Dale Thompson
12-04-2005, 9:45 PM
I mean LOUSY! :mad: If you can believe this, it was a weekend where I made even MORE scrap than I normally do. I'm absolutely INCREDIBLE! :rolleyes: I think that I will make the Guinness Book of World Recordsfor producing the MOST scrap and doing the MOST stupid things in a forty-eight hour period. It will be my fifteen minutes of glory and I will share it with all you folks who appear to do EVERYTHING right the FIRST time! :(
I will not get into details because I DO still have SOME pride, but NEVER use a wide board for making raised panels just because it is WIDE. If it is wide AND not "bowed", that is fine. However, if both of the above requirements are not met, biscuit or, as I probably will, pocket screw narrower boards together for your panels. Cutting, machining and trying to fiddle with "bowed" panels to make them fit took the better part of Saturday. Even if you get them to fit, they look like the garbage that they are. :o If you need a pile of "bowed" panels, they can be found in my submittal to Guinness! :eek:
Chris Christopherson said it best with, "Well, I woke up Sunday Morning with no way to hold my head (make that PRIDE) that didn't hurt"! Sure enough. Here we go AGAIN!
My last "hobbiest" supply of Oak was supposed to be 180 bd ft of Red Oak for about $1.40/bd ft. My buddy at the yard, however, said that his planer blades were a bit dull so he would plane it at 13/16" instead of 3/4". He knew that I had a thickness planer so that would not be a problem. He also gave me about 340 bd ft which brought the price down to about $.75/bd ft.
I sent him a bill for having to unload all of the extra footage.
Anyway, while planing the first few boards, something happened that has never happened before. Two of the boards lined up perfectly out of the planer and contacted the wall. This started to push the planer backward and by the time I could hit the "kill" switch the timing belt on the planer overheated and BROKE! :mad:
Being the genius that I am, I found a spare belt for one of our vacuum cleaners that fit PERFECTLY!! The problem is that it was made of rubber.
It ran the cutter head perfectly - until it contacted the Oak! :( The smell of rubber burning is a lot like the smell of an electrical fire!
Of minor concern is the fact that I took two Oak slivers about the size of the Space Shuttle, took a nasty rib shot from my workbench and banged my elbow on my drill press table. :mad:
Since my shop is in my house, neither dynamite nor flammable liquids can be considered as reasonable revenge weapons toward my shop. Any ideas??
Remember. I'm retired so I will be back in the shop tomorrow morning! :)
As the old saying goes, "When you are at the very bottom, the only direction is UP!" :o
Dale T.
I will not get into details because I DO still have SOME pride, but NEVER use a wide board for making raised panels just because it is WIDE. If it is wide AND not "bowed", that is fine. However, if both of the above requirements are not met, biscuit or, as I probably will, pocket screw narrower boards together for your panels. Cutting, machining and trying to fiddle with "bowed" panels to make them fit took the better part of Saturday. Even if you get them to fit, they look like the garbage that they are. :o If you need a pile of "bowed" panels, they can be found in my submittal to Guinness! :eek:
Chris Christopherson said it best with, "Well, I woke up Sunday Morning with no way to hold my head (make that PRIDE) that didn't hurt"! Sure enough. Here we go AGAIN!
My last "hobbiest" supply of Oak was supposed to be 180 bd ft of Red Oak for about $1.40/bd ft. My buddy at the yard, however, said that his planer blades were a bit dull so he would plane it at 13/16" instead of 3/4". He knew that I had a thickness planer so that would not be a problem. He also gave me about 340 bd ft which brought the price down to about $.75/bd ft.
I sent him a bill for having to unload all of the extra footage.
Anyway, while planing the first few boards, something happened that has never happened before. Two of the boards lined up perfectly out of the planer and contacted the wall. This started to push the planer backward and by the time I could hit the "kill" switch the timing belt on the planer overheated and BROKE! :mad:
Being the genius that I am, I found a spare belt for one of our vacuum cleaners that fit PERFECTLY!! The problem is that it was made of rubber.
It ran the cutter head perfectly - until it contacted the Oak! :( The smell of rubber burning is a lot like the smell of an electrical fire!
Of minor concern is the fact that I took two Oak slivers about the size of the Space Shuttle, took a nasty rib shot from my workbench and banged my elbow on my drill press table. :mad:
Since my shop is in my house, neither dynamite nor flammable liquids can be considered as reasonable revenge weapons toward my shop. Any ideas??
Remember. I'm retired so I will be back in the shop tomorrow morning! :)
As the old saying goes, "When you are at the very bottom, the only direction is UP!" :o
Dale T.