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I personally don't have a belt sander but I am curious to know how does one determine which is the correct belt direction?

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Yvan

Quite so Sir Humphrey Appleby :D

OK, no stars for toads! :D

A classic medieval weapon with the romantic German name of "Morgenstern" = morning star, and "holy water sprinkler" in English, designed to put serious dents into plate armour and/or anything else it...

I sincerely hope that Woody1 will appreciate the cast-iron logic & high technical level of this explanation !!! :D:D:D

SWMBO suggests:

Google "Youtube for hanging quilts for a quits show" which apparently will show various methods.

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Yvan

Graeme,

Would Laminex be a good, tough & smooth surface for a router table, if available of course?

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Yvan

auscab,

I came across this for cleaning bones: How to clean animal bones for display - Woodlark Blog

It may be of help?

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Yvan

I had never heard of Odies oil. So, I consulted Prof Googles who advises that a 266ml jar of Universal Finish is worth a modest $130. Is this oil worth it?

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Yvan

Merci Graeme!

Quite right! A few sherberts later and time doesn't matter any more!
I'll have to ask FF is this qualifies as an answer to his original trick question:rolleyes:

All I can say is Thank God for digital timepieces !!!
I haven't got the time to figure out at what precise time one hand is over the over, at whatever hour...
As the piece's movement is continuous,...

Welcome to the forum!

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Yvan

Roy,

Would you know if these A4 sheets of DS tape are acid free/archival type? The Minister for Everything who belongs to the Sisterhood of the Needle would like to line the inside of a box with...

No I hadn't...

Having done so, I got the message "incorrect usename..."

Re-entered my username & password BINGO!

Thank you for your help!

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Yvan

Unable to log into the forum using my iPad.

I checked my password before doing so. After entering my Username & password, the information is not retained & I am back where I started...

ALL...

The perfect height... for the cat !!!:D

G'day & Welcome!

Of course, things are done a different way here, we live Down Under after all !!!:D

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Yvan

Thank you all, much appreciated!!

The Franklin Sensors - Prosensor XX are definitively the consensus


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Yvan

I would like to build a wall-mounted timber rack in my small workshop & need to locate the studs to fasten the rack to.

I searched the web for a stud finder but the choice is quite bewildering &...

Dat is a treemendous joke!

HP,

I'll take the 1/2" shoulder plane, thanks.

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Yvan

How interesting! Exactly the opposite of how I thought a tapered rolling pin would perform...!!!

Thanks for the explanation.

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Yvan

I am just wondering how a non-cylindrical pin actually works. I appreciate that the taper on either sides is minimal, but I would have thought that the pressure on the pastry would be greater...

I am quite happy to ignore the convenience of Sunday shopping just on the basis of lower prices at Nuts & Bolts.
And, as far as shopping at 8.30pm... I've had enough of screwing things up throughout...

Why didn't I think about that?!!! :doh::D

Isn't DAR timber still in imperial measurements simply disguised in metric to satisfy the metric conversion requirements...?

The middle line of a 19mm thick board is an easy 9.50mm. I s'pose I'm...

Thank you all very much for the comments.

I must admit that 90% discount is over the top - excuse the pun - and it should have been enough of a pointer to treat the whole thing as suspicious. I...

I have just come across this link:

Woodworking Tools - Makita

Makita seems to be offering big discounts on some of their tools but I am unable to confirm if this is a genuine Makita offering....

Hi Warb,

We live in Hobart - 2 adults - and have used a Sanden unit since 2013. Over this period of time, our quarterly hot water tariff power bill has never exceeded $50 excluding the statutory...

My apologies Aldav, I didn't properly read the OP's need for a flat-tooth cross-cutting blade...:-

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Yvan

Hi P.H.

I happen to have an Opteco flat tooth grind 10" rip blade and I am very happy with it.
It has a 30mm bore but Opteco fitted a reducing bush down to 5/8".

And they are made in...

On the occasions I have been unable to go back to sleep in the middle of the night, I start to count from 1,000 backward.
1000...999...998

It seems to focus the mind & I end up falling back...

Definitely cheaper than Dormer's drill bits! :)

I was reading a forum post and wanted to return to the Posts listing using the Alt+Left Arrow.

I don't know which keys I ended up pressing but my screen suddenly rotated 90o to the left...
I...

The Trieste was the first deep-diving vessel to reach the depth of some 10,900m in the Mariana Trench in 1960.
It was designed by Auguste Piccard, as Swiss scientist, and built in Italy. Auguste...

Gravity is an option :D

A most interesting channel showing actual repairs, mostly on mining machinery parts.
Worth watching just to see the sort of tooling used in the process, most of which I personally didn't know even...

I thought the best way to check if my table saw blade is really parallel to the miter slot would be to use a dial indicator?
I had a look on the internet and they range from the $9.95 kind to the...

Dereck,

Your Sabatier knives definitively got a new lease of life!
I also like the shape and size of those handles. They would certainly give the knives a much better "purchase" than the...

Given that these Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries are so much better, what is stopping these to be standard in domestic wall batteries?
I agree that battery chemistry will make current batteries...

Paul,

I took the link David gave, copied it "fresh" on my browser and it worked.

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Yvan

Opteco Australia, an Australian saw blades manufacturer, sells reducing bushes 30mm/5/8".

Derek,

Wow, 29 pics = 29,000 words = a most detailed & systematic step-by-step manual indeed !!!

I don't own such a plane. Assuming that the depth of the nicker is set by the barrel into which...

David,

I am intrigued! The YouTube you refer to seems to suggest that there are left-handed & right-handed rasps. Does this refers to the angle at which the teeth are punched? As a leftie I had...

Hi John,

I will be very interested to see how you will deal with the slats.

Our queen-size bed has two rows of slats held by a rubber strip of slat holders which, over time, have deformed and...

Agreed Paul, but these percentages still show how far individual states have already moved toward meeting their own energy demand with renewables.

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Yvan

TT,

Could I have one of the Eclipse 77 please?

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Yvan

Hi Paul,

In your own time!

Thank you for pointing out that the saws I plan to rejuvenate cut on the pull stroke!
I hadn't even thought about that!

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Yvan

Looking forward to an updated description! In the meantime I will try my hand with W&D on a pair of pruning saws which have languished in the garden shed for quite a number of years now. They will...