Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
Oh, one more thing ¨C my walls are covered with this plastic sheet that you sometimes see in commercial bathrooms. It is a snap to wipe up oil that has flung from a machine. Trying to get oil off of
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Rick Sparber
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
Too bad, you are moving. I always enjoyed hearing about your floating shop. People would argue with me about the importance of leveling a lathe, and I would point to your arrangement. My shop is 150
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Rick Sparber
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
Before you get everything moved in, paint the floor with a 2-part solvent based epoxy paint. The water based stuff may be ok too, but I'm skeptical. I painted my garage floor about 10 years ago, and
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Joe Blount
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
What the walls are made of make no difference, what causes the rust is fast changes in temperature.? Going from cold to warm rapidly causes moisture to condense on the tools. Also, do NOT allow your
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Jerry Durand
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
I am about to do this, too, with my current workshop becoming accommodation.? I was going to put up a steel workshop and insulate it, but a friend suggested all my tools would rust and that wood
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donnygadee <philipleith@...>
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
How much do you have to spend? Rick Lathrop Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [4x6bandsaw] Setting up a new shop... seeking advice Strange topic, but possibly an
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Richard Lathrop
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
I forgot, I do have one overhead power circuit. -- Jerry Durand, WhatsApp, Telegram, VK www.DurandInterstellar.com & www.Durandinterstellar.ru
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Jerry Durand
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
The first thing I would do is to maybe have two overhead 20 A electric reel that reached almost anywhere in the shop. With the reels you do not have to cover your walls with outlets. Probably one or
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Ralph Hulslander <rhulslander@...>
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Re: Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
Here are some things I'm doing with the shop in our new home (under construction now), not everything will apply to you. Bright lights!? Provision for two 48W LED fixtures, DC operated LEDs so zero
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Jerry Durand
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Setting up a new shop... seeking advice
Strange topic, but possibly an interesting one. I live in on a house barge on the Potomac River in Washington, DC and have had a shop at a weekend cabin in West Virginia since 2008. For many years we
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rfmarchi1
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Re: Old Blades
I have seen jigs that were predominately wood to avoid the heat loss, apparently if you are careful you do not burn the wood but even if you did burn the wood so what, just make a new one from a new
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Ralph Hulslander <rhulslander@...>
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Re: Old Blades
Ralph, Thanks for offering your friends welder, but as of 2 days ago, I have working jigs for scarfing and brazing bandsaw blades! My first attempt worked well, but the next blade had 2 failures
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@KarlH
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Re: Old Blades
I have refined my technique to silver-solder blades.? Since then, I have had zero break at the silver solder point.? Here are the highlights:1.? Make a scarf joint by grinding each blade at a
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BRUCE ROGERS
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Re: Old Blades
I am fortunate to have a DoAll Blade Welder that can weld 1" blades. The process is called Flash Butt Welding. In the shops of the company I work for we also have "blade welders" that can weld
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nitewatchman5
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Re: Old Blades
Prep and cleaning. Those are the keys to the Kingdom. ;) If you clean it well, flux it well, heat it well, and hold it firmly in place while doing so you WILL get a good joint. Brazing is easy once
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Bill in OKC too
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Re: Old Blades
"The videos and articles make it look pretty easy, so I will give it a whirl. " Well they do not show you the times they tried, and it didn't work :) I think it is almost all about the prep. You want
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[email protected]
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Re: Old Blades
Karl, where are you? I have a friend with a bandsaw welder. Ralph [email protected]> wrote:
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Ralph Hulslander <rhulslander@...>
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Re: Old Blades
Another link to add to your toolbox:??Bandsaw silver soldering fixture - HomemadeTools.net | | | | | | | | | | | Bandsaw silver soldering fixture - HomemadeTools.net Hi All I was able to purchase
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Bill in OKC too
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Re: Old Blades
Thanks, all. My only previous attempt at silver soldering was with considerably larger pieces and it didn't go well, so I figured I needed a different heat source. The videos and articles make it look
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@KarlH
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Re: Old Blades
Karl: You can make a sheet metal hole saw, like shown in this short video.? Pretty clever. Other Bill | | | | | | | | | | | Re-purpose your broken metal cutting bandsaw blades | | |
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Bill Buckalew
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