JC
Coos Cues
I have been working on some improvements on my saw machine and yesterday I got the final pieces and re assembled it in it's new and improved version.
I got so excited when it was done I turned some squares round and didn't wear my full face respirator. Three goncalo alves, two cocobolo, two ebony and a couple tulip woods. I ran a jinky little dust collector hooked up to it with a cloth bag for my testing inside the shop. Pretty stupid because I know I get eye allergies from dust. But never quite this bad.
Last night before bed my eyes were itchy. This morning they would barely open. Take this stuff serious folks this is no fun! Be ever diligent with your personal protection!
On a better note I learned something very useful by accident. I reversed the head stock with the motor and the tailstock so the chips would be blowing at the tailstock instead of the spindle motor. Having made no changes in mach 3 the wood was now rotating into the blade the opposite direction. My blade is slightly off center from the spindle. When I started cutting the first square I thought the saw blade was below the wood because I didn't hear it cutting but my eyes told me it was turning it round. At first I didn't realize why it was cutting so much more efficiently than it ever has until it clicked that the wood was turning the opposite direction of before. So I switched it back to original in mach and instantly it was back to a noisy as hell cutting with shorter chips. Like a chainsaw that's dull compared to sharp. And it's always been like this I just didn't realize it until it wasn't by accident. So if you have a saw machine try running the spindle the opposite direction and compare which is better for your machine.
Now for the shocking hostage photo I took a little while ago.
I got so excited when it was done I turned some squares round and didn't wear my full face respirator. Three goncalo alves, two cocobolo, two ebony and a couple tulip woods. I ran a jinky little dust collector hooked up to it with a cloth bag for my testing inside the shop. Pretty stupid because I know I get eye allergies from dust. But never quite this bad.
Last night before bed my eyes were itchy. This morning they would barely open. Take this stuff serious folks this is no fun! Be ever diligent with your personal protection!
On a better note I learned something very useful by accident. I reversed the head stock with the motor and the tailstock so the chips would be blowing at the tailstock instead of the spindle motor. Having made no changes in mach 3 the wood was now rotating into the blade the opposite direction. My blade is slightly off center from the spindle. When I started cutting the first square I thought the saw blade was below the wood because I didn't hear it cutting but my eyes told me it was turning it round. At first I didn't realize why it was cutting so much more efficiently than it ever has until it clicked that the wood was turning the opposite direction of before. So I switched it back to original in mach and instantly it was back to a noisy as hell cutting with shorter chips. Like a chainsaw that's dull compared to sharp. And it's always been like this I just didn't realize it until it wasn't by accident. So if you have a saw machine try running the spindle the opposite direction and compare which is better for your machine.
Now for the shocking hostage photo I took a little while ago.