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This forum is open to all comers with hints and tips on anything at all to do with renovating and allied crafts, trades, skills, techniques, etc.

  1. Angry Sticky Thread Sticky: Please Read This

    Started by Neil, 24th August 2003 02:15 AM
    administrators, agree, bit, board, bulletin, business, button, clicking, denigrate, eye, fight, forums, information, law, material, message, messages, moderators, odd, owner, person, post, posts, prepared, read, register, slander, spirit, time, woodwork
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 9,620
    Neil
    24th August 2003, 02:15 AM Go to last post

  1. cheap light source for old blind buggers

    Started by durwood, 1st July 2006 12:20 PM
    $4.99, answer, bandsaw, blade, blind, buggers, charger, cheap, cheapo, computer, connections, cut, ebay, fix, found, including, lead, light, mart, mitre, plug, postage, shop, sliding, source, transformer, treat, voltage, volts, wires
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 4,068
    Purpleheart
    11th October 2006, 10:27 PM Go to last post

  2. Getting a grip

    Started by Andy Mac, 24th August 2006 10:58 AM
    20mins, adhesive, apply, boring, checking-out, cheers, continually, cos, dressed, epoxy, eveneek, finger, fingers, grip, hands, licking, lifters, picked, purchase, spent, spray, sticky, stuff, talc, timber, tips, use;, weight, wondered, wood
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 3,262
    Lignum
    29th August 2006, 12:04 AM Go to last post

  3. Cutting laminex.....alone

    Started by Iain, 9th July 2006 04:33 PM
    1/2, 4x2, beautifully, blade, camper, carefully, cutting, flat, handle, happy, hold, hot, kitchen, laminex, laminexalone, layed, panel, pine, plates;, pretty, promise, push, set, start, swmbo, table, tear, thin, wall, weight
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 7,343
    graemet
    28th July 2006, 10:36 PM Go to last post

  4. $2 shops and the McJing Emporium

    Started by Bodgy, 24th July 2006 10:46 PM
    $2.50, $60, 800, alladins, bashing, browse, browsing, business, cave, checked, clamps, emporium, engineers, gouge, grit, hours, hss, leave, mcjing, mcjings, metal, national, quick, requested, shops, spends, square, stuff, w&d, whilst
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 4,029
    graemet
    26th July 2006, 10:43 PM Go to last post

  5. Bark

    Started by masoth, 6th June 2006 05:48 PM
    1kg, amazingly, arthritic, attachment, bark, beer, bit, days, glass, grout, hand, hands/wrists, holding, knife, mentioned, mind, mini-grinder, recently, remains, removed, removing, smilie, soaking, soth, thread, tool, tough, wine, wire, wood
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 3,479
    masoth
    24th June 2006, 11:14 AM Go to last post

  6. 1 double click to view all new posts

    Started by Wongo, 16th June 2006 12:38 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    “ubeaut, browser, click, desktop, didn’t, double, file, forum, forum.htm”, helpful, hope, internet, posts, save, search, text, view
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 5,234
    Carry Pine
    23rd June 2006, 07:01 PM Go to last post

  7. New Guy

    Started by twobob, 16th June 2006 04:13 PM
    advise, bob, carve, cheers, chisels, forum, forward, furniture, future, grips, guy, involved, love, palm, piece, pistol, posting, shaped, sharping, shooters, starting, well.i
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,681
    Iain
    16th June 2006, 04:44 PM Go to last post

  8. Improving vacuum cleaner performance

    Started by zenwood, 13th June 2006 11:55 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    abrasion, airflow, araldite, blocked, cleaner, concrete, easily, epoxy, flat, floor, gap, glued, improving, job, metal, minute, nozzle, perfectly, performance, pic, plastic, replaced, return, shed, stand, stick, two-part, vacuum, washers, worn
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 5,387
    scooter
    15th June 2006, 09:41 PM Go to last post

  9. capturing dust from drilling holes.

