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I watched a YouTube discussion on crosscut sleds. What I learned keep it light, keep it a reasonable size that you store easy, make is accessible so you use it. They made on about 12x18 out of 1/2 inch Baltic ply, used a steel miter bar (taken from old miter gauge) and put only the back fence on it ...

I have no issue with any one wanting to know the exact speed to set the dial but the tool / blades and or bits will let you know its boundaries and limits pretty quick . if the tools / blades and bits are not sharp the speed setting is out the window when it comes to quality . jmo Even with sharp b...

There have been many questions and comments about Headstock RPM. Why? I have owned my SS for 40 years and I never have known or cared to know the actual RPM of my headstock. In fact I own many variable speed tools and on none of them is the actual RPM displayed or known to me and and it has never ca...

I loved the video. It showed normal life in a shop when things do not always go like planned.

I thought I would show you guys one of the beautiful things we HAVE to look at here in Florida

There was MS Dos that ran on most any pc, then there was IBM Dos that had code added that tied into IBM bios and made math and other functions much faster. However at the time we were all enchanted with the speed of practically any PC so the speed difference was lost to most PC nerds of the time. Th...

My objection over the differences of the 510 and 520 is more over repeatability and which requires the operator to fiddle around the most to get that repeatability. I agree if you always do this and that to overcome certain traits within the machine you can for the most accomplish this. But when you...

Pressing the Table Tube(s) upward(as om the 520) or or outward (as on the 510) is IMO the same with the same result. On the 510 the Table Tube is pressed against the inside of the tubular Table Rail. On the 520 the Table Tube is pressed upward against the top of the Table Rail into a mating curved ...

I think Scott over emphasized the sag problem, to me the biggest problem was pushing the thin end of a screw stud into a circular tube. If you hit the tube head ( exact axis of curve) on you had one height, if you hit the tube below arc of the tube it lifted the tube and you had another height. If y...

...I talked to the salesman and played with the machine and I found all the flaws of the 510 were addressed and corrected by the 520. I ordered my upgrade. It is excellent even the build quality had 100 percent improvement! ... Just for clarity, you upgraded the 'bad' 510 into the 'good' 520? As op...