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I thought I would share this YouTube channel I recently came across. His main power tools are a ShopSmith PowerPro Mark 7 and a Craftsman radial arm saw.
In this project video he features the Mark 7 and demonstrates the setups for the various procedures.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQUgNaJQ7o[/youtube]

Interesting. Thanks, Ron.

Thanks Ron. Great channel. One tip I offer when viewing youtube. If you click on the gear wheel you can speed the video up to 1.25, 1.5 and 2 times normal speed. Sometimes this is handy to get all the information from a video in half the time. As needed you can slow it back down to catch important details.

Please do not perform cross cut operations in the manner depicted in this video. Cock that work piece just a little bit while performing the cut and you will be eating it. Other than that, I thought this was a very good tutorial.

Visit with him on YouTube. He has some really good ideas.

dusty wrote:Please do not perform cross cut operations in the manner depicted in this video. Cock that work piece just a little bit while performing the cut and you will be eating it. Other than that, I thought this was a very good tutorial.

Visit with him on YouTube. He has some really good ideas.

Considering the 'length' of that cut, how would thee do it Dusty?

Not everyone has a 'humongus' sled.

I have to admit that I felt uncomfortable as he held down the back end while pushing through the cut. I wondered why he did not have any sort of out feed let alone some sort of push pad! . Then in the next shot I saw the work table which I presume was supposed to function as an out feed , but dang it seemed so far away and not high enough. The other thing that bothered me was reaching over to turn on the DC AFTER staring the saw!

As an old fart I would have liked to see hearing protection and since it was plywood some sort of dust mask (or did I miss that ?? can't remember but maybe I'll have to go back to check?!?)

Not saying I did not appreciate the positives about using a Shopsmith just really not excited about the "why me worry?" processes.

Be well,
Ben

JPG wrote:

dusty wrote:Please do not perform cross cut operations in the manner depicted in this video. Cock that work piece just a little bit while performing the cut and you will be eating it. Other than that, I thought this was a very good tutorial.

Visit with him on YouTube. He has some really good ideas.

Considering the 'length' of that cut, how would thee do it Dusty?

Not everyone has a 'humongus' sled.

The fact that I have a sled is really the answer to your question but in the absence of a sled I would take the job to either a table saw with a miter gauge and long fence or to that 10" RAS.

tomsalwasser wrote:Thanks Ron. Great channel. One tip I offer when viewing youtube. If you click on the gear wheel you can speed the video up to 1.25, 1.5 and 2 times normal speed. Sometimes this is handy to get all the information from a video in half the time. As needed you can slow it back down to catch important details.

Thanks for the tip, the speed up options don't show up on my computer, (Ubuntu 14.4, Firefox), it must be graphics card or browser dependant, but I'm sure it will be of use to others.

rpd wrote:

tomsalwasser wrote:Thanks Ron. Great channel. One tip I offer when viewing youtube. If you click on the gear wheel you can speed the video up to 1.25, 1.5 and 2 times normal speed. Sometimes this is handy to get all the information from a video in half the time. As needed you can slow it back down to catch important details.

Thanks for the tip, the speed up options don't show up on my computer, (Ubuntu 14.4, Firefox), it must be graphics card or browser dependant, but I'm sure it will be of use to others.

Doesn't show either on my win 8.1 FireFox 37.0.1.

JPG wrote:

dusty wrote:Please do not perform cross cut operations in the manner depicted in this video. Cock that work piece just a little bit while performing the cut and you will be eating it. Other than that, I thought this was a very good tutorial.

Visit with him on YouTube. He has some really good ideas.

Considering the 'length' of that cut, how would thee do it Dusty?

Not everyone has a 'humongus' sled.

I have a crosscut sled that big. However, I would not hesitate to do what he did. It has to do with width to length ratio in my opinion. In his case I think it is adequate. I would never cut a piece that way if it was i.e. 6" wide and 3' long.