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When table routers were first popularised back in the ‘80’s and ‘90s by woodworking magazines, the whole attraction of them was that they were a cheaper alternative to a spindle moulder that could be constructed in a home workshop from some sheet material and utilise an inexpensive router. Now...

Not quite, you need a license to buy the cartridges in the first place, but you can possess them legally without a license.

My point wasn’t about balance which is a negligible issue with circular cutter blocks, but the quality of work produced. That entirely depends on your definition of a “long run”, in factories I’ve worked in the past we were producing hundreds of thousands of feet of moulding so it was very...

You can get diamond cones for the smaller sizes, nowhere near as expensive as the special reamers have become because they're getting rarer and rarer, and more often than not the ones available secondhand are well used and do not ream particularly well. If you have a good vertical setup in...

Even in softwood you will struggle to push a 25mm chisel through with a Sedgwick Morticer, extremely hard work and the chisel and auger will not be cheap just to be left because it was too difficult to use. From personal experience, it is much easier and often faster to produce the cut in two...

Well, if it is the brake and it is abnormal, it could cause the brake to cook itself and stop working if left long enough, it could even be a potential fire hazard but that is an extreme circumstance. Feel around and see if anything is getting warm when it's on. If in doubt, get an electrician out.

Generally, there isn't much difference between brad nail manufacturers and I wouldn't say there's any brand that stands above the others for any particular reason. However, there are different grades of nail with the most common being galvanised, 304 Stainless Steel, and 316 Stainless Steel...

That's likely your problem, it's probably constantly on whilst the motor is not powered and it's humming, it might even make a bit of funny sound if you try to turn the spindle shaft by hand.

Does it have an electric brake?

Looks like a Multico K, but an unusual one in that it looks like it’s weldment construction as opposed to cast iron for the frame. There’s a few things that look different to a Multico K, like the table and hand wheels look completely different, which makes you wonder whether it’s a Multico...

Have you looked at the itech saws that Scott and Sargeant offer?

CMT are the most easily available here, I personally would get the solid plate ones rather than the "locked" ones which seem more of a gimmick than anything else but there's not much price difference. https://www.scosarg.com/cmt-230-dado-saw-blade-set-d-200-z-12-d-5-8...

The reason he's said "It's not a commercial setting" is because you will inevitably get people saying "A dado blade is illegal, etc..." when it only applies to a commercial setting and it is not illegal, only using the machine without proper guarding and braking is illegal, in a commercial...

A portable hand router is a very versatile tool and can do as you have suggested with ease, but your point wasn't about that, it was that "IMO a dado blade is the wrong way to go about putting a grove in a piece of wood, should be done on a router table". My point is that a table router is an...

Having been around these machines for almost 70 years, I would say there’s massive differences between a table router and a spindle moulder and the table router is largely not worth the effort for most operations anyone might encounter as it is far slower requiring multiple passes for most cuts...

An absolutely ridiculous supposition, a table router could not possibly keep up with the power and speed of a bench saw or spindle moulder equipped with groover tooling such as dado blades.

These have become a very popular collectors item, a lot have been thrown out over the years so there aren’t too many left. Very few people are actually using them, they are more of a shelf-art item now. Yours looks to be in very good condition with no breaks, I wouldn’t be surprised you could...

You can do it with the correct equipment, but most workshops didn't have that luxury. A setting stand makes setting up cutterblocks a dawdle but was a serious expense as well as it took up a fair bit of room. For short runs one cutter working is fine, when you're doing larger runs particularly...

You can tilt the cutters in a older Whitehill cutterblock, but this changes the actual profile being moulded as the rotation of the spindle shaft is still in the same plane, where with a tilting spindle it changes the plane but the moulding profile stays the same. Someone asked me once why they...

Rear tilt is typically safer than forward tilt because you're canting the cutters backwards underneath the work rather than forward on top of the work. For example, if you wanted to mould a 20 degree bevel on the edge of a workpiece using a regular rebate block you would be taking it off the...