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Good evening all I'm looking to treat myself to a new 1/2" router, I now have power in my WS, so no more working from extension cables. I'm looking to mount the router "dedicated into my R/table" and possibly a router lift for easier set up. Any recomendations or views on this would be...

Good evening all I've been on the lookout for some hardwood for my new work bench build "still in planing" I was thinking on using beach for the build, and because it's more readily available. However I met a bloke today, who was looking to shift some maple slabs that he got from a demolition...

Good Evening I treated myself to a new woodpecker 900mm rule, which arrive y/day. Lovely looking tool. However I did not have the time to look it over until this afternoon, unfortunately the rule has a 3mm concave (belly) in the middle of the rule, that can visually be seen by looking down its...

Good evening all Could anyone give me an estimate or rather current price. off the union gradute short bed lathe. I've been on the lookout for a while now, and there's one on thhe bay at the moment, with bidding still going at around the grand. Is this a fair price for this machine. Kind...

Good evening all With my options still open regarding workshop Electrics, or rather more to do with motor feed electricals, and I came accross this one on the bay at £695 "labled JFK Electrical NI" 5.5kw 7.5hp, input 240 volt 1 phase output 415 3 phase and I though I'd ask those good...

Evening all I would like to ask for some help/put me on the right track for cable EG from mains to VFD and VFD to 3kw motor, and would this have to be 16A I've been looking at this from VFD to motor, though not sure if adequate RS PRO 4 Core 1.5 mm² Power Cable, Grey Polyvinyl Chloride ... I...

Evening all I was looking through ad's on facebay the other day, and seen an AGS 12 for sale £500 and on a whim I messaged the guy and said I'd take it for the five if he'd deliver. The guy near bit my hand off, It came from a hospital in Glasgow apparently and the two lads that delivered the...

Evening all A little refurb project I'll be starting on shortly, not a lot involved, just strip and clean on this XY compound table I picked up. Rob

Good evening all Took a look at the motor today, 3ph 2hp and no sign of the delta wiring symbol. Removed the wiring cover to see if there was any information below the cover, there was nothing. What I did notice, that there was three wires only, coming out from the motor, I called Fraser &...

Good afternoon folks, This machine has come up for sale near me 40 mile, the guys looking for £1250 for it. I was thinking that it was a bit pricey, so thought that I'd come and ask your opinion on it, and maybe give me a ball park figure that I could offer, and try negotiate a fair price for...

Good afternoon folks I recently Acquired a small surface planer 6.5" x 37" table bed with a 1/2hp motor. I've been giving the machine a onceover today, and the name on the switch gear is Allan West "Brighton" I've been searching the web and find no reference to this machine, other than on Allan...

Hi folks I've been looking to buy a pillar drill, and looking through your posts on this item, a name that kept coming up was the Fobco. Well I've came across one for sale for £320 Its in need of some restoration to bring it up to working order, and was wondering if you guys/girls could...

Hi everyone I'm looking for some advice here, I'm looking to buy a reciprocating saw. I've been looking at the Bosch 18V-LI £314 @ powertool world. Is there anyone that could give me some feed back on this saw, or other alternatives that may be better or cheaper. I have a 30ft boat to strike...

Hi All I've recently purchased a new router table from Rutlands, an up-grade from the B&D one that my father had. Anyway the question is mounting the router to the zero clearance aluminium base plate. I have #3 routers that I could use, though none of them will mount without drilling through...

Hi Guys, Girls I've recently purchased a woodpecker shelf pin template for a project that I'm doing. Unfortunately the jig arrived without a guide bushing of the appropriate size, and try as I might I cannot find a 3/8" guide bushing anywhere. I've come across sets that include the size that I...

Hi all happy new year to all ukw members newbie here and 1st post other than putting my workshop dimensions in another topic a few wk back i've been working on my "new build workshop" for last 4 month, and in the process of cleaning up these 2# beams that I aquired from a job lot of (railway...