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- 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: 1068
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: 689
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: 14647
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...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Repairing Quill Spring
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4293
Re: Repairing Quill Spring
So now I notice that lewparsell said "This is a new 2020 machine from ShopSmith" and thus those 2 washers came from the factory, and no prior owner. But sure enough the PP parts list says item 53 and not those 2 washers he has. Mystery continues. I guess we can't blame this one on prior ow...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Repairing Quill Spring
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4293
Re: Repairing Quill Spring
1 of those 2 non-stock washers shown in one of the pictures looks like a Belleville. Maybe prior owner tried to substitute it for item 53 spherical (domed) washer. Item 53 works something like a Belleville but is shaped differently and not "conical" like a real Belleville. Bellevilles are ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Community
- Topic: Making a Lie-Nielsen Plane From Start to Finish
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1034
Re: Making a Lie-Nielsen Plane From Start to Finish
Interesting video, and company. Thanks for posting. Good to see American manufacturing happening, and I assume, profitably. So if this company and others in America can profitably make high-end hand woodwork tools, what does this say about the population and budget of American home-based woodworkers...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Woodworking Tool Review
- Topic: 3D printed axial cyclone for dust separation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2879
Re: 3D printed axial cyclone for dust separation
On my recent project to mount a cyclone onto an upright push vacuum, I "just assumed" that the cyclone had to be mounted vertical because otherwise gravity would pull the vortex off-center and screw up the flow. Guess I'm wrong again. But try running a topload washing machine sideways and ...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Speed dial handle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 752
Re: Speed dial handle
Here you go. Lathe project. Press-fit onto the current dial (the red part). DIAL KNOB 1.JPG Make it out of clear acrylic to minimize hiding the speed letters. I do agree with the others that more leverage on the dial is not the best thing - unless the dial itself is beefed up with a pressed-in steel...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Woodworking Tool Review
- Topic: 3D printed axial cyclone for dust separation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2879
Re: 3D printed axial cyclone for dust separation
I do my work outdoors, but I have no doubt that a "really good" dust collection system is a must for anyone doing power woodwork within a residence, for reasons of housekeeping, health, and domestic tranquility as well. Seems like most of the problem is getting that last 1 percent. I guess...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Community
- Topic: DeWalt Radial Arm Saw vs Shopsmith
- Replies: 10
- Views: 39676
Re: DeWalt Radial Arm Saw vs Shopsmith
Actually, the plywood cutting method shown on the Shop Notes cover is not out of the question. That operation could be made "safe" by using a 16-foot floor channel base, and have that base attached to the Shopsmith. And have the blade guard on. That is (sort of) how the big box store cuts ...