• 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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    Anyone seen lead do this?

    Nah! Just tell them you've recently converted to Islam and invite them to discuss the life and times of the Prophet. It worked for me
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    Newbie Woorking Hobby

    Not at all (cheapskate, that is). I use a pair if folding trestles at work (alright, so they are deWalt heavy duty ones), combined with either an old flush door or a 7 x 3ft breaking down top made from "liberated" studwork, CLS or whatever I can lay my hands on. One day I'll have a proper bench...
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    Options for custom spindle profile

    Add a second clamping nut - it acts as a locknut What is your saddle made from? For flats I used to prefer nice smooth MFC (available in 8mm for kitchen drawer bottoms as well as 15mm, 18mm, etc) with a thin smear of paste wax to help lubricate things. Same material can be used to make a false...
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    Old tool...

    The sender was from the Netherlands? Then surely it must be something to do with bicycles or cheese...
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    Options for custom spindle profile

    You should be happy we aren't still back in the days of using square cutterblocks. At least modern blocks rarely if ever shed cutters
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    Fluid-driven tools

    It's actually very far from that. Our current core team is 4 carpenters (although the full.site team contains anything from a dozen ttsdesmem up to 100+ on the last phase) with other bodies pulled in as required. We utilise pre-machined components where it is more efficient (i.e. cheaper), and...
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    Newbie Woorking Hobby

    From a purely trade perspective - combined drill/countersinks with matching tube type plug cutters (e.g. Trend Snappy) whilst expensive are a godsend when you need to do pelleted work. Just because something says 12mm it doesn't necessarilly follow that different manufacturers are working from...
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    Options for custom spindle profile

    Doesn't seem too bad. Our workshop charges us £80 internally for grinding a pair of knives to run a job, more if the job is going on the spindle and requires limiters as opposed to through the 4-side moulder where none are required
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    Fluid-driven tools

    In general larger timbers on our projects are pre-machined by the workshop wherever possible before being sent out for installation. After all you can't really take a 2 tonne 2in hydraulic mortiser up onto a church roof with you! With the relatively short transportation distances which are...
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    Options for custom spindle profile

    At times it's the only way to do it (think about spliced repairs in large section in-situ timber beams which need to have beaded edge finishes - a task I did last year at the top of a scaffolding tower). I have to admit, though, that when it gets beyond 3 or 4 lengths I tend to revo.mend sending...
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    Creating mouldings using oscillating multitool & sandpaper

    I often cut them with a body grip.jigsaw and an appropriate jigsaw blade (T244D). Frightens the s*** out of some of the guys I work with, but 3 times faster than using a coping saw and a lot less tiring if you are doing multiples all day long In terms of productivity I think it's a non-starter...
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    Options for custom spindle profile

    Pity it's a long run. It wouldn't be too difficult a task with a half set of hollows and rounds, a plough, a rebate and a pair of snipe bills
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    Fluid-driven tools

    One of the problems I sometimes have is that there isn't always corded power available where I need to work - bear in mind that we are legally required to have 110 volt on site in the UK, and that there is a finite distance you can run such cables before voltage drop bfecomes an issue. In my...
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    Newbie Woorking Hobby

    Surely you mean a pair of sawi stools (alternative name) rather than one? At a pinch an old flush door screwed onto the tops of two saw stools will form a makeshift bench onto which a portable vice can be clamped, as well as being streets ahead of a Workmate. Or is that just the site chippie...
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    Kickback protection in routers

    If by "laminated worktop" you mean HPL (or solid high pressure laminate), then you are into a whole different field. Softer plastics require the spindle speed to be reduced, often to 12k to 15k (assuming a hand held router with a standard 1/2in diameter 2-flute straight cutter), whilst the feed...
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    I'm the attic woodworker

    Me too! And a warm welcome from me, Richard
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    Pickaroon - very useful.

    If you ever find yourself working up on a roof and need to haul rafters or spars over to where you are working a straight claw framing hammer performs a somilar function without the need for an extra tool
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    Kickback protection in routers

    As someone who periodically has to push a router cutter through knots, nails (both wrought and modern hard steel), drywall screws, steel back boxes, etc (mostly unintended) all I can say is that even with a cordless 1/4in router such as the Makita DRT50 and a reasonably sharp cutter you rarely...
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    Japanese vs western hex shank

    Japanese have a longer start to the hex (the biut between the blunt end and the waist). So the one on the left. I have a Japanese market cordless impact driver (Makita TD173D) which has a Japanese style chuck. In order to prevent western-style bits and bit holders rattling around I have to...
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    Compressor problem

    Actually, a real life problem for some of us. When using a compressor on site (110 volt) I invariably have to ensure that I have my thick 32A cable to supply the compressor, and limit the length of cable run (no daisy chaining of extensions). Anybody found trying to cut into my power supply to...
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