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I agree with above, 4 years is a bit too young, but I learnt to hold the solder iron when I was 7 when my dad was soldering for his model train. And I was interested. Just take him with you into your workshop and show him what you do and soon you will see if it gets too boring for him

Now I slept over it, perhaps it is not possible flow wise to commect the hoover hose to the 63 mm cyclone due to the flow? The hose from the cyclone to the shop vac (parkside) fits perfect. The hose going from cyclone to tools is 63mm too, but ideally I need 32mm as all the connectors are 32mm...

Still at it, I have now got the Cen-Tec kit and a cyclone. 3d printed a couple of adapters to go with some odd port sizes and now I'm sort of stuck. I have connected the 63mm cyclone hose to hoover and have got a 63 mm hose coming from cyclone to go to equipment. However, the Cen-Tec kit fits...

Hi all I am sorry, yes there is a decimal point missing ...doh...:eek::sleep: I have a 3d printer (filament), but I thought there might be an easy solution quickly solved. Thanks for all your answers though, gives me food for thought.

Hi all I am currently setting up my workshop with a simple shop vac and cyclone. That part was easy. My to be connected power tools however, seem to have different sizes of dust ports ranging from 214 mm for my Makita sander to 400mm for the mitre saw, 420mm for the planer etc. It is driving me...

Hi Jfw2708, mine is 10x8 . Thanks, I am hoping that it'll get used well.

As I just put up a shed on a concrete base... I put DPM underneath the shed bearers. They come in strips (Screwfix), so easy to cut and lay. I made a mistake with the concrete base being larger than the shed along the sides and as I live in a coastal area, we get a lot of bursts of rain. The...

Hi all firstly, thank you very much for all your input and helping me making my mind up. I wanted to post my decision as it might help someone else and to finalise this thread. I have decided on the Makita SP6000J. The reasons are: I am not a professional and it will fulfill my hobby tasks with...

Hi Peter, I have looked at Metabo, but unfortunately they don't do corded track saws. It's a shame really as I like their tools ( I have a corded drill and jigsaw ). I have got cordless tools, but not Metabo and running different battery systems and charger soon adds a lot of money. I went to...

Perhaps I open a vote/poll? I seriously cannot decide, but at least I know it won't be an Erbauer. So I let the forum decide . Risky I know ....:cool: Thumbs up for the Bosch, thumbs down for the Makita.

Hi Peter, I do have a Makita 5704R 110 v circular saw a builder left me years ago incl. a transformer ( didn't come back to finish the job), but I use always 220 Volt and so it sits more on the shelf. It's also quite worn and battered. Currently I only owe that and a mitre saw. It looks like I...

This is all getting ridiculous. Then no one can buy a cutlery set over the internet either if the supplier uses RM. Suppliers will just switch to companies who still transfer "bladed items". And yes, it's always the law abiding people who suffer. Criminals source weapons from the street not...

Oh, that's very interesting. I didn't take Makita into account at all. Will investigate, thank you !

Hi all, I'm in the market for a tracksaw and have been researching the forum and other sites as well as watching Peter Millards videos. I will be using it instead of a table/panel saw (no space) for making small furniture and general woodwork. I narrowed it down to a Bosch GKT 55 or the Erbauer...

I used Gorilla wood glue to glue a workbench top together which had split 3/4 of the way and it holds without any fixings and being fixed to anything. It is still laying flat on another workbench awaiting dog holes. So i would say yes.

Just an update, it's done by crawling along the shed roof on a board. Thanks for all your help and ideas. Tomorrow I will yield the expansion foam gun to fill gaps. :D

Thanks all for your input, we will try to get 2 ladders ( pieces of an extension ladder) behind shed and fence, use them as stepping points to get along accessing them from the side and my light and slim friend will lean on the roof nailing the rest. If all fails, we'll place one of the ladders...

Would it be an option to put a slim, long piece of pressure treated timber along? The shed is 3m/10ft long and if I put a 3m long piece along it and screw it along as far as I can reach? Hmm screws might make the roof leak.

I thought I could roll on the glue over it from on side with an extended paint brush roller?

Hmm, I thought about that, not sure it takes the weight, it's a shiplad shed with 9mm OSB on top. And the Apex is quite steep.