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You're right! Hmmm ... why didn't I see that.

As promised some pictures:

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Cleaning out the pile of wood scraps under my workbench, I came across this jig but for the life of me I cannot remember what it is for. For the fun of it help me remember by suggesting what it did.

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Yesterday, I also found a 1500w table saw motor. Sorry no pictures but it looks pretty much the same as the GMC motor assembly a few posts back but less most of the tilt and level adjustment mechanism. I wondering what tool I can build with it. Some thoughts are:

1. Thickness sander, rather big project though but one I've had my eye on for awhile.
2. Stationary disk and/or belt sander, already have these but find them wanting - short a bed and too small a disk.

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the jig looks like it is for the ts or rt, seems to have a ski for something. could it be a taper jig for long pieces?
thickness sander takes my vote, start on it lang, slowly but surely when you have time to work on it...

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We have the same guess bro but honestly I can't remember ... maybe because it is so ugly or even that it did not work 🙂

Made a new knob for my scrollsaw:

This is the motor I was talking about:

Still not decided what to do with it. A thickness sander is the prime candidate but we'll see. I have a mind to build another table saw with a more robust tilt and depth mechanism.

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direct drive motor yan Louis? looks like it is in decent shape. we'll follow along on what you will do with it... popcorn mode muna...

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Parang sine ...

Yup seems to be in decent shape though I should power it first to make sure it is not fried ... doesn't smell like it is. I took dimensions last night so if I can squeeze it in today I'll make a Sketchup model.

I bought plans from PlansNow a long time ago for a belt sander. It is suppose to sit on top of a table saw and be driven by it by replace the blade with a pulley and connecting a belt. Neat design but I'm still not decided.

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I bought the same plan too. But i am way too afraid to use it on my TS since parang hirap ata ts ko... either that or iam using way too many toothed blade for ripping 2 inch thick wood. 100 tooth eh 🙂 i know i should use 60

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Just like me ... I used a 120 tooth and wrecked it :<

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100, 120 tooth is metal (e.g., aluminum) territory, isn't it.

I assume what was destroyed was the blade, as opposed to motor? What was the failure mode -- burning of wood and overheating/burning of teeth, leading to dulling?

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IIRC bro it was a blade for plywood. I've seen aluminum cut with a miter saw but never really looked into it. I've always cut metal with a chop saw. What's the difference between such blades anyway?

By "destroyed" I meant the blade became dull to the point where it was too painful to use: slow cutting rates and burned wood. Have yet to find a place that can sharpen these carbide toothed blades. I don't really have plans of using my old TS now but it would be a shame to waste a 12" blade.

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Laminating fiberglass to wood should not be done while the temperature is rising because this will possibly result in bubbles forming between the fiberglass and the wood. This is due to the outgassing of the plywood. So after lunch while waiting for the temperature to start dropping, I decided to see if I could breath life back into on of my "spare" thickness planers. Luck smiled on me yesterday and by about 2 pm, I had another working planer:

If I had more time I'd have taken the whole thing apart, cleaned of all the spots of rust and swapped out the motor for another that sounds better but this wasn't really the objective of the day. The present motor sounds acceptable anyway. The only problem of this planer I found was that the switch contacts were dirty so it would not turn on sometimes (a shame what some people throw away). Once I had it running I turned the blades so I'd be using the unused edges. Finally, I calibrated it to no more than a 0.1 mm error.

Sorry no pictures, I won't dare touch the wife's camera with greasy hands.

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nice work Louis, Ryobi planners or thicknessers are loved by a lot of americans as well, they are as they say workhorses too...
hehehehe, maybe you can change the thread name na rin... umalis na si LNCC63.... hahahaha

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Oo nga no. I forgot that one.

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LNCC,

re: your clampmeter, you can probably use that if you fix an aircon unit or something like that.

Or, if you become a demo presenter of those electricity saving gadgets on some homeshopping network, that yellow and red beauty will do just fine 🙂

Cheers !

Not really sure how man times I've done this: When these electricity savings gadgets guys come around I play dumb and ask them to explain their device. They'll give me a lot of "smoke" and I'll press they explain in terms I can understand eventually revealing that I'm kind of adept at electricity. They'll make excuses and leave FOREVER.

Reply not too late ... its not been 12 months.