    Started by BobL, 28th May 2006 02:55 AM
    angle, appropriately, bin, bulk, capturing, careful, chuck, clean, couple, damp, dampness, drill, drilling, dust, falls, fold, half, happy, hold, holes, house, inside, junk, newspaper, paper, saturated, situation, soak, stick, time
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,727
    Iain
    1st June 2006, 04:12 PM Go to last post

  10. Thumbs up Hand Sander

    Started by chrisb691, 16th May 2006 03:27 PM
    12mm, belt, belts, cheap, cut, easily, hand, length, offcut, out.d, person, pine, remarkably, replaced, roughly, round, sander, slide, world
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,563
    Chesand
    18th May 2006, 07:38 AM Go to last post

  11. the worst woodworking day or dumbest thing you have done

    Started by doug the slug, 9th July 2005 10:03 PM
    6 Pages •
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    day, decided, dining, dumbest, feed, fence, forum, learnt, machine, moment, moved, piece, post, proceeded, router, run, save, set, sewing, similar, support, table, thing, timber, time, triton, woodworking, workcentre, workshop, worst
    • Replies: 80
    • Views: 14,663
    MrFixIt
    15th May 2006, 03:16 PM Go to last post

  12. Don't throw it out

    Started by jmk89, 18th April 2006 10:33 AM
    4 Pages •
    1 2 3 4
    2cm, 4cm, 8cm, aids, boat, bolts, couple, dimensions, dovetails, dowels, eclipse, epoxy, finger, ideal, joints, light, metal, mints, mixing, nails, nuts, practice, puddleduck, quantities, rack, screws, sell, throw, time, tins
    • Replies: 51
    • Views: 10,471
    Cliff Rogers
    2nd May 2006, 10:50 PM Go to last post

  13. Polycarbonate in Bris

    Started by David L, 15th April 2006 11:36 AM
    296, ago, bris, brisbsne, check, constant, david, garbage, montague, offcuts, polycarbonate, polycorbonate, reverse, sizes, supply, thickness, varing, visited, weeks, west
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,933
    David L
    15th April 2006, 11:36 AM Go to last post

  14. Moved: Do you have to mix mineral turps. to linseed oil?

    Started by Grace E, 5th September 2006 11:56 AM
    linseed, mineral, mix, oil, turps
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  15. Post Screws and Nails

    Started by Shedhand, 25th January 2006 06:02 PM
    120, 12mm, bottles, brekky, cheap, collected, crapiata, family, fingerjointed, found, frame, friends, fruit, hand, nails, screws, size, spc, storage, this.;
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 3,743
    Shedhand
    24th March 2006, 12:01 AM Go to last post

  16. 150mm floorboards

    Started by steel, 14th February 2006 10:24 AM
    150mm, advice, all.i, all.to, ask.thanks.d, blackbuttor, floorboards, hardwood, learned, lesser, nail, nail?this, post, query, question.so, questions, rate, read, secret, size, sized, t&g, top, wide
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 7,517
    Skew ChiDAMN!!
    8th March 2006, 09:12 PM Go to last post

  17. Smile Tins of [insert type] Finish

    Started by Paul H, 31st January 2006 07:25 PM
    bang, bashing, biggish, brush, dozen, drained, excess, finish, half, insert, knock, lid, mathematical, money, nail, oil, paint, rim, runny, saving, splatters, stuff, swmboeek, tin, tins, type, type], varnish, wiping, [insert
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 2,767
    Studley 2436
    2nd February 2006, 02:22 PM Go to last post

  18. Question Leveling a wooden floor

    Started by Helping renovat, 30th January 2006 04:29 PM
    10mm, 30mm, converted, daughter, floor, galley, helping, house, kitchen, leveling, original, putting, renovate, slope, thinking, top, tounge, verandah, wooden, yellow
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 4,569
    ozwinner
    30th January 2006, 05:32 PM Go to last post

  19. Wax on machine tops

    Started by Iain, 17th January 2006 08:48 AM
    brilliant, decided, greenie, lignum, link, machine, paper, tablesaw, tops, wax
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,918
    Iain
    17th January 2006, 08:48 AM Go to last post

