Todays shop time.

[dragoneggs]

View attachment 648743yeah. That happened and the round over will also happen, just never got to it yet. Work got in the way.

Nice lamination. Hopefully you can disassemble the verticals from the base and run a round over bit with a router on the non mating edges of all the pieces.

 

[dieselcrawler]

No pictures, but I repaired my neighbor's tractor rims today... he has an old MF135 just like my dad's, and the back wheels had the hole for the valve stem ate out from years of calcium chloride loaded tires... he had the tires off, dropped of the rims to me a few days ago.

Cut out the valve stem area to a square about 1.25", took a 5/8" flat washer and knocked of the edges so it was the same size square, and welded in the hole. Smoothed down the welds, and once he paints them, you'd never know they were repaired.

 

[dragoneggs]

Great day today... besides getting my propane heater finally working in my shop (its own thread) I also unloaded and placed my new 8in jointer in my shop. Time to read the manual then turn it on and make some chips.

 

[Big Barn]

Great day today... besides getting my propane heater finally working in my shop (its own thread) I also unloaded and placed my new 8in jointer in my shop. Time to read the manual then turn it on and make some chips.

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What a beauty ! Any projects planned??

 

[dragoneggs]

What a beauty ! Any projects planned??

Thanks... surplus sale... some scratches and nicks, pretty much new. A heck of a deal. Projects... yes, too many to count... a bookcase, a shoji screen room divider, a Murphy bed for our closet/extra bed space. Figured I better make sure I am outfitted before retirement. Pretty sure there won't be big tool purchases on a fixed income unless my tools are generating some.

My 6in jointer is now on the block. Hard to sell online these days due to the lock down. Running out of room!

 

[4570Man]

Thanks... surplus sale... some scratches and nicks, pretty much new. A heck of a deal. Projects... yes, too many to count... a bookcase, a shoji screen room divider, a Murphy bed for our closet/extra bed space. Figured I better make sure I am outfitted before retirement. Pretty sure there won't be big tool purchases on a fixed income unless my tools are generating some.

My 6in jointer is now on the block. Hard to sell online these days due to the lock down. Running out of room!

I had a grizzly 6” before I bought my Powermatic 8”. I hung onto the grizzly for a while thinking there might be some use for it. I finally sold it and haven’t missed it.

 

[dragoneggs]

I had a grizzly 6” before I bought my Powermatic 8”. I hung onto the grizzly for a while thinking there might be some use for it. I finally sold it and haven’t missed it.

Was thinking the same... 'hey I might use it... who am I kidding?'

 

[spitter]

She's a Beauty Dragoneggs did you get to run some test pieces through it yet? How is the set up from the factory ? Most new equipment needs some tlc. There is a good video by the wood wisperer on utube on that exact model check it out.:drink:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My 6in jointer is now on the block. Hard to sell online these days due to the lock down. Running out of room!

I've had my 8" Rockwell jointer since the early 80's and it's amazing how much more useful an 8" is over a 6". It seems most buy the 6" first, and then learn it's a mistake to do so, myself included.

SR

 

[kevinwak]

I've had my 8" Rockwell jointer since the early 80's and it's amazing how much more useful an 8" is over a 6". It seems most buy the 6" first, and then learn it's a mistake to do so, myself included.

SR

My 6” was bought only out of affordability. I was 19 and going to school for fine woodworking. Our school shop had multiple 12” jointers so I knew the value of bigger ones.

On my list of future tool upgrades is either a new tablesaw or a new fence for my 1962 General, a band saw and a bigger jointer.