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I have a STIHL RMA235 36V battery powered mower and it's my second battery powered mower.

My first battery powered mower was also a Stihl - it was quite narrow and under powered so mowing the...

OK, great I'm glad someone has picked it up.

I have most of a Stanley 45 looking for a new home.
There's some surface rust that could easily be cleaned up.
The 2 longer rods and some of the blades are missing.

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You sent me a PM about this.
Sorry mine is not like yours.

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If the circlip keeps coming suggest the following
- clean out the circlip groove
- use some circlip pliers to expand the...

Ordinarily because of the high start up currents a 15A Socket with dedicated 15A breaker would be needed for a 2.2kW motor
BUT
If you use VFD you can program it to "slow start" so the currents...

Great story and I'm glad you posted it here.

I spent 7 of my growing up years in the then small seaside town of Busselton in the 1960's. At home the only books we had were a small set of...

Here's my solution for that.
Three grinders on movable arms on a HD turntable.
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Nice implementation.

This was my storage solution for a removable engineering vice.
Apologies for the poor quality of teh video taken 12 years ago with, at the time, a 7 year old mobile.

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Just being pedantic but everything is nuclear powered - solar, hydrogen, biomass and wind power are the result of nuclear processes on the sun. The heat for geothermal comes from ongoing nuclear...

Great work.

Looks like you sure could use some dust extraction :D

I would try removing the 100mm flex. I'm guessing it won't make and difference to chip collection but should increase invisible dust collection inside the cabinet - provided there are sufficient gaps...

Have you been tested for RSV? It's nasty, I had it last December and it knocked me round for weeks.
Every time I tried to do something like walk my dogs it knocked me over flat on my bed for several...

When Amanda and I undertook a major renovation of our 1918 house in 1995 we decided to do the painting ourselves and we did complete the insides and most of the outside by about 1998. However the...

Good work! Its very satisfying to get it all up and running.

One caveat.
Initial testing did show 2 x 45º as marginally better than a 90º, but in ~2017 I did some further testing I found 2 x 45º...

Those slivers won't worry an impeller but they will eventually clog flexy.

Worse still if the clog and pile up sawdust and a stream of sparks (eg hitting a nail) hits the blockage it can start a...

Yo Geoff, I'm going to try and come along and bring that set of old auger bits I said I was going to give you several years back.

In terms of influencing of outcomes by sponsors it depends what sort of research and who's funding it.

When I did research on natural nuclear reactors in the 1980's funded by the Uni and the ARC...

It's usually better to suck dusty air out than blow outside air in.
BUT
If there's only one air inlet to the shed eg a door, and the inside shed air is not stirred up this can create a reduced...

That should be OK for cleaning up after the dusty and prepping the workshop for applying finishes etc. Ideally you want to capture escaping fine dust before it settles out because then just walking...

This link shows CAM operated feet small bench I made about 6 years ago. It might give you some ideas.
Small surface plate bench

Hi Mark, Not sure about other EVs but with mine Fwd and Rev are switched electrically on the steering Column. If car is moving forward at no more than 8 kph you can flick into reverse no problem....

I seriously doubt there ever was. I'm reading a book about the strange philosopher Nietzsche. He proposed somewhere in 1880 that just about every conversation/dialog/reporting/book etc has...

I'll let Paul supply a detailed answer but my take is as follows
Solar can nominally be switched off immediately so they're only paying in the sense that they are not getting paid but they are not...

Paul I think this pretty well sums it up.

The only way they can make it pay is by subsidies and then we are back to paying more than we should.

The other thing to look at is time.
Just look at...

I've bought/acquired/used 100's of 100mm wide belts from Bunnings for my big Makita sander.
Over the 20 years I've had it, the sander and assorted belts have been "borrowed" by numerous mates and...

Not sure if mini grids differ from Micro Grids but there are at least 4 micro grids operating in WA and a bunch more in the pipeline.

Recently a couple of new micro grids in Nullagine and...

PM2.5 readings are a catch all used for general air quality (smoke, ICE pollution, house and office dust, industrial pollution) but most wood working dust is above PM2.5 so they wont catch the bigger...

A couple of cuts with a saw or most short term activity in a shed containing only low amounts of suspended dust won't show up much on a particle counter.
What little fine dust is generated is...

Quickest way will be to send him a PM - he's still around according to his activity chart.

I'd buy the newest one (or the one with the least vibration, or quietest one) and replace the bags as described.

FWIW I use a mobile app to measure vibration because it is far more sensitively...

50mm hose connected to shop vac is better than nothing. You will get better performance if the guard is modified such that the collection point is in front of (not behind the blade) Lappa made a...

30 year old ones are most likely to have cloth bags for both collection and air filtration that when new are only good to about 30 microns, but worst of all likely to have a heap of micro holes all...

Start by reading this https://www.woodworkforums.com/f200/draft-faq-dust-extraction-practical-aspects-154136#post1932353

Reality is, it is not possible to get sort of reliable reading at the end...

I've had 2 of those generic 100mm compound vices. The first one was from Timbecon which didn't like being dropped onto my shed floor as it broke a casting. This was replaced by an almost identical...

Just to add more complications, the quoted flow rates for the 2HP of 1200CFM are "in you dreams" territory - when I measured several of these about 10 years ago the best I got was half that. I would...

Ha - I read 60 mm diameter - not 60mm deep. The OP does writesay "the holes themselves will be 60mm" but I'm not 100% sure what this means.

I'd go hole saw (preferably tungsten tipped) over a Forstner.

Tip: Drilling two 12mm diameter holes diametrically opposite each other kissing the outer circumference of the hole will enable the...

I read recently that Bill Gates is getting into liquid sodium reactor nuclear power. Apparently he started his fund raising (via a company know as TerraPower) back in 2008 and the first reactor will...

Dust collection usually obeys the law of diminishing returns.
eg Spending $X will get you say 90% of the way there. To get to say 99% you have to spend 10$X and to 99.9% will need 100$X

There...

Be careful using it when cooking. Baking is usually OK but any sort of grilling/frying will make oily/sticky smoke and if too much of that get inside the sensor this may kill int,

Thanks - should be OK



TimbeCon and CarbaTech

A few weeks ago I was interviewed about Amanda's passing and how I have been dealing with my grief, by a counsellor (Mary) from a local major hospital.
Mary helps patients (and families of...

2HP might be OK for a small shed - how small is it?



The downside of using that design without modification is that the air path has to do a 90º corkscrew when in enters the bag housing which...

These detectors work fine in a DIY woodwork shop provided you don't poke them direct into a direct sawdust stream or leave them on for too long because eventually they will clog. The time taken to...

Well put Neil - my thoughts almost to the letter. :)

One caveat is that these and most other budget end units use sensors that for readings <10 µg/m^3 will have reading errors approaching 100% so...

The overall effectiveness of a RAF (Room air filter) Depends on things like.
- RAF performance specs
- Size and Shape of the shed
- Location within the shed
- Amount (and where dust is generated...

There are a number of Key EVs available. The best perfroming ones typically uses a 20kWh battery for a range of 180km - that which is about 110 Wh/km without making much of an effort at improving...

Some other considerations that make us look even worse
Japan has
- a much greater proportion of its land surface as mountains where it's not commercially viable to locate panels.
- to import...

Battery capacity degradation depends in the type of battery being used. Some batteries, like LiFePO batteries, can be charged to 100% every day with minimal degradation. For day to day use standard...

During a sabbatical in Japan in 1995 I worked on a small (about the size of 20ft container) nuclear (research) reactor that was turned on at 10am and shut down at 4pm every day. It was capable of...