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Forum: HINTS & TIPS

This forum is open to all comers with hints and tips on anything at all to do with woodworking and all its allied crafts and trades.

  1. Angry Sticky Thread Sticky: Please Read This

    Started by Neil, 24th August 2003 02:15 AM
    administrators, agree, bit, board, bulletin, business, button, clicking, denigrate, eye, fight, forums, information, law, material, message, messages, moderators, odd, owner, person, post, posts, prepared, read, register, slander, spirit, time, woodwork
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 8,649
    24th August 2003, 02:15 AM Go to last post
  1. the worst woodworking day or dumbest thing you have done

    Started by doug the slug, 9th July 2005 10:03 PM
    6 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    day, decided, dining, dumbest, feed, fence, forum, learnt, machine, moment, moved, piece, post, proceeded, router, run, save, set, sewing, similar, support, table, thing, timber, time, triton, woodworking, workcentre, workshop, worst
    • Replies: 80
    • Views: 13,814
    15th May 2006, 03:16 PM Go to last post
  2. Moved: Reducing dust extraction sound

    Started by zelk, 6th March 2007 11:32 AM
    dust, extraction, reducing, sound
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  3. Moved: 2-stage duct collection kit

    Started by Wongo, 24th June 2005 11:52 AM
    2-stage, 2stage, collection, duct, kit
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  4. Important advice

    Started by underfoot, 14th April 2008 06:29 PM
    5 Pages
    1 2 3 4 5
    advice, air, belt, check, cranky, drops, filter, girl, helmet, hint, hit, hose, huntsman, huuuge, important, makes, mask, pack, plate, power, powered, respirators, spiders, squeal, tip
    • Replies: 64
    • Views: 10,370
    22nd April 2008, 07:42 PM Go to last post
  5. Don't throw it out

    Started by jmk89, 18th April 2006 10:33 AM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    2cm, 4cm, 8cm, aids, boat, bolts, couple, dimensions, dovetails, dowels, eclipse, epoxy, finger, ideal, joints, light, metal, mints, mixing, nails, nuts, practice, puddleduck, quantities, rack, screws, sell, throw, time, tins
    • Replies: 51
    • Views: 8,991
    2nd May 2006, 10:50 PM Go to last post
  6. Wink Huge increase in accuracy for only $14!

    Started by journeyman Mick, 29th March 2005 11:55 AM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    $14, accuracy, arm, arms, base, bought, cursor, fence, fishing, flies, flipstop, glass, glasses, granny, holding, huge, increase, magnified, magnifying, meaning, modified, mounted, read, rip, sits, stuck, swivelling, top, type, wear
    • Replies: 45
    • Views: 7,924
    19th May 2005, 03:41 PM Go to last post
  7. Thumbs up This is the tip of the year I reckon-tearing corr. iron

    Started by mic-d, 18th May 2006 02:18 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    5-10mm, climbed, club, conversation, corr, corro, duties, effort, expected, fast, handed, hoping, imagine, iron, mentioned, offsider, pony, reckontearing, rip, ripped, ripping, roof, runout, slightly, square, straight, tinsnips, tip, virtually, year
    • Replies: 40
    • Views: 31,357
    6th January 2011, 04:18 PM Go to last post
  8. favourite tool belt style

    Started by mic-d, 17th February 2005 10:27 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    bag, belt, bit, bucket, cheers, daily, fasteners, favourite, hammer, hand, hold, larger, leather, pockets, pouch, requirements, reverting, setup, sick, simple, storage, style, system, tape, thinking, tired, tool, tool/fastener, type, varies
    • Replies: 39
    • Views: 18,352
    9th March 2008, 03:01 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 39
    • Views: 17,438
    7th February 2007, 05:24 PM Go to last post
  9. Any tips to tell if this circular saw blade needs sharpening or replacing?

    Started by barrysumpter, 15th December 2016 03:58 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    • Replies: 39
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    19th December 2016, 09:56 PM Go to last post
  10. Uploading Images that are big enough to see but small enough to upload

    Started by Grunt, 15th January 2005 12:01 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    100kb, 1280, 1280x960, 400x300, 450kbs, 95kb, 960, attached, big, bobs, compression, file, grunt, helps, hope, image, images, jpegcompress, menu, original, pixels, program, samples, save, selected, size, small, uncle, upload, uploading
    • Replies: 36
    • Views: 6,061
    27th January 2005, 12:38 PM Go to last post
  11. water level

    Started by rat52, 7th September 2007 08:57 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    accuracy, blowing, blue, bubble, clamp, corners, datum, devices, eye, hang, height, incorrect, level, mark, mixed, pencil, readings, reservoir, sanitizedcool, staining, stick, stop, tape, taps, thisrolleyes, toilet, top, tube, vacuum, water
    • Replies: 33
    • Views: 7,596
    14th September 2007, 01:48 AM Go to last post
  12. Brad point drills

    Started by Itms, 20th November 2019 11:33 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 5,247
    27th October 2020, 07:28 AM Go to last post
  13. Post WD 40 and its extra uses.

