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If you’re a chicken like me you can spray the stain and shellac on. I used an airbrush to spray spirit stain, followed by shellac onto a gramophone I restored. Obviously a bigger job calls for a...

Looks good. Calling the notch ugly is a bit of a stretch. Of course, he has a financial motivation for saying that. I also love the FW Fine Buffing Oil and have had the same problem with it gelling....

Mirocat PC3220 is the closest thing I have used to a true NC finish. It's fantastic stuff. I use the slow thinner to give it time to level out, as I'm not the greatest spray painter.

I don’t know how you Taswegians manage your forests, but VicForests deserved to be run out of town. It saddens me that Vic Ash might become scarce, but I’ll be very glad to see that back of those...

Neil,
will the New Posts tab here include posts from the new renovate forum, as it does with some posts from the metalwork forum?

Yep.

Bonjour Emmanuel.

Hello Danatan. Welcome.

Only if you clean it with something scratchy. I installed acrylic shower walls in our previous house and they were pristine when we sold a few years later.

Have you tried the red Diablo belts Bunnings sells? I think they are (or were) made in Switzerland.

OK, maybe I’m confused. Are we talking about dust extractors or room air filters (the subject of this thread)?

If you can still buy filters for it, why not? It’s just a blower in a box.

I’ve never done steam bending, but I doubt you’re going to be able to bend that thickness of timber to that small a radius. Is kerfing an option? Or laminating?

I'd use one of these: Ripper TCT Hole Saw | Bordo – Sharp Edge Aust

The standard serrated tooth hole saws are horrible for cutting wood. I haven't tried Bob's trick, but the hole saws in my link...

Is it possible for these things to become clogged and under-read? Or do they over-read when clogged? I don't imagine they are designed to cope with the dust load generated in a woodwork shop.

My (very unscientific) theory is that if there's dust on the filters that's dust that isn't in your lungs or coating the surfaces of your workshop. ⅛ HP should cost about 3c an hour to run.

Thanks Fuzzie. I'd never heard of LCC27 valves and apparently they've been fitting them for 3 years!

I’m calling BS on your mate’s story!

I’d be asking him, rather than us. If you stuff up the cleaning you won’t have any comeback if you used a different acid to the one he recommended.

What kind of a tiler leaves tiles so messy they need acid washing?

10 x 15: Just a moment...

or

9 x 9: Just a moment...

But might that just mean your old switchboard wasn’t correctly detecting faults?

All sorted Bob. He had the blade on backwards. So does a negative rake blade installed backwards have a positive rake? :D

He’s using a mitre saw.

Other possible problems? Blade on backwards. Incorrect or no arbor bushing used (assuming the arbor isn’t 30mm).

Looking at the blade in wozzza’s link, it does appear to have negative rake on the teeth.

I think the issue might just be the quality of the blade. $30 doesn’t get you much in a 10” aluminium...

A brand new blade that's suitable for cutting aluminium won't need lubricating. It should cut ally window extrusions like butter. It will leave a small burr on the exit side.

Is it a dedicated...

Not sure I agree with this. ALL of my many pairs of reading glasses are plastic. Sunglasses too.

I have two headband magnifiers and one of the lenses with LED illumination on an arm. Both types have their place, but the headbands are much more versatile. I have a genuine US-made Optivisor and a...

I have exactly the same drill press, but made in the 80s. This is a great buy for someone nearby.

I thought the same thing, but wasn’t brave enough to say it! I mean, it’s a free solution and it works.

Steve, show your wife this thread. :)

Well said. I'm constantly amazed at the number of first-world people on forums that mock the safety standards of people in third-world countries. That guy is probably going to lose a hand before he...

Hello and welcome.

I honestly can't see the sewer gasses working their way through the diswasher plumbing and drain pump. The sump in my D/W always has water in it too, so I assume that works as a trap.

However,...

In that case it sounds like it will be a walk in the park for a bloke with 45 years of experience in the buildng industry.

Crikey, that seems like a huge footing for a granny flat.

With black paint. A bit blurry, sorry.

You wanted an earth leakage clamp meter. If you have no idea whether the one you mentioned measures earth leakage, why would you claim it “looks good” ?

On my reading of its specs it doesn’t...

Does it measure earth leakage?

I grabbed a piece of 31mm diameter Vic Ash dowel and tried some of my knurls on it. I tried a pair of course RH and LH knurls (probably not an option on a wood lathe), a single course straight knurl...

The hole saw measured 89mm or the hole it made? In my experience they wobble like crazy and make oversize holes. Maybe they make them slightly undersize to allow for that?

I don't see anyone getting upset. Just a lot of people who think you're wrong.

Yeah well, you know what they say about those.

Obviously there are pieces for which it isn't appropriate. But your opening shot was "It's still an ugly weed". Doesn't quite have the nuance of your...

Yeah, nah. Makes good drawer sides. Smells good too.

Every time I use builder’s bog it sets too fast. I’m probably using too much hardener, but the last thing you want is too little hardener. Maybe auto body filler sets slower? I haven’t tried it....

Laser cut templates sound good. I don't have that luxury, so whenever I need to route a rectangular hole/pocket I make a template from a scrap piece of plywood or MDF. Rip a strip the width of the...

Swift = stiff? The worst thing about my Makita tools is the switches.

I've never had a pest inspection. What do they typically cost?

Some of the runout was due to the TRA001's armature. My collet had zero runout when mounted on the mandrel in the lathe (as you would expect), but had 0.05mm of runout when fitted to the router....

I think that's what might end up happening Derek if (when?) the Triton's speed controller lets the smoke out.

Divide the top number of the fractional inch dimension by the bottom number and multiply by 25.4 to get millimetres.
Works every time. :)