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Jon!
DANG!!!!! That's really nice.
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Kirk!
Wow, so much to comment on!
Your bathroom reno looks really slick, nice and clean. Beautiful job with the vanity so far, I know it's no easy task to do long mitered corners and inset drawers! Those are some very tight tolerances you have going!
I'm impressed you did it all with the track saw. I recently made a 45° cut as well, and yeah... super tippy. Can't imagine doing it
without the little track lock. Not a fan overall. Mine also struggled on a 45° in plywood. I think the saw is just a bit underpowered, I've heard the battery saws are actually more powerful.
As far as a rail square goes, I'd save for one that has the spring clip. I went used and it has to be "calibrated" each time. Realistically I feel like you're not going to have a bunch of 90° cuts in a row so it's going to be coming off and on the rail, best to have something with no setup. Alternatively if Woodpecker's ships to you, their large phenolic "MFT" square could work as a large reference. Or Peter Millard has a video on how to make a super accurate plywood square using a track saw.
Your new biscuit joiner looks nice. I have a DeWalt and I don't think the fence wraps around a miter like that. Pretty cool.
Thumbs up on the dust deputy. There's something so satisfying about using the track saw / biscuit joiner etc with almost 100% extraction and no cleanup.
I have some small Irwin trigger clamps that I've struggled with, too. And some larger DeWalt ones that are pretty good. For cheaper clamps I've been satisfied with F-clamps for smaller stuff and pipe clamps for bigger stuff. Going to try to add a few parallel clamps as necessity and money allow, but dang they are expensive!
What's the finish on the vanity going to be? Can't wait to see it in place! Seriously great work
GB!
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Nick, so the mitre cuts and any ripping down was done with the tracksaw, but I did also use the table saw and mitre saw for cutting the ply and drawbases - just missed photos as I was trying to beat the oncoming rain showers and those saws were setup outside.
I have drawn up my version of an MFT and I think I'll shorten one of the tracksaw rails when I do that for a more dedicated setup (I have 2 of the 1400 rails and the big boy 3000 rail), I must catch up on Peter Millards videos too.
Haven't progressed clamp investigation much, I've seen that we can get the bessey clamps here but they are dang expensive.
The finish is going to be a matt oil based polyurethane. Should be a pic of the tin in a previous post.
Is nice joinery. Maybe I missed it but why does the ply used for drawer black?
Also will the TP be on a bar? If so, clever idea.
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Shorty, so the black ply is called "Formply" it is used here in construction of concrete forms and is extremely durable to be used outside as the ply will not delaminate etc. That black finish nothing sticks to it. Not even the fancy tech grip glue I used in assembly will stick to it.
It's one of my favourite products to use.
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Aaron.
HILUX 3" Exhaust finally done...
Another fiddly job out of the way.
So this exhaust system has been in the garage, in the way taking up space in various locations since August 2019 - I just read my post then which said I had hoped to install it within a week or so when that was posted. Ha!
This was the pic posted back then of the new 3” system.
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Anyway, I picked up a fender mat the other day as I’m always dirtying up or marking the guards when I work on the vehicles, this one worked well and has magnets at the top that stop it falling off.
Getting the factory dump pipe off sucked big time. I had tried once before some time ago but failed. This time was more successful as I’d picked up some wobble bars, 6 point sockets and nut extractor sockets.
This was what it took to get to the difficult bolts, up along side the gear box and up onto the nuts. All the 3/8” wobble bars and extensions, a knuckle.
Since a couple of the old exhaust nuts had rounded over from my earlier attempt at removal, I figured I’d try to pickup some new ones. Another fail. Two autoparts stores didn’t have any, and I also called past an exhaust shop but they were closed, so in the end I just used what I had on hand and a spring washer. I’ll order some exhaust nuts and swap them out later (maybe).
The new dump pipe went in without too much pain and it’s design meant it was easier to get the nuts and washers back on and tightened as well.
It uses the factory hangers so it was just a matter of bolting the other bits in.
Took it for a spin around the block you can certainly hear the turbo spool now, will see how it goes over the next little while performance wise with towing etc.
Maybe back onto vanity work tomorrow - will see
Cheers GB.
Nice snag on the tools. And the WC looks pretty nice.
