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Or you can buy a quality plywood only blade and get almost 0 tearout. I personally would never attempt to cut a piece of wood on my saw by pulling it across the blade backwards, even if it was on my sled.

Wanted……ER10 miter gage indicator…. I don’t feel I abused the heat from propane torch. I was evenly heating the piece and I felt the pliers that I was using start to close. I stopped immediately and looked at the piece and I could see where the pliers were digging in. Then I looked dead on at the f...

The tabs take you to different strain reliefs but each one has a statement on them Now I understand flexible and rigid strain relief, the flexible having a corrigated sheaving. What I don't understand is the comment on the nut. What is dome nut or a flex nut. Or am I getting all tangled in their te...

I used the flex nut strain relief style on my Greenies (yes I did need to enlarge the hole) and I also use them whenever I need to attach an electric cord to an electrical junction box. They are fairly inexpensive, so I just keep a supply of them on hand.

I thought the write up said you could use a choice of nuts and I wondered why a choice so I thought I would ask you which nut you used hoping your answer would educate me on which nut to use where, without showing my stupidity. Okay the cat is out of the bag. The ad says you can use two different k...

Ed in Tampa wrote:What nut did you use to secure them?

Nut is included...you can see it in the picture.

If you are in need, these strain relief connectors work well.

Strain Relief Cord Connectors

From "Ask the Builder" by Tim Carter Blog discussing the test Removing Rusted Bolts Mike Cyr, of Presque Isle, Maine, wrote to me about an email he'd received from a relative. Evidently there was a study done by Machinist's Workshop magazine in their April 2007 issue. The story looked at t...

I you need a new motor for your old Greenie or a spare, SS has them on sale now.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/specials/7DS77.htm?jn=16963&kt=MKT&kr=0007746159&cnum=0007746159&epn=XTQPQTR

I have always determined rotation by by checking the shaft rotation direction from the side of the motor where the shaft exits the housing. So by my way of judging the rotation, a Mark V motor rotates clockwise and the saw blade rotates counter clockwise.