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Thanks all!

I'll try it and see.

hi everyone:

I haven't been on this forum for a while since I finished rebuilding my house from the inside out - but have positive memories of the help I got here. Now I have a new problem and.....

You were right. I got a response on CWW from Stevem mentioning that a possibility that the "centrifugal switch is stuck closed"

umm,... had to google that. Spun the rotor by hand a bit and then...

Photos on my website: "I put a photo on my website at winface.com/oldwin/drillpress1.jpg and winface.com/oldwin/drillpress2.jpg"

Yes it has power.

Yes it is a three speed model

ON/off switch seems ok. Motor can be spun, silent.

Took plate off (bottom of motor) wiring looks clean and good. Nothing that looks like a...

Thanks Glenn - but nothing has arrived in my email from you.

However, I did find the article on Cdn woodworking and tried to locate the author. It seems that he/she (?) uses the name 'rswoodwork"...

hi:
Been awhile since I posted here - however this morning I fired up my Rockwell Beaver Model 700 ("cat #700" on the plaque) drill press and pow-zap-stink it stopped. I think there's a blown fuse....

Good idea - I'll try it - and Rick Potter's suggestion above too. Thanks!

Thanks - I feel much better now.. :)

I've been switching blades a lot lately and there has to be a better way than mine. What I'm doing is basically just jiggling each blade around while gently pushing it sideways. In the end that...

I had not understood that the thickness concern is twisting rather than strenght. Yikes.

Oh.. um.. I already have the birch for this at about 15/16th thick -planed and rough sanded. This thing will be heavy, but birch is pretty strong stuff so I'll continue with this thickness (wood's...

Thank you.

I got the birch for this Friday but was out of town until last night. Wood looks very dry so I plan to plane it down to size today and see if it needs drying time here, but doubt it...

I need to make a large (44" wide, 82.5" high) door that rather seriously exceeds my skills. The two drawings below are by Heinz Demes, a stained glass maker. I need to make the frame.

I have the...

I couldn't agree more with the O.P. I had no shaper experience when I bought mine -claimed to be a 3HP but looked and felt like a 5+. Treated sensibly they're not that dangerous, but a panel cutter...

Clearly it depends entirely on what you're doing - less obviously it depends on what you mean by time savings. For example, time savings on specific tasks and be huge without adding up to much in a...

I bought one. Ooops?

I saw this thing at a yard sale and no idea what it actually was, but the price was right - original box (from Sears, 1993) and manual so I shelled out.

I have no need to...

First the people saying that it depends on what you're doing are obviously right - and so are those who say a shaper without a power feeder is a fish without water.

That said, I just sold my...

The wall this is going against is about 160". Of this about 40" is going to be used for a coffee station (power and water) - the remaining 120" become a closet with either five or six doors totalling...

Well, I like to think I'm not lazy..

If I take a 1" birch board, plane it a bit on both sides, then use the jointer to get straight, square, edges, and finally slice it using a 1/8th blade (table...

I can try that.

Any chance something like that is available as a commercial product?

The "cool factor" is important - the 118" closet is a big feature in the main bedroom.

On the other hand, reality favors 3/4" frame with 1/2"panels... :)

Well, that didn't work - all of you who warned me were right.

I made a test door using the 3/4+"" stuff I had on hand -looked ok. But then just now I tried to plane it down a bit (for weight...

re: Zac Wingert

"I think what OP was actually asking that no one addressed is about how to efficiently sand a project like this. I am thinking a drum sander is the obvious solution, followed...

Thanks guys - I really had not thought through warping much at all.

However.. the wood is very dry and seasoned (stored here for a year) and the humidity is subject to serious short term spikes...