    Started by Bluegum, 23rd August 2006 12:59 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    brew, car, chemical, clean, cleans, company, distinctive, door, doors, easier, extra, favourite, finish, home, lipstick, lubricates, marks, removes, restores, rust, slide, smoothly, spots, spray, sprayed, stains, tape, vehicles, water, wd-40
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 8,599
    18th November 2006, 06:48 AM Go to last post
  14. Lightbulb Nozzle clogged with Silicon

    Started by Nic0, 30th August 2004 02:08 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    air, blow, clogged, compressed, dig, driver, hands, hardened, laundry, nozzile, nozzle, powder, removing, screw, silicon
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 9,833
    3rd November 2005, 08:58 AM Go to last post
  15. So obvious when you think about it

    Started by FXST01, 5th May 2008 08:09 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    bent, identical, jobs, magazines, measure, measures, obvious, project, reading, tape, tip, tips, woodworking
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 7,789
    31st July 2009, 12:28 AM Go to last post
  16. Glueing plastic with super glue + Bicarb of Soda

    Started by Mike Busby, 28th February 2011 04:38 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    added, bicarb, bonus, boxes, colour, couple, dammed, drill, fingers, frames, glasses, glue, glueing, hot, items, join, odd, plastic, proof, reach, reading, repair, set, soda, super, superglue, tech, texta, tip, water
    • Replies: 27
    • Views: 17,354
    16th April 2011, 01:44 AM Go to last post
  17. Moved: Glue spreader

    Started by derekcohen, 30th April 2004 01:01 PM
    glue, spreader
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  18. Electrolysis - removing rust from ferrous tools

    Started by Shedhand, 16th January 2006 08:44 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    abuse, aim, and/or, antique, appearance, article, character, cleaning, collectors, desirable, easy, effects, electrolysis, electrolytic, ferrous, form, htpaa, iron, method, moving, neglect, outline, oxide, removal, removing, restoration, rust, surface, tool, tools
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 14,777
    7th February 2007, 03:58 PM Go to last post
  19. Titebond buggered bottle

    Started by Iain, 17th June 2007 08:29 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    350ml, add, base, bbq, bit, bottle, bring, buggered, coles, contents, couple, days, glad, half, house, intact, nozzle, poifect, proudly, rampage, red, remember, rolleyes, sauce, solution, titebond, tomato, transfer, twist, wrap
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 7,933
    28th April 2008, 09:03 AM Go to last post
  20. Workshop tips show and tell.

    Started by Wongo, 9th June 2007 05:07 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    3mmx3mm, block, blow, broken, cheap, corner, cross-cut, damaging, don’t, drop, dust, easy, edges, extension, floor, knee, kneel, laugh, lead, leave, pencil, picture, rebate, rubber, sharpener, sled, stop, times, tips, workshop
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 7,512
    19th July 2007, 06:21 PM Go to last post
  21. Possitioning screw holes.

    Started by Lignum, 3rd December 2005 04:55 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    2#pozzi-drive, bingo, bit, bright, buy, center, centered, cheap, dead, drill, hinge, holes, hollow, pain, perfectly, possitioned, possitioning, screw, selfd, simple, solution, spark, tip, vix-bit, whirl
    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 4,540
    11th January 2006, 10:32 AM Go to last post
  22. Post Rusty Tools..?

    Started by John Saxton, 11th March 2002 10:16 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    2002.], cheers, edited, helps, hope, john, march, message, rusty, saxton, site, tool, tools, treatment, [this
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 7,070
    1st October 2003, 11:50 AM Go to last post
  23. Ways to seal nozzles on caulking gun cartridges

    Started by BobL, 12th June 2013 11:28 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 14,130
    28th November 2014, 10:31 AM Go to last post
  24. PVC static woahs: be gone!

    Started by Malibu, 19th November 2006 09:28 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    additives, alternatively, bag, basically, blessing, bottle, chemicals, clothes, cuddly, ducting, dust, eek, extraction, helps, hope, inlet, outlet, pipe, port, pvc, rag, sachet, soaked, squirty, static, tip, washing, wipe, wipe/spray, woahs
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 4,848
    24th November 2006, 12:24 PM Go to last post
  25. The written wish list

    Started by Cliff Rogers, 3rd December 2004 12:12 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    add, assets, bother, change, cheapest, cross, crossed, dc1200, father, filter, focus, frame, item, list, loose, lot, mind, owns, pleated, pub, pull, putting, realistic, related, set, stuff, time, woodwork, writing, written
    • Replies: 23
    • Views: 6,441
    10th February 2005, 09:33 AM Go to last post
  26. Moved: Setting Up Dust Extraction

    Started by Felder, 19th January 2006 05:08 PM
    dust, extraction, setting
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  27. rolling up electrical leads

    Started by mic-d, 15th February 2009 04:53 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    anchor, bight, bundling, cables, chargers, description, easy, electrical, feed, helps, hope, knot, leads, length, loop, mate, pile, plug, pronged, pull, rolling, simply, slip, sound, tangle, tie, tools, unravels, untangled, web
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 7,711
    19th April 2009, 10:50 PM Go to last post
  28. Fencing Method

    Started by SteveC, 16th April 2004 11:28 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    advance, build, cut, easiest, fence, fencing, guys, hole, method, picture, post, posts, question, rail, railing, rails, recreating, rectangular, redgum, run, section, shown, simply, wondering
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 9,593
    10th April 2005, 12:50 AM Go to last post
  29. Sealing nylon rope ends - finally cracked it!

    Started by FenceFurniture, 23rd June 2022 04:55 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 3,060
    11th March 2024, 03:44 PM Go to last post

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