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    Leigh 330TD Dovetail Jig

    I purchased a Leigh TD330 dovetail jig and set it up and cut test pieces. Everything I have seen, user manual and videos, show dovetails that I want to cut. The Leigh jig cut narrow pins and wide tails. I have lived with Leigh customer service and the CSR I have been working with can’t...
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    Bandsaw wheels

    I have a Powermatic Model 141 14" bandsaw which I am upgrading with new Carter guides and new urethane tires. When I installed the tires I discovered that the old rubber tires had had a crown on them and that the wheels were not crowned. I took the wheels to a machine shop to have them...
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    Replace Incandescents With CFLs?

    I have mostly 200W incandescents in my workshop and am thinking about replacing some or all with CFLs. I'm not ready to install new fluorescent fixtures. My meter is right outside the shop door and when I reach inside and turn on the lights the wheel really spins. Does anyone have any experience...
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    PM Spam - Stephanie

    Re: Spam Not only am I extraordinarily curious to know more about the hijacked private messaging, I'm equally curious to know how this response titled itself "Re: Spam".
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    PM Spam - Stephanie

    Re: Buddhism? Wait until the male-appendage-enhancement folks latch onto this, or, worse, the Republicans/Democrats.
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    PM Spam - Stephanie

    I just got a private message posted at 4:24 this morning from Stephanie informing me that "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future..." Might I expect this to be the first of an onslaught of similar messages?
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    Calipers

    Thanks, Mike, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Stan
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    Calipers

    I have an old O.D. caliper that I use to check diameter, usually while the piece is still spinning. It is an inexpensive one with a quick setting device to change diameters without engaging the threads. It has seen its day, won't hold the setting very well. I looked around for one and all I can...
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    BIG Router Bit

    I need to use a crown molding router bit for a project I'm working on. I bought the bit and, looking at it in my hand, it's HUGE. I guess I can set everything up with jigs and clamps and take VERY shallow cuts until I get the profile I need. Any thoughts out there? Thanks. Stan Messick
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    Biscuit Joiner Experience

    Roger, Roy, Thanks for your input. Gives me a good deal to think about and do more research on. Stan Messick
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    Biscuit Joiner Experience

    Young Man, Talk to me about splines, how you set up for cuts, what you use, how you get the join level, and whatever I'm too dumb to think to ask. Stan Messick
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    Biscuit Joiner Experience

    I am getting into making clocks with an octagonal face frame and it occurs to me that a biscuit joiner might be the way to go for the frame. I know absolutely nothing about biscuit joiners and am trying to learn. Anyone care to share their experience/opinion? Thanks. Stan Messick
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    Screws

    Chuck, Thanks. I had bookmarked all lengths of the #8 flat head Dry Lube screws which is what I may stock up on. I'll have to switch from the phillips head screws I'm used to but that's O.K.; I was used to slotted before that and have two different sets of really nice woodworker's...
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    Screws

    Thanks, folks. Having just spent the last 30 minutes or so becoming unbewildered I have located and bookmarked the screws I need, as well as the square drivers. I will engage in some income distribution later today. Stan Messick
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    Screws

    I have recently twisted a couple of screws I got at Lowes in two and would appreciate any thoughts anyone would care to share about who makes or sells the better screws. I have had a now dwindling supply of indestructible black wood screws I got from a furniture maker many years ago and, short...
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    Lathe Choice?

    Mike, you nailed it. Thanks. I really use my lathe about as infrequently as you describe and, in fact, I accumulate shop projects like handles and put them off, then do them all at one time. Other than that projects like the little rocker I just finished for my youngest granddaughter come along...
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    Lathe Choice?

    Thanks for the replies. The old Delta is a bench lathe with steel rather than cast iron ways. It is driven by a step pulley and the headstock is cast metal, probably what we used to call "pot metal", and has to get a liberal shot of oil frequently because it leaks. There's a good bit of...
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    Lathe Choice?

    I am considering upgrading from my ca1950 Delta lathe and have done a good deal of research lately. The Delta 46-715 looks good but there are what appear to be a lot of unhappy buyers. I may have narrowed the field down to the JET 708352 JWL-1236 or the Grizzly G0584.The HF and a couple of...
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    Bandsaw Motor Speed

    I am replacing the motor on my Powermatic 14" bandsaw with a bigger HP motor for resawing. The original motor is 1750 RPM.The bigger motor I have is 3450 RPM. I am using a motor pulley half the size of the original to maintain the same surface speed. I did the same thing with a combination...
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    Knock Down Gloss

    I have finished two projects using Minwax Satin Wipe On Poly, which I have used many times before quite satisfactorily. These new projects have too much gloss and my question is: how does one knock down gloss? Way back in the last century I used McCloskey's Tungseal and finished with oil and...

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