• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. Dr.Al

    What type of connector is this please?

    The power supply for the reels of LED strip that I have are 12 V (and claimed 10 A power supplies) with a 2.1 mm pin and positive centre.
  2. Dr.Al

    What type of connector is this please?

    Beware that there are a lot of different size barrel connectors out there. I'd guess that's either a 2.1 mm or 2.5 mm pin but I couldn't say for sure without checking.
  3. Dr.Al

    What type of connector is this please?

    I've got loads of those in the garage and can look it up when I get back (much) later. Most of my LED strips came with a power supply block so I never bothered to check what they were, but it'd be easy enough to find out. Alternatively, search ebay (or similar) for LED strip power supply and...
  4. Dr.Al

    Another tool chest

    Absolutely. There have been several times in my last few projects when I've only realised an imperfection was there when I looked at the photo.
  5. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    A bit of a labour of love this one, but today I made this: More information in today's post in the wood lathe WIP.
  6. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    I've mentioned a couple of times that one of the remaining jobs on the lathe was to make the little cover flap that goes over the tommy bar access hole in the front of the headstock. You may also have wondered why I didn't just get on with it and get this ostensibly simple part made. The truth...
  7. Dr.Al

    eBay listings and bladed items

    I had a similar experience when I last went through Portsmouth. I had a little Leatherman Micra in my pocket and again the security guy looked at it and said it was okay. I had a locking folding knife (my Stanley marking knife) and a decent collection of chisels in the tool chest that would do...
  8. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    Hmmm, I'm not sure that's true really. If I were going to make a clock (which I doubt will ever happen), I think it would be brass and made on the metal lathe and the milling machine. We have a mug tree in the kitchen and, while it's handy for holding the mugs, it's pretty grotty wood so I can...
  9. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Passed a quite surprising landmark today. I just uploaded the latest post in my wood lathe build series and noticed in the website build log that my website has just hit 1000 pages! I've been gradually adding to it for about 12 years now, but I still find it astonishing that I've written...
  10. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    I made another simple upgrade to the lathe today. Here it is along with an alternative brass bush: It fits into the tool post with the base resting on the banjo and, assuming I've got my maths right, the hole in the brass insert should be exactly on centre height. It can then be used to...
  11. Dr.Al

    Thirty years old!

    Descent was my favourite first-person-shooter type thing in my teenage years, but mostly I was hooked on the Ultima series and played most of them (up to VIII and Underworld 2) through to completion. Ultima IX was too fancy for my computer to cope with the graphics and came a bit late (I was...
  12. Dr.Al

    What have you "lost" today...?

    I don't think I can use that excuse. When I was a teenager I was given a very nice fountain pen as a gift by my grandfather. One day I spent more than half an hour searching for it (having just been using it), digging through drawers, looking underneath notepads and anything else on the table...
  13. Dr.Al

    Thirty years old!

    Some things (like wine) are hard to resist :)
  14. Dr.Al

    What have you "lost" today...?

    No, I tend to blast the tool with the air line before removing the screw (helps clear out the torx socket). This was just me being clumsy when trying to insert the screw. If I'd been sensible, I'd have done it on the bench rather than holding it in mid-air in the middle of the workshop.
  15. Dr.Al

    Thirty years old!

    I need wine for most things 🍷🍷🍷 😜
  16. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    Thanks Ian, that's useful. On the pictures I've seen of them they seem to be just below centre but I hadn't figured out what "just" meant yet! It's easy enough to tweak (especially lowering it), so I'll probably drop it by 10 mm and then see what it looks like. If it needs to go further then...
  17. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    This afternoon I thought I'd have a go at the table for the sanding disc. I started with the big bit of 10 mm thick aluminium plate that I found in a skip and marked a seemingly appropriately sized section out with a pencil then used a jigsaw to cut it out: That's the thickest metal I've...
  18. Dr.Al

    What have you "lost" today...?

    I lost a little screw for holding an insert in a lathe tool. It fell onto the floor (which currently has a lot of metal swarf on it). After a while I gave up looking for it and just counted myself thankful that I had a couple of spares!
  19. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    A minor machining job was done today. As the spindle is a little longer than the old one, I needed to replace the two pieces of aluminium extrusion that connects the lathe to the motor assembly. That was a fairly simple job, just a case of milling two bits of extrusion to the same length and...
  20. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    I spent the afternoon assembling more of the lathe. The first part of that was fitting the top plates that sit on the (now painted) box section bed). As before, I did that with the two plates clamped firmly onto a couple of 12 mm parallels. Those top plates form the reference for the...
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