Recent content by RichC

Just reading around and the weight is apparently used to alter the stroke, mine is very close to the arm and as mentioned the stroke is short. I'll try it further out

Not a problem, it turns out the one here is an Aeropiccola which is a name I've never heard before. The picture is a bit rubbish but the pad fills the space between the plate and the magnet It isn't particularly noisy in use as long as whatever you are cutting is held down firmly. The...

I've got one of these saws, albeit in a different colour, and have used it this week to cut brass, horn and carbon fibre sheet. I'll have a look at it later on and see how it compares to what you have.

Some people will never pass with particular masks, which made fit testing and supplying compliant masks to over 5000 staff quite the challenge. Having little or no control over what came from national stockpiles just added to the fun.

There is, pretty much everything on the market comes from China where I believe it is farmed commercially

Probably not the last thing I made, but something that keeps coming back to be re-made. Used to have a little sideline making stuff like this. This particular one got passed around and every new owner wanted a new knot fitting, it’s had black badger, two band badger and a synthetic knot or two...

The only way I can pass an FFP3 fit test is when clean shaven. The Wookies at work who insist their beard will filter C-19 can wear a powered hood.

Hi, I’m just resurrecting an old Paramo No.1 3” vice. One of the replaceable jaws is broken and I need to find a replacement. Digging around suggested Record items may do the trick but the screw holes are slightly too close together in the jaws I bought. Any idea for equivalents?

Another vote for the 18v Makita kit, I can’t remember the last time I needed to dig out my corded hammer drill. Even the 5ah batteries recharge quickly.

Thank you for the welcome!

Hi, I found the forum whilst searching for a spindle for my Dad’s old Arundel J4 lathe which is about to find a home in my garage cum workshop. I’m a bit of an imposter as my main interest is metal working, though I have plans to build a copy router for a bit of amateur gunstock duplication.