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I sold my 15" blade thicknesser (heavy) and bought a Hare and Forbes helical cutter one. Works a treat, and no more blade setup!

My router table fence dusty connection gets 95% of the chips. Never bothered with under table - too much phaff.

most of the US production is being muntered by massive COVID hits. Lie Neilson has cancelled ALL backorders and reduced production to only a few core items. Times we live in......

yep - one kickback and you become a convert! If you keep your fingers... (I did)

Wanted to swap:

- Leigh D4R Dovetail Jig (with D4R Pro upgrade kit in very good working order. RRP $1049 but no router bits)
for:
- Leigh RTJ400 router table jig (RRP $556) in similar very good...

Well really grateful your advice - the next 3 or 4 coats will be thinned right down, and I'll do a post let you know how it goes. Thanks !:U

Why so much thinner? Really interesting you should say that as I am trying to get a good flat finish with a hvlp setup and Mirotone gloss and always seem to be getting that wavy orange peel finish...

NC may not be common (easily ordered in Canberra) , but for acoustic (steel stringed) guitars its head and shoulders above anything else for sound quality! That's whey its still the finish on $3000+...

Just bought a 15" Carbatec jointer - very good machine and so far out of the box (about 10 hours) excellent! Needs a 15A supply.

For reasons which I'd rather not go into I ended up jointing with the grain on my 8" thicknesser (hmm - never done that before...). That is grain at 90 deg to teh fence. Result is a jointed board...

The Lieigh (I have a D4) is a difficult beast to get the correct router collet to fit. Tool me three goes and only due to the patience of the blue machinery store was I able to source the correct one...

Nope - but solved the problem after much cogitating and contemplating in the quiet of teh shed. Buggars put the platen drive in front of teh adjusting screws, so loosened off the drive mount ...

My out of the box WDS 400 drum sander has 2mm further off the feed platen at the motor end than at the outboard end. Outboard end is easy to adjust - shims provided, but for teh motor end...

They replaced it with a new one! Works a treat.

Carbatec Sydney is excellent - quick service. Others don't have stuff in stock and you need to wait for weeks!

beauty of taking the time to master a simple program like turbo cad is that drawings of furniture and other items become easy and dimensioning is a piece of cake. More time in the shop, less...

Yes they've offered to 'look'at it - will let you know how it goes. As the machine had a running time of about 4 mins while i looked at the problem, a replacemnet should be in order. But will wait...

Delta has been bought out by Black and Decker, and no longer sells into Australia.

just put together a carbatec 12" disk and belt sander - the bottom bearing doesn't align in the platen by 100/1000, and if you losen the platen and 'make the bearing fit when you secure it, the belt...