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Boy, what an invitation to the dog house. I have seen a tutorial for modeling a Windsor chair seat in SketchUp, and the construction would follow the modeling methods. If you're interested I'll look up the tutorial... I'd appreciate it if its' not too much trouble. Most of the replies have just aff...

The wife just came up with a new "wish" - she wants some new kitchen chairs with the seats molded to "fit". She vetoed my first thought of gluing sandpaper to her fanny to get get a perfect fit, so has anyone made any of these? Every technique I come up with seems like a whole lo...

Thanks for the input - I rechecked everything and the system is as tight and smooth as I could hope for. Even cleaned the whole mess with brake cleaner and a hot spray but got no satisfaction there so I tried the Kentucky windage method - drove some shims behind the spring. Bingo - 3/16 inch shim re...

Old faithful (1980's vintage MArk V) ate a drive belt the other day and in the process of installing a new belt I found that the motor driven pulley assembly was not adjusting to maintain tension at the highest speed setting. The sheaves would close until the belt rode about 3/16 deep in the pulley,...