I did a little more work on the next Wall cabinet for the next Niece today. I had some fiddle-pattern maple which I was planing to remove "Pringles" bows and twists. Then I decided they were flat enough to start making some mortise relief-cuts with a Forstner bit.
The PowerPro stopped having the "Speed Down" button work on me. There was one other time many months ago this happened, and it recovered. Today I couldn't get the button to respond for love or money. Speaking of money, I looked up the price of a new Control Panel, and it was $566 ! So I did a brief inspection and then just left to do other stuff. Came back and it still wouldn't work. I finally tried stepping through a bunch of preset speeds and other operations. At some point, after having run a 2000rpm speed preset, and then Reversing direction, the Speed Down button started working 100% perfectly again! I did power-cycles and everything after that, and it has stayed "good". So my 5-1/2 year old PowerPro is still going strong.
Getting back to Forstner-drilling reliefs for future mortises, that basic work is visible here on the underside of the "top" fiddle maple slab:
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Stay warm,
Chris
