Recent content by timbar

Yes, gently does it, even laying the door down on a damp lawn concave side down with gentle sun on top will do it!

You need to employ the principal of differential shrinkage: wet the CONCAVE side of the panel and dry/warm gently the CONVEX side. The damp hollow side will expand and the drying humped side will try to shrink thus pulling the panel flat. I would be suprised if this does not work pretty well...

Trouble is that in this case the fine design style pretty much dictates the timber-hard to imagine it in a coarser european hardwood for example. Although maybe so long as you avoid anything cut with a strong flame in the grain. Japanese oak is finer than English and could look ok although I...

I have the Fox 8" which has a smallish sliding table(not for large sheet work!). I know that it is not comparable with a higher end machine but if you dont expect "out of the box" perfection and are prepared to spend time tweaking and shimming here and there it is suprisingly accurate. Its also...

I used 18mm flooring chipboard laid onto a concrete base with two heavy coats of liquid DPM between. Not up to domestic building regs I know, but is fine and actually not cold.

There is a problem with seasoning called "case hardening" which is when timber is dried too quickly. If I remember the test for this is to cut say 1/2" off the end off a board and then (on its end grain surface) cut out a piece so that you end up with a tuning fork shaped, short grained piece of...

I'm looking into a radial arm saw. :lol:

Or you can clamp a dummy fence on that does not extend past the front of the blade.

Fiveways Bearings will probably help you out, located in Eltham. www.fiveways-bearings.co.uk

Halvalue (charnwood) have poor delivery, They say one thing, do another. Axminster much better.

Thankyou, its on the list!

Any idea where I might obtain a seal? and how much work to replace? The oil seeps out particularly when the quill is worked up and down. It still seemed to be coming out even when the box was quite empty ( less than 1/2" of oil) The box looked as if it had never been filled-but its only been...

It made me smile, as I had just come off a flight sim forum you see :)

Not sure what all this airbus stuff is about but back onto saw safety. One thing I often see less experienced workers (no reference to above made) made doing is using the rip fence as a length stop for cross cutting which normally causes a dangerous jam as the timber turns diagionaly- please...

Record BS300 is not far of the standard of same sized Startrite. Great value too.