Recent content by Richard D

A dice tower plus tray. Slightly odd dimensions and construction as it splits in half for storage in the game's box.

I’ve had the smallest, lightest model in the Kranzle range for about ten years. It’s got a solid brass pump and the sort of motor that wouldn’t look out of place strapped to a table saw. Bombproof.

Is Loz_s's PDF still available? I've recently dusted off the Woodrat after too many years not doing any woodwork, and I miss Adel's site. I made the horizontal work-holding table and it’s very handy for some of the stuff I do, but I’d like to see what other ways of working with the WR are...

I never did manage to find a 46mm AF spanner. Dad bodged something together out of a bit of scrap metal that served for most of the last ten years*, but it’s given up the ghost now so I’ll have to make something halfway decent out of some mild steel. Project for next week, I think. * my...

Only 8? I got a cat for my garage/workshop. 36 mice so far this year (we keep score). Unfortunately, she caught mouse 37 this morning, but decided to let it go in the kitchen. It's currently under our cupboards - probably. I have 24 tenons to cut (my first since school woodwork classes...

We got a rescue cat last year, at least in part to see if it would help with the mice in our garage, We've been keeping score - 28 mice caught and dispatched so far this year. Which beats the number I'd caught in a trap baited by mars bar by 27.

I have a 1/2HP extractor, but use 100mm hose from my saw, table and planer. I might upgrade to something larger later, but it's not a certainty. Would I be right in thinking that it would be worth the PITA of changing all the hose ports to something smaller, and going for the 63mm (or even...

I'm definitely interested.

Import duty is charged on some items (though not for anything costing less than £100, IIRC), plus VAT at 20% (on the total cost of the item plus shipping), both levied by HMCE when the parcel arrives. They used to let a fair amount through uncharged, but my experience over the last year or two...

Raising this thread from the dead, largely as a result of having snapped one of my upper lateral bearing guide clamping blocks (you know - the ones made of cast pot metal, deliberately weakened further by having the nut recess machines into them. Three options - (i) make something similar out...

Thanks for the advice - I've duly ordered some.

Nope - it's in my DVD player :) Fantastically quick turnaround on your part. I've just watched your narrowest bandsaw blade wrap itself around the drive wheel. I'm hoping that the next section (or perhaps a later disc) will include some ideas to improve the rather mediocre fence that shipped...

He might not have done, but I did. Tomorrow is now going to be all about fettling my bandsaw after I finish watching the first volume :)

I'm making a worktop extension/kitchen trolley for the other half in beech, to match the existing kitchen units which are finished in beech (well, a sort of wrapped MDF finished in faux beech veneer, but it's close enough that the kitchen unit manufacturers can get away with calling it beech)...

Not what Barry wants to hear, but I'm going to weigh in with a recommendation for the Woodrat. Stupidly expensive, it takes up valuable workshop space and it can be tricky to learn to use right (I turned the air blue for a couple of days), but once you've cracked it it makes superb dovetails -...