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If you are wanting to keep the support then I would have thought that the easiest thing to do would be to make the horizontal bearers the full width of the stair, so that the vertical struts are next to the walls and out of the way. In old staircases the bearers were often set into the wall at...

Yeah, could well be. Get an asbestos testing kit (there are plenty on Amazon/ebay) - you post off samples which they analyse.

Hi All, sorry about the long post. I'm going to move my stairs as this will allow me to squeeze in an extra room upstairs. I'm planning to build the new staircase myself from scratch - I realise that buying a kit is the easiest way to do this, but I fancy the challenge and reckon I can do it a)...

I wasn't advocating the use of a stacked dado blade, just pointing out that, contrary to a previous post, they are available in the UK and AFAIK legal to use for DIYers and maybe commercial workshops - perfectly happy to be proved wrong when it comes to commercial workshops. I've never used one...

You can buy and use dado stacks in the UK, Axminster sells them (although you wouldn't need one for a 6mm groove, as this could be done with two passes with a regular 1/8" thick blade with a FTG tooth configeration). Cutting grooves can be done without removing the riving knife as long as you...

I'm planning to do the same to a stone wall using resin anchors. In this vid (15:35) he talks about using expansion bolts for this . I don't think it matters what you use if it's strong enough and BC are happy with it, but I'd be happy to be put right if someone else knows more.

Thanks everyone. I never would have guessed it was a tin opener - I found it in a set of tools that belonged to my grandfather. #2 would be reaally useful if it is a parting tool as I've just bought my first lathe, but none of the parting tools I've seen have the bevels which come to a point...

Can anyone help me identify these tools are for? The first seems to be some kind of marking tool, not sure if there are any parts missing. The folded piece of metal slides along the shaft and has a cutting edge. The second has a stamp that says James Howarth Sheffield. I guess it's...