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  0 Thread: Cleaning metal from sanding belt
Post: RE: Cleaning metal from sanding belt
Grinding metal with an abrasive belt can quickly ruin a belt intended for wood.  There are special belts designed for metal.  Seek those out and use them.  Metal does not get in the belt like wood wil...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 5 290 04-19-2025, 04:21 PM
  0 Thread: Hinge install help
Post: RE: Hinge install help
Try a little countersink on the pilot hole for the screw.  Often the V of a flat head screw will go below the metal of the hinge and that area becomes a stress riser. Give it a test on a test piece a...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 6 325 04-12-2025, 12:40 PM
  0 Thread: Cut notches in planer blades?
Post: RE: Cut notches in planer blades?
Notches are good more in theory than in practice. Notched blades will work as long as the knives are set EXACTLY at the same height.  Otherwise you'll get streaks.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 9 610 04-10-2025, 09:48 PM
  0 Thread: convert 5/8 to 7/8 ok?
Post: RE: convert 5/8 to 7/8 ok?
Sleeves sometimes work and other times they don't.  The biggest problem I've seen is that the pulley gets slightly out of round and thus a little out of balance. Smaller motors such as 56 frame motor...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 3 389 04-10-2025, 09:44 PM
  0 Thread: Cut notches in planer blades?
Post: RE: Cut notches in planer blades?
Things get worse if you've got a USA-made 18" planer and taking off 1/8" per pass in wide poplar (first photo) I can't use a shavings collector because I haven't the room for something that powerful....
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 9 610 04-07-2025, 09:06 PM
  0 Thread: How do you hang tools on the wall?
Post: RE: How do you hang tools on the wall?
Just found this photo.  An example of 16d finish nails.  I put up this scrap piece of 1x12 on the wall when I first set up my shop building in 1996.  I needed a 'temporary' place to hang tools.  Its p...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 20 1,484 03-29-2025, 08:40 AM
  0 Thread: How do you hang tools on the wall?
Post: RE: How do you hang tools on the wall?
jsears Wrote: (03-26-2025, 02:00 PM) -- I’ve used pegboard before, and yeah, the hooks can be annoying when they fall off. If you go that route, zip ties or hot glue can help keep them in place. Late...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 20 1,484 03-26-2025, 09:36 PM
  0 Thread: What bench top jointer?
Post: RE: What bench top jointer?
I expect that they are as loud as the portapotty planers with the universal motors.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 8 972 03-26-2025, 05:39 PM
  0 Thread: Does anyone know how to true a motor shaft shoulder?
Post: RE: Does anyone know how to true a motor shaft sho...
Been there. Its easier to take the motor apart while the motor is still mounted to the saw. The rotor is easily chucked in a metal lathe and hopefully the little detent in the blade end is still goo...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 5 679 03-26-2025, 05:33 PM
  0 Thread: Delta Milwaukee Homecraft Lathe
Post: RE: Delta Milwaukee Homecraft Lathe
Good call. As long as they get a little lubricant, those Timken bearings will last a long time like decades and decades.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 5 545 03-19-2025, 01:50 PM
  0 Thread: Delta Milwaukee Homecraft Lathe
Post: RE: Delta Milwaukee Homecraft Lathe
I should think a standard 6205 sealed bearing will fit nicely.  It may have been that's what I did so many decades ago. Here's the Delta numbers translated.  The Timken cup/cone come to almost the sa...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 5 545 03-16-2025, 05:57 PM
  0 Thread: Makita Cordless Router
Post: RE: Makita Cordless Router
A dab of graphite on the inside of the router's shaft may help.  Don't get it inside the collet itself.  The graphite will help the outside of the collet seat better.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 7 890 03-15-2025, 09:29 PM
  0 Thread: Delta Milwaukee Homecraft Lathe
Post: RE: Delta Milwaukee Homecraft Lathe
Shimming the headstock will do the job.  It could be that the tailstock is a replacement. There's not to be so much oil in the headstock.  Don't fill it up, it will make a mess.  Been there 40 years ...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 5 545 03-15-2025, 09:26 PM
  0 Thread: The lattice build has begun!!!
Post: RE: The lattice build has begun!!!
Awesome post.  Great photos and process text.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 16 1,271 03-10-2025, 09:19 AM
  0 Thread: Attachment Question, Nails & Glue?
Post: RE: Attachment Question, Nails & Glue?
Maybe consider dowels. Make a dowel jig from an extra strip of red oak.  It should easily last eight drillings per hole.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 13 1,224 03-03-2025, 08:35 PM
  0 Thread: Bearings for the Ubiquitous Porter Cable 690 Series Router: Mission Accomplished!
Post: RE: Bearings for the Ubiquitous Porter Cable 690 S...
Copper tubing or PVC both work if the size is right to drive the inner race.  The collet holder has a short section that goes down into the bearing.   Having a press is a rabbit hole.  You’ll get mo...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 19 3,090 03-03-2025, 07:46 PM
  0 Thread: The lattice build has begun!!!
Post: RE: The lattice build has begun!!!
The reason most outdoor wood lattice is done at a diagonal is so the water runs off and down and doesn't stay at the joint.
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 16 1,271 02-27-2025, 09:54 PM
  0 Thread: Bearings for the Ubiquitous Porter Cable 690 Series Router: Mission Accomplished!
Post: RE: Bearings for the Ubiquitous Porter Cable 690 S...
Bill Holt Wrote: (02-25-2025, 07:34 AM) -- Holy cow!!!!!!!!!!!  I felt guilty (not) when I bought router no. 6. You win. -- Back story:  I get a kick out of restoring certain portable power tool...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 19 3,090 02-26-2025, 04:49 PM
  0 Thread: Bearings for the Ubiquitous Porter Cable 690 Series Router: Mission Accomplished!
Post: RE: Bearings for the Ubiquitous Porter Cable 690 S...
Bob Vaughan Wrote: (02-10-2025, 03:21 PM) -- There can be a 'gotcha' detail on some of the older 690 models.  They used the wide inner race 88502 size bearings.  Been bit by that more than once. -- ...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking Power Tools 19 3,090 02-24-2025, 09:07 AM
  0 Thread: Anyone have a jig for making wide half laps?
Post: RE: Anyone have a jig for making wide half laps?
in 1988 I did a bunch of lattice panels.  I used a block jig similar to the one shown.  I used stainless staples (aluminum would do).  The trick that worked for me was to put a dab of resorcinol glue ...
 Bob Vaughan Woodworking 16 1,680 02-18-2025, 03:47 PM

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