Re: Home shop adventures
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I lent my brother my worm drive skillsaw so he could do some remodeling work. He brought it back and said it was no good and downright dangerous. It jumped and smoked and wouldn't cut and he had gone and bought a new el-cheapo circular saw and it was much better. I opened the carrying case and noticed a brand new blade installed backwards in my saw. When I asked him he said "oh yeah, I put that in before I started to make sure I got clean cuts".
On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 10:32:42 AM EDT, Richard Wanke <r.wanke@...> wrote:
As I was leaving to run some Saturday morning errands years ago, I said good morning to the neighbor in his newly built garage as he was getting ready to put up a new garage door opener. Several hours later upon arriving home I walked over to see how he was progressing. He was having trouble drilling holes in the wood header and said he had just bought the drill bit the day before but he screwed up because he bought metal cutting bits instead of wood cutting bits. I looked around and at every place he had run a lag bolt into the wood to fasten the hardware was a blackened hole where the drill bit had burnt a hole in the wood. I politely told him the button on the drill would switch it into the correct direction. He was quite embarrassed to say the least but at least this last hole he was drilling went much easier. ?  
On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 08:24:51 AM EDT, ww_big_al <arknack@...> wrote:
The solution is simple. Use left hand drill bits. ?LOL.. Been there, done that Al-USA ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill in OKC too via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2023 10:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SouthBendLathe] Home shop adventures ? I'm going to self-righteously claim I have never, ever, ever done that. Sure I haven't. I wouldn't? lie to you about a thing like this :) ? Much. ;). Try it with a 1/2" bit sometime. I think it's caffeine deficiency. Yeah sure! That's got to be it! ? Bill in OKC? ? William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) ? Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY! Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome. Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first. ? ? ? On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 07:24:02 PM CDT, George Meinschein via groups.io <gmeinschein@...> wrote: ? ? I've been on a "git 'er done" home shop rampage for the last few weeks. Ran a dedicated 220 circuit to the garage. Learned how to bend half inch EMT and did that without screwing up a single piece of conduit. Got a 1hp Fuji VFD for the Bridgeport and a 3hp Fuji VFD for the 14.5" South Bend from the nice folks at Wolf Automation. Put up a nice belt drive garage door opener on the shop side of the garage this weekend. That's what is prompting me to write this post. |