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Worthless Tools Gallery. What Tools do you regret buying?
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Did not work as a paperweight it crush the desk :whiteflag:
I had others that for themes all ever week
9A south bend and 4 J&L turret best tools ever got use for over 30 years
Today I am down to just the 9a
Dave
I had others that for themes all ever week
9A south bend and 4 J&L turret best tools ever got use for over 30 years
Today I am down to just the 9a
Dave
I also have a Porter-Cable profile sander, it worked for me. I used it to sand the some of the tighter corners on the inside of a cedar-strip canoe. But I use the much longer adhesive backed rolls from Lee Valley. I made a profile with a 2" radius as well. I've used the sander on the barrel channel of gun stocks, too.
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Fabrickator: Please note,I said I POLISHED new knife blades with the contour sander. I do not SHARPEN the blades with it. That would not work at all. It would just rip the sand paper.
I have used my sander with wet or dry paper to polish the hollow ground surfaces of knives that I've made. It works real well,and saves a lot of elbow grease. I can shine up a heat treated blade till it's like a mirror with the contour sander,and increasingly finer wet or dry,down to 2000 grit. Use a bit of soapy water or you'll load up the paper very quickly.
This Bowie style knife was polished with the sander. I made it out of D2,which is a lot of work to polish,being a very abrasion resistant steel.
You can also keep the surfaces nice and crisp,without rounding everything off. I don't want surfaces that look buffed to death,and you don't see buffed to death surfaces on antique knives. All is crisp and sharp edged looking.
I have used my sander with wet or dry paper to polish the hollow ground surfaces of knives that I've made. It works real well,and saves a lot of elbow grease. I can shine up a heat treated blade till it's like a mirror with the contour sander,and increasingly finer wet or dry,down to 2000 grit. Use a bit of soapy water or you'll load up the paper very quickly.
This Bowie style knife was polished with the sander. I made it out of D2,which is a lot of work to polish,being a very abrasion resistant steel.
You can also keep the surfaces nice and crisp,without rounding everything off. I don't want surfaces that look buffed to death,and you don't see buffed to death surfaces on antique knives. All is crisp and sharp edged looking.
The ones I misplace (forever) before using them for the intended purpose. The misplaced ones I do find just after having given up and bought another.
Hi Greg,
I have worked a bit with the cement siding just never seen a 4X8 sheet. I normally use the stuff that is approx 16"X12 ft (ish can't remember exact width). Ive seen 2 different tools to cut that stuff with though. You can get a specific circular saw blade for that stuff (I think Home Depot may carry them) or I have also use a heavy duty scissor like pneumatic thing to cut it with. The scissor thing had 2 heavy side pieces with a third one in the center. It pretty much lasts forever and does a neat job cutting the cement board... just a bit slow but not too bad and not nearly the mess of a circular saw.
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/fib...140203__ALL_PLA-823909&pid=823909&kpid=823909
That was a 2 sec google search but something like that. The one I used at work had 2 sides and the center shear and it worked fine if I recall correctly. No matter what the edge trim we had for the cement board had to be cut using circular saw (too thick for the shears). Only use a circular saw blade if you are desperate... that cement board with dull your blades in a couple cuts as you will notice right away. The specific blades for cement board will last a lot longer though but they still dull after a day of use. At work when we cut that stuff the max we got was 3 easy days of cuts with a cement board blade.
Sorry to ramble but I hope it helps ya.
Curt
A cambell hausfeld battery charger from tractor supply. It would turn on, charge for a few seconds then turn off. I smashed it to pieces.
The northern tool brand 115 volt 110 amp mig welder. Not enough power, and really splatterd alot. I sold it on craigslist.
I dont buy royobi products after having a sawsall that lasted 2 months.
Jake Parker
The northern tool brand 115 volt 110 amp mig welder. Not enough power, and really splatterd alot. I sold it on craigslist.
I dont buy royobi products after having a sawsall that lasted 2 months.
Jake Parker
Ryobi 18 volt cordless drill kit (nicad) and 4 extra battery's. I thought that it would be great nto having to mess with cords. Every time I needed it battery's were dead (hence 4 extras) so I ended up having to keep a battery on the charger all of the time, not good for them. They never held a charge long enough either. Oh well back to my good old plug ins that always work and have more power than I need.
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Not so fast on counting that drill out. One of my next projects is to make a Tapping Machine out of one, replacing the batteries with a 0-24 volt power supply. Stay tuned on that one. :thinking:
"Billy G"