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As a product matures, it receives a number of refinements and the latest collection for Torque Workcentres have just been released. This collection is primarily based around making adjusting the Workcentre as tool-less as possible. Each of the major adjustment points that originally needed a hex key now have spring-loaded handles. There is an improved [...]
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Not more than a stone’s throw from my home (less than 1km as the crow flies), a new sign is up, proclaiming that to be the location of a brand new Lowes store seemingly more of a Mitre 10 than a Bunnings, but if it has a good collection of home improvement supplies (and please, [...]
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Wanted to see how well acrylic blanks can be machined by the Beall Pen Wizard. Biggest frustration is you can’t just jump into a project. You have to go through all the steps to turn a pen beforehand. Not a problem (unless you are impatient to try an idea out!) This was very much a [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Techniques | Tagged: Acrylic, Beall, Pen Wizard | 3 Comments »
Nipped up to Carbatec to pick up a new Dremel so I could use it with the Pen Wizard. Been wanting one for ages, but needed a good excuse to go with the original brand of rotary tools, rather than some after-market ones I’ve had / have (GMC / Triton) The Dremel threads straight into [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Techniques | Tagged: Beall, Carbatec, Carrolls, CWS, Dremel, Pen Wizard | Leave a Comment »
The new website for Torque Workcentres has just gone live, and their new introductory video is definitely worth watching, if only to see the new chainsaw slabbing attachment in action! And the new version of the saw mount, which now rotates between crosscut and rip mode, providing a much better balance for the circular saw [...]
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Almost forgot to actually mention the new toy – been playing with it too much (not using it – haven’t graduated that far yet!) Playing with, reading about, and watching the supplied DVD. It has gears, handles, gears, a guilloche attachment, more gears and a gearbox. And it’s for woodworking! Have you guessed what it [...]
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One hidden benefit of using stormwater pipes for your dust extraction system is that you can reuse it for other tasks, such as stormwater! With the upgrade of the dust system recently, I have a bit of left-over stormwater pipes. Now with the acquisition of a new pool for the little one (well that is [...]
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After all the heavy duty shed dust extraction upgrades, I picked up a couple of smaller offerings today that will make it easier to clean up out there. They are both new offerings from Carbatec, the first is brand new – just arrived. This kit is simple, and lightweight, consisting of a couple of different [...]
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but more importantly, (saw) Dust to (saw) Dust. The original Entertainment Unit I built a fair number of years ago, arising from a pile of sawdust generated in the workshop to serve a useful role in the home has returned to the dustpile from whence it came. It is, like so many other things, obsolete. [...]
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There is an essential maintenance period between 4am and 6am on the 25th November (AEST), which may result in www.stusshed.com not accessing this site for about an hour or so. The site will still be operating as normal, so if you are dying to have a look and it happens to be in that window, [...]
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The Roving Reporter finally got to christen his Torque Workcentre today Another happy new owner. Some more ideas have been developed on using the Torque too, particularly in how to make 3D copying significantly easier. Dubbed “Plateau 3D Copying”, it is easiest to think of it as layer copying, using a cove head on the [...]
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Got to give the Kerfmaker a very quick run, and it was as simple as it was impressive. In only a couple of minutes, I had set the Kerfmaker accurately to the kerf of the blade, and then had intersected two pieces of timber at 90 degrees, with a friction fit that was perfect – [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers | Tagged: Kerfmaker, KM1, Tenonmaker, TM1 | 3 Comments »
