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  1. Trevanion

    Whoops

    You see this happen with slurry tankers sometimes, inattentive operator usually at fault where the hose has hit the bottom and sealed itself off.
  2. Trevanion

    What to do with this

    As Mike says, you can finish the outside with something like a linisher or a file if you just want to use the outside measurement. What are you calibrating? If you want an alternative, the Shinwa squares are very nice quality...
  3. Trevanion

    How many ways to throw dust?

    A lot of people cover the hole in the side of the tracksaw to cut down on dust, to the point where people make special 3D-printed plugs for them. However, I'm not convinced this actually helps with minimising dust because for efficient extraction you need adequate throughput of air, by closing...
  4. Trevanion

    Old house in Hastings

    Looking at the listing's initial photo from a glance you'd assume it was all for sale (or perhaps just me, for that sort of money could buy a massive property around here), but it's only the left-most one. A very nicely preserved period property, but it seems to me to be an absolute nightmare...
  5. Trevanion

    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    You can get very sharp with very fine water stones when you start going over 4000 grit. I've tried a few different methods, but I find it easier and faster with an India oilstone and a loaded strop these days.
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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    What I usually aim for when it comes to "sharp" is when you touch the edge of the tool to one of your finger nails, does the sharp edge bite into the finger nail or skate off? If it skates off it's too dull and needs touching up but if it digs in even with the lightest touch it's sharp enough...
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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    If it's just the one piece, a sharp chisel and a hammer would make short work of it. Mark out your rebate and chisel down at a roughly 45-degree angle to your 9mm line, if the timber is particularly hard you can chisel half the 24mm width and do a second pass to cut across the whole width...
  8. Trevanion

    Groovin’

    They also do discs with two cutters. Over a certain amount of cut marks to the inch for a given feed rate, where you can see each undulation of the cutter for a given inch on the timber, you have diminishing returns where you're engaging with the work more and thus dulling your tooling faster...
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    Fanlight window hardware quality.

    Ironmongery is always a tricky one to get right, you can spend an absolute fortune on hardware and it can still be awful ("From the Anvil", Ahem!) and then find something that's a very good quality for a price that's almost too good to be true. I find Marches Ironmongery to be very good, and...
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    Groovin’

    There's also a case for the amount of cuts the bit is producing too, because the bit is turning at 32000RPM with its two cutting edges, it's engaging with the work 1066 times per second, whereas a 40mm grooving disc with two cutting edges spinning at 18000RPM is engaging with the work 600 times...
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    Groovin’

    The problem with the smaller cutters is that they don't spin anywhere near fast enough to be effective in wood so you have to reduce the cut and feed rate significantly because they are under a lot of pressure. A 6mm cutter spinning at 32000RPM is only reaching speeds of 22MPH at the rim, where...
  12. Trevanion

    Double-edged bandsaw blades

    I've seen these before, they're for a carpenter's portable bandsaw, like the Mafell Z5EC. The teeth on the back are to help clear sawdust out of the kerf if you are coming back out of a partial cut, so that the blade doesn't get stuck in the piece. You do get double-sided blades on resaws...
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    Sedgwick planer thicknesser

    Welcome to the forum Spoke, Sounds like you've got a Sedgwick 12" MB or 16" PT if it has two motors, the 10" PT has only one motor to drive both the cutterblock and feed rollers. Having dual motors does make it more challenging to work with because it limits your options, also the feed roller...
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    "Chewed wires caused blaze". Myth or truth

    Squirrels, rats, and other rodents gnaw on cables mostly because they are sharpening and reducing the length of their ever growing teeth rather than "eating" the cable. For a time they were putting pesticide in the sheathing of the cable to help prevent this, but they found rats were just...
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    "Chewed wires caused blaze". Myth or truth

    On modern systems, there are failsafes. On old systems, anything could happen. A few years ago, I was being electrocuted in the shower because the neighbours had some dodgy electrical work done outside which had gotten wet and was sending voltage down the earth line on our shared transformer...
  16. Trevanion

    How would you knock these out?

    Being from where I am, I obviously have no experience of fine dining, but wouldn’t it make sense to have some sort of board that holds the plate or bowl and the associated cutlery for the dish that you could easily place and take away? Of course this means you can’t just grab a bunch of empty...
  17. Trevanion

    Another "Which Planer Thicknesser" thread.

    That's why I suggested selling it complete to someone else, I also imagine Roger hasn't got the patience to sell parts anyway! If you sell it to a dealer and ask for a receipt for the sale, that's your value of loss determined. Will you get a receipt from a regular rag 'n bone scrap man unless...
  18. Trevanion

    Another "Which Planer Thicknesser" thread.

    I would be looking out for my wallet! A scrap man will pay a pittance for it when someone could either make use of the parts or rebuild the machine, the three motors alone will have a market value more than the scrap value of the whole machine. You could always ring up a reasonably local...
  19. Trevanion

    Another "Which Planer Thicknesser" thread.

    How annoying. Could you not sell it as spares and repairs to someone rather than scrap it entirely? I’m sure you would get a bit more than scrap value from someone who fancies a jigsaw puzzle.
  20. Trevanion

    New bandsaw

    Have you looked at the Hammer N2-38? It’s a little more than the other machines (if you ring up Felder sometimes you can haggle, or get some optional extras for free if you suggest you will buy another machine instead) but I think I would strongly consider it myself if I was looking for a new saw.
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