Creeker's Weekend Accomplishments
24 Oct 2016
Good Morning Everyone,
Been a very busy week with oncall duty and getting things done around the house. Found out that my culvert under my driveway is caving in and my driveway needs repair, so that's about $2K I didn't plan on spending anytime soon. But....at least I trust the guy that going to fix it if me and fix up my driveway at the same time he replaces my culvert with a new one. No woodworking for me since I finished up the bowling alley project. I needed a rest from that one!!!
Spent some time with the family and watched a movie with the LOML. It was nice to have some downtime and to experience an oncall weekend that was easy for a change.
That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past weekend?
Best of weeks to you all!
New R4512 saw buying experience at Home Depot,first it's bad then it's excellent
Went to Home Depot on Saturday to buy the Ridgid R4512 saw. Worked with two different associates, both of whom were completely useless, I wanted to make sure the saw was made in 2016, after the trunnion issue was fixed. Left the store completely annoyed with them. I really wanted the saw so I went back early Sunday morning and asked for the manager. It was like I was in a different store, the manager and his assistant were great. They got a fork lift to get the saws down from a high rack, allowed me to open the box and examine the saw, then loaded it into my suv with the fork lift. I tried to use a Harbor Freight 20% coupon but they said no go but I had a 10% HD coupon which I used. I put the saw mostly together yesterday and will finish it today. It does have the three caster configuration, I didn't want that but so far it works great.I think for someone who wants a new saw and only to spend $500 (that's me) this is a great buy. So the lesson I learned was: if you're buying an expensive item at Home Depot ask for the manager, this is actually the second time I've done this at HD and it's worked well both times.
PS I watched a great you tube video ahead of time on how to put the saw together, really made the build much,much easier, you tube is absolutely am amazing source of information.