• 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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    Pork scratchings theory

    Pigs (and vegetarians) eat vegetable waste (check legality in your country). Just saying.
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    Pork scratchings theory

    Scald, as in, dip briefly into boiling water? I do, rightly or wrongly! The meat side gets rubbed with 5-spice, salt and pepper, then I make a custom tinfoil bath for it, so during the slow cook, it sort of ‘confits’ in its own fat. Perhaps only appealing to primitive carnivores like me, not...
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    Pork scratchings theory

    Two parts to this: For crackling, I usually slow roast the pork belly, cut the skin off, then stick it in the air fryer. Some areas are perfect, expanded almost like a hard, crispy foam, other areas go hard and tough like plastic. I haven’t been able to work out why, but the method is more...
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    Wadkin router

    I’ve got one. Made in Japan, maybe 80s/90s vintage. Nicely made tool.
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    Motor-run capacitors... bookmark this?

    Nice to have an alternative to the Amazon/ebay lottery. Those all appear to be run rated, as opposed to starting type ones which generally have a higher capacitance but must be switched out when the motor is up to speed. There shouldn’t be any harm in using a run one in place of a start type.
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    So after 20+ years it's Bye-Bye Zen

    Another vote for A&A. If you phone tech support, you get through to a bloke at a desk who know the internet inside out. The sort who plays Dungeons and Dragons, and paints lead figures on weekends. Exactly what you want. Previously, with BT, I’d phone tech support and find that I knew more than...
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    Big bandsaw needed

    Thanks for all the detail. There wasn’t much play in the trunnions to alter the table angle, and tightening the clamp resulted in it sitting in the same place each time. With that, and the dodgy tracking, I decided to skim the wheels. The wheels are interchangeable, so I was able to mount each...
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    Big bandsaw needed

    Ok, I’ll leave well alone for now. I need to look into it closer, but I think the blade angle is changing slightly depending on where it’s tracked. If I do end up skimming the tyres, it’ll be a very light touch approach. Are the 18S5 tyres meant to be crowned? I can’t see from the parts diagram...
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    Big bandsaw needed

    Thanks Mike. That bit about not fighting the blade makes a lot of sense. There’s a good video by Record Power on setup, and the bloke demonstrates a deep, straight rip with no guides in play at all. Nice resaw pics - I keep seeing people able to cut straight with a bandsaw, but have never been...
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    Big bandsaw needed

    I’m generally pleased with the machine, but having the same problem I’ve always encountered when using other people’s bandsaws - cut drift. New 3 tpi skip blade from shark. Ripping 90mm deep softwood, fence on the left. Over the 1800mm length, the timber is wanting to rotate clockwise, so if I...
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    Wadkin 9”FS planer and Wilson 14” rip saw

    Thanks to the Trevanion Machine Library for that!
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    Wadkin 9”FS planer and Wilson 14” rip saw

    It’s been chewed a bit by the blade - or do you mean the guard rise/fall? I’ve had a quick look, but can’t see how it’s supposed to work. There’s a thread, but no way of turning it. No, but at least it would be easy to fit a bit of ply for extra support. I’m not as nutty as Wallace, so it won’t...
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    Wadkin 9”FS planer and Wilson 14” rip saw

    This is what happens when you sign in to FB marketplace after 10 years or so: Wlson saw: can’t find much about them. 14” blade, rip fence and no tilt. The blade is in excellent nick, and it and the DC brake are worth more than the saw itself. I might convert the motor to dual voltage and...
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    Big bandsaw needed

    The 18S arrived about a week ago and came fitted with a bi-metal hacksaw-type blade. Probably for tufnol or something. I ordered two wood blades from ALT saws about a week ago. Not sure what the delay is. Went for two 3/8” ones to save adjusting blade guides each time: a 3 tpi skip for...
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    No! I will not Sign off on it.

    As a vet in a previous life, I can tell you your problem started just here^ ;) our cat is self-cleaning, thankfully. Toasters and most light fittings are a curious example, I think, of grandfather rights. If I showed you a new device, where you could hold the earthed casing and simply poke at...
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