What came in the mail today?

[Chet]

On 7/1/2022 at 8:08 PM, JohnG said:

I really need to stop moving and assembling these machines on my own

Yea, you want to take care of your back John, your going to need it your whole life.

[JohnG]

On 7/2/2022 at 12:42 AM, Chet said:

Yea, you want to take care of your back John, your going to need it your whole life.

I do use good lifting techniques, I just meant that I don’t want to let the tool drop!

[Mark J]

9 hours ago, JohnG said:

I really need to stop moving and assembling these machines on my own, my luck is going to run out soon. It almost did while lifting the power head onto the column

I remember this fact from when I put mine together.  I wish I lived closer, I'd have come over to help.  

You never did explain why it was upside down.

[JohnG]

Oh right, due to timing, I had to take my wife’s minivan to pick it up. I assumed it would come in boxes, but it was an integrated box/pallet. The shop doesn’t have a forklift, so the only way to get it in the van was to slide it in on the cardboard side.

[pkinneb]

On 7/1/2022 at 9:23 PM, JohnG said:

Drill press day! Earlier than expected.

Wow, this thing is heavy!

Congrats, I look forward to hearing your thoughts after using it for a bit.

[Mark J]

2 hours ago, pkinneb said:

after using it for a bit.

That was a pun wasn't it.  

[JohnG]

On 7/2/2022 at 12:33 PM, pkinneb said:

Congrats, I look forward to hearing your thoughts after using it for a bit.

 

On 7/2/2022 at 3:11 PM, Mark J said:

That was a pun wasn't it.  

I’ve already used it for three bits 

[BonPacific]

I left my door open and the strangest bird flew in.

Thing must have weighed near 400lbs.

[JohnG]

Just don’t try to feed it directly from your hands, I hear they bite. 

[Chestnut]

That's exciting. Good thing it didn't hit a window on the way in. I guess at 400 lbs it could probably fly though a wall too .

[Mark J]

@BonPacific, What sort of "tree" is it hanging from?

[drzaius]

Just a bit of a caution. It's not recommended to lift a jointer from the tables. You'll want to have a good look to be sure everything's as it should be.

[BonPacific]

On 7/6/2022 at 6:10 AM, Mark J said:

@BonPacific, What sort of "tree" is it hanging from?

Engine hoist I rented, since I picked this up from an estate auction and had to do both the loading and unloading. Specifically a "Vestil EHN-40-C". My wife and I were able to pop it in and out of the truck bed next to the jointer, and the whole thing worked a treat.

The strap in this shot is a little lighter than I would have liked (only rated half a ton working) but I misplaced my heavier stuff apparently. I borrowed some bigger straps from another guy at the auction to get it loaded.

On 7/6/2022 at 6:43 AM, drzaius said:

Just a bit of a caution. It's not recommended to lift a jointer from the tables. You'll want to have a good look to be sure everything's as it should be.

When I was looking up how to move these the concerns mostly seemed to be about affecting the alignment rather than damaging the tables. As it was an auction item I decided to just assume the tables were out of alignment to begin with. If there's something else to look out for I'm all ears.

I plan to do a tune up anyways. At a minimum I'll need to clean off some surface rust, re-wire it back to 220 (previous owner had it set to 110) and swap in new knives (which it came with thankfully). There weren't a ton of other options for moving it out of where it was and into where I needed it.

[Tom King]

My old Delta has been moved all sorts of ways over 30 times, including two strong men getting it into the back of a pickup by lifting at the ends of the beds.  It's still dead on.  When I put it on the mobile base a couple of weeks ago, I picked up on the infeed end to the point that the outfeed was resting on the floor, and picked it up enough for Pam to slide the mobile base under it.

Don't try this at home, but they're a lot tougher than most seem to think.

[drzaius]

Yea, it's mainly just that it might throw calibration off rather than actual damage

[Chet]

It only took 7 months but it is finally here.  I ordered this for my Jointer on December 9th and it finally arrived July 7th.

After being told 8 - 12 weeks when I ordered it, I had three different conversations, the first two times I was told it should ship in 2 - 3 weeks.  The third conversation they said 4 weeks and it turns out that time they were correct.  I just had to be patient, it made no sense to cancel the order because when you go to re-order you would just be on the bottom of the list again.

[Ronn W]

It's a good day, then.  Let us know what you think of it

[Coop]

I ordered carbide blades for my jointer from Infinity in March and received them yesterday and was elated. Now I’m jealous! congrats bud! Yes please, let us know how you like them. 

[Immortan D]

This inflator arrived today and I've already put it to use:

Very well designed and it does a good job. 

[legenddc]

Picked up the Wen drill chuck for my lathe. Threw it in the headstock quickly to check it out. Pretty nice for under $20. 

[BonPacific]

I finally got frustrated with breaking down sheet goods with a skilsaw and drywall square. Time to see how much of a piece of junk a $100 track saw is. I spent more money on the tracks, since they're compatible with the Makita tracksaw, but I'll see how the WEN behaves before deciding to sink 4x as much on a better saw.

Update: after the first few cuts... Not bad. Even just with the cheapo included rip blade it cuts perfectly straight and reasonable clean. Plunge action could be smoother, but it does the job. There's a lot of plastic parts, but the plate is flat. We'll see if it warps with time/use.

[Just Bob]

We average 11 outages a year.  Last year the shortest was 6 hours and the longest almost 72.  Of course our old generator crapped out during the 72 hour outage.  It was a little over 10 yrs old.  Its replacement showed up today.  I hope it has a long run too.

[Mark J]

12 hours ago, Just Bob said:

We average 11 outages a year.  Last year the shortest was 6 hours and the longest almost 72.  Of course our old generator crapped out during the 72 hour outage.  It was a little over 10 yrs old.  Its replacement showed up today.  I hope it has a long run too.

How much of your house are you able to power with that generator? 

[Tom King]

The generator I use is also a portable one.  I only run non-ethanol in it, use the fuel cutoff as the off switch, and keep a spare carb on hand because it might go years between uses.  It's something over 25 years old, and still works when I need it.  I did have to use a spare carb after one hurricane to get it going, but I had lost track of how many years it had been sitting.

[JohnG]

On 9/23/2022 at 7:54 AM, Tom King said:

The generator I use is also a portable one.  I only run non-ethanol in it, use the fuel cutoff as the off switch, and keep a spare carb on hand because it might go years between uses.  It's something over 25 years old, and still works when I need it.  I did have to use a spare carb after one hurricane to get it going, but I had lost track of how many years it had been sitting.

I also run non-ethanol in mine and use the fuel cutoff as the off switch. I try to run it a couple times a year to prevent it gumming up the carb, so far it’s worked out, though I have never actually needed it for an outage.