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Thanks guys.

Thinking about it a bit more, the panel sizes are small enough to go solid.

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Wondering what people's thoughts were about making small fielded panels (with a small quirk) out of MR-MDF. Can one get a reasonable painted finish or does it get all furry ? If it influences viewpoints, the finished pane size will be 660mm wide x 100mm tall..but those dimensions are not cast in sto...

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David

You'll find a mini-review by 9fingers here

http://thewoodhaven2.co.uk/viewtopic.ph ... pex#p51924

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Many thanks, Jonathan, for the extra info. I'll give it a try the next time I eat some Weetabix ! I'd forgotten just how much I loathe Yahoo. Can't view the site as not a member and bloody Yahoo insists I create a profile but clicking on their link just takes you to ones account details and no hint ...

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Hi...my comment was tongue-in-cheek and hoping you'd put one up ! When you say perpendicular, do you mean vertical ? 'cos the Steff can't do that. In fact compared to my last power feeder, it's range of adjustments is pretty crap TBH. Brian mentioned that gas strut but damed if I can find it on that...

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Rodger To swing the feeder on the tilt away bracket with ease.... set the feeder up perpendicular to the planner table's, horizontal arm would need to be fully extended to miss the planner, pull the slider out of the way, should now swing over with ease....naturally the lower you can get the feeder...

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Meccarroll wrote:
thatsnotafestool wrote:You do now where I live, don't you ?

....... is it's relatively easy to obtain and it's cheap.

You can say that again. Up here I got 2 cu m for under £800 (inc VAT).

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As mentioned in the power feeder thread, I'm curious to know if there is a preferred way of prepping large *and heavy) boards. Say you want to get two 95 x 45mm x 2.3m out of a 9 x 2 sawn board. Do you rip the sawn board down first. Then plane the two sides then run it through the thicknesser (and p...

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The beast has landed and it's a heavy son of a bitch. I certainly won't be trying to swing it down out of the way. :( https://farm1.staticflickr.com/849/42923782805_dbe0bebef1_c.jpg and I now realise that using it on the table saw is a BAD idea. First, the sheer weight of the feeder on the end of th...

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..... it's best to go to a timber yard sort the wood you want into a pile and get that pile delivered. I'll certainly do that next time. I'd be ringing the timber yard and send it back, if they can't supply timber without shakes then either go to another yard You do now where I live, don't you ? I'...

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Just thought I'd flag this up to you guys. The depth stop is not very good. Not good at all. There is too much flex in it so that when you bring the saw down to make the cut, if you pull down only reasonably hard then you end up overcutting by 1mm. Rather poor IMO.

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Thanks for that, Jonathan. It certainly has a lot of attractive features ..not least of which is weight ! But unfortunately (a) it's not quite long enough if I am to also reach the table saw and (b) about £400 more than I want to pay..seeing as how I'm no longer working ...well, I am on the bloody h...

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And a form for them to sign to say that they've been 'inducted' !

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Thanks Jonathan. If you get a moment if you could please measure it.

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Looking at getting a power feeder for the Hammer. I want it to reach both the outfeed table on the planer as well as the spindle moulder. I've already got the tilting mount so that's sorted. The reach I need is around 700mm or so and I've got my eye on a couple of Co-matics - both with 760mm reach. ...

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I bought 2 cu of unsorted redwood recently. 9 x 2. First question is that quite a few boards have shakes in.... the images you see are from me ripping down a 9 x 2 . Jas has given me some excellent steers but just wondered what you guys thought. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/937/43625573092_b270897...

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Found the page. On their e-shop under Offers

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This bloke doesn't like it

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If you were in any doubt about not doing it.....then read on Furniture maker injured by planer blade An East Lothian-based sole trader was fined £6,700 after a self-employed furniture maker was injured on their premises. The furniture maker was moving wood over a planer blade, when the machine skidd...

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Be careful applying shellac if your dye is also soluble in meths otherwise you can find yourself dragging out the dye. I happen to have a small compressor (had it for years) and I bought a touch-up spray gun...very cheap... and use it to spray a mist coat of shellac over the dyed surface. Once dry y...

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mark270981 wrote:....
If you could wait until October you will get a better deal at W18

LOL.... I need a rip fence and power feed before then. Anyway, W18's located down near the Equator isn't it ?

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So, just taken the clamps off of the frame made with M&T's. Substantially more stable, less resistant to flexing along the diagonals and not a creak from glue lines cracking as there was with the Domino. I'm referring to the glue line on the end grain of the rail where the shoulders are. When I ...

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I know the arguments for and against using Domino's but the question remains....why do we bother to make them all the way through (assuming that they are not wedged) ? Its for fixing/securing purposes because if you had a stopped tenon the only way to actually fix it is either a peg or star dowels....

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Has anyone heard anything about this ?

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That's interesting, Keith. I guess the Domino acted as a wedge forcing its way through ?

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LOL.... I did dip in to try and find any information on column loading. But unfortunately that bit is missing

Still a great book

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I know the arguments for and against using Domino's but the question remains....why do we bother to make them all the way through (assuming that they are not wedged) ?

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I've only just got my copy but the little I've read to date has me wanting more spare time to read the rest.

Excellent.

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But why the need for 4" long domino's ? Surely the weakest point of a domino or tenon is at the shoulder ? Yes, a tiny little bit of tenon or domino - say 10mm - in the mortice isn't going to last long particularly from the point of little glue area but after 30 mm or so surely there is no poin...

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Oh excellent, Mark - pure Machiavelli

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Personally I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. You can have them sign any sort of agreement but you can bet your bottom dollar that were they to have an accident then they will find some bottom-of-the-pond feeding slimeball lawyer on a No-win-no-fee basis. "OK, Mr Insurance company. I want to...

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I can understand the need to maximise the glueing area in the olden days before adhesives got as good as they are now. I can also understand the need if you're going to make them wedged but...do we really need to bother with making them 'through'? Think of the benefit..no end grain sticking out on t...

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What they both said ! To explain a bit more, get a sheet of Kingspan or similar and lay it on the floor, lower your 8 x 4 sheet onto that and then use the track saw to make your cuts. Some people will get the pieces roughly to size and then get them cut to the exact size on the table saw but with ca...

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John Apologies if I am speaking out of turn but have you recently bought the spindle moulder ? Just that if you have and not used one before then I strongly urge you to go and get some training especially using a ring fence. Remember - a route will remove a finger, a spindle moulder will remove a ha...

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Is there an MKM Building Supplies near you ? I buy 22m sheets from them at under £30 a sheet + VAT - quality is B/BB and bloody good, too. Or if not, is there an Andersen's nearby? OK...not ply..but if the quality of their ply is anything like the quality of the 2 cu m of unsorted 9 x 2 redwood I ju...

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Flat cap wrote:....
Thank you for your reply Steve, I have to say that I am a little disappointed that my question got 90 views but only one reply, shame.

Perhaps no-one thought that they could offer any advice.

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Just wondering as I've just come back from an Open Day at DNV-GL where they blow up things. The last and very spectacular demonstration was of an explosion of a relatively small amount of propane gas in a confined space. Just like you might get if you stored your cylinder inside your shed or garage....

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Thanks for the link, Dave.

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Andys Woodshed wrote:Email sent

Received thanks and very much appreciated.

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Just bought a new machine but it has 120mm dust extraction outlets and all my stuff is 100mm. Struggling to find an adapter. Any suggestions ?

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