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vtsteam:
Simon, you're doing the right thing, making things easier on yourself for the future. You'll save this time and a lot more down the road, make better parts and reduce mistakes and frustration. Good investment! :thumbup: :clap:
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on April 01, 2015, 08:14:24 PM ---Simon, you're doing the right thing, making things easier on yourself for the future. You'll save this time and a lot more down the road, make better parts and reduce mistakes and frustration. Good investment! :thumbup: :clap:
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Yeah hopefully it works out. I try to make things as adjustable as possible now since expecting things to just work out never.. works out. One really stupid thing I did when building the sander was gluing the trunnions onto the table, and then epoxying threaded rod into the sides of the thing. So it's impossible to take the table fully off unless I want to break the glue joints. If I was doing it again i'd use knobs and threaded inserts. I suppose I could still do that but i'd rather not give myself more work.
Right now i'm waiting for glue to dry. I spend my life waiting for glue to dry. It's the real downside of working with wood (aside from the dust). Wish I had the forethought to do that last night. I've sharpened the bandsaw blade in the meantime and, even though I mangled alot of the teeth, it cut's like new.
vtsteam:
Depending on the job size and strength needed, I tend to use 5 minute epoxy for small jobs for just that reason. Big jobs, it's way too expensive. Same for highly absorptive jobs. Also it's not as strong as slower epoxies, and not entirely waterproof. But it is very useful in a lot of situations.
If the type of glue connection can use it, I also sometimes use contact adhesives, to speed up the work. Laminating sections of casting patterns is an example. Again, not tremendously strong unless the glueline surface area is high and stresses are low/area but certainly adequate for certain situations, and very fast.
I tend to back up weaker gluelines with fasteners -- they are fast and prevent shifting and splitting, and it doesn't take many to do that. It oftan also means the part can be used imediately in building up a structure, since the fastener is a clamp. Dowels can work as fasteners in that way, too, for an all glued structure. Treenails are the ultimate, that way.
S. Heslop:
More problems. I've ran out of 2 inch screws and need to buy some more, plus the forstner bit I used to originally drill holes at 19mm/ 3/4" is the one I'd turned down to 18mm when making that bike. So I either need to get a new forstner bit or make some new bushings at a wider outer diameter. Either way i'll have to buy something before I can continue.
S. Heslop:
Might as well continue with the theme of moaning about everything. Must've pulled my back somehow yesterday and had an awful nights sleep with it. Took some codeine and got back into the garage for a bit. I'd forgotten to record cutting the blocks so I'll probably make another one and record that after I get the sander back where it belongs since it's currently on top of the tablesaw.
Got these bits on and close enough to parallel. Unfortunately it turns out today is Good Friday so no shops will be open to get some screws.
I'm thinking that while i'm at all this I might try make a new rail and spindle (or part of one) without using the lathe, to make a dedicated spindle sander update video. I know the rails could be made without a lathe since they don't need to be that accurate and can be scraped and filed square, but the spindle might be trickier. Tilting the drill press table to be parallel to the drill's spindle and fixing the steel bar on square might get it accurate enough to work.
I find update videos a little cheesy so I might put something else in too. Considering doing a segment on how I feel about 'taking care of tools'. Stuff like crashing a lathe or dropping a chuck onto the ways is worth avoiding, but you get people out there who fuss about things like using chisels to open paint tins, or a drill as an improvised mallet while it's already in your hand. It's not that interesting a video topic though.
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