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The benefit of silver though is that you don't need to invest in a second set of files in order to work with it. If you do go down the brass route - buy some files and wrap their handles in coloured tape - and *only* use them with Brass. Don't be tempted to use them "just once" for something...

What you have is a ***VERY*** cheap way of purchasing a 1.5HP motor and vacuum system. Throw in a cyclone system (£30 of bits from B&Q and a morning in the shed) and a secondary filter and a cart to mount it on ( another £50 of bits and the afternoon in the shed) and you have shop vac which...

For the price of a domino 500 you could buy a metal pantarouter with all of the templates. That would give you everything that the domino AND the domino XL can do, as well as Mortice and Tenon, finger joints, dovetails etc etc as well - and probably a little faster than a domino if you are...

It was breadboards that I was thinking of ( although I didn't say that term on here as I thought it was an americianism ). I have seen them, but no idea how they are attached. Steve

custard, Many thanks - I will post some images up tonight. Steve

Hello all. I have a large, heavy hinged lid on a large box that needs some rescue work. All four edges of the lid - made of a very hard pine, or some sort of "hard softwood" have had 100+ years of hammering and are a total mess. I would like to cut the worst off with the router and then attach...

Hello all. I am "restoring" an old antique oak and pine sailors chest. The original finish on it was so awful that I have stripped it back to totally bare wood. I wouldn't normally do something like that, but the previous finish was horrifically applied by my grandfather and it was universally...

Just a quick update on this: I tried the Bahco scraper - I had a very old one in a drawer from my dad, but never really used it. It looks like a very good tool - but was no use on this. I managed to source some "proper" paintstripper, and that just made a mess. In the end I used a blow torch...

Hello all. I have a very large sea chest which I am looking to strip. It was varnished incredibly badly around 60 years by my grandfather with what looks a mixture of varnish and shellac and I have a terrible feeling there might be some boot polish in there as well. Using the useless "EU...

Hello all. I am making a orchidarium - it's like a fish tank - but for orchids rather than fish. The plant is kept in 100% humidity, high light and high tempuratures in a glass box. I am looking to automate it heavily with an arduino, and so plan to make a base unit for the tank to keep the...

You need to be absolutely brutal with the cleaning - I know this to my cost. Soap and water - then dry Isopropynol - then dry Acetone - then dry. Then paint. Treat it like painting a car and you will be fine. Otherwise it flakes off in a few weeks.

Bradford is the depot that gave me the prices as well. However - I checked and it has gone up to the price you quoted - £35.60 Sorry - I should have said which depot it was

Arnold Lavar are offering Baltic at £32.32 + VAT on a "per sheet" price - no discounts - works out at £38.78 if you collect.

Hi, I am in the middle of building Mathias' 16" bandsaw, and multi-tasking and blending it together with Stumpy Nub's bandsaw table. When I'm doing, I have got a Mrs SlowSteve breathing down my neck demanding fancy doors, for which I need to finish the pantarouter (which I need a bandsaw to...

I did some sums, and I get the following. The results are totally crazy, so I will post my calculations below. 2 x 4 wood is now technically 47mm x 100mm 2 x 6 wood is now technically 47mm x 150mm Based on that, there are: - 213 board meters of 2x4 in a cubic meter - 143 board meters of 2x6 in...