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  1. Trevanion

    How The Spindle Moulder Gained Its Notoriety

    Yes, some of the tenoning equipment gets very large! The Whitehill HP flush window tooling is 325mm in diameter on a 125mm tall stack, definitely not for the faint of heart on startup.
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    How The Spindle Moulder Gained Its Notoriety

    It's nice that people still read these old threads, shame that the photos have fallen victim to the Imgur UK block. While I've been using circular cutter blocks like the older Whitehill and Wadkin blocks for years, I've actually started messing with square blocks for a bit of fun lately...
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    A champion of the collecting world.

    I wonder if anyone would be interested in my book collection when I eventually throw a rod. Over a hundred books dedicated to Carpentry and Joinery, and then another hundred or so books and catalogues on Woodworking Machinery, and always collecting more!
  4. Trevanion

    Startrite table saw - table alignment help

    The Startrites are OK, they're obviously a budget machine of their time, but very simple and dependable compared to today's budget stuff. I'm pretty sure that's the 145, so it takes a 9" blade and gives you about 3" rip depth. Personally, I would rather a 12" saw, but seldom do most people find...
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    Diminished (gunstock) stile door

    Beautiful work 👏
  6. Trevanion

    Simple door

    It does hold a door straighter and more firmly, for most typical internal applications it is overkill, but it's required on fire doors. Often, the third hinge will be placed only 8" below the top hinge on a fire door, which I personally think is wrong as if the door warps from a fire, the third...
  7. Trevanion

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Square of Thales is a bit dull unless you've got a use for one. It's certainly interesting if you've got experience under your belt beforehand, but I imagine for the average hobbyist it's a bit 'out there'. Roy Sutton used to produce footstools with complete beginners in machine work, quite...
  8. Trevanion

    Simple door

    Looks like a perfect candidate for an elevator shaft 😁
  9. Trevanion

    Suggestions for excavating this hole

    Do you have a bush for the router? Knock up a quick and morticing jig and clamp it to the door.
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    Your favourite listenings......

  11. Trevanion

    Wolf bench grinder

    As Dave said, the box is likely housing the start capacitor for the motor, which may be what's causing your polarity issue if it has become degraded, as it's not giving enough initial power to the winding to make it rotate in the correct direction.
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    Suggestions for excavating this hole

    Most tubular latch mortices are drilled with a 25mm spade bit rather than making a rectangular mortice, which saves a lot of time. Obviously, you have to be more careful when drilling as it's very nearly the same size as the faceplate.
  13. Trevanion

    MFC - the Blade Assassin

    I think there have been workshop fires in the past that have been linked to cutting chipboard and sparks going up the extraction system and settling in the dust. I once made a mistake of using chipboard for a jig on the spindle moulder where I had to cut through the chipboard to cut a captive...
  14. Trevanion

    Simple door

    Knock up a quick and dirty pair of sawhorses and level them with shims on the floor, and then glue your door on those upstairs?
  15. Trevanion

    Wood glue for cold temperatures

    For future reference, polyurethane glues work well in the cold, but the cure time does suffer, and it's a bit thicker to come out of the bottle or tube. If you pop a polyurethane glue bottle in the microwave for a few seconds, it warms it up well and makes it more liquid, so it's easier to...
  16. Trevanion

    What stripper?

    From what I recall Strypit was far weaker than Nitromors back in the day as it was classed as an “Eco-Friendly” alternative to other strippers with the dichloromethane component, with a big selling point that it wouldn’t burn you and that you could rinse it down the sink.
  17. Trevanion

    Lie Nielsen No. 60 1/2 Block Plane

    It's probably eBay's buyer's fees, he's likely listed it at £85, and the rest is eBay's fees.
  18. Trevanion

    What stripper?

    Original Paramose works well on most things. It has good old-fashioned dichloromethane in it like Nitromors used to have, which will absolutely burn if you get it on your skin, so definitely wear gloves and probably a respirator. You're technically supposed to be trade to buy it, but it's only...
  19. Trevanion

    Oak Timber frame (and formally a Diminished stile door (markup and cutting the diminished part?))

    Gunstock Stile and Diminished Stile are terms used interchangeably, though you may find a Gunstock Joint on a stile that is not diminished for the transition from the panelled bottom section to the glazed top section of a door if the panels are grooved or held captive by mouldings in the door...
  20. Trevanion

    Why use a stepped drill bit here?

    Great for drilling thin metal sheet and plastics as they don't snatch as with a twist drill, not much good for wood though. My only thought is that perhaps he's using it as a sort of self-countersinking bit, as these bits will leave a small chamfer before engaging with the next step.
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