Recent content by Whitworth

Glad to hear you were successful ! I'v found to never trust what a previous owner has done with a vintage tool, especially electrical connections.

Rosenburg book illustration has 1-3-8 and 2-4-5 (or conversely 1-3-5 and 2-4-8) Have you tried that yet ?

Often. As I recall. T5 and T8 are interchangeable, for clockwise and counterclockwise motor operation. As this is a single phase motor, the two bundles probably connect to the 2 lines (from the power cord). You should also use a 3 prong cord and connect the ground wire to the case of the...

You might try listing the items here in GJ and owwm.org as well

Alot of users invalidate a warranty by double wrenching, using cheater bars, hammering an undersized socket onto a rusted fastener, or pounding the handle of a socket wrench to break loose a fastener. It’s inconceivable to me that a wrench could just break under normal use. Maybe a thin wall...

Only using a regular socket in an impact wrench. But I'm the type of user who will lose a socket long before I get a chance to break it !

Wright should just sell an extended warranty, just like every POS electronic you buy now. Like as if anyone ever used an extended warranty for a friggin set of head phones? Lifetime replacement warranty on tools is a vestigial marketing ploy from the 1950's, how could you actually break a...

I think I have the same Harbor Freight tumbler. It shouldn't get hot, warm yes. But I don't run it 24 hours either. The extension I have has a 13 amp breaker built in, with a manual reset button. China made. Probably can find similar style on Amazon.

Don't neglect electrical safety. Lockouts for machinery maintenance, child safety reasons as well. I have Allen Bradley 800 series locking switches on several machines. Add ground wire to old equipment that originally came with 2 prong plug. Easy to do. Extension cords with built in thermal...

Li ion batteries make me nervous. You're thinking of tools, but they're everywhere. Laptops, iPhones, kids' gaming stuff, even gaming chairs. I threw an old gaming chair onto the fire pit once and the battery went off like a cherry bomb.

If you keep the old framing, make an effort (lazer level) to check the joists for level and in the same plane. They tend to sag and twist after several years, but shimming and/or power planer will easily fix in most cases.

It's not just the hole diameter and roundness of the hole (which is important), but also the position of the hole and the straightness. An off center grind can cause a drill bit to wander, particularly a long drill bit. Doesn't matter CNC or manual.

Like I said, if you're doing metal fab, or building a deck or putting plastic anchors in drywall, it doesn't matter.

If that's true, no sense in having a wire gauge set of drill bits. Perhaps I should throw them out ?

If your intended use is metal working/machinist work to any degree of precision, then you're kidding yourself that you hand grind a drill bit to an acceptable shape and concentricity. Doesn’t matter if you use a gauge, any asymmetry in the flute angle, the tip, or the relief angle will favor...