My little 5x6 horizontal/vertical bandsaw gets used a lot. Recently I was making some lathe dolly wheels and the only suitable stock I had was a 15x2" disk of steel (I've had it for about 10 years, from a salvaged glass beveller.) It lead me to make a much larger (plywood) table for the bandsaw, which attaches easily and hangs on the wall when I don't need it.
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Tools you waited too long to acquire
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I love that.
Have you got an IKEA part number for it? I was just there on Thursday, likely be in the neighbourhood again next week.
Sorry John, no, it was in a pile of sale stuff end of life I guess. And I bought it some time ago.
Pictures of that table?
Not a problem. For a moment I went into that mode of "buy a solution" even though I have more than enough parts on hand to make my own solution.
Revisiting my machining days in the 1980s . . .
I have to admit the best purchase for me was my KING Mill.
It has allowed me to revisit experiences from my youth and test the boundaries of the tooling that I have had collecting dust for years.
Thanks Guys, for all your advice along the way !!
I have to admit the best purchase for me was my KING Mill.
It has allowed me to revisit experiences from my youth and test the boundaries of the tooling that I have had collecting dust for years.
Thanks Guys, for all your advice along the way !!
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Those look good, the dividers are fixed? Those little plastic ones where they're not, that you get with cheap fasteners, give me the shivers.
Alawishes
Active Member
I just glued the dividers in place — much better!
yeah, but after all the bloody set screws are mixed up the horse is long gone. I tried gluing a crappy tire one once with cyanoacrylate, didn't work .... i know it depends on the type of plastic, what worked for you with those cheapo ones?
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My local Dollarama has medium sized boxes with fixed dividers that work well for my collection of small (m2/m2.5/m3) screws. Check in the area for beading and other craft items.
For slightly larger items like miniature bearings, GT2 pulleys and such I bought three dozen tackle boxes with fixed dividers from BassPro (I don't see them on their website now). The man behind me at the cashier commented that I must be a super fisherman to have that number of lures!
To store these boxes stacked on one shelf, I cut pieces of Masonite (tempered hardboard) the size of a shelf and put a piece between each level of boxes. It is easy to slide out a box since boxes on each side of the one being removed support the divider sheets.
Alawishes
Active Member
I tried the Stanley "super glue" in very small tubes (several in a clear plastic pill bottle type container) that I got at Home Hardware. I like the tiny tubes, as usually once the tube is open it tends to go downhill quite quickly. Where the outside of the plastic container had big cracks it didn't work the best but it kept the dividers in place quite well.
ChazzC
Ultra Member
Da nada
I haven’t used this, but have used a 3M prep for sticking labels to “low energy” plastics - works well and the labels don’t peel off - so in theory this should work. Please let us know.
ChazzC
Ultra Member
Wear Blocks
Didn't know I "needed" these until a discussion came up on another forum (https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/f...ro-on-a-boring-head-yes?p=2087057#post2087057)
However, I didn't see any sense in spending more for a pair of wear blocks than I did for my SHARS set of blocks, so got these:
I contributed the wooden box. Random sizes, and an order of magnitude more precise than my gage blocks, but that's not a big deal. $35 + postage on eBay.
Didn't know I "needed" these until a discussion came up on another forum (https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/f...ro-on-a-boring-head-yes?p=2087057#post2087057)
However, I didn't see any sense in spending more for a pair of wear blocks than I did for my SHARS set of blocks, so got these:
I contributed the wooden box. Random sizes, and an order of magnitude more precise than my gage blocks, but that's not a big deal. $35 + postage on eBay.
I think for hobby needs, that they are not needed.
The ones you got on eBay don't look like wear blocks to me.
But again, I don't think we hobbiests use them enough to worry about wear. Others may disagree.