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Found a book in the Amazon Kindle Book store that I wanted to have on my iPad, to get to read whenever, wherever I am. A Cabinetmaker’s Notebook by James Krenov. But, once again, it feels like Australia is the poor cousin of the USA, because we can’t buy the ebook down under – apparently [...]
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My recent visit to Melbourne Fine Woodworking’s premises for the Hand Tool Event also gave me a chance to sneak a peek around. They certainly have some very interesting machines, from this old, exceptionally heavy cast iron bandsaw To what would be the largest jointer I’ve seen to date Must be about 2′ across! There [...]
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The top of the Torque Workcentre is sacrificial and occasionally requires replacement. In the first instance, the most economic solution is to simply flip the top over to get twice as much use out of the sheet. However, Torque Workcentres have come up with an upgrade that means it was worth me creating a new [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Tools | Tagged: Channel, Holddown, Plane, Roundover, Router, Slot, Top, Torque, TWC, Walko | 6 Comments »
Projects seem to take forever these days! The Navy Display Board that I started in January is still progressing….very slowly. Found quite a bit more to include as well, and getting a bit of a layout together. Lieutenant shoulder boards, some 50 cal cartridges, a 5.56 cartridge, (and to display to either side on a [...]
Filed under: Project | Tagged: ANZAC, Defence Service Medal, Leander, Lieutenant, Medal, Memorabilia, Navy, RNZN, Salinity, TE KAHA, WAIKATO, Watchkeeping | 1 Comment »
I’ve been around the safety game for about 15 years now, from engineering in the Navy- establishing the first cut of a risk assessment register for the ANZAC frigates, through working for OHSE at Monash, and being on the OHS committee as Health & Safety Rep for the workplace for many years, not to mention [...]
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What did you think I meant? If a danger in the workshop can be represented by a cliff, then a fence at the top would be a very good idea. And a fall bag at the bottom. Safety equipment in the workshop are the fences, and the fallbags. Some prevent the risk occurring, some protect [...]
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Could have been avoided altogether if I had just used these on Saturday: After Dennis confirmed that gloves can be used safely with chainsaws (and at least with chainsaw maintenance), I went down to the (new) Total Tools in Carrum Downs to buy some gloves. There was quite a range. That store is going to [...]
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May again, and the fourth annual Safety Week kicks off again (despite a bit of a premature start, or was that an anti-start?) First message for the week is filtration. In Australia (at least in Victoria), every 6 months when we change to daylight savings, there is a safety message pushed to change the batteries [...]
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Other than the unfortunate premature end to the day’s activities, I did get to give the new Husqvarna 321 a bit of a tryout. Very nice, very sharp. It has a very soft start, so when you pull the trigger it takes a while to respond (I’m sure less than a second, but seems longer). [...]
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