• 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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  1. TomTrees

    A belt sander revamp?

    Sorry no real update yet, the sheds out of bounds for a bit, just about managed to take a photo for ye. Cut that little extra bit off the bracket, and going to slice into two next, in order to weld onto the plate. There's two threaded holes for the ground/earth on the sander base casting, along...
  2. TomTrees

    Treads for metal staircase

    Watch Carl Holmgren's video, and look at the various options he's come up with. The same timeless design is utilized on a few machines like the RP300 or IWOODlike machines. Once you use a single pedal system, even just a quick timber lash up, you won't consider anything else. Sorry for...
  3. TomTrees

    Material identification

    Thanks all, it appears like @StevieB has it from these pics. should the stuff be also referred to as resin paneling, I haven't checked yet. Don't think it's Formica nor Valchromat from the looks of things. Thanks for the ID Pity about the look of them, would'a been nice to find other colours...
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    Material identification

    Hello folks, came across a skip at the hospital with these two bits in it. It'd be interesting to know as to what the stuff is, as it's very dense and stable. Have a sheet at the folks which hasn't fared well, though it's been used as a outdoor fire screen, and eventually gotten to a state...
  5. TomTrees

    A belt sander revamp?

    I did note that similar(ish) machines, seemingly has lesser provisions for extraction than this Axi one, so there's more reasoning for getting rid of the plastic. Though that's possibly dependent on whether one might call the Clarke version similar or not. For instance the cast "bed"?... isn't...
  6. TomTrees

    A belt sander revamp?

    @Lons Much the same story I have with mine, first machine I ever bought, probably near 15 years ago I suppose. What a recipe for a mess having nothing but a belt sander haha! Chose this one, cuz the folks were visiting the south of England, though I wasn't expecting the base, which was an...
  7. TomTrees

    A belt sander revamp?

    Not got much done since last posting, but might as well give ye a wee bit of an update. Used up all the 8mm offcuts I've kept, as I didn't want to use up the good stuff. 25 little pieces in that rough looking thing below and counting. Making sure the machine runs with the bracket parallel with...
  8. TomTrees

    Prototype Box....Dun

    I'd like to see some folks take on this too. Cheers Tom
  9. TomTrees

    How to reduce size of my photos? I post from my cell phone?

    I thought I'd be the luddite here, with a sub 50 quid samsung camera w/big screen, a basic thing what has a tough life in the shed, and an auld laptop what's not doing great either. I just plug the thing into the laptop, and copy/cut my pictures from the camera, and paste them into a named...
  10. TomTrees

    How to reduce size of my photos? I post from my cell phone?

    Stick them on a laptop, which I presume converts the pics into smaller files, what you can simply drag from a folder onto the screen. Looking down at phones are not good for the neck. I could go on about the benefits of photographing ones work, and being able to see things on an ample screen...
  11. TomTrees

    The worst safety glasses I've ever had the misfortune to buy. But SUPERB service from Uvex

    That's a great result @RogerS, nice to see folks standing behind their product. On a similar note, should it not be drifting too much off topic, and seeing as these are likely going to be folks good ones.... Does anyone know if you can restore old scuffed foggy plastic on a buffing wheel, or...
  12. TomTrees

    Nice chest, needs minor repairs.

    Surely it could be counted as authentic with a few taps of a gennou... or whatever equivalent tool from where it came, for what one could call a sympathetic restoration? On the other hand, should this chest be of little value, and it finds another purpose.... and for whatever reason you might...
  13. TomTrees

    A belt sander revamp?

    This might be fun, hopefully that is! :) Been planning on getting rid of the huge splayed legs for the thing for a while, super annoying. Might as well try and improve things whilst I'm at it. Quite a bit of pondering needs doing... in order to make this machine most usable... First things...
  14. TomTrees

    Router table insert plate build (rings laad)

    Some shimming required also Done some testing and things went well, got thinking about how to keep those rings put, Too much procrastination on how best to do it, as was thinking the other rings would need some jiggery, but it turned out they only needed a straight chamfer with a chainsaw...
  15. TomTrees

    Router table insert plate build (rings laad)

    Routed and drilled out the wing, not without tribulations I might add, If I were doing this job again, i.e with a suitable sized cutter for the corners, but without a fancy bearing to guide it, I'd make sure the router could be trusted to be cylindrical, and either make it so, or make a plate...
  16. TomTrees

    Epoxy questions for a slowing things down hack?

    Never posted a pic of the first application as the camera was out in the shed. Had another go with the epoxy, this time I didn't mix the hardener with the dust prior, and mixed the chilled epoxy with the dust after the mix was done. Aiming to get the same amount done with about the same amount...
  17. TomTrees

    Am I an idiot to try a small boring head for face milling on a pillar drill?

    I done some experimentation before on seeing if I could utilize my pillar drill's table as a chuck, by loosening it slightly, which didn't work as the fit is fairly sloppy on my machine. It would'a been nice if it were possible to do some light milling like such. Perhaps it might be so, on...
  18. TomTrees

    Epoxy questions for a slowing things down hack?

    I was reading some on the subject since, and there's lots of if's and buts regarding various curing methods, some articles mentioning without constant heat, possible chance of slowing the mix under the surface layer down! and for starters things should be about 10 degrees warmer in my shed for...
  19. TomTrees

    Epoxy questions for a slowing things down hack?

    Hi Bob, using the material to make a putty, what's hopefully the same colour, and hopefully still retaining the characteristics of the composite material seems worth it to me, as I don't like nooks and crannies for grit to hide in. Having done some plastic repairs with the stuff before, it just...
  20. TomTrees

    Epoxy questions for a slowing things down hack?

    Woz kinda waiting for Rob to share his thoughts on that, as I'm not very knowledgeable about routers. i.e.. https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/cosman-boxes.9032/ and have another pair of them what'll get bored out to other sizes aswell. Not too rushed about using the router table, as...
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