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Hi all, bought a small 1/4 sheet hand sander at Aldi last week for £9.99. I was a little doubtful as it was so cheap but it works very well, sands vigorously, is not too noisy and is pleasant to use plus has 3 years guarantee. Has anyone bought the garden shredder they are selling for £99.99...

Diamond heavy duty wood fret saw on Ebay Item number: 260696309103 Ends 26 Nov, 201016:56:23 GMT I bought one last year but this is not mine. May be worth a look for someone possibly a bargain at current price? These saws have no back up since the engineer who made them died but the parts are...

Anybody recognise this lathe, ebay item 180514956391? Currently £21 with just short of 5 days to go. Is it a bargain lump of British iron or one to avoid? Graham

Found this Stanley 120 block plane when sorting out my dad’s workshop. He is not able to tell me anything about it (Altzheimers) but he was never a tool enthusiast so probably wouldn’t have known its history. As you can see from the first two photos it has a loose washer below the screw that...

I was given an old Dell Latitude Cpi, unwanted by its previous owner. It is a Pentium II 266 with 96MB of memory and a 3.8GB HDD, and the battery is dead! It has all the usual connectors plus one USB port. It came with WinXP installed which made it unbelievably slow so I deleted that and...

Hi, my Dell desktop running XP won't start anymore after running Microsoft Anti Malware Tool! I knew it had something nasty inside because when I clicked on a site in Google I was taken to a different site. Running Spybot and SpyDoctor found nothing but the trojan or whatever was still there...

Hello all, new to fret saws and after reading posts here have acquired a Diamond AF19. It looks just like this factory image: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq27 ... ndAF19.jpg I don't know any history or age but it may be pre 1995, as the label on the top arm has the old dialing code...

Hi all, any knowledge of Meber and Socomec bandsaws out there? I am considering a replacement for my Startrite 301. I want more depth of cut and more power. There is a Meber SR600 on Ebay which looks good quality but probably too large for my workshop. My ply on wooden joist floor might not...

Hi all, I recently bought an old but I thought good Kity 617 table saw, the one with a tilting table which looks like this: I needed something better than my old Draper 10” saw which has a tilting arbor but is very wobbly. I made a sled for the Draper but found the pressed steel trunnion...

Hi all, I would be grateful for some advice on fine saws to suit cutting off dowels and keys without marking the face of nearly finished work. I bought an "Irwin Detail Pull Saw" from Screwfix, Irwin ref is 10505165. The package illustration shows it being used to cut off a dowel and it is...

I took my secondhand bandsaw apart to move it and decided to strip it down to check bearings etc. I had read that blade tension springs can be over compressed and decided to look at that too when the top wheel was off. There is no spring inside the metal "box" that is moved up and down to...

Apologies for yet another post on this subject! I am looking for a small to medium and not too expensive (cheap!) p/t for my small workshop which is only 3.5 x 4 metres, and with a ply floor on joists. I would prefer secondhand to keep the cost down. It will have to share the space with 2...

I would be grateful for some help. I inherited this portable vice from my dad. As far as I can recall he bought it at the Model Engineering Show about 15 years ago but never used it. It appears complete in the box but the instructions are missing. I remember that there was VHS video supplied...