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This is a long shot - but just wondered if anyone has an old Coronet Major getting dusty or has a spare Saddle - they are the bits that clamp to the 2" bar to attach the tool rests to. I only have one saddle - and for turning long legs etc it would be useful to have another. Thanks Mark

Morning all. I wonder if I can ask your assistance on my Makita 3" belt sander - it's the 9903 model It suddenly stopped tracking correctly - it has an an adjustable tracking mechanism which when you screw the adjusting screw in, changes the angle of the front roller to the rear one which...

Elu small bench top router table suitable for use with the Elu MOF96 router or similar It is about 250mm square with 4 small legs maybe 300mm high so it has to sit on a bench This belonged to my father - I have used it on a few occasions and it was excellent - it comes with spring-loaded...

Good afternoon all. I wonder if I can seek advice from electrical wizards here? As part of my recently completed tambour whisky cabinet, I installed a motion-sensor triggered LED lighting strip Amazon lights It came with a 3m strip which you could trim to length and a battery box with 4 x AA...

'Morning all Its been a long long time since I did a work in progress on UKW but I have wanted for a long time to make a tambour cabinet / sideboard for our home... I wrote to Richard Jones of this parish who made the Torpedore cabinet which I admired for a very long time and kept returning to...

Morning everyone I have 30m2 of herringbone wooden floor to lay. It is engineered oak 120 x 600mm prefinished. Its going onto a concrete substrate which has had the old parquet flooring removed and been self-levelled. I'm pretty sure there is no DPM in the floor (Victorian house) but there were...

My front door is pretty cr4p - lots of problems and its a bit warped. Theres some rot in part of it and I thought it can't be that difficult to make a door - especially after getting a quote from someone who wanted £1600 for a bespoke hardwood 6-panel door.... Here's what needs replacing: I...

I got this years ago from eBay back when I had a constant saved search for 'casting infill plane'. It looks like a block plane, about 7 inches long, didn't come with a blade, doesn't look like it has been use much if at all although the sole and sides are fairly flat. There is a bronze 'bridge'...

Its a long shot.... but I have had a Record C26 combination for 10 years which has been outstanding. However I dont really ever use the spindle moulder anymore and I got persuaded recently to get a helical planer thicknesser..... so as 3/4 components are now redundant I wondered whether anyone...

Dear all After asking (and receiving) great advice a few weeks ago I have made good progress on my coffee table. I have some photos but did not take them at every stage so apologies for that. The design changed (obv) so that the main section is now a veneered panel measuring 600x1400 consisting...

Afternoon all I need to veneer a table top and having done small boxes etc before I think that the size of these panels means I am going to have to get a pump So Ive been doing some reading (and also placed an advert in case anyone is selling their vaccuum kit) Am I right that an ordinary...

I bought some lovely walnut last weekend from Andychip38 of this parish (thanks Andy its lovely wood) SWMBO wants a new dining table and she really likes this design It has an interesting design but I don't know how the maker gets it strong enough. The legs are part through the top as shown...

In Jim Kingshotts book Making and Modifying Tools, he talks about Pattern Making and in particular, he made a Stanley 51/52 I would dearly love to make a Stanley 52 chute board and I just wondered if anyone has done that before? I have a medium engineering firm who are very friendly just up the...

It is becoming a habit - thought I was done with this but my wife went and got me a mitre plane casting from St James Bay Tool Co for my birthday. I have been busy with other projects so only got going on Sunday.... Here is wot I got when I unpacked it I haven't weighed it but it is another...

Good afternoon everyone - I wonder if anyone knows if there is an idiots guide to kitchen drawer slides? Failing that does anyone know enough about them to point me in the right direction? I am making a large bedroom chest of drawers and the drawers will definitely need to be on slides. I need...

Hello everyone I have a slightly unusual project to make which is basically a built-in chest of 8 drawers in painted MDF with a solid hardwood 30 or 40mm top. The top needs to be able to slide forwards i.e. away from the wall about 150mm revealing a compartment inside behind the upper drawers. I...

I didn't do a WIP for this as I have done that exhaustively for my last 2 infills. But I had a bronze casting plane which I acquired a couple of years ago which I always wanted ti do up properly. It had a nasty wooden infill which looked awful although interestingly it came with a 2" Norris iron...

This is a real long shot but I am looking for some heavy duty cardboard or plastic boxes to fit in a storage rack I have been given in which I want to put screws, taps,, dies, washers, nuts bots etc etc in my workshop. The boxes need to be 60mm high x 120mm wide x 150mm deep. I really need...

I'm putting in a kitchen at home and would love a bit of advice as to whether or not I can polish the edges of cut 20mm granite which will go over a Belfast sink. I have diamond holesaws and a diamond blade for my tracksaw - I was going to go slowly, with lots of water and Youtube seems to...

There is a locked thread on this forum. Can I ask why it is still here at all? Reading the thread for the first time today made me wonder why someone on a public forum would deliberately bait the majority of readers with a nationalist 'rant'. So whilst I do not understand the motive behind the...