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    Planer Thicknesser Knives advice please

    That’s really only a thing you will see on machines from around the late ‘80s on, most machines before that purely relied on the friction between the clamping surfaces to keep the blade in place, if you were fortunate you might have had a screw adjuster that engaged with a slot in the knife...
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    Planer Thicknesser Knives advice please

    You can sharpen your own knives, whether you should bother is another question. The knives would have to be significantly different in weight for a balance issue to become evident through vibrations, obviously in an ideal world they should be identical but you won’t notice a few grams of...
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    hows this for an inheritance

    I've worked on far worse, this would almost count as "livable condition" in Pembrokeshire!
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    Elu MOF 96 Router repair

    Fortunately these machines were very popular and DeWalt carried on using the model when they took over Elu, I don't think it was even that long ago they finally retired the model, so spares are quite readily available...
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    How The Spindle Moulder Gained Its Notoriety

    Thank you for mentioning that, I had never heard of Col Brian Shaw, and it made for quite an entertaining watch on Youtube, from around 57:10 onward. You couldn't get away with demonstrations like this today! It would be interesting to know how much kinetic energy was behind that candle.
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    How The Spindle Moulder Gained Its Notoriety

    I'm always a bit cynical of "workshop horror" stories like that after hearing so many that are so ludicrous that they can't possibly be feasible, like a cutter punching a hole through a solid concrete block wall and embedding in a vehicle outside... Obviously, if a cutter is let loose...
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    How The Spindle Moulder Gained Its Notoriety

    A big issue with the slotted collars is that the slots themselves would wear in time nearer the front edge of the slot from being clamped up, meaning the cutter was only really gripped at the back edge. This was also a similar issue with slotted/french spindles, where the clamping surface at the...
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    How The Spindle Moulder Gained Its Notoriety

    You could get bevelled edge collars though I don't believe they were very popular here, as they're very rare compared to the plain square slot versions. Lockedge never made it over here, I suspect mainly because the American stuff was rarely imported after the Second World War, and it would've...
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    Development of the Wadkin RB Surface Planer.

    Funnily enough that machine has just come up for sale again. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/398424479471?
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    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    Tricky, but fun question. Favourites are harder to pick than least favourites, as there are usually very good reasons to dislike certain timbers. My favourite native timber is Elm. I love the character in the boards, which stands out nicer than Oak in my opinion, and I've generally found it...
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    A Better Rat Trap

    The trouble with traps is that you’ll rarely catch two in the same trap unless you’ve got a real infestation, or very young rats, they are quite clever. Once one rat is trapped and killed, the other rats tend to avoid the traps and the whole area where the other one died for a long time as they...
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    Do you think aluminum threaded rod and bolts good enough for light duty moxon style vise?

    That'll be passivated in regular terms. Personally, I would use bare steel or self-colour black oxide steel, coated steels aren't great for applications where the screw will be in constant use, as with a vice because the coating can wear off in time or even peel off and get stuck in the nut...
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    gate

    I suppose Beech would be perfectly serviceable for non-exposed uses, such as underground mining tracks and so on, if they even still use timber sleepers for that kind of thing.
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    gate

    I have actually used Beech externally a couple of times and have been surprised with how well it has lasted, obviously coated with a preservative but I don’t think it’s as terrible as people make out, likely no worse than Scot’s Pine.
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    gate

    Nice to see the machines in action. Looks like you were conned, those aren't oak sleepers but inferior beech ones.
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