• 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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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    When using a straight cutter if the grain is nasty one option would be to plunge cut the worst out leaving a small amount to attach in a conventional manner….. I know many on this forum tend to dislike the use of routers but in a professional environment they are a necessity and with experience...
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    Wi-Fi Calling

    We are in similar situation with no mobile coverage and use WiFi calling for calling Banks and Governments, everyone else seems to be up with technology and provide mobile numbers linked to WhatsApp. Thankfully here in Spain most business is done on WhatsApp. I do complete projects where...
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    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    Eric, that’s interesting and very sad as they there excellent product admittedly it’s a few years since I fitted Neff. Totally in agreement with you re Bosch, I have refuse to touch them for about 15 years. Last kitchen I built all the cooling was done by Libherr, 2 of the wine storage units...
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    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    Steve Neff ovens are good, other companies try to copy them but can’t compete on reliability and service, you get what you pay for. Don’t know what space you have in you kitchen but it would be fun to look at the French company Lacanche…I put one in for a German client, she says it’s the best...
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    Conversion - bathroom to en-suite

    As Bob says old school copper was bulletproof, it’s what I grew up knowing but the stuff today is hit and miss. Times change, last house I built 20 years ago I used the Wirsbo system it proved to be 100% but again times have changed and the house I’m building now I’m using composite. My plumber...
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    Nilfisk Aero 26 21 vacuum woes

    Can’t help you with you with any advice Rodger other than to say I had two Nilfisk vacuums die, both after a not many hours of work. After the second one died the company refused to replace it, said I was obviously abusing it. This was all over 15 years ago, bought a Protool now Festool and...
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    I really didn't expect that to work...

    Al Very clever! Reminds me of an old Spanish wood turner I use to use, you had to supply him the design of the turning on 10mm MDF he then made it into a template for his copy lathe to follow. Bed on this machine was from memory about 2 meters long, he used to make the tulipwood pilasters for my...
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    Kitchen cabinet door thickness

    My google maps works in France, Spain, Portugal and in Uk, all talking to me in English…..don’t ask me how, my wife and children take care of setting it up
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    Kitchen cabinet door thickness

    The company Steve gave a link to looks like they do cutting edging and CNC work so everything for a kitchen project. https://www.barillet-distribution.fr/atelier-panneaux Also if there images are anything to go with them they have state of art edge banding machines, beam saws which I have not...
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    Kitchen cabinet door thickness

    Steve I use 22 mm MR-MDF for traditional paneled doors, and 19 mm for flat doors. I believe 18mm is UK and US sizes and 19 mm for Europe. I did do some fitting for SieMatic and they used 16mm for flat doors, and now I see it is fashion to go thinner with 10mm flat doors, not seen the hinges. So...
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    Twister screws

    In MDF I typically use 3.5 screws and predrill
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    Twister screws

    I’ve used a similar screw for a few years and they’re brilliant. Always use 19mm for the backs, it’s just stronger for transport and less waste when only using one size of board. Haven’t seen 3mm backs since I left the uk
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    Simple door

    I was going to ask the same. Is it plumbed in like that, can’t quite see if the tails go anywhere or if it’s decommissioned and just sitting there?
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    Elu MOF 96 - WIP... Repair? YES!

    Bought my mof 96 in 1985, fantastic little machines. Fitted thousands of hinges and locks…..occasionally the bearings whine a little so guess eventually I need to swop the bearings.
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    Wedding gift table

    To make it look thinner the stone mason could cut a shadow gap on the bottom so the top appears thinner
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    Suggestions for excavating this hole

    As Dan says…..or freestyle but if your not confident stick to Dans idea. With the big routers you need to take control of them when they start and stop, and on a job like yours you can’t see what is happening so you need to listen so no ear defenders.
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    Suggestions for excavating this hole

    Long router bit, the long ones for cutting worktops.
  18. J

    Wolf bench grinder

    Another thought….is it’s a transformer?
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    Glass for furniture.

    If it was me I would use 4mm plate glass If it was for a client I would give them the choice of laminate or toughened. 400x400 is relatively small so don’t see to much danger. How many people put laminated or toughened glass in a window that small?
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    Barn roof

    Looks good Steve, I do like the Zinc guttering they use in France and Portugal.
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