|
Your Biggest Tool Purchase Mistakes?
|
05-11-2020, 04:50 PM
(05-11-2020, 04:00 PM)Murray M Wrote: OMG That was the funny looking saw with the sliding table, wasn't it? I bought the Delta saw next to it and used it for 20 years
To do is to be (Camus)
To be is to do (Sartre) Doo Bee Doo Bee Doo (Sinatra)
05-11-2020, 05:23 PM
A little different take on this. I was at a guys house looking at this table saw when he offered me an old power hammer and a nice band saw for $75 each. I didn't have room in my Volvo station wagon for all of that and the wife and kid (just one at that time) and I also didn't really have the funds. I passed but never forgot that mistake. I could have bought and resold both of those for twice what was paid if I could part with them at all.
05-11-2020, 06:04 PM
My biggest mistake is the Delta Shaper. This machine is used the least in my shop, it just scares me. Maybe I would use it more if I have a power feeder. I just can't see spending more $$ for this tool. The router table, I love it, not as big of a cutter and I feel more in control. Anyone want to buy a shaper?
Treat others as you want to be treated.
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West. 24- year cancer survivor
05-11-2020, 06:57 PM
1. Craftsman Radial Arm saw. Blade climbed up on the wood while in use, scared the crap out of me.
Partly my fault due to using the blade that came on it when I bought it. Woodnet taught me the error of my ways in using a positive rake blade for crosscutting. I was REALLY happy to have someone take it off my hands. 2. Craftsman 12" tilt head band saw (yes tilt head not tilting table) I sold it and replaced it with a shopsmith stand alone bandsaw. The shopsmith owner really wanted it out of his basement as he didn't like the way it performed. He was right about how badly it cut, but once the blade was flipped over so that the teeth were pointing down, it cut just fine.
My .02
Karl 
05-11-2020, 08:07 PM
(05-11-2020, 06:57 PM)measure once cut remeasure Wrote: but once the blade was flipped over so that the teeth were pointing down, it cut just fine. 
Steve
Mo. I miss the days of using my dinghy with a girlfriend too. Zack Butler-4/18/24 The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints WaterlooMark 02/9/2020 
05-11-2020, 08:16 PM
Grizzly wet sander. What a POS!
Good thing it was very inexpensive but still a pile!
Gary
Please don’t quote the trolls. Liberty, Freedom and Individual Responsibility Say what you'll do and do what you say.
05-11-2020, 08:17 PM
A jointer. I just don’t use it.
Carolyn
Trip Blog for Twelve Countries: [url=http://www.woodworkingtraveler.wordpress.com[/url] "It's good to know, but it's better to understand." Auze Jackson 
05-11-2020, 08:24 PM
Delta X-5 Unisaw. I've told this story too many times here. Death by normal use.
Best,
Aram, always learning "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Web: My woodworking photo site
Skil 2 base router, posts on the plunge base had a quarter inch side play. Yard saled it after about a year.
|
|
|
Here are some supplies and tools we find essential in our everyday work around the shop. We may receive a commission from sales referred by our links; however, we have carefully selected these products for their usefulness and quality.
