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hercule wrote:It’s a low end machine. Some of the cheaper ones aren’t serviceable. Personally just buy a new gun. I use a HVLP system. And the guns are just under £200 each.

To many of us £200 is a lot of money.

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You might also want to get some plastic spacers to insert between lining and studding as often the latter is (a) not straight (b) not vertical and (c) not parallel to each side And don't whatever you do be tempted to get No-nonsense Lightweight Filler from Screwfix as it's about the worst filler kno...

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Thanks, guys...really appreciate the input.

The 44mm is what the original doors were.

I'm still wondering about what type of panel to use if I'm using unsorted 'twisty

' redwood. Veneered ply or MRMDF. Going the MR route is a no-brainer if you guys recommend it.

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I'm with Steve and never use anything other than moisture resistant MDF for internal work. With regards to panel thickness it really depends on what Ovolo you are using and if you are moulding one or both sides of the door. If moulding one side only then I would say 12mm too.. Incidentally I person...

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That's a very good point,Steve. Unsorted redwood. So veneered board probably best in that case, do you think ? Mind you, unsorted does plane up nice !

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Hi guys I've got 12 of these to make for inside our house. Height approx 2m and width approx 880mm. Door 44mm thick. I'll be going with custom ovolo cutters so I can do them the stiles and rails in one pass (plus one more pass for the groove for the panel). I can't decide between 9mm or 12mm MDF. I'...

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Oh...top man, thanks.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have a URL you can give me as I can't find them on their website.

EDIT:Found 'em, thanks.

Is there a matching scribe ?

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and I don't mean a roundover bead !

Why do companies such as Whitehill claim that their cutters are ovolo's and then give you a choice of radii ?

You don;t have a radius with a proper ovolo !

Drawing a blank so far.

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But wouldn't it depend on where the cracks are ? If in new wood then I can see Cascamite working a treat but if it's a glued joint come apart then not sure Cascamite will stick on a sealed surface. If that is the case, epoxy ?

Welcome to the forum, Jack.

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That's a good point...worth remembering.

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Thanks, Steve. That's what I've been doing but recently decided with the power feeder to try facing the whole board width in one pass to save time and it worked a treat.

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You might also like to post over on thewoodhaven2.co.uk as there is one guy who is a bit of an expert on refurbishing old Wadkins

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But if you want to have a go, you need a decent random orbital sander (ROS) to remove everything from all of the top of the table. Then start finishing it again. There are plenty of proprietary finishes which will give you a decent result albeit not like French polish.

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I made some internal Georgian window shutters recently. I was in a bit of a rush so was going to make them like a kitchen door with a scribe and mould profile....you know the ones...no tenon,.. just relies on the glue on scribe / mould and rebate. However as they were only 17mm thick I thought I wo...

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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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