This morning I took the V-Belt off the rockwell saw, and swapped it with the link-belt I had on my scroll saw. The scroll saw doesn’t need a link-belt. Seriously. That was over-kill. The table saw used to shake pretty vigorously when starting / stopping (and had a fair amount of shake while running) with [...]

As a reminder of how things started out, before shots here. Yesterday morning I took all the parts outside for painting. I had about a quart of rustoleum (one can of spray cost almost as much as a quart can), a brush, and a nice sunny day. Over the course of the day, I put [...]

All the pre-hung, six-panel, solid-core pine interior doors are in. With brushed chrome and nickel lock sets and hinges. Holy cow. It looks so different. I have three, 30″ bi-fold doors left to finish. I’ll start sanding those tonight. I should be able to finish one and a half (they’re two 15″ sections per door) [...]

I have successfully scaled up my electrolysis rust-removal setup. I now have a cheap battery charger and a small, 12V battery that’s commonly used by ATV’s as a power source, rather than the computer power supplies I apparently blew up when I ended up drawing more current than they could provide in the scaled up [...]