm in North Yorks, for information. The thread-based bit of the adjustment is fine, in so far as I've got THAT to pieces successfully and freed it off. Once I can free these blasted bushings I can reassemble the adjusting wheel, and with two tack welds, it'll be...

I have just inherited a Scheppach table saw (site saw, really, I suppose), and I've got a problem or two with it. It's an oldish one, but the motor is fine, the table is fine, it has been fitted with a new guard, and it even has a good blade BUT... The blade rise / fall adjustment doesn't...