Don’t let anyone tell you it costs $6 to join the Creek.
For me anyway, this forum is expensive! After reading about it for a couple years now, I dropped my guard and walked into and then out of the orange store with an orange box labeled ‘Ridgid Oscillating Edge Belt / Spindle Sander’. Now it’s all about them curves, ‘bout them curves, no trouble. Two hundred Creeker bucks. Of course I don’t make my rare trip to the orange store without taking asile by asile inventory so another thirty nine Creeker bucks went to a set of Husky ratchet crescent wrenches.
Then of course since I find my brass setup blocks so useful, I get sucked into the "Brass Setup Blocks?” thread and it’s not long before I learn about Lee Valley’s aluminum setup blocks available all the way from 1/32” to 3/4”, which I have to have because of all the times I need to set my router to precisely 13/32” and then adjust it to 15/32”. Say good bye to sixty something more buckaroos. At least I acted before the Woodpeckers picture showed up.
Actually, I WILL make good use of these newbies in my shop and I’m grateful to know about them. But it would be better for my bottom line if people would stop talking about the Super Max 19-38 drum sander ...