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It does look like a Crosswater unit. If it's anything like mine you'll need to screw the two slotted copper screws immediately above and below the thermostatic valve all the way in to isolate the water flow. Then rock the unit per Spectric's advice. You could line a block of wood up against the...

I returned my Faithfull to Amazon. Really poor casting made it unusable. If you do decide to go secondhand, Tooltique have some reconditioned Stanley #3, #4 and #4.5s in stock at the moment. They seem to go pretty quick, so you might want get moving!

I think @porker's on the right track. Run your browser in incognito mode and see if that fixes it.

This might be an alternative to the O'Skool guide: https://www.banggood.com/Mohoo-Sharpening-System-Honing-Guide-Sharpening-Holder-Angle-Fixture-Angle-Gauge-for-Woodworking-Chisel-p-1979514.html?cur_warehouse=USA&ID=511646&rmmds=search The associated angle gauge is very well made but both...

Perhaps another way of looking at the same question ("I've just passed my driving test, should I go out and buy a top of the range vehicle?") would be to answer "No - buy the safest vehicle you can afford". This might lead you to a different answer re: Festool - if the higher quality of the...

25 years ago, HP printers were great and Just Worked (TM). Nowadays I wouldn't touch them with someone else's bargepole. A design imperative to make them work in all situations, poorly implemented, means they don't work in any situation. You have my sympathy.

Per the fine article: "Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence" According to this data Iceland is the worst hellhole on the face of the planet with 200/1000. Albania has half the crime rate of Saudi...

And that's why there are no thieves in Saudi Arabia. Oh, wait...

All excellent points; I agree. However the state still owns the monopoly. I'd argue the state has effectively outsourced enforcement to you as an individual in these very limited circumstances, which is why we have to have explicit legislation defining the circumstances in which you as an...

Turns out it is. From the wikipedia page: " Another application is a sprinkler system that sprays a burglar with the liquid to generate evidence that connects a suspect to a specific location."

Some surprisingly antediluvian attitudes to criminal justice in this thread so far. It's very natural to feel angry about the injustice of it all, but perhaps worth bearing in mind that: - The state owns the monopoly on violence - Your liberty is likely to be impaired if you forget that -...

For the first situation could you.mount the table high enough (and with sufficient stability) to use an outfeed roller? For the second, I hate to say it, but perhaps a track saw would be a better option? £600 for a Festool and track is a small price to pay for a finger or two.

This was part of our house when we moved in (I didn't make it!) but think it captures what you're describing. The chamfer curves at the apex but is only applied to the top third and levels out toward the bottom.

Mitre saws can be highly dangerous and although the focus is rightly on table saws I'd like to share a photo of what I keep on my shed wall. It's perhaps not very obvious, but that's the blade guard on a Makita mitre saw. An insufficiently secured workpiece caught on the blade and impacted the...

Yikes! Do you think a featherboard pushing the workpiece against the fence might've helped in your situation? I do hope you recover quickly and haven't lost your appetite for woodwork.

Yes, the dyes used in cheap writeable CDs and DVDs are not great. Even well made ones are only good for a decade or two. It's precisely why the Japanese defined JIS X6257.

A couple more thoughts: If you do decide to buy disks and DIY it then hedge your bets. Make sure you don't buy 3 of the same brand and model. There are numerous examples of manufacturing defects where batches of disks go bad all at the same time. One of my first jobs was dealing with the fall...

Not sure I would trust either disk type for long term archiving. This might be a better shout: Pioneer's New Blu-ray Discs Are Guaranteed to Last a Century It's likely archiving companies will offer this in the UK soon.

Mathias Wandel and the Natural Workshop have covered this on Youtube, the latter specifically with the Triton: But for the faff involved, I think your idea of hand planing the final couple of thou is valid.

Given their pricing I guess they felt 'Mafell User Group' would've been pushing it...