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Bessey Update. Two young men showed up with a van full of clamps and with much bowing and apology, replaced my 6 suspect clamps with new units. The serrations stamped in the bars seemed a little more pronounced on the new ones, my older ones were little used, and the jaws are soft magnesium, so...

I'm providing the models for the "Metric Baltic Birch" design that I've been using. It has steps for 12, 15, 18, 24, 28, 32 and 40mm, which are the standard sizes that I get over here (I suspect the good Euro stuff is the same there, but maybe they specially manufacture imperial stuff for US...

Sorry, was thinking it through again to make sure I was explaining it right and came to the same conclusion of referencing the same surface with a different stop as I wrote it. Kept the post for the same reason :cool: keep the knowledge flowing. Longer 14mm Aluminum hex stock is already in a...

Update on the Bessey clamps. Just got an unexpected call that a salesman will bring replacements for all 6 units on Monday. I will question him on any design changes (I suspect there won't be any) and will just use the replacements as sparingly as possible. Better than a poke in the eye with a...

These are very sturdy, and since the edge of the shelf blocks them in, they don't pull out. I used this type quite a bit in the US. But they require more space between the shelf and the sides, or very fiddly reliefs. Being a perfectionist I do like tight fitting shelves. They are also quite hard...

Yes, but your 4 clip suggestion would actually be much more resistant to tipping. If it had been an issue with the two clips, a top clip that used the rear shelf holes above the shelf could be made to secure it from tipping though. Good to think through the solution defensively. It wasn't...

The way I have this set up, the shelf goes in tilted up with the back higher than the front. The front clips are snapped in place and then the back rotates down and is a press fit with the rear panel, which effectively locks the shelf in place. It cannot move forwards or back, and to remove it...

Yes, sorry. They can give you about a 110mm offset from the edge, which is great if you are flipping the panel and are always just working from the nearest edge to the column of holes. But that means you are setting your offset reference edge from two opposing edges (one row from the top, one...

Sorry to side track you on details, it's my nature. I think you are referring to the little stepped presetting adjuster which is graduated in a number of metric values, am I right? If so, it isn't great for metric either as it misses some rather standard values (at least of what I can get over...

Yeah, I was worried when you told me which one you got, the bevel versions are really for plastic edge bands where you want that chamfered look. I use the square edge one most as I've been doing Melamine which uses very thin banding.

I promised my wife a little bit of progress on the home improvement front as it has been at a pretty glacial pace as of late. In the bathroom where I worked on the door surround, that unfinished wall also has a large opening where I intended to put an inset shelving unit, using all the space...

Loctite 770 Plastic Primer is the stuff you need to activate that slippery plastic surface and make bonding to it with adhesives successful.

That's a nice looking set, a lot of the ones I've seen just use nominal sizes which don't even fit a clearance hole properly. The more sizes the better. The other wonderful tool is a transfer screw which allows you to transfer mark an existing threaded hole pattern to another surface. I've not...

The tenterhooks that have been suspending me have become tender... [Austrian doing a bad Australian accent] That's not a transfer punch, that's a transfer punch. In all seriousness, there is nothing worse than a misaligned hole. Nothing I said! Transfer punches are a great solution, but the...

The pressure is on! 😅 I hope they work as well for you, I started to worry that Japanese edge banding is pretty weak sauce. The Amazon price looks quite reasonable at least, what chamfer size did you get?

I don't know if you can get them over there but the ceramic bladed STAR-M cutters are the best I've ever used. They just peel off a perfect edge like a dream (used them today!) They are small and double sided to fit into small corners and they have different chamfer sizes too.

My last tickets to the US would have single handedly blown this budget, but next time I'm in the Bay Area I will let you know as I'd love to visit! I wish money was the issue, for me I need space. I suppose more organizational solutions might help, but buying things to contain other things...

Last night I couldn't sleep, and as I often do in the stillness of night, I mulled over items on my internal 'ponder list.' Problems I haven't solved, questions I haven't answered. One of the things that has been troubling me was how to properly use the optical square to measure...

More likely that the oven was used for broiling fish at some point :) a flavor that seems to permeate everything once established. [Adding: I've never seen a domestically raised turkey here, everything I've seen was a mid-tier frozen US import.] As you know, even the largest readily available...

Yeah, I've seen rotating magnet style demagnetizers before but expected more complexity given the cost. I guess they aren't any more crude than a big AC coupled coil, both types work, so who am I to judge? But my main calipers have been magnetized for months and I keep forgetting to bring out...