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Jet VS1221 5/8" post

I live nearby, have used them for treated fence posts, gates, featheredge fence components. Helpful in choosing parts for a fence, pointed out that rather than trimming lots of feather edge for a fence, it was available 150mm shorter to allow for the gravel board. Never seen hardwood or...

Good to see an update, interesting to see you working on the top before fixing up the legs and stretchers.

Any updates Tony?

Reading the comments about modern movements made me chuckle, currently sitting opposite a 1760 long case clock with its original movement. I suppose it might need a service in a few years but that is it. Case is oak with fruitwood banding as decoration and a beautifully figured door. Keeps...

Hi Bugbear, Correct, usually a very expensive cryogenic camera or spectrograph. In the early days of each telescope an eyepiece might be used to verify primary mirror alignment and the telescope pointing model, although these days small webcams are so plentiful that the requirement for a...

Jimi, Sorry, didn't see your reply straight away. I build parts of scientific instruments for large (4m-8m) telescopes located in remote observatories (e.g. la Palma, Hawaii, Australia, Chile) so not the telescopes themselves although the telescope design impacts on the individual instruments...

Hi Jimi, Just noticed this thread. As you might guess from my username.....telescopes are a core part of my job, mostly in the 4m-8m class though! I have a 25cm dobsonian at home for fun, handmade f/6 mirror which was aluminised at work alongside a 2.5m mirror. Making the structure was one of...

Sorry about the delay, been away from home with work and only just got back to dig out the converter. I am afraid I don't think it will be of any use, it is a Transwave static converter, 240V single phase to 415V three phase, but it is one of their smaller models and is only rated to a maximum...

Maybe I am missing something here, or customers now expect something different from the non-visible parts of the clockcase, the 1700s longcase clock (and almost everyone I have looked at) at home while uses very fine oak and fruitwoods for the display parts of the case, the backboard, mechanism...

I may have a transwave converter 240V single phase to 415V three phase, almost new, only used for a few hours (it worked very well but abandoned project) that I am willing to sell. I will dig it out and get the model number and power rating. StarGazer

The soundboard was finished to approx 2mm then 15off 3mm holes were drilled down the centreline at the location of the strings. Once the soundboard was glues in (TB3) the three components were tidied up with a spokeshave (for the curved parts) and block plane for the rest before using 3 coats of...

Right, I started with a full size hand drawn set of plans and some oak resawn and thicknessed to approx 12mm, then acclimatised and then finished at 10mm. The soundbox of the harp consists of two side walls approx 7mm thick that provide the main structure, these are spaced by 50mm at the top...

OK, working on pictures now, sorry about the delay, been away with work for a day or so. SG