A forum rant about many forums thread starters

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We see that a lot here too but that is the nature of the forum. That and people not taking the time to search out what has already been posted on subjects. I don't see that as a big deal as we are always answering questions that could or perhaps should be directed to the Shopsmith CS. I think as a whole we as a group do pretty well on most of those answers.

I didn't take the time to read the answers but it looks like to me the blade needs a good cleaning. Get pitch on it and it burns and more pitch on it and the cycle makes a mess. Of course I might be wrong but since we are all friends here I don't think anyone is going to think poorly of me for that answer.

Ed

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Now, that makes sense.

Concerning manufactured tools; If the newly purchased tool doesn't work for you, Stop using it and don't buy another.

When you find a tool that performs for you the way you want - keep it, use it, no reason to change it, buy another when/if the first wears out.

Yep! With advanced age comes wisdom(usually ).

[Ed in Tampa]

I'm not that person but I bought a jump up whoppy saw blade once. I took it home and tried a cut. It looked like in nawed through to wood. I double checked everything, inspected the blade every way I could think of and still cut like a chain saw.

I cut a sample piece both rip and crosscut since it was a combo blade. I then made the same cuts using a very old Shopsmith blade. I took both back to the dealer laid them and the blade on the counter and the owner walked over to cash register and got my cash out and handed to me.

He was the one that had praised the blade. It was a new design one where they placed 10 crosscut teeth in a group followed by a group of 5 or 6 rip teeth then back to crosscut and so forth around the blade.

I wrote about my experience on a few forums but never mentioned a name. In almost every case people wanted to know the blade manufacture.
I didn't mention the name because I knew most people swear by this manufactures blades. Admittedly it was a new design and is now not made but it was a failure in my opinion.

Why posion the well was my thinking.

Nooo do not poison the well! Just let everyone else know about the poison, but do not tell them the source?

So they become suspicious of all wells?



What pray tell does that accomplish?

Was there poison? I don't know. What I do know is the blade did not work for me.
Frankly I like Charles answer, I think that was what I was trying to say. I found a tool that didn't work for me I took it back and moved on.

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First off, the example I copied and pasted, he did contact Freud finlly and found out a bad batch and Freud covered all, shipping and a new blade, for got either ground wrong on that side or teeth were not centered. Same result.
Second, same Forum toight
Just got my new Freud LU83 10 50T blade. The date code reads 35th week of last year. But the odd thing is printed just below the ‘MADE IN ITALY’ mark. It says: In Loving Memory of WK ...

Wow.
My response.
Just spit balling here, just like on football and baseball teams have a # patch on there uniform of a great player on there team who died, there may have been a great employee that did some process in blade making that died and it is Feuds way to recognize him/her, just a guess. Best to ask Freud, not 1000 post guessing here.