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The serial number indicates it was manufactured in 1994, and I believe week 05 but I could be wrong on that last part.

The fence is for the Jointer which is hopefully amongst the goodies you received with your ShopSmith

I liken it to using "Space Age Technology" which was cool in the late 60's and early 70's but was meaningless and sad much after that. There is nothing smart about the conventional headstock and tacking the term on to 70+ year old technology is just inviting ridicule. It isn't as annoying ...

I knew I had seen that design somewhere but couldn't find it in any of my books or plans and it was right on the shelf behind me the whole time. You did a beautiful job with it. Now you can use it for some well deserved rest.

Here is a version I've mostly cleaned up, but it isn't perfect.

Turbotax got the final form finished, and from the time I filed electronically until the deposit was in the bank was 13 days. I got to keep $48.10 of it and the rest went to the state of Minnesota.

I took the morning off from work since I worked the weekend and did my corporate and personal taxes. Turbotax still doesn't have the forms ready to record my S-Corp income, but it looks like I'll be getting about $2k back from the fed and turning around and sending all but about $30 of that to the s...

Shopify is a legitimate business used by a growing number of companies to handle their online sales. Two of my current clients are using Shopify for their online stores (both clothing companies) The security issues and liabilities around handling people's financial data, credit cards bank accounts e...

Making a saw board for any circular saw is easy. I used one like this with a $49 Black and decker saw for many years before I eventually bought a track saw.

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/tools/2101 ... -track-saw

I have two of the originals and while I generally like them, they aren't perfect. When working with melamine or pre-finished sheet goods, they tend to slip, but I seldom need to rip anything narrow from sheet goods where this becomes an issue. Mine don't have the little feet at the trailing edge to ...

Sawstop did say they would license necessary patents on FRAND basis if the rule were to pass. Can you provide a reference for that one? There are several comments in the proposed rule document that seem to conflict with it. Perhaps the offer was made in or near 2003 when SawStop petitioned for the ...