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For most folk, there are 2 limitations: space available and power supply. In most cases, the biggest single-phase motor that can be started and run from a 13A plug is 3HP, 2.2 kW. 3 HP compressors with 50-150L receivers are very widely available at a range of pricepoints. Broadly speaking, you...

Just looking at it, I'd guess at something like this: RL17/21 3/8 BSPT x 1/2" BSPP https://www.contextpneumatics-catalogue.co.uk/browse_product.aspx?mode=level1&level1=47865&level2=48268&stockistown=False# Could be wrong though. It really needs the thread sizes measuring. A pic of all the...

Take a look at the Kerry belt drive drills page on the lathes.co.uk website. Towards the bottom of the wordy bit is a section "Other drills- some useful links" which gives the drills that have the low-speed backgear for low-speed, high-torque. http://www.lathes.co.uk/kerrysuper8/ I have just...

I think "Werkzeug" translates as "Tools." The "Welzh" is probably the branding part in this case. The use of a threaded insert is pretty much a no-brainer. There are quality threaded insert kits available for considerably less than the one in the link, but the OP asks for the easiest way to...

What is the motor? I'm guessing it'll be a standard IEC Metric motor with B14 face-mount, probably 2-pole (about 2800 RPM) and probably 100-frame, but there's no spec in the manual that's available online, just the 3 kW rating.

It’s a PC case and you’ll be pulling a couple of small, presumably Aluminium, rivets. Get the cheapo, get it done and move on. It probably won’t be particularly good, but it’ll almost certainly be plenty good enough. If and when you have another job that needs riveting, you can see whether...

For that, I’d probably use a normal HSS holesaw. The curvature is presumably the reason you’ve given for the “thickness” and the actual steel thickness is maybe 2-3mm? With interrupted cuts like this, the larger number of closely-spaced teeth tends to work better because there are always...

How big are the holes? How fast does the "normal mains drill" turn: actually it's more a case of how slow does the drill turn? The carbide-tooth ones like the Starrett CTD-series (CDT20 for 20mm, for example) work very well if you have a reasonably slow drill.

Good, aren't they? Someone thought about them properly. The other light fittings that have really impressed me are the 600 x 600 LED panels that get used in suspended ceilings. A minor pain to mount above a bench, and not waterproof, but they give really consistent light from a large source...

I still don't see much advantage to a control-from-a-mobile stuff. I fitted a Horstman Centaurstat 7 a few years ago. It's a digital battery-powered 7-day programmable stat. Pain in the rear to programme, but it has the huge advantage of six time-zones/temperatures a day, which can be...

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577 is pretty effective stuff, though I've had equally good results on pneumatics with liquid PTFE from Screwfix, at a fraction of the price, for several years. You have a pretty good chance of it working if you tighten and have to back off a little to clock the fitting, but it's always best...

Try "4mm push-in tee". They are normally known as push-in fittings and are widely used in pneumatic systems. They are sized on the OD of the tubing, so 4mm is pretty small. If it's 4mm bore tubing, 6mm OD, 4mm ID is pretty common (often known as 6/4) and you'd want a "6mm push-in tee"

https://www.bearingboys.co.uk/?catid=1184&display=&orderby=&att1=150mm&att2=&att3=2&att4= For the 2-groove. It takes a 2012 bush, so https://www.bearingboys.co.uk/?catid=2595&display=&orderby=&att1=2012&att2=24mm&att3=&att4=&att5=

Flomasta liquid PTFE or Pipe Thread Seal. Either will work. Six quid from Screwfix.

Modern belts don’t usually seem to stretch much. What usually seems to happen is that the belts wear on the surfaces of the vee and the effective pitch length gets a bit longer. The pulleys can also wear, reducing their effective diameter. Usually, the wear is worst on the small pulley which, on...

The questions are probably: What hole diameter range? What are you going to be drilling and where? Multi-speed really starts to be a requirement when you need to go for big holes. If you are not going for big diameters, a smaller, lighter, single-speed machine is probably fine. Morse taper...

Can you check out the capacitors? Many compressors are cap start, cap run. The start cap gets switched out by the centrifugal switch and the smaller run cap stays in circuit, giving a small assist to the motor through the start winding (or what would just be the start winding on a...

Loctite 222 screwlock. The purple stuff, as Grim_D says. Doesn't need much. You only want to fill the voids in the assembled threads so it'll go off in the absence of air.

https://www.ukdrills.com/sds-drills/sds-plus-packs-of-1/sds-plus-drill-bit-pack-of-1 To be fair, I've not tried anything above about 16mm from ukdrills. Those that I've used have been encouragingly boring: maybe not as long-lasting as the premium brands (though I've not tested this and they...