Posting here is not really my thing but - Lie-Nielsen has always been a high-class company. Here is an email from Deneb Puchalski about this issue:
I just looked at the post you referenced. The...
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Posting here is not really my thing but - Lie-Nielsen has always been a high-class company. Here is an email from Deneb Puchalski about this issue:
I just looked at the post you referenced. The...
So, what’s left to move the small gear?
A mythical hidden (not seen in any pictures) key way?
I guess the thing moves by telekinesis.
But, I still think it’s a neat machine. Durability - - Who...
I still vote for a slightly oval shaft - mated to the same oval hole in the gear. The disks would have a larger round hole that would allow the shaft to rotate in the disks. A slight oval shaft...
OK - I agree.
Stack of three.
The clutch plates are in stacks of three.
Gee, looks like one in the picture.
The pinion gear must be cammed, or would be always fully engaged in the rack.
I believe it IS always fully engaged. The small gear doesn’t move, except to rotate. The rack only slides side to...
An oval shaft in an oval hole wouldn't provide any more contra-rotation than a sprag clutch.
Seems to me that oval in oval has equal torque in either direction — But, a roller clutch is no doubt...
Only one problem: The more I think about it a one-way roller clutch can tighten but will not be able to loosen the wedged rack. So we are back to an oval shaft in an oval hole that can transmit...
Looks like a sprag clutch has essentially an oval shaft.
I admit I don’t know how the socket handle that I noted works. I suspect that it too has an oval center drive portion and similar to your...
George,
I agree! But, that’s really what I’ve been saying all along. The small gear doesn’t “move” except to rotate. Now, what makes it rotate? You say a keyway. That’s surely possible but the...
George,
The rack is engaged by the small gear and moved sideways. The issue is how does the shaft move the small gear?
I mentioned a roller bearing assembly before. Strange, but I ran into what...
George,
Follow the energy. First the shaft has to transmit rotational energy to the small gear.
It has to be an oval shaft or a hidden keyway. One other possibility, which I doubt, is a...
Neat machine!
I’ll have to buy one.
How it works - my take.
In order to turn the small gear the shaft has to have a keyway (doubt this - old approach) or is machined slightly oval. Since the...
I have used lock miter bits over the years quite a bit. Currently, I’m using a Freud bit on the router table and a Felder brand (made by Leitz?) cutter on my large combo machine.
There are 2 keys...
Glenn,
In your picture if you intend to join the boards edge to side then you are using the wrong reference side for the edge. Reverse the DowelMax on the edge board and all should be well. Mine...
Harry,
Thanks! I’m glad to hear at least one person doesn’t seem to have problems with saw wax and glue. I agree a no-set saw cuts a fine straight line. Much easier to control but surely easier...
Harry,
What about saws? What about the glue?
I wonder how many of you wax a back saw prior to use. Specifically, before cutting dovetails or tenons. I have found that my freshly sharpened old Disston (without set) works so much better if I wax...
JessEm is another company that, I guess, is struggling because of the economy. Too bad, they have well-engineered and useful products.
My experience concerns a Mite-R-Excel (table saw miter gauge)...
Buy the DVD:
Sharpening Profiled Hand Tools
By Larry Williams
$25 at the Lie Nielsen site.
Covers what you need to know.
Larry,
Your insight about steel on diamond was an epiphany for me. When you mentioned that concept at your WWIA presentation, I suddenly realized why I’ve never had the kind of results with...
What I did was work the shoulder that the blade rests against. I filed a hollow at the center of this shoulder and then could easily touch-up the front and back ends of the shoulder to bring the...
I have used a Tormek for a few years. When they came out with the new jig for plane and chisel blades, I bought one. It was NOT square. My old one still was. I re-trued the stone. This didn’t help....
So, if I can understand, the central block of the plane is quarter-sawn (sraight grain all sides) and the side slabs are decorative - obviously not quarter-sawn.
You thus don’t think the curved...
Beautiful!
Now a dumb question:
Although understandable from an appearance point of view, why did you not set the straighter grain on the sides? It would seem that movement would be most harmful to...