Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
I did much the same as Bird Cupps.? I live in Houston where winters are very mild and there is no need real freezing weather.? So my shop is on cinder blocks that are sunk about about 18" sub grade,
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Bob Card <bob@...>
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Re: Mantle Build Question
Joe,
I used cleats made out of aluminium. This is the source that I buy it from Orange Aluminum ( https://www.orangealuminum.com/z-clip-panel-hanging-systems.html )
They have different cleat sizes
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ahazi
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
My new shop is built on post/beam. I don¡¯t have a lot of machinery¡ªmostly the MM CU300. I reinforced the floor directly under it. I have an engineer friend who speced the floor and
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Bird Cupps
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
7 or 8 yrs ago, I got to the age where I could tell the number of hrs spent in the shop by how my back felt. I got cheap interlocking floor mats from HF as a stop gap and envisioned putting in a wood
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imran
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Re: Dust shroud for BF6 spindle moulder (shaper)
#dustguard
#repair
Richard,
My sentiments are the same with my overhaul, factory parts if not the original restored, but the spares list is already over the ?700 mark and I need to be realistic about things like belts
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Paul Curme
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
I was planning similar, but then realized I would preventing heat from getting to the slab and potentially get movement in the winter, I should have done a frost wall
Regards,
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Mark Kessler
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Re: Dust shroud for BF6 spindle moulder (shaper)
#dustguard
#repair
This might help you - at least conceptually - on your jointer table alignment challenge: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmc4uK4K
David
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David P. Best
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
As the father of a former ballerina, I can clarify one thing: plywood laid directly on concrete does not provide a sprung floor. To get any kind of foot relief, you need to put the plywood on a
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David P. Best
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Re: Adjusting jointer tables on BF6
#jointerplaner
Richard a pair of DTI's on magnetic bases would be the ideal tools for setting the outfeed table
if you can lay your hands on them.
It will show you straight away if there is movement as you are
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Paul Curme
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Re: Dust shroud for BF6 spindle moulder (shaper)
#dustguard
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Thanks Again Paul. I was just hoping to restore it as near as new as possible with original parts but hey ho!
I'd like a high speed moulder spindle for router bits but I guess these are more than
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
As a follow up on flooring solutions, I'm currently working out of a ~750sf detached garage with a concrete slab in good condition, heated with a forced air furnace in one corner. I agree with Jason
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Tom Gensmer
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Re: Adjusting jointer tables on BF6
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Thanks Paul,
I have the exploded drawings.
I'll have a good look today. It's chilly here in my garage!
I don't mind spending days on doing it, as long as I am doing it right! It should only need
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
My garage shop is monolithic slab on grade with no blueboard and I have experienced no movement that I can tell of. I am in VT and our frost line is a min 4¡¯, I have about 2¡¯ of 3¡±-6¡± rocks
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Mark Kessler
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Re: BF6 Can you fit a spiral planer cutter block?
#jointerplaner
I would recommend contacting Hermance for a quote, it is a true Helical head and what I was going to use on my scm before I sold it and bought the
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Mark Kessler
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
If you are in a freezing environment, a frost protected shallow foundation
might be a good choice. In it you trade perimeter frost walls for rigid
insulation extending down the exterior face of a
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Mike Leiferman
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Re: Dust shroud for BF6 spindle moulder (shaper)
#dustguard
#repair
Richard,
I am in the process of re commissioning my BF6-26 after along period of less than ideal storage, so I understand the pain you are suffering with prices.
I've had to shell out ?51 plus
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Paul Curme
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Re: Adjusting jointer tables on BF6
#jointerplaner
Richard ,
Do you have the parts drawing for your machine, that would make things much easier to explain.
Out of the factory the planner knives should be level with the saw spindle table at the top
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Paul Curme
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Adjusting jointer tables on BF6
#jointerplaner
Hi all again, so my infeed and outfeed tables on my BF6 are not coplanar. They appear to be tipping inwards towards the cutter block.
A long straight edge shows a clear 1mm gap at the cutter block
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Re: BF6 Can you fit a spiral planer cutter block?
#jointerplaner
Thanks! So the do exist, just need to see if they are worth the $$$$!
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Re: WoodShop structure Slab vs pier and beam
I¡¯ll second this recommendation. I have the Huber Advan Tech floor in my basement shop on PT stringers to level the concrete floor. Stringers are on 16¡± centers with vapor barrier between the
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David P. Best
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