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5d ago
inVent: everybody says slow your swing in wind, but the load chart in my old Grove manual had a note about it that surprised me
Learned that lesson the hard way when a gust caught a sheet of plywood I was flying, and now I always check the peak forecast.
7d ago
inSpent 45 minutes trying to fix my band saw blade drift, turns out the fence was off by a hair
Last winter I had the same thing happen with my old Delta saw. The fence on that thing has two bolts under the rail and one of them had worked loose, so the whole fence was sitting crooked by about 1/32. I kept blaming the blade and wasted a good hour on tracking before I put a combo square to it. What finally fixed it for good was snugging both bolts down and then running a test cut on scrap, checking it, and nudging the fence until the scrap came out square. Now I check the fence with a square every time before I start a batch, takes ten seconds and saves me the headache. That helper bumping the fence is sneaky stuff, it looks fine until you actually measure it. Glad you got it sorted without buying a new blade.
10d ago
inSwitched from stick to TIG on a 6 inch boiler tube job in Gary and my rework went from 4 joints a day to zero
Stick is like the old push mower that always starts and gets the job done, but once you try the self-propelled one you wonder why you waited. Both cut grass, one just wears you out less. Your rework number going to zero is the whole story, since rework is the hidden cost nobody puts on the bid. Stick still earns its spot for root passes in the wind and mud, but for thin wall tube TIG just makes sense. Keeping both in the rig is the move, use the right tool for the day instead of fighting the one you learned on.