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.
I cut the lawn yesterday morning and noticed this large mushroom in the back yard when I woke up today. That’s a lot of growth in about 22 hours.
While cleaning up the feed rollers on my Dad’s Craftsman 351.233831 Planer I noticed there were really beat up.
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!
J. J. Short Associates, Inc. quoted $92.50 for one or $85 each if I did both.
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.
Got this sandwich from the Saigon Sandwitch Company in the SVRC Marketplace. It was ok, but nothing special.
Look what showed up in my Tesla account last night!
I designed my car and paid the $2,500 deposit. I’m committed now. Since the dual motor all-wheel drive had the same delivery estimate as the single motor it was a pretty easy choice; it’ll be really nice for Michigan winters and the faster acceleration will be fun.
Here are my build details with a delivery window of September – November, which is another delay from the most recent August – October estimate my account showed.
Once I get my car it’ll have been about 2 years since I put in a reservation (October 29, 2016).
I wanted to use pallet wood for a project and my brother has been using a lot of it, so I asked for his breakdown method. He said I should make a pallet buster. So I did.
It’s fun making a new tool.
Most of my free time has been spent working on the truck for the last month and I’m starting a wood working project that’ll take me a week or two. Hopefully I can get back to some electronics projects before August, because they’re literally piling up.
Nick Momrik 