Grandpadave52 Posted December 13, 2022 Report Posted December 13, 2022 Awesome 4D. Love a happy ending especially when a power tool is saved from the scrappers. Happy sawing! Cal 1 Quote
4DThinker Posted December 13, 2022 Author Report Posted December 13, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said: Awesome 4D. Love a happy ending especially when a power tool is saved from the scrappers. Happy sawing! So true. In my tool collecting/using history only one other tool needed some love. My old Hitachi Jointer/Planer started skipping while boards were run through it. It still ran and planed, but the skipping left subtle burn/rub spots on the wood surface each time it skipped. After letting a couple students use my shop to make a project/gift for another professor one summer I felt embarrassed/apologetic for the first time when we used the planer. A day later after the students had left I took the cover off the chain drive on the side, and found a tensioner on the chain had failed which would let the loose chain skip occasionally. 15 minutes to come up with a replacement/fix and put the cover back on and my jointer/planer was running like new again. I've been using that tool for almost every project I've done since buying it in the 1980s. I was keeping an eye out for a replacement/upgrade. With the skip fixed those traitorous thoughts have disappeared. 4D Edited December 13, 2022 by 4DThinker Grandpadave52 and Cal 2 Quote
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