California bans the SALE of gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers after 2024

Saw a sign at hoe despot and looked it up. California has banned the sale of gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers after 2024. If yours is getting tired better buy a new one in a few months. I assume they will be gone from stores by Fall. It will probably take ten to twenty years until this ban goes...

Left lane

Lord, give me patience and understanding for those folks that drive needlessly in the left lane. Amen

Lumber supply

Has been restocked.. Bought 10 planks...for $30...had to cut a few of the 10 footers down, to fit into the Trunk of my Chevy Equinox... Eight 1 x 6 x 6' Five 1 x 4 x 6' And he threw in a stack of shorts And a 3/4" x 8" x 39" slab..

Laguna Dust Collector not going on

Hi all, I have a Laguna Cflux-3 that was giving me some intermittent issues turning the unit on and would take a few hits of the switch or remote control 'on' to get it to start up. Today, the motor won't start at all. I do get a 'beep' coming from the circuit board when turning it on and the...

Questions regarding the Felder BF631

HI! I am new here and new to the combination machine world... Regardless I have the opportunity to purchase a 1999 BF 631 for a ridiculously low price. It does come with some issues that I need to mentally resolve before pulling the trigger. Felder considers this an "old" machine and thus...

Maintenance requirements for ceramic stones?

Please, this is not a question asking how to best sharpen hand tools, it is a simple question to ceramic stone users. How hard are they to maintain? My diamond plates are years old and do not cut as aggressively as in the past. I have a selection of water stones of known and unknown grit for...

New Workbench Accessories

Took the long weekend to work on a couple of workbench accessories/attachments to my newly built workbench:

• What I'm calling "the

Workbench Lumber Question

Construction lumber imported from B.C. is likely going to be S-P-F, spruce ,pine , balsam fir. None of which rates workbench quality. When I want a 2x4,

Itching to buy a new tool? What tools have you wasted money on?

Brace and bits and a wooden smoothing plane. A hand drill is so much more convenient and a drill press is so much more accurate. And the wooden smoothing

Mystery Oneway Part?

Install the screw and set the taper in the headstock. Not sure how to install the screw, but you may have to remove the hex end? Bring up the tailstock

cutting plywood

Nice set up aside from being on the heavy side and taking some room to store.

I have Makita battery saws, but mostly use a Makita worm gear