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These are just a standard 30mm arbor with a left hand bolt.

Howdy Derek, I wouldn’t do it with the drill press, the Morse taper is one thing but the taper into the top of the chuck is also very short. Drill chucks also complain a lot about being used in...

Little paint, fix a part, wha-lah

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Bench top units are not very good.

As far as sharpening chisels goes, it’s pretty easy and I cut a lot of mortises between sharpenings and the setup is quick.

I cut deep mortises for tables,...

This is not quite accurate in my experience. I cut very accurate mortises on the chisel mortiser in 10-15 seconds. Unlike a router, I'm not anywhere near as limited on sizing, so if I'm cutting...

I’ve occasionally used the mill for round end mortises, using dedicated machinery works a lot faster.

If you have good dust collection and your mill is oiled routinely, it’s fine. I have a few...

No, I suspect they’re trying to meet a price point all while packing in technology that is desired at the sacrifice of durability in the long run to meet that price point in the typical situation. ...

I’m writing in generalities, but referring mainly to machinery built for industry. The stuff produced by manufacturers like Northfeild, Porter, Yates, Whitney, Wadkin, Robinson, Martin, Marunaka,...

You may start to notice that a lot of solo craftsmen, or shops with a handful of people, often rapidly move from typical grade machinery to very heavy duty machinery once they become busy enough that...

Shops must maintenance their own equipment, it’s part of the requirement of owning and operating equipment. Large shops in days past would have at least one employee capable of doing so.

I have a...

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Personally I use the 1.3TPI and I have similar experiences to Tom. I recently ordered a pair of blades from CT Saw in CT and they laughed at the order history...

I used the conturo on a job last year, it worked ok. I used it for site-installed paneling. One seriously annoying part of using it, once you start the band it runs until the material runs out. ...

I have vinyl that I rolled out, It's fantastic for practical reasons. The biggest reason is that it adds some cushion so that if you drop something it's far less likely the item will be damaged. ...

On my saw, I adjusted the wheels to be co-planar as best as possible. I also adjusted the table to square to the machine (and to the blade), then adjusted the fence to the cutting path. My machine...

Resawing 10” material takes some HP, I would opt for a 3ph motor in 3hp and run it with a vfd. This gives you the option to run it faster if need be.

That’s a terrible thing that Jamie Perkins went through, glad to see him making a strong recovery and working.

How do you all know where the OP is located? I am assuming Europe, finding a used Frommia saw in the US would be difficult to say the least, but pretty cool.

Personally, I would check to see that...

I put in an order with the OEM for a new motor (and some other parts) in a larger size (3kw) that is wired 240v 60hz 3ph.

Would not use dowels .015 undersize. They should be a snug fit.

Yeah, soon as you start to strip the rust off you will take it out of square unless you can somehow do so with perfect evenness. So, you have to do this while checking your effort.

You can use a...

To do this I use a fixture on a surface plate. I run the square along its edge over abrasive with a fixture maintaining perpendicular.

I then check the square on another surface plate with a 90...

I made the clamps using Bimba cylinders.

As a practical measure toward better safety, I have air clamps on some machines. On the chop saw this frees up one hand, so if I have a short off cut, I hold the off cut with a push stick so that...

I've narrowed down what I like from festool's offerings to their routers, impact driver, drill, multitool and their dust extractors. The routers are very well built and their battery powered drill...

I’m going to remove part of the insulation and find out if it can be wired in delta. If not, I’ve got a few avenues of recourse, I can get it rewound 240v or wait and see if they sell a new motor in...