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For $7.99, your supposed to be impressed that you actually got a user guide! For a few dollars more, I'd at least expect them to run that sentence through Google Translate. But that can get you in trouble too...I once asked a friend overseas if his church youth group enjoyed their week at camp. Afte...

Adrian, if you do laminate a stack that starts at the base of the handle, goes up and around the glass, and continues back down to the handle--especially with your curved "triangle" piece that would sit between the lamination and the glass itself--you will have overcome the spring back. If...

Yes, essentially the drive belt is a conveyer belt made up as a loop of cloth-backed 16" wide sandpaper. Feels about 220-320 grit.

Had to look up Van De Graf; yep-I've seen those but didn't know the internal workings.

JPG, I can't figure out why a band saw blade will ride on the crown of the wheel instead of flying off in the first revolution! And I tried that too-I applied electrical tape on the middle section of the drive roller, but that didn't help. I can't take credit for this fix; someone described it in an...

Oh, just in case anyone else ever finds themselves in a loosing battle with the feed belt on one of these old drum sanders, here's the radical adjustment needed to make that belt track correctly: PXL_20231107_000440281.jpg Get rid of the outermost adjustment screw on the side the belt insists on wan...

I found casters which have an integrated leveling foot. They wouldn't be the ideal solution for leveling up a bench against a wall where the back feet are inaccessible, but they should do for leveling up to other surfaces in the center of my little shop. If I'd realized how heavy this beast is, I mi...

Following up on this discussion; I've finally got a cabinet base 95% complete for the drum sander. I wanted the ability to level the sander up with the SS or my table saw as infeed/out feed tables, but most of the time, I just want to roll the thing wherever needed. Oh, and I needed a lot of storage...

I haven't owned a ShopSmith very long--in fact, I'm slowly getting around to cleaning up the SPTs that came with it. Honestly, the primary thing I've used it for so far is as an out feed for my existing table saw (which I'd consider replacing). But in my short experience, I have noticed table flex, ...

Moriswayne, I'll try to not offend anyone's delicate sensibilities by telling you the solution to your permit and code question is to move to a free state. Nevertheless, if you yourself are going to build, find out who your JHA is (who do you buy a permit from). Call them and ask which building code...

David, Thanks for checking; that gives me a lot of assurance that mine is behaving as should be expected. Your mod with set screws is interesting. Without disassembly, can one tell a one-piece vs two-piece quill shaft? Looking down the barrel, all I see is the inner bearing sitting at 4.25" ins...