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New Guy, Old Tool
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:12 am
by Fun King
Hey. I'm very happy to have found this group, I've been going it alone for so long! My ER10 came into my life well over 25 years ago. It was left behind in a house I bought. I recognize it's shortcomings, but there is no way I would have acquired all the separate tools that the ER comes with. Here's some photos, no shiny paint, just lots of saw dust:
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And here is what I have been making lately:
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:21 am
by JPG
Welcome!
See! Y'all notice it does not have to 'shine' to 'function'?:D
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:21 am
by robinson46176
Oooooo... It even has the extra variable speed drive...
Mine doesn't have it.
Good looking 10-ER.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:21 pm
by dgale
Nice - I wish I'd found one at my house when I bought it :-) Nice bottle openers - what types of wood are the handles?
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:52 pm
by Fun King
Variable speed drive, I didn't even know what it was till last week, I still don't know how to use it. I have been using whatever exotic woods I can get my hands on for my openers. These are: "tiger" maple, cork from a flooring sample, ebony, cocobollo, lignum vitae, red something and stabilized burl. I have a bunch more in progress I'll put them up when they're done. My favorites right now are bokote and tonkin cane.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 3:19 pm
by dgale
Fun King wrote:Variable speed drive, I didn't even know what it was till last week, I still don't know how to use it.
JUst turn the crank and it should speed up/slow down. If it isn't doing this, take it all apart and clean and lube it as it's probably corroded together and hence doesn't work.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 3:43 pm
by fredsheldon
Fun King wrote:Variable speed drive, I didn't even know what it was till last week, I still don't know how to use it. I have been using whatever exotic woods I can get my hands on for my openers. These are: "tiger" maple, cork from a flooring sample, ebony, cocobollo, lignum vitae, red something and stabilized burl. I have a bunch more in progress I'll put them up when they're done. My favorites right now are bokote and tonkin cane.
Be nice to see some pictures as to how you work the wood into those shapes and secure the openers to the wood. Nice work.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:10 pm
by camerio
Nice work ...
Would you be so nice as to put your nomenclature (list) of wood that you have used in the same order as the picture, so that way we can learn to identify the sort of wood used with the opener in question ... I would really appreciate it.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:16 pm
by robinson46176
dgale wrote:JUst turn the crank WHILE IT IS RUNNING and it should speed up/slow down. If it isn't doing this, take it all apart and clean and lube it as it's probably corroded together and hence doesn't work.
With a mechanical variable speed changer (Reeves type) on most things it is to be changed only while running. Of course if you are changing speed by changing belts on pulleys I don't recommend doing so while it is running. 
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:22 pm
by dgale
robinson46176 wrote:With a mechanical variable speed changer (Reeves type) on most things it is to be changed only while running. Of course if you are changing speed by changing belts on pulleys I don't recommend doing so while it is running. ]
Since we're discussing the speed changer on a 10ER, I don't think it would matter if you turned the crank when it was off...obviously it wouldn't change the machine if it wasn't running but I don't think doing this would be problematic like it is with a Mark V.