2015 POTD Thread Archive

sanddan said:
I finished up the drilling and tapping on a mini pallet. This was the first time for me doing power tapping, went pretty good. I stamped the reference corner 00 incase I ever need it later.

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Nice Dan. A mini pallet is on my list of things to try and get done over the winter. It was also on last winter's list.:frown 2:

Mike.
 
joshua43214 said:
Radial arm saws are spooky. I was using mine to make 1 1/2" deep cuts in 3" wide plywood strips and stuck my finger straight into the blade when shifting the material over to make the next slot. Split my finger in half about half way up the nail. I strap it up with a band aide, and a bit of tape and head to the emergency room. I normally don't bother with stiches, but I was worried I had hit the bone and chipped it.
When I get to the emergency room, the nurse in triage kept trying to get me to fill out the paper work. I kept telling her I could not hold a pen because of my injury - I suppose the band aide was not very impressive to her. Finally, I said in a very loud voice "I CAN'T USE A PEN BECAUSE I STUCK MY FINGER IN THE RADIAL ARM SAW." The whole room when dead silent, and a few people turned green :)
She followed me to a chair in the waiting room with a first aide kit and proceeding to take off my bandage so she could assess my injury. The moment the bandage came off, blood sprayed all over her face and uniform. She looked like she stepped out of a horror film. She frantically wrapped gauze around my finger. I went there with a band aide and some tape, now I had a whole roll of gauze on my finger, and it was rapidly turning red.
They moved me into a room by myself so I would not bother the others, and gave me a bowl to catch the drips.
4 hours later, an intern came around and put a band aide on the wound and sent me home...
True story
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My nemesis was an 8" table saw from Montgomery Wards. When a teenager, my younger brother asked me to make a cage for his pet chameleon and I was ripping some strips. The power switch was mounted on the motor behind and below the saw. I reached over to shut it off and caught the blade with my right hand. A neighbor lady drove me to the edge of town but she wouldn't go further because she didn't have a drivers license so she left me at a filling station. It happened to be the first day of gun deer season and a hunter pulled in with his buck. He kindly offered to drive me to the hospital. When we got to admissions, the clerk took one look at the blood soaked towel wrapped around my hand and the blood cover clothes of the successful deer hunter and let out a gasp. I explained that it wasn't a hunting accident and we set about scheduling a session in the ER. Forty stitches and some bandages later and I was ready to go home.

Fortunately, the blade only had about an 1/8" exposed or it could have much worse. As it turned out, I ended up with one thumb shorter than the other by an 1/8" and a bit of numbness in two finger tips. The one good thing that happened as a result was that my freshman English teacher took pity on my bandaged right hand and excused me from writing a term paper. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I was left handed.

To this day, I have a healthy respect for table saw, particularly when ripping. I have a 10" hybrid cabinet saw now and whenever I am ripping, I make it a point to hook two or more fingers over the rip fence as a safeguard against inadvertently slipping into the blade. Two years ago, our 86 year old next door neighbor sawed off his little finger on his table saw while making Christmas presents for his family. (he drover himself to the ER and the successfully reattached it)

I have had a radial arm saw for almost fifty years and likewise make it a point to consciously place my fingers well away from the blade path. I have had the blade bite in the work but the saw just stalls and I release the trigger and back it. I prefer it for cross cutting long pieces of lumber. Somehow, trimming the end on a 10' 2x4 with a table saw is just not appealing.

The worst one by far though is the large circular saws used in these parts for cutting firewood. With a 30" blade and no guard, they are death and/or dismemberment personified. Usual operation involved one person feeding the log on a carriage into the blade and another grabbing the piece of firewood as it was sawed off. If the blade hit a knot, the whole log could get kicked up. There used to be a lot of farmers with the nickname "Stumpy" or "Lefty".

Bob
 
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kennyv said:
ohh as far as oil filters all ya gota do is match the thread make sure the base of seal is same diam and filter is same size or longer and you have a match . the other thing that differs is how much paper they put in filter . That EZ and ya wonder why they sell 1000 dif filters.. all about the money on parts. an oil filter is an oil filter
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Until a few days ago, I thought the same. I have a tractor with an external filter bypass valve which need adjusting and was doing some online research. I found that some filters have internal bypass valves and that the pressure at which they bypass the filter can vary quite a bit from filter to filter. So, in addition to matching the thread and seal dimensions, you need to know if it has an internal bypass valve and, if so, what pressure does it open at,

Bob
 
When I was 14 I was making a speaker box, and was ripping a section not very wide, I'm left handed, using a right handed skil saw, I put my right hand up against the edge of the wood cause the vibration was causing the wood to slide off my "bench" well.....my hand relaxed.... the blade caught my middle finger and drug two more victims in with it. Chipped the bone and cut 10% of the tendon in my middle, very lucky to still have all my fingers. That was 16 years ago. And I'm still recovering from the nerve damage, it does slightly get less sensitive over the years. The thing is, it never really hurt, haha dad wasn't watching me then. I think he was in bed. I remember going in the house and yelling "dad I think I need to go to the hospital" "whatdya mean?!" Knothead!
 
Pallets are one of those tools that depend a lot on what type of work you are doing. If you do a lot of small or thin stuff, they are probably incredibly useful, if you are doing a bunch of large stuff, probably not.
 
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