My first useful tip!

[admin]

I'm still a novice at woodworking, but for once, I do have a piece of advice I wish I had heard. Brace yerselves.

If you happen to have a table saw with the little baggy that hangs underneath the table saw to catch the sawdust, remove the bag before you go to remove the insert to change the blade. Those little screws apparently are much more effected by the forces of gravity and can easily use their powers to evade your fingertips and bonsai into the sawdust baggy.

I found it, but not after a few minutes with my hand down in the bottom of a bag of sawdust feeling for it. I was tempted to pour it out into a container to find the screw, but I worried I'd lose it for sure then, when it was in the bag, I knew where it was!

[Doug B]

Just wait til you suck something up in the shop vac, and, not knowing what it was but afraid it just might be something important you have to dig through the dust bag looking for it. I've done that a couple of times.

One time I heard something clunk through the tube, and could not figure out what it was. I did not think it was anything important so I went about my business and forgot about it. Until...later on when I could not find one part of my 2 part Epoxy glue Guess where it was?

Good tip TJ!

[Ruffnek]

I evidently had a whole bar of Carnauba wax fall off the lathe into the piled up shavings below. Anyway, I shovel up the shavings with a big aluminum corn scoop and my Carnauba wax disappeared about the same time.

When I had my Craftsman contractor's saw, I had a piece of melamine between the saw and the stand with a hole cut in it and my 6" DC duct attached. There was an elbow directly below the attachment and while changing blades, I dropped the arbor washer in there. Luckily the DC wasn't running but I had to disassemble the whole thing to get it out.

When I posted about it over at ww.com, (Lost my arbor washer) Timmer commented, "How are you gonna wash your arbor now?).

That's sympathy for you.

[TDHofstetter]

[admin]

Tim was once a wisecracker? I don't believe it!

[Doug B]

Yeah, Tim used to be a real character...in fact he was




"Gumby".

;D

[Joe Lyddon]

Having a magnet on the end of a telescoping rod helps find things like that...

[Beamer]

Till the dang thing you want is steel and it falls into a steel duct and makes a nice long 90 degree turn ... DAMHIKT!!!

That took some fiddlin, I tell ya ... a nice big fat hard-drive magnet on some flexible plastic strip was the answer - it drug along the steel wall tho, which made it a bear to swing around inside the duct - took a good half hour to get that blasted lag bolt outta there ... I quickly screened that particular dust port off with some hardware cloth - won't stop everything, but it'll help the big stuff stay outta there.

[TDHofstetter]

What, pray tell, were you doing with a lag bolt next to the blade on your table saw, Beems?

[sachbvn]

Nov 17, 2009 12:26:00 GMT -6 Doug B said:

Yeah, Tim used to be a real character...in fact he was




"Gumby".

;D

lmao!

[sachbvn]

I second Cody - I've dropped my arbor washer down onto the "belly" of my TS more than once - luckily it's only gone down the DC hose once, and it was off. I just disconnected the hose from the DC and kinda snaked the washer out the bottom..... I will never let the Dc run if I'm changing blades or monkeying around inside the TS. Can you imagine losing an arbor washer for good? Not being able to use your TS until you replaced it? Ugh - suck!

Zac

[larryh86gt]

I run my table saw with the snap-on dust bag also. The table saw goes on a setup table on saw horses which is on my back lawn. (Not too bad of a set up in the summer in the shade of my maple tree, but not so great when it gets cold here). If I drop a screw I want it to go in the bag. I have a heck of a time finding small screws and nails in the lawn with my bifocals.
Larry