Your bits are to big for your Collet (sure theres a joke there somewhere 
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Maybe I should buy a lathe to take them all down to 1/4"
How bigs your loft?
Oh the dream of a lathe!
Every now and again i’ll search on ebay but still get to the quandry of ‘where the fuck will it go?’
Me too. How many round things do I need. I think I just want to create vast amounts of wood shavings.
Maybe getting a hamster would justify it.
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I’ve got a metal lathe in our spare room and obviously keep finding little brass shavings all over the house now.
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You mean the “lathe room”
By spare room I meant the room for making spare parts
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great news guys I bought another router
Irnoically in the picture above it looks like I packed it in my luggage and brought it back to Estonia. But I’ve already bought this one now so I suppose I got a backup. Have not used either yet but got to make cabinet for freestanding dishwasher so let’s see how badly I fuck this up.
Might have to make a new thread
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Ive just been bevelling some oak flooring with that exact Makita router for the last two hours lol
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First post. Searching on the inter web for recommended riding surfaces for an outdoor ramp and came across this thread. Looking to put a final riding surface on my ramp. Currently have 2layers of 5.5 mm ext plywood of cuts. My budget is around £300 and have looking at marine ply of 5.5 or 9mm. So is marine ply any good.
How wide is your ramp? You’re not gonna get much marine for £300
Ideally 2 layers of 9mm ply would be used and you’re probably looking at 8 -10 sheets minimum if it’s an 8ft wide mini
Looks pretty steep!?! Or am I seeing things
It looks like Neil Blender’s ramp.
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I wonder if anyone knows where I can buy skatelite cheaper? I’ve seen it online for £190+VAT a sheet which would make my ramp surface about £1200.
I know it’s not expensive as far as engineered composite boards go, I’m just trying to save anything I can as it’s my pocket money rather than a commercial project.
The medite tricoya looks interesting but the two guys in this thread that used it haven’t been online for three years so not sure if I can get more recent feedback on it.
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The medite tricoya has a hell of a long outdoor life which would probably come with a guarantee . Probably best to contact a supplier and get the specs and details from them on how it’s going to be used .
From what I’ve seen it’s pretty much skat lite
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Thanks for your help mate.
I spoke to a “local” (1hr drive) supplier of Tricoya this morning. It’s coming in at less than half the cost of skatelite. The delivery is ludicrous but it’s only a small order by their usual standards I assume.
My only concern is if I can flex a 6mm sheet around a 1.8m radius. I was able to bend 9mm marine ply around that pretty easily so I doubt I’ll have an issue. I’m just unfamiliar with MDF and MDF derived products so don’t know what the flexibility is like.
This post used 9mm tricoya so I think I’ll be fine with the 6mm.
6mm will be fine , it’s what we’ve used on the pioneer mini ramp with 2 layers of 9mm ply underneath . And that skate lite has been on and off that ramp 3 times over the last 10 years for repairs and maintenance.
Skatelite it’s just mdf cured in what ever gnarly chemicals that keeps it good for all the conditions of outdoor use .
Just god wear a mask and extraction if you need to cut it .
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Excellent. Thanks again for the advice. I should only need to cut the tops off where the coping meets the transition but I’ve got a mask and it’ll be outside.
Last question while you’re helping, I’m planning to fix it down with 5mmx35mm stainless screws. The substrate is two layers of 9mm marine ply both fixed through to the joists. Was thinking I could fix the final surface to the marine ply and not worry about hitting the joists. I saw this on the gator skins YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PPcycyy-GF0
Do you agree with this? I can get screws in every 200mm evenly this way.
