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- Sat Jun 15, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: General Woodworking
- Topic: Make or Buy?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12247
Re: Make or Buy?
So Mr Gale, with your experience in boat building, what material could best be used to make a tongue/groove joint watertight?
- Wed Jun 12, 2024 10:15 am
- Forum: General Woodworking
- Topic: Make or Buy?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12247
Re: Make or Buy?
Now I have finally finished milling a batch of tongue & groove floorboards sufficient to do the porch deck. Started with bigbox lumber and milled it down into nice flat straight 1-1/4" thick boards. Shopsmith and I got them to a very uniform geometry. Next step is tearing off the old floor ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: General Woodworking
- Topic: Cutting 1/2" acrylic on bandsaw
- Replies: 6
- Views: 619
Re: Cutting 1/2" acrylic on bandsaw
I have had that same problem, with thinner material. 1/2 inch thick would be worse. And 1/2" plate is expensive material so must find a method that works. Is this material really acrylic, or might it be polycarbonate? Polycarbonate really melts quickly when cut. I have not found a solution, so ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: 10ER Speed Changer Retaining Ring Source
- Replies: 9
- Views: 555
Re: 10ER Speed Changer Retaining Ring Source
Have a look at the attached PDF. Rotor Clip brand retaining ring selection. Match up your ring dimensionally with a ring in the catalog.
Any bearing retailer should sell these, or McMaster might also sell them.
Any bearing retailer should sell these, or McMaster might also sell them.
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Beginning Woodworking
- Topic: need help, what is thI s
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1450
Re: need help, what is thI s
I'm sure this has been pointed out elsewhere on this forum before, but any kind of setscrew-secured shaft is inherently non-concentric, whereas a collet-secured shaft is inherently concentric. Maybe not by much, but at high RPM (as with a router) it really matters. There has to be some amount of slo...
- Tue May 14, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: General Woodworking
- Topic: Chair repair & refinishing
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1124
Re: Chair repair & refinishing
A lot of labor but a terrific result! Old furniture often has very good wood in them - makes them worth refinishing. Looks like you kept the patina. Good. Never sand the old patina off. Steel wool better than sandpaper for such work. Bentwood was widely used in furniture. I wonder how it could be re...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Wax tip.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19189
Re: Wax tip.
Has anyone tried "Jubilee" on a Shopsmith?? I haven't, yet. I am ready to run out of JPW, so I will be shopping for a new can soon (the can I have now came from Home Depot - still available??). Anyway, Jubilee was an SC Johnson product from wayback when housewives actually polished refrige...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Is the Smart Motor Speed Dial Ring, Back-Up Spring, part# 504196
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2505
Re: Is the Smart Motor Speed Dial Ring, Back-Up Spring, part# 504196
504196 Item 73 Spring, function is an anti-vibration device, supposed to put a drag on the speed dial to keep speed from drifting during operation. I would classify it as a sort-of safety component but in fact the (headstock) will run without it. I have not tried to run the (headstock) without one. ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Community
- Topic: Shopsmith at Workbench Con 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 948
Re: Shopsmith at Workbench Con 2024
I don't like that new "corporate slogan" at all. I really don't.
Resorting to profanity to get attention belongs in a locker room not on a tee shirt. Shows quite a lack of imagination.
What sort of corporate decisions can we next expect?
Resorting to profanity to get attention belongs in a locker room not on a tee shirt. Shows quite a lack of imagination.
What sort of corporate decisions can we next expect?
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Community
- Topic: US Government is About to Change Table Saws FOREVER!
- Replies: 155
- Views: 24237
Re: US Government is About to Change Table Saws FOREVER!
Even more off-topic, but some additional informed input. I hold two U.S. utility patents, both essentially worthless, and I wrote them myself, with no lawyer-help and thus cheaply. They were each approved by the Office with no objections. People, and especially inventors, have very wrong ideas about...