Fred Bryant
01-27-2013, 2:41 AM
Well, this is probably the wrong forum, but there seems to be a wide variety of knowledge and hybrid woodworkers here such as myself.
I have been a power tool guy, more of a carpenter then a woodworker. I am moving in the hand tool direction, especially since I am lacking any sort of shop now, or in the near future. I have a brand new LN box with some planes in it that has been waiting for me. Now that I finally got a day off, I was going to learn to use them. I am a project type guy, so I am building a Moxon table as my first planeing project.
Got up this morning and it is a nice 17 degrees F. I shoveled the garage apron and pulled out my Unisaw to rough cut the stock. Well, I hit the switch and the saw blade made about 10 revolutions in as many seconds and then nothing. I checked for proper 240VAC and all was good. I tried again and the same. I let the thermo-overload cool until it reset and tried a third time. It started so I left it running until all the wood was ripped, although this is not a smart or recommend practice. When I did shut it down, it would not start again. I figured I will have to look into it after I talk to someone who knows more about motors than I do. Besides that, I wanted to get to building and trying out my new planes. If anyone has any motor ideas, they would be much appreciated.
So I flatten one face of each board with my new #7 and it worked out very well for a first attempt. This is especially considering that it was done sans bench and with the boards sitting on the Bobcat forks. There were a few attempts at sharpening before I got it workable, but all and all I was happy with myself.
I then pulled out the workmate, which lives outside, and throw my 12.5” portable planer on it ( delta 22-560 ). I have used this setup for a number of years without incident. I set up some infeed and outfeed rollers and went to town. In the middle of processing the first piece, the workmate top broke in half. This caused me to get the hell out of the way as the planer, the infeed roller, and the board came tumbling down. Well after the 30 minutes it took me to dislodge the board from the planer, I picked up the mess. The only obvious damage seemed to be a massive bend in the little sheet metal infeed table. I beat it as flat as possible and reinstalled it. I then rough processed all the stock.
I put everything up, came in the house where it was warm. I then hand cut all the top pieces to length with the intention of tweaking everything for the glue up with my new planes. These boards were to be glued up, face to face, to make a Roubo-ish top. I soon discovered that every board had a 40 thousands hollow down the center on each face. That resulted in over a 1/16” gap between the faces of the boards when the edges were tight.
I dug out the planer again, and sent a flat board through it. Surprise, it came out with a 40 thousands hollow in the center. I spent that next 8 hours fiddling with the planer, but could not find anything wrong. Finally I decide to change the planers knifes under the presumption that they might have gotten bent in the spill. After this, when I run a board through, it ends up with a 10 thousands hollow. What I do not know is if this is within the normal range, or do I still have an issue?
In the middle of this, it started snowing. This was fine, except I had gotten so distracted, or frustrated, with the planer, and how the day was going in general, that I left the plane sitting in the snow on the Bobcat forks. So, I need to know the best way to remove some rust spots and to prepare it for storage ( non-use ) for the next month or so.
I guess the good news is I will have another month or so to think about how to fix everything while I am working on the road again.
Thx's, Fred.
I have been a power tool guy, more of a carpenter then a woodworker. I am moving in the hand tool direction, especially since I am lacking any sort of shop now, or in the near future. I have a brand new LN box with some planes in it that has been waiting for me. Now that I finally got a day off, I was going to learn to use them. I am a project type guy, so I am building a Moxon table as my first planeing project.
Got up this morning and it is a nice 17 degrees F. I shoveled the garage apron and pulled out my Unisaw to rough cut the stock. Well, I hit the switch and the saw blade made about 10 revolutions in as many seconds and then nothing. I checked for proper 240VAC and all was good. I tried again and the same. I let the thermo-overload cool until it reset and tried a third time. It started so I left it running until all the wood was ripped, although this is not a smart or recommend practice. When I did shut it down, it would not start again. I figured I will have to look into it after I talk to someone who knows more about motors than I do. Besides that, I wanted to get to building and trying out my new planes. If anyone has any motor ideas, they would be much appreciated.
So I flatten one face of each board with my new #7 and it worked out very well for a first attempt. This is especially considering that it was done sans bench and with the boards sitting on the Bobcat forks. There were a few attempts at sharpening before I got it workable, but all and all I was happy with myself.
I then pulled out the workmate, which lives outside, and throw my 12.5” portable planer on it ( delta 22-560 ). I have used this setup for a number of years without incident. I set up some infeed and outfeed rollers and went to town. In the middle of processing the first piece, the workmate top broke in half. This caused me to get the hell out of the way as the planer, the infeed roller, and the board came tumbling down. Well after the 30 minutes it took me to dislodge the board from the planer, I picked up the mess. The only obvious damage seemed to be a massive bend in the little sheet metal infeed table. I beat it as flat as possible and reinstalled it. I then rough processed all the stock.
I put everything up, came in the house where it was warm. I then hand cut all the top pieces to length with the intention of tweaking everything for the glue up with my new planes. These boards were to be glued up, face to face, to make a Roubo-ish top. I soon discovered that every board had a 40 thousands hollow down the center on each face. That resulted in over a 1/16” gap between the faces of the boards when the edges were tight.
I dug out the planer again, and sent a flat board through it. Surprise, it came out with a 40 thousands hollow in the center. I spent that next 8 hours fiddling with the planer, but could not find anything wrong. Finally I decide to change the planers knifes under the presumption that they might have gotten bent in the spill. After this, when I run a board through, it ends up with a 10 thousands hollow. What I do not know is if this is within the normal range, or do I still have an issue?
In the middle of this, it started snowing. This was fine, except I had gotten so distracted, or frustrated, with the planer, and how the day was going in general, that I left the plane sitting in the snow on the Bobcat forks. So, I need to know the best way to remove some rust spots and to prepare it for storage ( non-use ) for the next month or so.
I guess the good news is I will have another month or so to think about how to fix everything while I am working on the road again.
Thx's, Fred.