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Ah, so! I can see the gaps now, but couldn’t make visual sense of them before.

edma194 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:05 pm Now, over here we have this other Smart Motor that has a dial on it that you turn by hand. Did your grandmother have one of those old tube TVs with a dial to change channels? It works just like that."

I have both, and have turned a few large bowl with them. Here’s a pic of a medium-sized applewood bowl with both accessories in action. Bowl in extenders 2 LowRes.JPG If I had to choose between the two, I’d defintely choose the speed reducer. The UTR is nice, but a large unbalanced blank spinning at...

What are these things that look kinda like little curled handplane shavings?

Good idea, Russ. So moving this tidbit of mechatronics history over from the other thread: ... “Smart motor” used to be a U.S. trademark registered to Animatics Corporation, which engineered the “animatronic” electromechanical puppets that you may recall seeing at Disney World. At the time, “smart m...

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Don’t rule out anything initially. For example, don’t assume that your fence is straight until you have independently verified that it is. I once had a virtually identical problem with a track saw. After triple-checking every possible alignment issue, a Google search turned up a guy who had had the ...

The photo with the plane is absolutely gorgeous. Did you make the plane? Thanks! Actually it's an ECE Emmerich plane that I had got used. It was very beat-up, so I dressed it up by laying thin strips of holm oak into the sides. Similarly, the decorative button is turned from holm oak. Wow, I just l...

The photo with the plane is absolutely gorgeous. Did you make the plane?

Those are good prices from Grizzly. For the cost difference, I'd definitely get the TEFC motor. When I pulled my OEM Power Station motor apart, the insides were pretty well gunked up with sawdust -- especially the rear oil reservoir. The rear oil port wouldn't accept oil until I cleaned it out.