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How about this one? I used it for a new plunge saw back in December. KATKBPX

No worries there Bm. So, after all the replies on here (thanks to everyone for the helpful feedback) it looks like I will be taking none of the three options that I posted before. I will instead be relieving my dad of his “spare” grinder that I found out about over dinner tonight. From the...

So, having had a bit of a look about I’ve found the grinders linked below which are all suitably cheap. I’m currently leaning towards the Axminster one but would be happy to see which people would recommend for someone who has never really used a bench grinder before. If anyone know as...

You should be able to get 5% of any purchase over £100 from anglia tool centre using the code below. Not having seen the original ffx price I’m not sure how they compare but the current kit price seems comparable with what ffx have on their website now...

Well, it turns out I did have some 80 grit paper in the cellar and I also found some spare 600 x 100 mm sheets of toughened glass that were left over from the new kitchen. So, the 6mm chisel with the overly generous and wonky secondary bevel was taken back to a flat primary relatively quickly...

Thanks everyone, I think I’ll be giving this one a go tonight with the 180 grit paper I know I have somewhere in the cellar. If it’s all a bit slow I can always splash out on something a little corser at the weekend.

Hi, I’ve recently been buying up some older hand tools from eBay as a first proper set For me to use. I’ve picked up some footprint chisels as part of this which are mostly in good nick but there are a few in there that either have chipped tips or have been very badly ground in the past. So...

I ended up buying the Bosch kit linked below when I was doing the kitchen a couple of years ago (along with an extra large one for fitting some downlighting in the ceiling) . I’ve found them to be pretty good and really like the way the saws fit into the bit holder, much nicer to use than some...

I’ve also had good luck with the Stanley fatmax storage boxes, would happily get more if/when I need them. Stanley 197518 FatMax Deep Pro...

You might need something slightly different to the mapei self levelling screed (linked above) for a sloping floor, especially if you want to leave this as the final finish. I used this stuff to flatten the floor in my kitchen last year after taking a couple of small walls out (the concrete...

You might find that you’ve used the wrong type of 18650 cells when rebuilding your battery pack and have some which can’t handle the high discharge current that most power tools require. There are some fairly large differences out there in terms of 18650 cell capacity and discharge current...

I was under the impression (from working with a bit of battery pack design in my day job a couple of years ago) that in the EU companies had to use the nominal cell voltage and couldn’t “trick” customers by using the higher maximum cell voltage. So in the UK/EU you might find a battery pack as...

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I’ve not got much in the way of saw dust from the floor yet so can’t easily try mixing up some filler from cascamite. So, I’ve irdered a few different tints of filler to try out for now but could give that a go later on if they don’t work out. I’ve been...

Hi, I'm currently in the middle of laying a new ash floor in our house and have come to the point where I need to start filling in small gaps between the boards and some of the screw head holes where I've had to face fix the boards. I'm going to be finishing the floor with some Osmo Polyx oil...

Well, the saw all seems happy so far. It’s producing nice clean, square, cuts straight out of the box. My only issue at the minute is that I can’t see a good way of connecting up my vacuum to the dust extraction port as this as some sort of fitting that I guess is supposed to work with the...

Thanks for all the replies, it’s good to hear people have been getting good long service out of these. Conveniently anglia tool centre have just put the Bosch on sale at £250, so with my 5% discount code for orders over £100 this makes it the cheapest I’ve seen recently. Looks like I’ll be...

Hi, I've been looking around at options for buying my 1st mitre saw this last week or so and think I have narrowed my options down to the two models listed here (no-links at the minute due to new account): Bosch GCM 8 SJL Metabo KGS 254 M Both models offer all the features that I think I...