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Having upgraded to a cyclone HVLP extractor, I no longer have use for this so looking to find it a new home. DX4000 twin motor extractor (2x 1kW motor, 100l/s airflow, 100mm duct, 80l drum) bought new in 2011. In full working order, includes spare paper filters and the cloth filter that sits...

Now that I finally have a dedicated workshop, I am getting my act together to sort out the windows on our house (by which I mean make some better ones). I have recently bought a second-hand Hammer F3 spindle moulder to hopefully make a decent job of it. I think I have got my head around most...

Startrite PT260 10" planer/thicknesser for sale. Owned in the family from new (now around 30 years old) so has seen hobby rather than professional use. The machine runs off a 13A plug. Guarding and dust extraction present as shown in the photographs. All in good working order and can be seen...

I'm looking to get a spindle moulder to add to my home workshop. The main driver is I want to make quite a few windows and the odd door. I could struggle on without, using the table saw and router table, but I think I'll get much better results (and more importantly, have a much more enjoyable...

Fingers crossed, I'm finally going to get around to building my workshop this year. I'm aiming for a building close to 6x5m, single skin Celcon block with internal insulation. Due to space constraints, I am intending to build adjacent to the boundary and I'll be restricted to 2.5m height. I'm...

I've got a Joint Genie dowelling jig which seems a well-made tool. Having used it with a few projects now, I'm convinced that the dowels I'm using (the 8mm fluted beech ones from the likes of Screwfix, Toolstation etc) are causing me a lot of problems come assembly time. I've measured the dowels...

My kitchen worktops were finished with several coats of Osmo Polyx when they were installed just under a year ago. Inevitably, despite best efforts they are at the stage where some maintenance to the finish would be helpful (the odd scratch and minor blemish) - my theory being it's better to...

This is a bit of an unusual query, but I'm racking my brains a bit and am hoping someone might be able to offer some guidance. I'm after a bit of advice on how to address an issue with a Kessebohmer Le Mans corner kitchen shelf, caused entirely by my own stupidity. When I designed the cabinet, I...

I'm currently building a pair of shelves for the kitchen, each will be around 2400mm long and 280mm wide. They are a torsion box construction and I'll be attaching them to the walls using steel studding resin-fixed into the walls. My concern is that as kitchen shelves, they will be taking quite...

One of the bearings on my saw recently started making a very unpleasant loud whirring sound. A bit disappointing as the saw is just over 7 years old; it's seen relatively heavy use for a hobby saw I suppose but these things do have a finite life. Anyway, for anyone in a similar predicament this...

As I've got some spraying to do in the middle of winter, my hand has finally been forced to sort out some heating for my workshop. It's a 1.5 car garage built in double skin insulated cavity blockwork on three sides against the house, with an uninsulated lean-to roof and garage doors on both...

I'm close to finishing the piece of worktop that will go around my new kitchen sink, and after finishing the cut out I've noticed a crack in the end of one of the staves which unfortunately faces onto the sink (it's an undermount belfast type sink). You can see the crack in the attached, which...

Although I've been on this forum for a few years, I think this is my first visit to the hand tool section so please be gentle with me :) I am not normally a hand tool woodworker, but I have need in the very near future (i.e. this week) to glue up some 40mm sapele for use as a kitchen worktop...

I ordered in some water based pigmented lacquer from Morrells; instructions were to mix to another manufacturer's shade which they said they could do. I've done a test panel this evening and it's definitely off - I was expecting a cream/ivory colour but it's got a darker more biscuity hue. Has...

I've got some lovely full stave sapele worktops to install in the next few weeks. Aroubd the sink there is a small section where the worktop needs to extend deeper than the standard width. Rather than fork out a big extra chunk for an oversized piece, I figured with the sizes I need I could glue...

I've a lot of spraying to do, and anyone who has sprayed anything knows one of the biggest challenges with spraying is containing the mess and preventing overspray from affecting the quality of the finish. So, I decided I needed some form of spray booth. Judging by the number of threads on here...

I ordered some Morrells paints earlier this week for my kitchen - first time customer. I ordered over the phone as the depot is quite a drive. Unfortunately in amongst all my queries, there seems to have been a bit of confusion and the products sent aren't what I thought I ordered. I thought I'd...

I'm shortly going to be embarking on building a new kitchen. It's going to have inset painted face frame cabinets; I'm planning to build the carcasses myself from birch ply with drawers and a face frame reveals from maple to give a similar finish. I'm planning to use Manns Extra Tough interior...

Seems a bit of a theme at the moment, but I'm embarking on building my own kitchen. In one corner, we're planning a "pull and swing" type corner unit. Having looked around at what is commercially available, I'm not impressed (variously they seem flimsy, space inefficient and not rated to a very...

I'm gearing up to build and fit a new kitchen. I've bought some full stave worktops (40mm thick, 80mm staves, 620mm wide) from Worktop Express which I think should look the business; when I went to visit their showroom I was quite taken with the way they had fitted the worktops around cookers...