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Thanks for your thoughts everyone

Returning to woodturning after a long gap. I had a treadle lathe which developed leg muscles as much as turning skills followed by a coronet major followed by a graduate. I sold that when I went sawmilling instead of turning, and bought a Multico 'cos I didn't like not having anything. Thats on...

Hi OJ I'll try to look at belt over the w/end and let you know. O/T Regarding Mac. I've got a now obsolete 15" powerbook which does all I need [and more] Should manage 3D drawings tho' you might need extra ram Personally I'd only get a laptop for the freedom: take it out to the workshop with...

Sincere apologies OJ for not replying earlier, not been in the workshop for a while etc. I can't see a number/code on the drive belt its presumably worn off If you can measure the length needed for a new one [bit of string?] then you should be able to get one from machinery/agricultural dealers...

Tony re my post today and Adams probable tongue in cheek reply. If you were thinking your rat was superfluous maybe we should talk?

anybody know of a woodrat for sale? Ebay ones go for so little less than a new one it doesn't seem worth it and Woodrat occasionally have a return which they sell at £15-20 discount, not the biggest discount i've ever heard of. So I thought I'd ask you never know. Does anyone have a rat near...

Laburnum no doubt in my mind

Excellent guide for posting pics thanksAntony

I used to have a mobile sawmill business and cut up lots of strange woods 'cos they were there and free and I did a fair bit of turning. For what its worth it looks like some hawthorn I cot up but it varies enormously from being without any purple colouring to your example. If its hard ,dense...

It looks as though I wasn't going far enough back in that I didn't level planer block to the thicknessing table. I'll try that when I get time.thanks chaps. By the way how do I put pictures from my Apple on the message board? Got any number to show the machine but can't see how to do it. Antony

Thanks for the replies and welcome.Scrit thanks for your reply. The planer has a 2 blade iron block and my problem has been to get the outfeed table level in relation to the block [crossways] and level in relation to the infeed table [lengthways], which is fixed on a parallelogram mounting. The...

Hi everybody. New to the site which has lots of useful stuff. I have a Startrite SD310 12' planer/thicknesser which had its tables removed and I can't get them bach to planing square and true. Does anyone have any info or instructions on this. Heres hoping, I'm bored with making wedges ! Antony