27F and "Fair" @ 07:30, heading to around 53F for the day's high. Temps approaching 70F in the Ten Day but accompanied by a good amount of rain.
Will be interesting to see how warm it is up in the shop today. Was around 50F yesterday morning when I got up there.
I had it up 90F in there at one point yesterday. Not bad if one is sitting on a mechanics stool near the floor which is always cool this time of year but you really don't want to stand up for any length of time ...
I left two pieces of pine inside to dry out. It usually starts quickly and burns hot so getting a fire going this morning should go relatively easy.
Did not get any feeders filled yesterday but I did get the branches that had fallen in the circle/turnaround picked up so a vehicle can now be driven through. Maybe today.
Remembered to take up items up to the shop with me when I went.
Grabbed the Trewax carnauba paste wax and my new calipers later in the day and took those up as well.
Need to remember to take up the arbor wrench for the Craftsman Table Saw when I go this morning along with more water. Also small Shop Van out of van.
Threads inboard on the blade arbor shaft are pretty ugly looking. When I took the blade off I discovered that instead of the proper (outboard) arbor flange someone had substituted a keyed v-belt pulley ...
Will try and run a die on those if any the wrenches I have will fit and see if they can be cleaned up.
Scrubbed off the arbor bracket, dust chute, and the front and rear trunnion brackets with some dishwashing detergent and water and got most of the white powdery residue off.
Got the fan on the 3 phase motor pulled and scrubbed off. Started sanding fan shroud.
Tipped cabinet over on its side and removed the 4 bolts and nuts attaching it to the base and dug out the crud that was stuck to the walls of the base:
More silicone caulking removed and another application of McKanica silicone remover applied. Should be getting close on getting all of that off.
Think I have a piece of metal that I've been saving from an old steel equipment shipping crate that can be welded in and will work to fill in the missing metal on the top of the base.
Worked on getting contact cement off of three castings/brackets: the front and rear trunnion brackets are done and cleaned up pretty good ...
Arbor bracket mostly done at this point, but still need to rinse it off in the parts washer.
Sanded the rods that the worm gears for the blade raise/lower and tilt ride on and got most of the rust and crud off those. Need to remember to take up a can of Fluid Film this morning when I go to coat those.
Found a guy on Craigs that has a bunch of electrical boxes/enclosures for sale cheap and got in touch with him, waiting to hear back on what he has, dimensions wise. Could work for mounting the VFD.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of mounting it on the saw. Probably on the back of the cabinet.
Planning on running 110/220 to the enclosure, that way a 110 outlet can be installed on the side table which would be handy.
Items on recent Amazon order are due in today.
Hope everyone has a good day ...
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