Recent content by mr rusty

I have a knife and forked device I knocked up from a remote control plug in socket adapter, the socket zapper, a sound operated switch and a little DIY board with a couple of capacitors and relays to convert a continuous on/off signal from the sound switch to a momentary pulse to switch the...

Comments on here are from actual owners. Agree - not sure what "light duty" is, but mine has been used loads (had it about 2 years), and with a nearly 1hp motor it's certainly not lacking in grunt in low ratio. If by "accuracy" you mean the cross-hairs laser, I can agree out the box mine were...

For a bench mounted pillar drill, what are you actually going to be using it for? How often? You might laugh but I have one of these PBD 40 Bench Drill | Bosch DIY not for commercial use, but for the holes I want to drill it's perfect. Laser cross hairs (which you can adjust to high precision if...

I made the mod a good while back (I'm in the thread somewhere)and have never regretted it for a minute.

I'm intrigued why you are making I-Joists when they are readily available off the shelf

I think I would be inclined to go to a steel fabricator and get a steel frame/jetty made, and then just board myself.

Y. I Get it, but up to now I have tended to use a printed dimensioned drawing and steel rules, unless I'm doing a lot of repetitions and then I cut a "template stick" (story stick?). However, as I've never been taught and made everything up as I go along, it's an education to see how other...

Never used a rod in my life. I draw everything in 3D cad, and pull the measurements from the model. 3D allows me to explode the 3D model into all the individual parts with dimensions. in 3D cad using 3D subtract of one part against another gives you all the mating surfaces and dims.

Try asking here Roofing and Guttering

Interesting thread! I had to make a house full (mine) of sash windows, and not having a morticer, tenoner, or the inclination to accurately cut 64 haunched tenons joints by hand (in Accoya which as you know is quite brittle).....I used a Domino which 5 years on is so far looking perfectly...

Mine's this one from woodrat Musclechuck — WoodRat

I use a Trend T11 in a table and nearly always use a collet adapter for 1/4" cutters - I find that to use the cutters it is otherwise sometimes difficult to have them pushed fully home and get the cut height I need, and the length of exposed 1/4" shank required is longer than I would like. Using...

Interesting thread. I'm approaching retirement from my day job, and thinking about what to do to fill my time. I've just built a garden room myself, and did think about going commercial, but I've decided I'm too old and creaky for big builds for customers! I think I'll have to stick to handyman...

Vacuum and Flow need to be considered together. You get maximum vacuum with zero flow (e.g. when you have your hand over the pipe end), and maximum flow with zero vacuum. Picking stuff up requires suitable air velocity, which is why e.g. a garden vac will pick up leaves but not gravel - lot's of...

Isn't that the truth - my other half calls it the "mm police". I fuss about things that to most people are apparently invisible. Which leads me on to the idea that trades should be "certified" as discussed a few posts back. I disagree - all it would do is drive out all the old hands that really...