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by SteveMaryland
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:26 pm
Forum: Community
Topic: Shopsmith at Workbench Con 2024
Replies: 10
Views: 549

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?
by SteveMaryland
Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: Community
Topic: US Government is About to Change Table Saws FOREVER!
Replies: 152
Views: 10104

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...
by SteveMaryland
Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: Maintenance and Repair
Topic: Repairing Quill Spring
Replies: 35
Views: 3392

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...
by SteveMaryland
Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:24 pm
Forum: Maintenance and Repair
Topic: Repairing Quill Spring
Replies: 35
Views: 3392

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 ...
by SteveMaryland
Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Community
Topic: Making a Lie-Nielsen Plane From Start to Finish
Replies: 15
Views: 905

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...
by SteveMaryland
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Woodworking Tool Review
Topic: 3D printed axial cyclone for dust separation
Replies: 18
Views: 1655

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 ...
by SteveMaryland
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: Maintenance and Repair
Topic: Speed dial handle
Replies: 7
Views: 686

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...
by SteveMaryland
Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: Woodworking Tool Review
Topic: 3D printed axial cyclone for dust separation
Replies: 18
Views: 1655

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...
by SteveMaryland
Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:21 am
Forum: Community
Topic: DeWalt Radial Arm Saw vs Shopsmith
Replies: 10
Views: 29477

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 ...
by SteveMaryland
Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:56 am
Forum: Community
Topic: US Government is About to Change Table Saws FOREVER!
Replies: 152
Views: 10104

Re: US Government is About to Change Table Saws FOREVER!

I think this whole issue turns on the moral question "To what lengths should a society go to protect its citizens from their own folly?" Technology becomes toxic when applied to protecting the foolish from the consequences of their folly. It is a fuzzy line. Saw guards, airbags, seatbelts,...