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Hi I have found it easier and safer to use a router for raised panels. I use a 19 mm straight bit and a template guide. I make a jig where the work piece is held at an angle in relation to two rails...

I haven't had any experience with smaller chisel morticers, I rent a wadkin mf which is a chisel and chain combination. It does one thing well and the only other thing I have used it for I as a drill...

I seem to remember that the Jim Tolpins Toolbox book had details of quite a clever card activated lock you might be able to get some ideas from if you have a copy.
Ben

Tradetools renegade range has a couple of upright compressors. They have shops in southeat qld

I went to the Perth show for the first time today. I was pretty impressed although not realising I couldn't pay for admission with a card and having to line up all over again didn't get me off to a...

I have never used one so don't know how suitable it would be but might be worth looking at a metabo paint remover.
ben

Might already be gone but noticed this in Bundamba
Tool Box & Contents | Other Tools & DIY | Gumtree Australia Ipswich City - Bundamba | 1052571210
I'm in WA otherwise I'd have a look
Ben

The grooves are referred to as rougher headed. Originally this was for treated products as I understand it for painting purposes as it didn't show fine surface checking. At bunnings it seems that Mgp...

I have bought flat belt and joiners at Geraldton Ag services so I imagine you should be able to get them at an agricultural supply shop in the big smoke
Ben

I have been pretty disappointed with the makita 1216 which cost about $1100. The main problem is that the mechanism for adjusting the angle has given out. I have pulled it apart several times without...

I may well be wrong but in my experience neither really. For cross cut an ATB is better and for ripping a ripping blade is better. I use them for man made boards. But to choose between the two cross...

I would be interested to know when and where the regulation regarding 7 treads between landings was. For as long as I can remember and in all my older references it has been 17 treads/18 rises...

It's not tuart is it?

Hi Jovian,
I use the Brio Hardware simply because that is what I started using.
I find the Brio website calculators make working out the parts and door sizes nice and easy. Our can get it though...

Baltic pine from IkeA by the looks of it
Ben

I started using carbitool 19 mm x 50 mm flush trim bit with replaceable insert cutters a few years ago and find it excellent. Being able to swap the cutters out tends to stop me persevering with a...

Could you try setting the height of the piece you want to thickness plus the suicide board then slide the suicide board in. The fingers have to lift up in operation otherwise the machine won't work....

The brand grizzly is not sold in Australia, however many of the Taiwanese machines available here are similar if not identical to their grizzly brethren sold in America
Ben

Not sure about correct but the engineering firm that built me a box trailer for me had no issues about swapping my axle to the underside of the leaf springs so that the trailer was more level on my...

I just calculated that tilting the blade to 45 degrees and passing at 90 degrees to the saw blade would give a arc width 75 mm for arc height of a smidge under 4 mm if that helps at all.
Ben

Old picker I have never passed the timber over the blade at 90 degrees to the blade and thinking about it at 90 degrees the cove would be symmetrical even when tilting the saw blade this would enable...

I find it easier when coving to use arc width and arc height inputs.
To your first question tilting the blade will affect the shape of the cove not the radius as such.
Back to the calculations....

I remember having similar issues with the full size kaleidoscope kits. With those kits the mirrors could be planed down with a block plane. Are the egg kit mirrors planeable?

Ben

I just checked, Pageham upholstry had them in their online store
Ben

Often when doing fix outs or installations I find that I will have my dropsaw and some other tools set up out of sight from where I am actually working. As a general rule if there are kids about I do...

Hi Dragonfly,
My cousins in England had a loft conversion with a half tread stair, It seems that I lead with the wrong foot because I lost count of the times I came a cropper on it. They do...

Hi Brettule,
Yes BCA is the building code of Australia which says that the minimum length of each step will be no less than 240 mm and the rise of eac step will be a maximum of 190 mm. This works...

How steep is steep,
Neither of those posted by dragonfly will comply with the BCA. Anything steeper than 38 degrees 240 going 190 rise won't comply. Ignoring the BCA is fine until someone falls down...

Handsaw and then pare to the line with chisels

Hi everyone,
I am chasing hollow chisels for my Wadkin mf Morticer it came with quite alot of tooling however today my last auger for the 3/8 chisels broke. The chisels have a 20.6 mm (13/16")...

I can recomend the mirka aswell?

Ben

To me when you say pin board I think of canite Sp? If that's what it is then I would be using a Stanley knife.
Ben

The arbortech all saw should do the job pretty painlessly
Ben

Buy some flowers and beg,
Two totally different systems each better for different things, likely to lose heaps selling triton. There are some cheaper versions of the track saw out there. Tradetools...

Any workshop with a spindle should be able to help you out unless they just can't be bothered. The first metre is the expensive one after that it is pretty reasonable. I could do it for you but I am...

I don't know about the safety side of it but I know the sparky who tags my tools every 3 months wouldn't tag it with a filed down earth pin.
Ben

I have cig weld skill 170 which does all I have needed it to however if I was buying it again I would probably go with the 130 simply for the fact that I has a ten amp plug rather than a 15. Finding...

My long awaited mirka ceros arrived today, I ordered a 6" and all the paper work says it is a six inch but the box and the tape measure say it is a 5". It is amazingly compact and feels nice to...

I have one but it's not much use for a thicknesser it's not even really all that good for a buzzer which is what it is for. You just sit it on the out feed table of your buzzer with the plunger...

Spiral sash balance hardware costs about 15 % of the cost of weights and pulleys and work about 15 % as well. When I do make a weight and pulley window I still get a buzz to see it work smoothly....

As a dyed in the wool hitachi fan it pains me to say to steer well clear of the latest hitachi 91/4. Had the hitachi c9 for years till the apprentice let the blue smoke out. Obvious choice was...

Back to the original question, looking at brochures it appears that the dewalt bench top unit will take up to a 13 mm dado. I was hoping the more expensive (2704 I think) would but the Internet...

I would just use a straight bit and either first take a groove out followed by passing the stock through on edge get rid of the rest of the rebate. Or you could just do the full rebate in one go...

I work with an Irish chippy who carts a tranformer with him. He has been doing it for several years now. He finds it ok but says that it was a bit of a pain to get the transformer built. Not sure...

I have had ok results using wests and glue powder then only using enough wood dust to tint the paste

Ben

In the window and glazing section of the Lincoln sentry website there are several options. I don't seem able to post a link from this new fangled IPad

I agree that weights and cords seem to be the best method. I tell clients this but the extra labour as well as the fact that a set of pulleys and weights don't leave much change out of $200 a window...

Lots of stairs have been made in durian which is quite similar to meranti

Might be durian

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