Today in the shop (red chest plug)
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:56 pm
I know some of you have the old shopsmith red cabinets in your shop. While this is not a big issue it was one of those things I wanted to get at for the last year or so.
I tried to convince myself that I could live with the missing plug, heck it even made a place to store a pencil.....
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But more often then not it worked as a nice hole to let saw dust and chips in the drawer below. Last Sunday I went to a sale at our local American Science and Surplus store and spotted these plugs that I thought might work to fill the hole.
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By marking the distance above the top I was able to use a cable cutter to do a nice job of chopping the plug off. Looked good enough to me.
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Turned out I didn't even have to spend the $.15 ea that is the normal price, they were on sale for $.05 ea. What a bargain and now I happy for all the right reasons.
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Ed
I tried to convince myself that I could live with the missing plug, heck it even made a place to store a pencil.....
[ATTACH]22858[/ATTACH]
But more often then not it worked as a nice hole to let saw dust and chips in the drawer below. Last Sunday I went to a sale at our local American Science and Surplus store and spotted these plugs that I thought might work to fill the hole.
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By marking the distance above the top I was able to use a cable cutter to do a nice job of chopping the plug off. Looked good enough to me.
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Turned out I didn't even have to spend the $.15 ea that is the normal price, they were on sale for $.05 ea. What a bargain and now I happy for all the right reasons.
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Ed