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2019-12-02
02 December
By Mark Dennehy
On Dec 2, 2019
In New Toys!, Shed, Tools, Woodworking
With 1 Comment

Well-timed…

So this showed up at work today, making excellent time from Rutlands in the UK:

New dust collector! 100mm dust port, 1100W motor. Should do grand with the thicknesser and I’ll use the adapter that’s currently going from the existing dust deputy to let me hook the extractor up to the cyclone (100mm cyclones, it turns out, are spectacularly expensive, but I might just build a cyclone lid following this page’s instructions, which would also reduce the overall height of the stack.… Read the rest

2019-11-24
24 November
By Mark Dennehy
On Nov 24, 2019
In Shed, Tools, Woodworking
With 2 Comments

New carts

The machines in the shed take up too much room.

And even the support machines for the machines take up too much room.

But the bandsaw does earn its keep and you can’t do bandsaw boxes without the sander and the thicknesser just removes the worst of the donkey work (and face it, in the 17th and 18th centuries, you had thicknessers too, you just called them apprentices) and you can’t use any of them without dust collection (well, you can, but the cleanup takes longer than doing the job by hand would have most of the time).… Read the rest

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  • The new Lidl Parkside Lathe. ⁣
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⁣It’s cheap, loud, it vibrates too much. It’ll walk all over the bench if you don’t bolt it to something. It’s as rigid as fresh bread. It’s hilariously underpowered. The chisels are really quite remarkably dull. I have no idea how to store it in the shed (except maybe by disassembling the thing). The chisels are pointy enough to hurt and they’re packed with nothing shielding the pointy bits in an unmarked box that opens from either end and which you’re remarkably likely to tip out into your hand. The faceplate is pure pot metal. The wrenches don’t fit the spindle, just the centers. It feels cheap and not exactly flimsy, but definitely like it won’t survive more than a year or two. It’s an M18x1.5 spindle thread and I’ve no idea if the small cheap chinese chucks would fit or if it has the power to spin them. The odds this thing could turn a bowl big enough to fit two lumps of sugar in are pretty low. ⁣
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⁣Mind you, for €80, it is a hell of a lot of fun :D⁣
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⁣I mean, I’m not expecting great things, but it might be worth the €80…⁣
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  • Before and after with the smaller bandsaw cart. Still needs some plywood panels for anti-racking. ⁣
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