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I've just seen this item on Amazon and thought it might have possibilities as a router lift - for the price could be an idea for someone...

I was lucky enough to spend some time in the USA recently and visit the Metropolitan Museum of New York, "The Met". Walking around the Egyptian exhibits I spotted something quite interesting - 2 wooden boxes that had been buried with a Pharaoh - what caught my eye was the corner joints...

I got a letter stating I am being charged £16.50 for unpaid toll for using the Humber Bridge. I've never been there in my life and definitely not in the 5 ish years I've been driving, and the "evidence pictures" are blank. If I don't pay it in 31 days I'll be hit with another £100 on top. but...

Unless I'm mistaken this looks like a marketplace section for sponsor only readership "Sponsor announcements on their products, specials and company news" - which crucially can ONLY BE READ BY SPONSORS. Question: why would I as a paying sponsor put in a detailed thread about my "products...

I've just seen this desk on facebook marketplace and thought it shows most of the mistakes most people make when making a desk - or in this case a "desk shaped object" and is just the sort of example of tat that makes people shy away from "stuff made out of palletwood / scaffold planks". How...

Edit: seems somehow my google-fu completely failed me and I managed to miss raised bed information regarding wood and liners etc in my search but I've found some now. As per the name - I'm in the process of planning a large (1.6m x 8m) raised bed and I'm utterly clueless on the longterm effects...

I have just finished a section of work for a customer who then decided she thought I was charging her too much (£15 an hour) and asked me to leave before full completion of discussed work. Anyway I have now had an angry text claiming that taking photographs of the work I carried out is a...

I'm a member of several facebook "interest sites", no not those, woodworking, marketplaces (stuff for sale) etc etc. I've just seen a post by someone that must be the best yet: name: Katie Portia Muxworthy-Sheppard selling: Horse stuff Occupation: Holistic Therapist. of course she is.... I...

A vice, that's all it is, yet someone will always try to re-invent a different, more expensive way to do the same job.... https://www.in-kleind.com/store/24-twin ... p136791290 I guess he must be mates with the guy that runs Bridge City Tools.

I thought I'd post this as I know we all sometimes move larger items we've made, bags of tools or timber and probably pay little heed to potential issues. So... sunday I was moving my Kity 419 tablesaw, which I've done probably several hundred times without incident, it's 25kg give or take...

Youtube threw this vid at me - I'm glad it did, and more than a little stunned by the complexity of this item, all crafted with basic hand tools. Enjoy :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQF_6TQks0 (and I thought the guy making wooden pliers out of one bit of wood was impressive...)

As per the title - I'm getting ready to fit a generously donated (by Eriktheviking) Record 52 1/2 vice - but I'm wondering about the auxillary faces. A quick search got me loads of hits but nothing specific to my question so here it is: Do I add a bit of spring to the outer edges of the front...

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Part 1 I've got a rutlands 1100w extractor vac with a 100mm hose - rated at 50 litres per minute - no bar given. (capacity 50 litres) I've also got an Lidl 1500w wet n dry with a 40mm hose - rated at 1.9 bar / 190 mbar / 19kPa - whichever works for you - no Litres pm given. (capacity 30...

I've just watched another episode of George Clarks series "Old house, New home" about a place in Leeds and in it they used a set of reclaimed glass doors, solid wood; Oak probably, eight glass leaded light panels per door, (which look as though they really could have come from Parliament) and...

Well.. after snapping yet another old screw head off while trying to remove it from a door frame - anyone with a good engineering lathe fancy taking a bit of high carbon steel rod about 10mm OD (biggest easily available dowel size) and drilling a hole in it about 8mm ID? Around 100mm would be...

I bought a secondhand UKJ router table top recently - it's birch ply and about 25mm thick laminated both sides with melamine - and although it's otherwise perfect I noticed yesterday when fitting it to my new workbench that it's crowned; turning it over and measuring from the underside against...

I've got some strap hinges and the pins seem a little malleable. I've not put the weight on them to check (there are 4 total), but if it turns out they bend under the weight as they are being used horizontally to support the wheels on a heavy workbench, is straightening them and hardening them...

I've just learned today that a 1m square sheet of MDF, if leaned against a fence in direct sunlight (at only a moderate angle), will develop a curve, in both axis of about a 25mm offset at the centre. In about 20 minutes. Dunno if this is common knowledge, but I certainly didn't know. (the...

I'm in the middle of re-doing my workbench come assembly table (frame is complete), now that I know more about what I want, but I'm still stuck as to what to do with the main top (it's a split level bench to accomodate my small tablesaw) with flip up router table at the other end. Options are...