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I've been sharpening my turning tools on a Record 6" grinder fitted with a white and a pink stone for nearly 30 years and have never had the money or inclination to change.

Scrimper's the man most likely to be of any help with this, you might be better off posting this in the scrolling forum.

I've had success using a tennis ball or similar in the bowl, held in with the tailstock.

If I was to recommend a scroll saw it would be either a Delta 40-540 or 40-560 type 2 both fitted with the Quickset blade clamps. I've have owned both for over 25 years and they're both still working. Unfortunately they are now only available second hand. As for sanding the side of the wood...

I think that to keep the whiteness, you have to store it standing on end.

The only people who notice and comment on chucking points are other woodturners, non woodturners don't give a rats buttocks about chucking points, they either like/dislike the piece, whether or not it has the chucking point.

Re-positional spray glue, onto the back of the paper. There are several brands available, I'm currently using the purple can from Crafters Companion. Any little residue that remains comes off with a light sanding.

It would have driven me mad first. 🤣🤣🤣

The table just needs adjusting the 2 degrees.

I "borrowed " one of the dogs squeaky toys, popped the squeaker out pushed the pipe into the hole and then hot melt glued it under the bottom arm. Works a treat.

A very good book, I really enjoyed reading it.

I bought a Charnwood W730 second hand about 8 years ago, how old it was by then, I've no idea, and the only thing wrong was guide bearings needed changing (twice) and new blades fitted when required.

My biggest bugbears with modern gas cookers is twofold, first that they now need electricity to work, the old ones didn't, we could still cook in a power cut, and the second is that the numbers on the oven control knobs don't correspond to gas mark numbers, (well they don't on our present AEG...

Never liked digital calipers, much prefer dial ones. No batteries to worry about.

I could never connect any of the Epson's I've had though wifi, so gave up, I use a usb cable and used to just take the laptop to the printer, plug in and print, but with getting a new laptop, the old one is left connected to the printer and anything that needs to be printer is put on a usb stick...

When it's running but not planing wood, I think it's no louder than my electric lawn mower, yes the headlock works, I've never had a problem with it. If for any reason it gave up the ghost, I'd certainly buy another one.

I have the Makita and a small shed, it live under the lathe and is carried outside when needed, it sits on a workmate and is quite stable unless you want to feed long heavy bits of timber through it. I chose it because it was the quietest and it has an automatic head lock.

I have the Makita thicknesser and use it outside the shed, much easier to sweep up after using it, and put the shavings in the garden recycling bin.

Shawl pins are what I would call them.

One place I worked at used the van vault type boxes, rawlbolted to the concrete floor or welded if on metal mezzanine floors