My eternal problem has been one thing.
I get redundant pieces or buy materials
from commercial sources, but then the surfaces are
terribly rough.
In consequence, a staggering amount of my time is
spent on obtaining nice and smooth surfaces,
mainly through sanding.
I have been thinking about this for a long time by now.
Last night, I remembered that I had a planer, a hand-held
planer, as seen below.
If you can fix it upside down..., but then, yes,
I am perfectly capable of doing that, but then,
the time I need... and the space and the materials...
Today, I went to the DIY shop which is closing down
for obvious reasons, to purchase a belt sander, which was
for sale at a staggeringly low price.
I bought it, and then something else caught my eye.
It was this planer, also for sale with a reduced price tag.
I was compelled to buy it. It was not there, when I spotted the
belt sander. It must have been put on display for me!
It is a US made machine without an operating manual.
Come on! It should not matter! After all, I had
repaired an electron microscope without one
as my undergraduate project in London! I can work things out
myself! It is not as complicated as an electron microscope,
for God's sake!
All this meant, though, I had to reconfigure my small
workshop completely. Seen below is the belt sander.
This is very heavy, at 22 kg! So heavy that I do not
particularly feel I will have to bolt it down.
Oh!, there was something else I thought about
last night.
Seen above is a table saw, bought last year?
It is a machine which made me scarred of operating
for the first time in my life.
It is the rotational speed and the sound from it.
I very nearly threw it away, but then, what I
thought of last night was that I might be able to
slow it down using my speed controller. I checked that
this morning and I was dead right. The less speed,
the less menacing sound it produces...
Yes, I have a bandsaw, but the cut profile with a
table saw is far better, at least with straight lines.
Use this in combination with the planer and I can,
hopefully, expect an increased productivity.
That is the theory, anyway...
I did some more work on egg placers, only hole making
after the mess of installing new machines. Still,
I did some work and that is important!
Conchita, that is it for now!
Take care!
I get redundant pieces or buy materials
from commercial sources, but then the surfaces are
terribly rough.
In consequence, a staggering amount of my time is
spent on obtaining nice and smooth surfaces,
mainly through sanding.
I have been thinking about this for a long time by now.
Last night, I remembered that I had a planer, a hand-held
planer, as seen below.
If you can fix it upside down..., but then, yes,
I am perfectly capable of doing that, but then,
the time I need... and the space and the materials...
Today, I went to the DIY shop which is closing down
for obvious reasons, to purchase a belt sander, which was
for sale at a staggeringly low price.
I bought it, and then something else caught my eye.
It was this planer, also for sale with a reduced price tag.
I was compelled to buy it. It was not there, when I spotted the
belt sander. It must have been put on display for me!
It is a US made machine without an operating manual.
Come on! It should not matter! After all, I had
repaired an electron microscope without one
as my undergraduate project in London! I can work things out
myself! It is not as complicated as an electron microscope,
for God's sake!
All this meant, though, I had to reconfigure my small
workshop completely. Seen below is the belt sander.
This is very heavy, at 22 kg! So heavy that I do not
particularly feel I will have to bolt it down.
Oh!, there was something else I thought about
last night.
Seen above is a table saw, bought last year?
It is a machine which made me scarred of operating
for the first time in my life.
It is the rotational speed and the sound from it.
I very nearly threw it away, but then, what I
thought of last night was that I might be able to
slow it down using my speed controller. I checked that
this morning and I was dead right. The less speed,
the less menacing sound it produces...
Yes, I have a bandsaw, but the cut profile with a
table saw is far better, at least with straight lines.
Use this in combination with the planer and I can,
hopefully, expect an increased productivity.
That is the theory, anyway...
I did some more work on egg placers, only hole making
after the mess of installing new machines. Still,
I did some work and that is important!
Conchita, that is it for now!
Take care!
