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   swenson | Jan 10, 2011 07:57am | #1

   I tried that with a mouse and the paste stuck my mouse to the desk.  I had to pry it loose with a 9 way dry wall tool.  Then I lapped the base of the mouse on a steel plate using olive oil and kosher salt.  Wot a mess. I'm sorry I ever read this post.  I'm going back to bed.

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   joinerswork | Jan 10, 2011 08:10am | #2

   Tell me more about your 9 way tool.  Did you flatten its back with kosher salt also?  I find that Morton's iodized salt has a finer grit, and breaks down into a saline slurry faster, making a mirror finish on my spackle knife more flattering when I look into it to shave.

   Ray

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   swenson | Jan 10, 2011 10:02pm | #4

   The 9 way saved me two days ago. I was building a toy for my grandchildren that involved dozens of slats with 15 degree sides laid side by side on double sided tape attached to a plywood carrier. Then a glued layer of canvas and another glued on layer of slats and then double sided tape and plywood again. After heavy clamping for the glue and bandsawing to shape I found it almost impossible to remove the double sided tape and plywood. A 9 way drywall tool and a narrow spackle knife, dipped in odorless paint thinner finally did the trick and allowed me to separate the two sides. The whole toy, a dragon, swings around in a lifelike manner. When I first saw one at a woodworkers guild meeting I thought that there were lots of hidden piano hinges involved, but it is the canvas in the center of the "sandwich" acting like a hinge that does the trick.

   
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   joinerswork | Jan 11, 2011 07:51am | #6

   Puff, the Magic Tambour.

   Cool,

   Ray

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   swenson | Jan 11, 2011 08:51am | #7

   Tambour, exactly.  Next it gets horns, yellow eyes, and round ball wheels on outriggers and, after sanding, a two tone green paint job.

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   RalphBarker | Jan 10, 2011 09:54am | #3

   Double tap? Sounds like you're executing the text.  ;-)

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   roc | Jan 11, 2011 12:01am | #5

   Common Guys

   I feel like I made a significant archeological discovery here and what do I get . . .

   Say . . . that IS a mighty cool dragon though

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   RalphBarker | Jan 11, 2011 09:22am | #8

   archeological discoveries

   I often dig up what appear to be fossilized thoughts in my mind, and dust them off, only to find they are a short-term recollection, such as what I had for lunch. ;-)

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   roc | Jan 11, 2011 11:23pm | #9

   you're doing good

   If a guy can still remember what he had for lunch that is a good sign.

   No matter how he must arrive at it.

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   swenson | Jan 12, 2011 02:23am | #11

   fossilized thoughts

   I was a Nightline editor for almost thirty years.  One night Ted Koppel was interviewing the Dali Lama. 

   "Your followers believe that you are the tenth incarnation of Budda, tell me, do you remember anything of your previous life?"

   and the Dali Lama smiled and said, "Hell Ted, sometimes I can't remember what I did yesterday"

   (True story except I can't remember the actual number of incarnations, so I just made up the "tenth" part)

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   swenson | Jan 12, 2011 02:06am | #10

   Driving me nutz.

    

   I found it, I found it, I found it ! ! !This phrase has been driving me crazy since you first posted it. I know I have heard it a hundred times, but where? It is so familiar. Then it hit me. Jimmy Buffet, in concert on the banks of the Cape Cod Canal, singing Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville, after the line "searching for my lost shaker of salt" he yelled to the crowd "I found it, I found it, I found it !!!"

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   Jammersix | Jan 12, 2011 11:57am | #12

   Bandsaw Table

   I want to know more about that bandsaw table.

   Is it a torsion box? How is it mounted to the bandsaw? And if it's a torsion box, why are the corners reinforced?

   Enquiring Minds Want To Know! :)

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   swenson | Jan 12, 2011 01:08pm | #13

   Bandsawtable

   If it's Swenson you are asking I am about to go out the door, but I'll get back to you later.  Not a torsion box, just frame and particleboard.  Made it years ago from a plan in the mag Shopnotes or maybe Woodsmith.  Had some slivers of walnut left over from another project and just put them in the corners for decoration although they do reinforce it.  The attachment is neat and can be removed with ease, but I never have.  Back in four or five hours.

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   swenson | Jan 12, 2011 08:05pm | #15

   Bandsaw Table

   Jammer... I'm back.  Looked it up. The plans were in ShopNotes issue 51 (May 2000).  The plans called for MDF but I didn't know any better and made the top out of particleboard.  Doesn't seem to make any difference, still going strong. Under the table there are cleats that form a box that exactly fits over the existing table top.  Clamp blocks attached to the cleats pivot on screws and draw the two tables together,  A shop made fence is fully adjustable for drift and a t-nut rides in the fence to hold a stop which doubles as a re-saw pivot point.  A shop made featherboard is attached to a metal bar that rides in the blade changing slot and is held in place by a drill press vise grip clamp without the ring and nut on the bottom.  The vise grip shaft just sits in a hole in the particleboard and jams like a holddown shaft when pressure is applied.  I did reinforce the hole with copper pipe to make the particleboard last longer.   Here are some pix, including some of the plans that I hope do not violate any copyright laws.  I don't know what I would do without my oversized bandsaw table, oversized drill press table, and huge router table.

   
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   Jammersix | Jan 13, 2011 12:03am | #16

   Thanks!

   Thanks, Swenson! Interesting setup.

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   swenson | Jan 13, 2011 12:49am | #17

   Tilt

   PS:  And it does tilt with the orig table.  You just have to pop out the masonite insert plate and put one in that has a wider slot, or one that has a throat cut to the angle you tilt the table to.

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   swenson | Jan 12, 2011 07:41pm | #14

   estate in MD

   Ray,

   If it was the estate in St Marys he done good.  What an awsome place.  Oyster shell paths in Grace Ann's garden, gravel paths, beautiful arbor at the swimming pool overlooking the river, eight foot tall sunflowers and all plants native to the area by design.  Had lots of good BBQ there every summer.  TK is the salt of the earth.  A truely good guy and mental giant.

   If the estate you are talking about is the one in Potomac, Md I have never been to his new one, just his old place back in the early eighties.