Search:

Keith, will your software take a .sat file? We use AutoCAD inventor at work and it exports .sat files. Also there are more and more places offering parts drawings in that format. There's an...

I made an armoie for my wife and she wanted it painted. To prevent drips, I'm laying it flat to paint, 2 sides are done but now when I go to do the other sides the painted surface will need to lay...

Here's what I have. I've had it for about 15 years now through 3 moves.

Square D makes a special HMI rated breaker for the high magnetic influx from starting a large motor. That solved problems I had with my compressor tripping out the 20 amp standard breaker.

I started out using just Johnson's Paste Wax and the surface was great but the surface protection wasn't quite up to the task. My shop is only heated when I'm in it so the temperature swings are...

My shop is in a detached building. 30x30 so at 900 sq ft it's under your limit. The shop space is the ground floor with a 15x30 storage room upstairs. With 4" insulation in the walls and 6" in the...

My thoughts are with you as well Dale...hope everything turns out fine.


Dean

I've had the Makita LS 1013 for 12 years now and have never been anything but satisfied with the accuracy of the cuts and ease of use. I use the Freud LU91 60Tooth blade..the combination seems to...

The other thing that you might try is either an air or electric impact driver with an appropriate allen wrench. If nothing else will work put on a socket that holds a straight piece of the allen...

Happy Birthday Tyler and wishes for many more.

I usually wear whatever were the previous version of shoes I wore to work. Right now it's a pair of Ecco. Guess I'm just to cheap er frugal to buy special shoes for the shop.



Dean

Yup another Cheesehead here. Been one my whole life. I didn't even leave to go to school UW Madison then back to Green Bay to work... Why leave when everything I need is right here.


...

Tyler,

Another vote for the PocketPc format. I'v had an HP Jornada now discontinued in favor of the Ipaq for almost 3 years. One of the reasons I picked the one I did is that it has a...

The best thing that I've found to remove splinters if you can find one is a needle pointed tweezers. They used to use them long ago for fabrication of transistors before they got too small.

...

Bob,
Happy to help. I'd believe that the 1/4 hp are that low. Most of the big motor manufacturers don't even bother to publish efficiencies on motors under 1 hp.

Dean

Bob,

85% is probably the right number for a premium efficiency motor in that size range. For the run of the mill motor something more like 75% would be about as good as it gets.

Dean

Dave, your 7 amp 220volt motor to deliver a true 2 hp would have to be at 97% efficiency. That's on the high side for even a Marathon Premium Efficiency motor (kind of the gold standard on motors) ...

Very nice joinery. Great idea with the floating shelf too. I'll have to keep that idea in mind.

Dean

Very nice work John

Bridgewood BW10LTS for the table saw

Makita LS 1013 sliding miter
Skill 77 circular
Jet 14" bandsaw


Dean

Dave,

I've had that drill for about a year now. I use it a lot and like it. Haven't had any problems. I bought it when they had the introductory offer of free lifetime replacement on all parts...

Tyler,

Do you have any better guess what the material actually is? I might be able to give you a little better idea.

From my experience I would be very careful with a router unless you make...

Kirk,

I had the same idea, put up a large metal building then finish off part as living area, part as indoor play for the kids, part as a shop, garage and work space for LOML, finish more space as...

Bob,

From the Hock Tools Website:

"Tool Steel" refers to a class of steels that are metallurgically very "clean" and fall within strict limits for alloy proportions. Vanadium, tungsten, and...

Jim,

I've got an older ls 1013 about 12 years old but they probably haven't changed much. If nobody has an answer tonight I'll measure mine in the morning.

Here's a pic of the bench I built...