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Hi all, does anyone have experience . opinions on the Parkside plasma cutter? Thanks K

Hi all, just a thumbs up - Yandles have 150mm Mirka abrasives on offer. 240 grit basecoat and 800 grit gold at 100 disks for £10. These are normally about £8 for 10 disks. No other grit sizes on offer. K

Hi all, just a thumbs uo - Rutlands have an offer (ending in a few days) for their 75mm chuck plus 5 jaw sets for £120. I have the 100mm verison and it is fine. Thread is 1" x 8toi only, adapter supplied for other threads (but mine has some run out using the adapter), the chuck however is very...

Hi all, just a thumbs up. Rutlands 100mm scrollchuck with about 6 jaws sets for £150. I bought a set about a year ago and they seem fine. I paid £200. They only come in 1" x 8 pi (I think) but an adaptor is included. I was disappointed in my adaptor because of run out but it was the only one I...

Hi all, I wonder if any electricins can answer this for me. I have a 6mm cable feeding an instant heat shower (6.5kW). There is a short section of cable (about 25cm) that runs in an uninsulated space and that space now needs insulating. Would there be an issue with local overheating of the...

I keep seeing facebook adverts from a company called Temu, and was wondering if they are genuine. Does anyone have any experience of them? K

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has any advice on replacing the spring that holds up the saw on this model. Any help would be much appreciated. K

Hi all, Has anyone done this? I have a Myford M type and was thinking to use the top slide to fix to the bed of my Union Graduate. Then I wondered about removing the M type headstock and re-fixing it on a hinged plate to make a rocking headstock. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with...

Hi all. Question for any plumbers out there. I have a Grand condensing oil boiler (not combi) fed from attic tanks. The previous Thermecon boiler seemed to work fine, it had 28mm fittings. The Grant replacement has 22mm fittings going into 28mm. My problem is the boiler is short cycling. Once it...

Rutlands are offering their generic oscillating sander again, £120. This offer is for today only. I bought one last time and they seem OK, although it has not had much use. Just giving a thumbs up. K

Hi folks, I am in serious need of help. I have a Union Grduate, a Denford Viceroy and a Myford ML8. I now have the opportunity to buy another graduate (haven't seen it yet) with about 8 faceplates, bowl rest and some turning tools at a very reasonable price. Also it is only about 20 miles away...

Hi all, I have a Perles die grinder, looks quite old. It obviously has a fault and when I dismantled it I could see it has been tampered with before. Anyway the back part of the casing does not seem to fit in correctly, seems to be skewed slightly. So, does anyone have experience of these...

Hi all, I'm looking for some help regarding a fairly old Bosch scintilla jigsaw. I just can't figure out how to remove the blade. The saw has a black plastic knob (handle) directly above the blade which can be removed, but just seems to be a, well, handle. Beneath that is an Allen key type...

Hi all, I have a Site cordless drill (Makita brand, but cheaper) with keyless chuck. I tighten the chuck by holding one part and running the drill, likewise for loosening. It has always been fine, for several years of regular use. Recently it seems to have become really tight and I have to put a...

Hi everyone, Just wondering - would it be possible to sharpen a scraper by using a burnisher instead of the grinding wheel? And if so, would any really hard steel do the job - perhaps a file with the teeth ground off, or a rod of HSS or carbide (such as a broken carbide drill or router...

Hi all, just a thumbs up regarding Rutlands, they have regular 12 hour price drops on tools. Today it is an oscillating bobbin sander. I have been thinking of getting one for a while to replace the home made arrangement on my pillar drill, so I bought one about a month ago during the previous...

Hi all, I get Axminster vouchers from the children for Christmas, birthday and Fathers' Day. They now have an expiry date on but previously did not, and I allowed two to go out of date. My fault, accidentally but still my fault. I contacted customer service and they said normally the vouchers...

Hi all, Just thought I would flag up a sale now on at Rutlands, according to an email I just received from them. The thing that particularly interested me is a chef's knife reduced by £220, now only £149.99 !!! However there are more realistic items on offer. Happy new year to everyone. Let's...

Hi all, today's daily deal from Axminster is the wetstone sharpening machine, the Tormek lookalike. £40 off normal price. This post has 2 purposes, firstly to let people know about the daily deal, and secondly to ask peoples' opinions because I am thinking of buying one. The Axminster site has...

I am not sure if liquid steel is the correct title here. I want to make a faceplate for my wood lathe, the thread being 1 1/4" x 9 tpi left hand. I have a set of taps and have used them to make a thread fitting out of hardwood but was wondering if I could make some out of metal. To that end I...