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Nigel, It sounds as if your guides are hopelessly mis-aligned. I had to resort to a little re-working to get mine to line up with the wire system, one being about 1/8th out and the other about 0.04" out in opposite directions. The guide stays were pressings and the rollers attached onto a casting welded onto these stays. Further to this mis-alignment the guides moved when clamping the stays at differing positions. I lightly skimmed all the contact surfaces to true it all up. I concluded the wel...

Machine Mart by Google Maps A BURGLAR who broke into a DIY store twice in the space of four days and stole more than £1,000 of tools has been spared prison. Anthony McDonnell burgled the Machine Mart on Hawleys Lane in Dallam on October 9 last year and took DeWalt tools valued at £443.99 from inside. On October 13, he returned to the same shop and took another £646.79 of goods. The 37-year-old, of Bardsley Avenue in Dallam, had only just been released from a ‘lengthy’ custodial s...

Pets at Home A PERSISTENT thief who was banned from Bolton town centre stores has been jailed for 24 weeks after going on a crime spree. Guy Morrison, of Lavender Road, Farnworth, admitted stealing goods ranging from pet treats to alcohol from stores including Pets at Home, B&M, Morrisons and Machine Mart between November last year and January. At Wigan Magistrates’ Court he also admitted assault, using threatening behaviour and breaching a criminal behaviour order. Morrison was told:...

From what I saw of it, it had its limitations; but that may just be me! A friend with one was recently quoted six months delivery for spares! He obtained standard bearings locally, and we made up a new housing to carry a standard 65 x 45 x 10 lipseal instead of the, to my eyes, crude, O E sealing arrangement. The Chester Model B looks to be a very similar machine, and Warco used to sell what looked like the same machine.. Read the reviews on here. If it will do what you want, it may be the mach...