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Unless you are preparing blanks to look nice for sale there is no need to make them round. Just cut a load of tangents so you have a...

Don't worry about snapping it - unless you bend it, bend it back, bend it back again etc. I would just put it in a vice, possibly...

Some of these contributions are almost unique ....

The AWGB has an online archive of its quarterly magazines, a lot of it is club news type stuff but there are a few interesting projects...

EHIC card

Just finished this for the Showborough Sculpture Exhibition in May. I need to get cracking on another two though! It's nearly 1m tall...

The Axminster, and the record power 250, are small versions of proper lathes and you can do a great deal on them. The Clarke has some...

It's based on 20+ statutory for full time workers in the UK so now it's expressed as 28 all in because so many work the statutory hols...

I was going to reply soon after your first post, but wondered how helpful it might be. I think most of the ground has been covered with...

Agree, tried it with low expectations. OK for a week or two then the vase split. I keep odd potential liners, shampoo bottles and...

There can't be many left. Most ports and almost anywhere that made liquid products had a Cooper or two. Where I grew up, N Devon, the...

Danish Oil, like most oil finishes, appears to dry quickly and then cures - chemical bonds form - slowly. If you apply an extra coat...

Or whilst learning slacken off the belt drive from the motor (assuming yiu have a belt drive lathe) so it slips If anything really bad...

Heres something perhaps similar to the Orkney wreck, website well out of date but informative. Trunnels get a mention...

Looks conventional enough so that points to the incoming pressure being very high. Derbyshire, so chances are it is Severn Trent. Here...