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With the help of a mallet I managed to get the second pulley off as the pulley wheel was well and truely jammed on and it appeared all was good however when I checked the spindle on the pulley is 25mm and the inside of the bearings it has to go into is 20. Everything else appears well though...

No worries, I’m making blanks out of all sorts at the moment. Some old oak skirting boards are the latest ‘victims’

As a newbie to turning I’ve had to buy all of my tools from scratch. I was fortunate to have been bought a set of Robert Sorbie chisels, one of which snapped but Yandles swapped it without an issue, the same went for my bench drill. So so far so good. In relation to silverline I’ve had some good...

a bit of bodge and fix with a mallet... sounds like a plan!

I picked up a draper WTL90 and had a bit of an issue on start up. I tried to get it serviced but was told the particular model was defunct and I couldn’t buy parts. Fortunately the Axminster pulley wheels are interchangeable but being a new by I’m concerned I may have bought a pup. But maybe be...

Hi I’m new to all of this but would like to make a pen/pencil set for my son. Do you have any of these pen blanks left? And if yes could I have a couple? Many thanks

Spooky my lathe did exactly the same thing last week - just the other pulleys and Axminster said the same thing but then relented thankfully but having dismantled the pulleys I can’t get the second one off and can’t find any advice on line. I’ve undone the lower bolt but what else is holding the...