Recent content by Timberfreak

Hi Troggles, Looks like you're thinking of only one door? If that's the case, and it's a regular sized door (around 2m X 2m) I would expect that it would certainly be heavy. Compared to hardwoods and most softwoods, W.R.C. is certainly a whole lot lighter, although I wouldn't like to say how a...

On of Aldi's special offers from tomorrow (10th Feb.) is a digital caliper for £9 (or, if we want to be pedantic - £8.99), switchable between metric and imperial. Their other offers can be seen HERE.

Hi Andrew, A few years back it was actually possible to buy-over-the-counter the Freud stacked dado from Machine Mart. It had a 5/8" centre and it wouldn't have fitted my saw at that time on 2 counts :- it was the wrong arbor size, and my saw at that time definitely had no spare room on the...

WOW! ~ any hints as to that 'big supplier'? Last time I bought some Oak (Nov. last year) it was priced somewhere between £1500 - £1600 a cubic metre. I didn't 'clock' the exact price . . . I think the shock kicked in!

And so you should be, very nice indeed! ~~~ if I may say so . . . there's nothing 'Heath Robinson' about that project.

Thanks for your replies - :D - I now consider myself re-educated. I've always tried to achieve 'perfect' (or as perfect as I can manage) edges and have, for the most part, had reasonably acceptable results. I have to say that I've never encountered the option of sprung joints previously and...

I recorded the show and have just watched it. In the absence of any new NYWs it was reasonable, although for anyone hoping to see exactly how to carry out his proceedures it was a bit lacking in "see-how-to-do-it" detail. Perhaps I'm a bit too used to Norm or David Free? In any case, I think I...

Slightly off-topic, although it's still related to driving . . . Someone already mentioned license reqirements for driving in Spain, and today on the TV I heard a few snippets required for driving in France, and apparantly these are rigorously enforced :- * The driver must be in possession of...

. . . you mean apart from making the road surface even more treacherous for motorcyclists when it's wet! :evil:

Andy ~ I can't tell you which manufacturer the dado set is because there doesn't appear to be a maker's name anywhere. You can find it somewhere here in this website where there is a clickable photo of it which zooms up to a huge size. (You'll find it under "Accessories") About the only other...

Point well taken about the size of the small Oak workpiece ~ as also pointed out by a previous poster and to which I replied that my normal practice isn't to use such small pieces. When, for the video, I wanted to show a couple of cuts, I wanted to use hardwood because I felt that if I had used...

Hi Jake - you've had me go over my previous postings trying to find where I put forward the notion that I'm brave or smart . . . You might like to help me out with that ?

Mark ~ the dado set IS 8 inches and the saw's normal blade is 260mm (just over 10 inches). The problem is that when the stack of dado blades and chippers are mounted on the arbor they move TOWARDS the motor casing, and on the side of that casing there are a couple of protrusions in the casting...

Yes ~ that was the reason I finally imagined that a stack of blades would fit on the arbor. It seemed to me that the extra thickness of the inner flange occupied the space that could be occupied by a few extra blades/chippers if that space was saved by the use of a thinner flange. It also...

. . . and I carried out that 4WD conversion with my Stacked Dado Head !!!