Recent content by WilsonLR

DOH! I'm going to spend more time repairing the vise than I did bending the piece. 🤦🏼 Also, under the considerable strain of the bend, the long section bent at the weaker part with circular cutout. So in that way, it's a fail. For my purposes, it's actually fine. But if you want it straight...

I worked! Thanks everyone. The off gassing while baking wasn't as pleasant as the recent pumpkin pie but not at all bad. I baked it 45 minutes. No cracking of aluminum or anodizing. It wasn't like butter and it took 4 cycles of propane and bending to get it where I wanted it. Vise took some...

It's a music stand for a weighted key electronic piano. I'm ok with cracked anodization and imperfect angle. Plan is to spray paint it black. It's for a home studio not performance.

My wife gave the thumbs up and will assist even. I'm going to try it with propane tomorrow. I put some metal angle iron on the wood vise to hopefully protect the jaws and keep it from igniting. o_O

Solid

Would MAPP do the trick?

I am a woodworker with minimal metal working skills. I am doing a project that needs a strong 90 degree joint and I want to try using an aluminum stand scavenged from an iMac. I have a propane torch, 4" metal vise, 30" woodworking end vise and some mallets/hammers/vise grips. What would be your...

I need to check in here before workin on that DP! I contacted American Beuty about upgrading my iron without having to buy a whole new station. They're working on it. In the meantime, I managed to find a 30w woodburner but the tip is still the same 1/8". At this point I am done and now...

Yeah. I have used crimp connectors in the refurb but while I am in there this time, I'd like to clean up the switch connection so a cold solder joint doesn't bite me again. Any ideas why modern soldering doesn't work?

Ok good news. @Cruzan80 you made me realize I didn't test the return leg of the power cord (there wasn't easy access). So I broke into the circuit and verified both conductors of the power cord are OK. Then I realized I didn't actually measure voltage through the switch, just continuity. FLASH -...

It's a 115 motor exactly like 11b30b4 has in his thread. No hum. Spinning doesn't help. Disconnected, the capacitor reads 150 uF. Power is going through the switch fine.

Ugh. I remember stopping at tearing the motor apart in my refurb cuz "if it ain't broke" ..... I learned checking the capacitor is easy with a multimeter that has a micro-ferrad (uF) capacitance setting. Here's a straight forward video on it: Anyway, time read up on @11b30b4 motor thread...

Thanks Frank. I don't know that it's the switch. Just an assumption. I did replace the cord and I tested power through the switch. I tried the reset several times. There was no hum. I'll try spinning the pulley this afternoon. UPDATE: Spinning the pulley does not get it going. There's a starter...

Hi everyone. Long time since I was here. I have enjoyed my refreshed/furbed 103 DP since completing it in 2021 (post #4976 of page 125). It has only seen light use. Unfortunately I apparently contracted case of stupid-itis and installed a footswitch on it. While that was life changing for me, it...

EPILOG: Urethane tires solved the problem. Vibration now varies from .001 - .002 over 3 minutes. Thanks everyone.