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The OP's new tool does indeed improve on the claw hammer, by improving the grip on the nail. That radiused portion I would call a "rolling fulcrum" bearing, which minimizes surface damage. That #357 Channel-Lock has thin and sharp pinchers which can cutoff the nailhead but with care this c...

I don't even own the Shopsmith 555435 conical sanding disc, but anyway I did a "flat pattern" layout for a 12 inch OD, 4-degree conical sanding disc just to see how or if a standard flat abrasive pad could be cut to fit (to avoid buying the Shopsmith pads). On the website, Shopsmith does n...

From the picture, not sure how this tool operates, or where it grabs, except as a plier. One of my all-time most useful tools is a Channel-Lock #357. They call it an "end-cutting plier". This tool will get under or pullout most any size nail or brad as long as there is anything it can grab...

Item 53 is the spherical washer. I learned the hard way to stick my hand in underneath that washer when pulling out the quill pinion shaft. The Shopsmith diagram is not clear as to 53 orientation. Attached is a photo. The convex side faces outboard, and the other side bears on the outboard surface o...

Thank you Mr. Dalton for collecting and posting all these items over the year(s).

This forum has just the people who can appreciate and learn from them as I have.

Very good that you are still with us. We do have a good group of people on this forum, warts and all. UTI's are horrible and dangerous. I suggest you obtain and keep a dose of Ciproxin or whatever that antibiotic is for UTI's. Its a prescription but get your doctor to write one and keep that antibio...

Because I want location repeatability - I want to be able to mount and dismount aux tables so they mount repeatably. 510 nested circular tubes setscrewed in place allow some non-repeatability of tube to tube alignment. The 520 extrusion geometry attempts to remedy this. Alignment in this case means ...

Pictures are worth 1000 words. 520 design is better than 510 but both displace rather than zero out slop because both use setscrews. 510 slop is x-y where 520 confines the slop to x. As the drawing shows. Setscrews and wedges are inexpensive but imperfect. A collet-chuck design would have been the b...

Some relevant pages from Krulikowski, Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing. Explains how flatness is defined and inspected.

My table is also out-of-flat by a small amount. I have considered tapping the table to attach some steel plate or angle underneath the table.