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It would be surprising if the Preston blades were still in copyright.

Martin King 2

Thanks for answering my query which was, of course, OT.

Following up your information, I was initially stymied by the fact that there is also a Stanley no 71 spokeshave/rabbet plane. Your casting is, of course, the fence that goes underneath the well-known router plane.

Good luck with your project!

Are these for a wood plane and, if so, which?

Are you after the KIT-Q-CUT? I have two new and one part-worn plus insertion tool for disposal. PM me if interested

Ady 1:

Yes, they are versatile and useful on occasion. I used to have a similar Bosch device permanently mounted at the rear of my woodwork bench with the base screwed up to the underside of the bench so that the only obstruction was the column.

I believe three-point support is fairly standard for cast iron surface plates.

Fake or replica?

This sort of point was raised in a TV programme about Jaguar making a small number of lightweight E types and giving them genuine unused serial numbers from the original production run. Apparently, these £1.2M new machines are regarded as replicas and will not be accepted for events in which the original cars now compete.

If you decide to go for the belt only type then I can recommend this one:

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-trade-series-bs648-belt-sander-501212

I have had one for several years and am happy with it. A modest amount of re-working was needed to get it running to my satisfaction.

I must say that at its present price it seems expensive, however.

Russell

I am running Win7. I just did what I should have done before and found:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/EUBallot

We are all too Brexit-sensitised!

JasonB and Michael Briggs:

Thank you - yet more points for the intending purchaser to think about!

The NG120 is obviously a bigger, more powerful machine but presumably the reversed direction also plays some part in its faster cut. The difference between Western and Japanese handsaws comes to mind but I don't think this is the answer.

In either case, the speed of cut is impressive but I shall be sticking to my ancient 6 x 4 and the associated cup of tea!

stephen goodbody:

I was about to ask for pictures of your lathe but it seems it is already documented on lathes.co.uk.

Russell Eberhardt:

I am using the same version of Firefox (57.0.4) and, whilst I have experienced one or two crashes, it is good to know about the mitigation.

Have you any idea what the reference to "euballot" on the About Firefox page means?

JasonB:

Thank you for putting me right; I had speculated that the supposed difference might be to do with the handfed versus gravity fed point.

There is a video on this page:

https://www.stakesys.co.uk/femi-782xl-swivel-head-portable-bandsaw-230-volt

which seems to show a direction of travel arrow on the saw frame pointing the "wrong" way (I coudn't detect from the demo which way the blade was actually moving but it seemed to be depositing the bulk of the chips on the operator side.

SillyOldDuffer:

VFD sharing: when I converted my S7 with the Newton Tesla "turnkey" package they were happy to sell me a second 3ph motor to replace the 1ph motor on my mill/drill. These stand next to each other with the control box accessible to both and unplugging one and plugging in the other is the work of seconds.

This arrangement has worked well for me for several years

Am I right in thinking that the Femi blade runs in the opposite direction to the conventional 6 x 4 convertible machine?

At first sight this seems unlikely if it means that the blade cuts upwards and away from the accessory table but no doubt a user can enlighten me.

Russell Eberhardt:

Thank you for further clarifying the relationship between Intel microcode and the BIOS. As I understand it, the latter is written by the motherboard manufacturer - possibly an argument for using an Intel board.

I probably need to re-visit Scott Mueller's excellent book.

Dave

Thanks for the further information and the link which I am attempting to digest.

I have always put my own desktops together and shall watch for any CPU firmware updates (which I assume are different from BIOS updates).

SillyOldDuffer:

"The Microsoft Desktop fix only covers Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1"

Can you point to any further information about this, please? I had gathered that Win 7 users would be left facing the spectre of meltdown with no help from MS.

Mick B1:

I, too, can vouch for your suggested method.

It is perhaps worth mentioning that concave surfaces can be generated by putting the rod between carriage and tailstock base. If accuracy is necessary in either case attention must be paid to the position of the tooltip in relation to the rod.

jimmy b:

Beautiful work which I would hesitate to touch with a screwdriver!

JasonB makes a good point about the available throat depth.

I have an ancient Warco 6 x 4 and have occasionally used it in vertical mode with reasonable success. Handfeeding thin material may be problematic, however, if the blade is too coarse.

My machine seems to be intended for 1/2" wide blades only which limits its ability to cut small radius curves.