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  0 Thread: Delta planer depth setting
Post: RE: Delta planer depth setting

tablesawtom Wrote: (09-06-2021, 07:17 PM) -- .02 in not a lot of height from the cutter head I will check mine tomorrow and get back to you. Tom -- From what I've read, it seems pretty small, bu...
tedrussell Woodworking Power Tools 4 2,190 09-08-2021, 06:37 PM
  0 Thread: Delta planer depth setting
Post: RE: Delta planer depth setting

tablesawtom Wrote: (09-05-2021, 07:30 PM) -- I believe the cutting edge of the blade rests against the pin. The pin orientates the blade in relation to the blade rotation because the blade is at an a...
tedrussell Woodworking Power Tools 4 2,190 09-06-2021, 01:04 PM
  0 Thread: Delta planer depth setting
Post: Delta planer depth setting

I work in a community workshop (makerspace), and just set the blades on a Delta RC-33 (I'm pretty sure that's the model number) 13" planer.  Sort of long story: It was not planing well, and a machi...
tedrussell Woodworking Power Tools 4 2,190 09-05-2021, 06:31 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

Thanks, Doug. I'll check it out. Tapper Wrote: (08-29-2021, 07:19 AM) -- Lots of great ideas here as well as options. Many years ago I built the European workbench featured in Woodsmith #50. I...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 09-05-2021, 06:00 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

djcook50 Wrote: (08-21-2021, 09:34 AM) -- I’ve been using this Grizzly (ShopFox) workbench frame with a maple top from Woodcraft for about 15 years.  It has worked great.  I put a base cabinet in it ...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-21-2021, 03:04 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

iclark Wrote: (08-17-2021, 07:08 PM) -- Perhaps I phrased it poorly. My concern was that, if the guy down the street listed that as a workbench, the guy down the street might not have much experience...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-21-2021, 03:03 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

ajkoontz Wrote: (08-17-2021, 03:11 PM) -- Just throwing in my $0.02 that you should build your own. No good reason except that's what you're supposed to do. Frank Klaus said this in a class I took wi...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-17-2021, 05:11 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

Handplanesandmore Wrote: (08-17-2021, 01:55 AM) -- If you read the op's post with more care, you'd know he wasn't suggesting buying a 16" tall table as his bench. He was quoteing the table, and consi...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-17-2021, 02:50 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

msweig Wrote: (08-15-2021, 08:22 PM) -- A lot of the issues with the bench you pointed out isn't the weight itself, more the rigidity/stiffness. And the vices will rack like crazy. But a lot of rigid...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-17-2021, 02:47 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

Handplanesandmore Wrote: (08-15-2021, 07:05 PM) -- .... The initial weight of the bench is less critical if you can add shelves underneath, or if it's to be parked by a wall. I know a guy who has ...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-17-2021, 12:22 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

msweig Wrote: (08-15-2021, 02:43 PM) -- Do you do anything with handtools (planes, chisels, etc.)?  If you do the workbench needed for that is typically much heavier and sturdy than if you are a powe...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-15-2021, 06:58 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

Bill Holt Wrote: (08-15-2021, 03:46 PM) -- Ted, this is not what you wanted to hear.   Build the bench yourself. Unlike you, I did not have a lot of woodworking experience, but, like you, I did no...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-15-2021, 06:41 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: RE: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

msweig Wrote: (08-15-2021, 02:43 PM) -- Do you do anything with handtools (planes, chisels, etc.)?  If you do the workbench needed for that is typically much heavier and sturdy than if you are a powe...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-15-2021, 06:38 PM
  0 Thread: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice
Post: Workbench buy/make/hybrid advice

Long intro: I'm not a newbie - I've been making things out of wood for about 50 years, from barns and sheds to little jewelry boxes to all kinds of accessories for my live-in handweaver :) . I'm also...
tedrussell Woodworking 38 9,738 08-15-2021, 11:01 AM
  0 Thread: Delta 2 hp 50-761 dust collector - $400
Post: Delta 2 hp 50-761 dust collector - $400

SOLD I bought this used dust collector for a new wood shop, but in designing the dust collection system, and partly based on excellent advise from members of this forum, it may not have enough power...
tedrussell Tool Swap N' Sell 0 1,999 07-26-2019, 07:16 PM
  0 Thread: Delta 2 hp 50-761 dust collector - PRICE LOWERED
Post: RE: Delta 2 hp 50-761 dust collector - PRICE LOWER...

Dumb_Polack Wrote: (07-15-2019, 09:35 AM) -- How much for the Dunkins' sign?    :) -- HA! Funny you ask.  FB Marketplace rejected my ad, and I don't know why, but I wonder if it's because their ima...
tedrussell Tool Swap N' Sell 2 2,983 07-16-2019, 12:27 PM
  0 Thread: Delta 2 hp 50-761 dust collector - PRICE LOWERED
Post: Delta 2 hp 50-761 dust collector - PRICE LOWERED

SOLD I bought this used dust collector for a new wood shop, but in designing the dust collection system, and partly based on excellent advise from members of this forum, it may not have enough power ...
tedrussell Tool Swap N' Sell 2 2,983 07-13-2019, 02:23 PM
  0 Thread: Delta 50-761 2 hp dust collector - SUPERSEDED BY LATER POST WITH REDUCED PRICE
Post: RE: Delta 50-761 2 hp dust collector

cvillewood Wrote: (06-30-2019, 11:46 PM) -- Bigger pictures would probably help. Lol -- I'm assuming that's a sarcastic comment because my photos are bigger than what is typically posted?  This is ...
tedrussell Tool Swap N' Sell 4 2,518 07-01-2019, 12:06 PM
  0 Thread: Delta 50-761 2 hp dust collector - SUPERSEDED BY LATER POST WITH REDUCED PRICE
Post: Delta 50-761 2 hp dust collector - SUPERSEDED BY L...

I bought this used dust collector for a new wood shop, but in designing the dust collection system, and partly based on excellent advise from members of this forum, it may not have enough power for th...
tedrussell Tool Swap N' Sell 4 2,518 06-30-2019, 07:30 PM
  0 Thread: Delta dust collector - how to test
Post: RE: Delta dust collector - how to test

Strokes77 Wrote: (06-29-2019, 06:46 PM) -- Just be up front about it. "Look I got this tool for sale. It's in good shape, worked great in last shop. Don't have 220v here to test it." I've sold se...
tedrussell Woodworking Power Tools 9 4,855 06-29-2019, 07:16 PM

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