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Interesting filter box, Heimlaga! I have a thien baffle setup that I used before moving to a new house (and new workshop). I used to blow the air outside, and it actually filtered quite well. I also had about 100 m to the nearest neighbor, so no-one complained about the noise. However, it did...

The most effective way to avoid mice is to cut the grass closest to the house in the end of the summer.

I heard somewhere about a danish carpenter who gave a gift to an american carpenter. He gave him a rule with danish inches. I remember that it took a while for the american to realize why he got his measurements wrong. The danish inch is 26.15 mm. Something like this...

Thanks. Interesting to hear how metal work is done. :-)

Thanks. The Versa chuck is interesting, as it is mounted with an iso backplate. What do you think about the blank inserts that chuck manufacturers can provide? Is it difficult for a machinist to produce an accurate, threaded, insert using one of these? From what I've heard, to get maximum...

I'm planning to buy a new chuck, but am not sure what to choose. I do need a chuck with an option to turn my own threads. Either a threaded insert or a backplate. My lathe is an old Swedish Rex lathe with BSW (Whitworth) 1 1/4" x 7 thread on the spindle, and I doubt anyone supplies inserts or...

Now it is actually feeding like it has never done before (as long as I have had the machine). I'm really happy with the machine now.

Here you see both the new and the old belt:

I received the new belt today. It's much smaller than the old belt. I'll upload a photo tomorrow. The new belt is thinner and more of a rubber-band than the old one. The old one is longer, a bit thicker, and not nearly as stretchy as the new one. Though it might have gotten stretched out and...

If it's the Metabo HC260 you have, I have a solution. I have a clone of this machine. I had the same problem with the fence. I finally fixed it by permanently fixing the fence at 90 degrees. I removed the adjustment lever and replaced it with a lock nut. I locked it at close to 90 degrees (it...

If someone else wants to make this, I have more photos of the build. It would also be worthwhile to think about the inflow of air. Right now the dust collector sucks (160 mm / 2)^2 * pi = 20109 mm^2 of air out. But to get a good airflow, I would need to make sure that amount of air can get...

I don't have any photos of the finished dust hood in the planing position on the computer, but I did have a few photos demonstrating this before it was finished. Here you see how it's attached to the machine: And here it's flipped over, preparing for planing mode: Here's how it looks with...

No, it's attached the same way as the original hood, with four screws to the rotating aluminium bar. So I just remove the hose, flip the hood over, and mount the outfeed table and fence again. Then I use the original dust hood under the table for planing.

Just posting some photos of the dust hood I made from sheet metal. I made it for a 160 mm hose. Works so much better than the original. It never clogs now. In planing mode, I still use the old dust hood, which works ok. Also attaching my fix for the fence. It's permanently set to 90...

Thanks. I already got enough info for me to decide that my belt is far too stretched out. I decided to order a new belt from Metabo. Just to show the length of the belt, I took a photo where I've taken the belt is off the large plastic wheel. You can see that it's almost the size without any...

Quite a difference to mine then. Turning the large pulley by hand never makes the cutter block turn. Turning the cutter block makes the large pulley turn though.

Ok. So it should be quite tight. My belts is very easy to slip on. It's much larger than the large plastic wheel. That's probably what's causing my problems.

Thanks! I'll try this tomorrow.

I have a planer/thicknesser of a noname brand, clone of the Record PT260, MetaboHC260, Electra Beckum, etc. The machine works quite well, in most respects. I've had to fix the fence (I have permanently adjusted it to 90 degrees, which took at least an hour - replaced the adjusting lever with a...

Thanks. I'll try that.