Recent content by FatFreddysCat

Good makes from the UK include Bennett's of Sheffield. German makes include Stehle, Leitz, Oppold and TopLine. Freud Industrial are also good. Basically if you have a decent sw doctor locally (i.e. one who sharpens and repairs in house) you probably won't go wrong if you ask and take their...

Picked one up last September for £85. It's been a really good buy and I've taken it on a couple of new builds with me (for 2nd fix, i.e. skirtings, archtraves, etc). The standard blade is really good for MDF. It has a couple of downsides, though: the dust back is on a flimsy plastic fitting...

In order for any finishing system to work the layers need to be compatible, so acrylic lacquers need to go onto an acrylic under coat and any overcoating would need to be acrylic as well. But why are you trying to use (presumably clear) lacquer on top of acrylic paints? Acrylics are high gloss...

Any car paint supplier should be able to help you out

I'm with Masona. That's how we always do it on new builds

Possibly not. Fillers are designed to fill and have no structural strength. I'd just clean out the holes then whittle some tapered "tooth picks" from matchsticks or bigger offcuts and hammer and glue these into the holes with PVA glue. Once the glue has dried (24 hours) trim with a fine saw then...

In a word yes. The pressure treatment only forces the tanalising fluid into the timber a few millimetres which is why decent yards offer you Tanalith or the like to terat cut ends. The modern stuff is nowhere near as vhazardous as the old treatments of 5 to 10 years back but I'd advise you to...

I have to agree with oldbutgood - the consumables are what cost on these babies, but service costs are rising as well. I've just bought a Senco GT90CH clipped head nailer to replace my aged Paslode IM350. After using an IM350 for a long time it seemed a bit wierd to start with, and at least the...