  20. Possitioning screw holes.

    Started by Lignum, 3rd December 2005 04:55 PM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    2#pozzi-drive, bingo, bit, bright, buy, center, centered, cheap, dead, drill, hinge, holes, hollow, pain, perfectly, possitioned, possitioning, screw, selfd, simple, solution, spark, tip, vix-bit, whirl
    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 5,372
    Lignum
    11th January 2006, 10:32 AM Go to last post

  21. Poll Poll: Hole Saw Sander

    Started by oges, 6th January 2006 10:22 AM
    adhesive, easy, hole, idea, intarsia, paper, sand, sander
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,324
    CameronPotter
    9th January 2006, 01:12 PM Go to last post

  22. Using google for this forum

    Started by Clinton1, 4th January 2006 06:33 PM
    address, advanced, advantage, box, commonly, cool, domain, eggs, forum, forums, function, google, hey, options, phrase, results, return, risk, search, site, suck, teaching, thread, throwing, type, web, words
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,264
    javali
    4th January 2006, 08:35 PM Go to last post

  23. Chisel sharpening

    Started by mic-d, 15th December 2005 03:46 PM
    1200, 25º, 30º, 6000grit, bench, bevel, chisel, chisels, correct, edge, flat, grind, grinder, grit, hone, imperfections, jig, metal, quickly, razor, reflective, set, sharp, sharpening, slightly, stone, surface, surfaces, time, wheel
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 24,042
    forge
    2nd January 2006, 01:19 PM Go to last post

  24. Thumbs up Replace your fluro tubes!

    Started by DarrylF, 22nd August 2005 11:52 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    amazed, bring, bunnies, clean, colour, difference, fluro, guys, home, hour, huge, life, light, lights, local, main, mucky, quad-phosphor, replace, replaced, scratch, time, tubes, warranty, white, workshop, worth, wow, yellow
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 8,277
    doug1
    12th December 2005, 10:20 PM Go to last post

  25. rubber hose sanding aid

    Started by soundman, 9th November 2005 11:10 PM
    aid, bits, cheers, day, finger, flatens, flatter, flexible, handle, heater, hose, occured, paper, piece, plane, rigid, round, rubber, sand, sanding, shapes, support, wrap, wrapping
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 3,233
    Groggy
    8th December 2005, 10:51 PM Go to last post

  26. A good Shopnotes woodworking tip

    Started by craigb, 18th November 2005 11:01 AM
    bad, double, good, idea, liquid, nails, shopnotes, sided, sounds, tape, tip, todays, woodworking
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 3,528
    craigb
    18th November 2005, 10:29 PM Go to last post

  27. vacuum press

    Started by peter mikk, 13th June 2003 05:21 PM
    $1000, $cost$$, 50.00, alreday, ample, bag, boards, clamped, compressor, curved, doubled, entry, finished, head+motor, job, level, press, pull, pump+motor, pvc, quoted, simple, thick, unit, vacuum, veneer
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 5,981
    graemet
    11th November 2005, 08:38 PM Go to last post

  28. Lightbulb Nozzle clogged with Silicon

    Started by Nic0, 30th August 2004 02:08 AM
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    air, blow, clogged, compressed, dig, driver, hands, hardened, laundry, nozzile, nozzle, powder, removing, screw, silicon
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 10,409
    dean4
    3rd November 2005, 08:58 AM Go to last post

  29. Question Carbide tipped blades

    Started by savage, 21st October 2005 09:14 PM
    advise, answer, bit, blade, blades, carbide, clean, cut, diamond, doctor, furry, gday, knowledge, lost, noticed, occassion, opposed, replace, savageeric, setting, stone/file, tct, teeth, timber, time, tipped, touch-up, traditional, weeks, wondering
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 3,073
    savage
    22nd October 2005, 07:18 PM Go to last post

  30. Hidden glass doors

    Started by Flahertyga, 19th September 2005 06:00 AM
    accomodate, attatch, building, cabinet, called, center, component, doors, double, flip, glass, glides, hidden, jeff, middle, p.s, pair, pins, set, slide, stereo, unable
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,311
    Iain
    21st September 2005, 08:39 AM Go to last post

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