WA day luck

Usually when I go to my pile of scrap looking for pieces of steel plate everything is a few mm undersize so I'm forced to cut from a much larger pieces.

This arvo I needed a few pieces to make a motor bracket and the two mains pieces I needed were 200 x 250 x 6 and 200 x 280 x 5 or 6.
I quickly found the first piece to the mm while the the second piece took a bit of hunting but I found a piece that was 200 x 300 x 5.
That's probably my luck for the year but I'll take it. :D

NSW 43 carving chisels

43 mixed brands marpiles tition
carving chisels and 2 tool rolls

restored re sharpened and set to go

free post Australia wide

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good blade but Bi-metal or tungsten tip

Hey members, got my home made Horizontal Bandsaw ( http://ift.tt/1GQIYel ) but l'm trying to source a blade, 4420mm long not sure on width 27mm for starters l suppose.

The rollers it will run through are 10mm x2 wide (20mm), trouble is l need a good blade as there MAY be nails etc in some logs (murphy's), l sent an email to one supplier - they recommended tungsten tip but the price including delivery was close to $260.00.

l don't mind paying for a good blade, but will a a nail etc wreck a T/Tip blade?

Is Bi-metal a better option or perhaps have both, anything iffy use the Bi-metal, clean timber use the T/T.

Carbon blades are about $60, but l'm going to be cutting hard timber, some box, blackwood, redgum, yellow box and Sheoak, l can't see the carbon lasting the distance.

Any suggestion on good suppliers/blades, l know the thread about the motor mentioned blades but were are reasonable suppliers, the $260 blade was from a supplier in Brisbane (name is a bird starting with "P")

I'm not saying they were gouging me - but what is a reasonable blade worth?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Steve

Finishing advice for Tassie oak built-in bench top

So I have abandoned the idea of using pine panels as a suitable top for my living room built-in, and purchased some of laminated Tassie oak panels. I am planning to join them end to end with a biscuit joiner and glue before attaching them to the cabinets. I will then fill any joins and cracks/defects with hardwood coloured timbermate. To finish it I was going to water down some more timbermate to use as a grain filler before sanding back and staining with a wattyl traditional craftsman stain/dye in teak colour. The final finish will be with 3/coats of minwax water based polyurethane.
Can anyone see any problems with this sequence? Any advice will be appreciated as this is my first woodworking project and I am open to all ideas.
Cheers.

Creating a VIN

G'day Everyone
Trailer is all built except for the VIN plate. As I'm a'low' volume builder (I am not building another trailer again LOL) can Irandomly pick letters and numbers? I know I can't use O, I, Q but is there any other tricks. I'm in QLD ifthat makes a difference.

Thanks
Sean

Help -car etc plans needed

Ladies and Laddies

Howdy

My men's shed has a need for some basic vehicle and toy plans

The thought is that there are a number of members whom don't have any particular projects of their own
There are also a number of community pre-schools and council run day care centres in the area who would love some wooden toys

So what I'm after is recommendations for plans for sturdy toys - the ones that are not too intricate and have stood the test of time.
And the sort that can be made by men's sheddies who do not necessarily have a high set of woodworking skills but will learn some woodworking basics while making toys. Eg oneye's race cars look pretty speccy but we need to be able to use the plans - and I don't want to steal anyone's intellectual property

I've thought of dolls houses and block sets (like those made for my son's school last year)

So what I'm doing is asking for your wisdom in pointing me to the wooden toys which have stood the test of time. If you have a favourite I'd love to know what it is (and a link would be nice)

in the meantime I am going through a few books I have along with searching the web and generally looking in this part of the forum

Dividing head connected to x-axis feed on Bridgeport

I don't have much experience with this so please excuse my lack of knowledge and use of the proper words. Some time ago I bought a dividing head which had a extra coupling that I did not understand. I did some research and found out it is meant to mount a gear, which could be driven by a gear-train attached to the x-feed of a mill.
Recently I picked up a set of gears with mounting-accessories which I thought might be for such a dividing head and could be made to fit on mine. Am I correct? (see pictures)
Could anyone enlighten me on the use of such a contraption, other than milling spirals? Also, could this be usefull on a Bridgeport? (I also have the "angle head for the bp if that would be needed)
Any links to information about this is greatly appreciated.

These are the teeth counts on the different gears:
24(*2), 25, 26, 28(*2), 30, 32, 40, 44, 48, 56, 56 with stub, 64, 72, 80, 86, 88, 100, 127.

Thanks very much,
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