On the ride home from Rogers City yesterday I stopped at the Mio Flea Market for the first time. I needed a break because I knew traffic would be picking up soon and the truck’s bench seat isn’t made for long trips.
I couldn’t believe it when I spotted this nail puller for $15. Several months ago Isaac told me to keep my eyes open for one. Now that I’m tearing apart pallets I needed one, so I guess I’m still on the hunt to find him one.
The patent (708841) was registered in 1902, so I’m curious when this one was manufactured. It was made in the U.S.A.
Last night was the first time I’ve done a lot of work with the scroll saw. I used the foot switch I’d made earlier this year and I can’t imagine using this saw without one. If you do any scroll sawing, get yourself one. The wood on the table of the saw is a piece of thin scrap plywood stuck down with tape to act as a zero clearance insert.
The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade⇒
CrossFit really pushed Taubes work down people’s throats for a while and is now on a big sugar crusade. This article confirms that nutrition science is extremely difficult and probably why so many people have a hard time losing weight. Who do you believe and what diet should you follow?
While cleaning up the feed rollers on my Dad’s Craftsman 351.233831 Planer I noticed there were really beat up.
Old infeed roller
Unfortunately the part (#8520) is discontinued and I couldn’t find an aftermarket one anywhere online. I stumbled across some forum posts discussing roller resurfacing, so I got some quotes.
Mid American Rubber, which is actually here in Michigan, wanted $137 for each roller!
These first two had big forms on their website with diagrams showing how to get all of the measurements they requested.
I had to call Feedrollers.com and provide some info. A day later they got back to me with a price of $57 each.
Western Roller Corporation had an online form but it was very basic so I only provided the model of the planer and the part number. I got an email saying, “most of these small table-top type planers we recover your existing shafts for $65.00 to $100.00 each.” That’s a pretty wide range, so I sent over the measurements provided to the other companies and they quoted $68.88 each.
I went with the cheapest one since these aren’t for a production shop of any kind. I shipped out the rollers and got them back exactly 3 weeks later.
I’m really impressed with these. Hopefully they hold up well for my Dad. After installing the rollers I swapped out and aligned all of the cutter knives. With this and all of the previous work, the planer runs like a brand new machine.
I dropped almost 14 pounds in June by replacing fast food with Factor 75 meals. My weight should start with a 1 again any day now, which will be the first time since November 1, 2015.
