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Hi all, I am at a maker space on the woodturning team, we allowed a tormek wheel to get really small and now the full size replacement means effectively regrinding every tool because of the difference in diameter. I spent more than 2 hours on a 3/8 ths skew and didn't even get 2/3 rds done. We...

I am making an assembly table/ lay out table/ finishing table. I am using a four by two piece of mdf for the top and I will use cls studs for the frame beneath. I envisage right angle legs bridle jointed to each end of two rails, or I could move the joints inwards away from the ends of the rails...

Hi I live in Greenwich south London. I was wanting to know of suppliers who stock furniture grade veneered ply and mdf. I found one place; the mdf 19 mm 8x 4 sheets are 90 quid and the veneered birch ply was double that price ( all the main species, oak, black walnut, maple, ash etc are the same...

Hi all, I have a Elektra Beckum/ Metabo BAS 500 bandsaw and I need a new lower thrust bearing. It’s a bearing on the end of a steel rod. I will check but I don’t think the bearing is detachable from the steel rod. It’s welded on. Anyway they no longer make spares and I have not been able to find...

Hi I posted a different thread so I could discern that I am being offered a record CL3. It’s got all the blue paint, not rusty, motor runs almost silently, straight rest, curved rest for bowls, drive centre with removable spigot, it’s complete and a few miscellaneous things. I am being asked...

Hi, I have found a record lathe. It just says record power model no 3, I could find nothing when I googled this. Obviously the lathe is commonly known as something else. So what is it? I noticed that a drive belt for a coronet no 3 fits this lathe, I wondered if record power rebranded the...

Hello everyone, I am a member of South London Maker Space, it’s a community/ social enterprise. We have a Wadkin BAOS planer thicknesser. I was planning to get the tables lined up with shims, until I saw the slides( rods sitting within grooves). I had assumed it would have dovetail slides. So...