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PVA and sawdust from the same piece is generally as close as you will get

For airbrushing the general consensus is quality over quantity with regards to air. 5.7cfm should be more than enough for most airbrushes and should also handle either fairly expensive ( efficient) or small spray guns. With air tools everybody focuses on power and CFM because they want the most...

I had a different jigsaw that did this all the time - turned out to be the pendulum settings, i cant remember which setting but it didn't like it. Could be worth trying it on different settings.....

Cant say which will suit you best as in an ideal world every machine would have its own dedicated extraction. Triton make dust collection units for standard vacuums, im not sure if they work on the cyclone or thein separator principle, but either way it should help to keep the dust down...

Really depends on the structure of the steel shed. I know some of them a very flimsy and I would not like to hang anything at all off them.

Quite possibly - I have only did it once, and when you mentioned the reversed polarity for etching - i know i was messing around with that at the time ( nothing serious just curious to what exactly happens) - but on the other hand I was using an old charge and start to power it all and when it...

Yes I would definitely degrease it first. A cheap way I do most things if i run out of "proper degrease fluid" is to use laundry washing powder (lots of) in hot water. It will require another clean in plain hot water after to get the residue off though. Ive never tried to strip paint using this...

Table salt works too, for etching and cleaning purposes - Typically I use a full 500G tub in approx 10l hot water ( dissolves faster - but let cool before use ). You are right about the electrodes - I bet i put mine on backwards in a hurry to clean the rusty parts :oops: Or maybe not looking...

more soda just serves to increase the conductivity of the solution - this helps it along a little faster. The better it conducts in theory the more amps it will draw but this is probably not noticeable amount. Depends what you are using, with a manual car charger I can up the amps or voltage...

Add more soda or salt or what ever you used to make the solution. Alternatively up the amps / voltage. Sounds a little slow - I usually get tiny white bubbles in around 5 minutes, in half an hour I have a murky brown solution with a lot of brown/ orange froth on top. Overnight I have...

these sort of clamps could help get a tighter joint

make sure the blade is of correct thickness for the saw aswell. I bought 1.5mm blades to find my saw would not grip them as they needed to be at least 2mm. I got round it with a big penny washer.

reminds me of an old wooden fishing float, although i suspect it is too big to actually be one

usually comparable to a similar sized (wattage) circular saw - as a ball park figure, so to speak