Square holes

MakerSpace Leiden member Hans Delsink recently hosted a woodworking workshop on how to create tenons and mortises using power tools. Tenons and mortises are a common yet very effective way to create a solid mechanical joint between two pieces of wood. Hans’s technique involves a router table and a mortiser, making this operation fast and…

Stiff Ball Valves

We’re improving our dust-control. This sees us connecting the various machines up to a central dust and chip separator and vac-shop. But we needed some sort of valves; so we do not waste precious flow capacity on machines that are not in use. Unfortunately the PVC ball valves we got where very stiff (especially when…