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BuckeyeDennis wrote:Nope. You, Dusty, Reible, and all the other "Platinum Members" are da ones! I greatly enjoy absorbing all the ShopSmith and general woodworking knowledge that I can from all of you, and hopefully will be able to add something from my own narrow field of expertise on rare occasion. .

And also hopefully, not be too annoying with my frequent late-night ramblings!

You da one who posted beefing up the power station deck that I referred to a few posts back. (#17)

[quote="JPG40504"]You da one who posted beefing up the power station deck that I referred to a few posts back.]
Yup. I be dat one, alright! Dang, now you got me talking like that too.

[quote="BuckeyeDennis"]Yup. I be dat one, alright! Dang, now you got me talking like that too. ]
You have said that beefing up the deck has yours purring like a kitten. I sure wish I could hear your kitten purr. Even with added structure mine still "purrs" like a wild cat (but then this is Wild Cat Country).

PS: I can soften the noise somewhat by setting the Power Station on a rubber door mat. Maybe I need to put the rubber feet back on.

dusty wrote:You have said that beefing up the deck has yours purring like a kitten. I sure wish I could hear your kitten purr. Even with added structure my still makes wild cat like noises (but then this is Cat Country).

This weekend, I'll see if I can figure out how to post a video. Sounds like time for a little tech support from my kids!

BuckeyeDennis wrote:This weekend, I'll see if I can figure out how to post a video. Sounds like time for a little tech support from my kids!

Please share yer new found expertise!:)

dusty wrote:You have said that beefing up the deck has yours purring like a kitten. I sure wish I could hear your kitten purr. Even with added structure mine still "purrs" like a wild cat (but then this is Wild Cat Country).

PS: I can soften the noise somewhat by setting the Power Station on a rubber door mat. Maybe I need to put the rubber feet back on.

Well, my teenage kids turned out to be of absolutely no use for video-posting tech support, and last weekend was too busy anyway. But this weekend, I figured out how to shoot video with the wife's DSLR and post it to YouTube. (I apparently still have something to learn about focusing the camera in video mode, but the audio is fine.) So here's a link to my stiffened Power Station running through it's entire speed range. To "calibrate" the camera microphone, I also ran my late-model Mark V through it's full speed range.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtX0klU ... e=youtu.be

I did cheat just a wee bit. After seeing your comment about the rubber feet, I figured that I should raise the casters and set the stand on its vinyl booties. Lo and behold, there was now an unexpected rattle. It turned out that the casters themselves buzzed just a bit with no load on them, So I raised the stand up on the casters to shoot the video. Hey, they are options, right. Also, I backed off the clamping knob just enough to let the variator slide move when running through the speed range; when completely loose, it still rattles a bit.

As mentioned in the earlier post, the Power Station has been retrofitted with link belts, as per Bill Mayo's recommendations. Those helped quite a bit, but the stiffeners were necessary to truly tame the beast.

JPG40504 wrote:Please share yer new found expertise!:)

When I checked out the options for posting videos, it appeared to me that YouTube was the way to go. Mostly because you can upload pretty much any video file format, and then YouTube magically makes it viewable by virtually anyone, regardless of their hardware/software platform. The downside is that YouTube is now tied in with Google+, a Facebook wannabe, and I spent a good hour overriding defaults settings aimed at automatically sharing my every thought, experience, and click-through with the entire world.

But actually posting a video to YouTube is quite simple. Here's a link to some nice clear instructions -- way better that YouTube's own help pages: http://www.wikihow.com/Upload-a-Video-to-YouTube

I was very impressed with the wikihow engine itself. It would be great for SS repair instructions and such.