If you're demolishing something or taking it apart, a somewhat dull chisel works perfectly well to split wood. My dad is a contractor and mostly his chisels are at this level of dullness. He...
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If you're demolishing something or taking it apart, a somewhat dull chisel works perfectly well to split wood. My dad is a contractor and mostly his chisels are at this level of dullness. He...
On the other hand, one could argue that you're just wasting time thicknessing/smoothing areas that will never be seen. There's no real reason why the inner faces of a table apron needs to be...
I think in a Windsor chair the legs usually join to the seat with through-tenons. Some of the comments above implied that these were blind, in which case a fox-wedged tenon would probably be...
You've probably already seen it, but: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/joinery/tenons-rule-so-here-are-the-rules-on-tenons
The above is written for integral tenons, so just factor in...
The other thing that nobody has mentioned is that these were brand-new well-made joints. Things are going to behave differently a few years down the road after humidity fluctuations and such. A...
One suggestion I read about but haven't seen here is the possibility of using piano movers for large tools. They're used to working with heavy but delicate/expensive items.
Last time I moved I...
Nope. The issue is that you need a certain airspeed through the pipe to keep the dust suspended, and the required speed goes up on vertical runs. So if you make the pipe too wide, the dust will...
I don't think it's wrong to call a turning saw a bow saw. As a counterexample to Peter Welsh, http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/glossary_bow_saw.htm shows an excerpt from Holtzapffel's 1846 book,...
I'm a big fan of the simplicity and clean lines of the one Chris Schwarz did for Woodworking Magazine. I think it would fit in well with modern decor.
There's a writeup with free plans at ...
Might be able to make it work if you can find stock with the growth rings at 45 degrees or so...get nice straight grain down the legs with similar patterns on all sides.
It's a problem for a dryer since a lot of them use 120V for the electronics and light so there could actually be current on the neutral, putting it at a potential other than ground.
If you plug a...
I have to disagree. I prefer 5000K for shop lights. This is nice and white, but not bluish like the 6500K ones. I also prefer higher CRI--which is a bit hard to find in LED tubes.
Thicker tenons are stronger. a 1/2" tenon in 7/8" stock would give you 3/16" shoulders if you centered it. Note that the inside of the aprons doesn't technically need to be finished or smooth or...
As a thought experiment...I'm in Canada, it hit -35 C in February. Hypothetically speaking, as a worst-case if I'm pushing 800CFM out of the building at 15 C then I would need to warm up 800CFM of...
In Canada and the USA it is 120/240 at 60Hz.
In other parts of the world it can be 110V, 115V, 127V (interesting, suspect it's two legs of 3-phase), 220V or 230V.
I think the rules may be different depending on the province.
The thing I've often wondered is how a strict CSA-approval is supposed to work for home-built equipment. If I take CSA-listed...
The problem with just doing a single long tongue is that it isn't as strong. When you peg the outsides, you want enough meat in the tenons past the pegs that there is no risk of the peg blowing out...
You're right, I was not envisioning the sort of unit that runs a heat pump forwards or backwards using the same components. My bad.
As for why people might go to a woodworker's forum to get...
Why go bigger than necessary? Bigger wire is heavier, stiffer, and more expensive. There are already safety factors built into the code.
Planning for future expansion is different...that can...
Everyone likes overkill, but as the voice of moderation I've got a bunch of big tools (3HP cabinet saw, 3HP planer, 2HP bandsaw, 1.5HP dust collector, etc.) and a bunch of outlets/lights/etc. all...
Something to consider...you could design the subpanel and feeder line with the assumption that it'll be upgraded later, then feed it through a breaker on the main panel sized for what you *need*...
Dave is talking about gluing a strip of wood to the underside of the bottom shelf, and the top side of the top shelf. Thus no interior space will be occupied.
Personally I love the look of solid-wood trim, but I just can't justify the cost.
I've got crappy builder-grade oak cabinets from the 80s in my kitchen. The drawers are particleboard stapled...
From everything I've read, in order to present any danger the concentration of contaminants in the air would have to be so high that you'd need to be wearing SCUBA gear or equivalent. In other...
What sort of sandpaper? Silicon carbide is probably what you want, and in a coarse grit--100, or maybe even less.