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   Guest_ | Aug 17, 2000 06:32am | #7

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   That's all, just a reminder to take care of ourselves.

   So just to say it again,"Be careful out there!"

   Have a great day' jim at great white

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   Guest_ | Aug 16, 2000 04:34am | #1

   *Jim, thanks for your concern. The older I get, the safer I work. So, what incident or near miss prompted your post?

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   Guest_ | Aug 16, 2000 08:40am | #2

   *All to true.Here's my incident that was a near miss, and a freak thing.I was using my new router, and I was freehanding an arched cathedral door. When freehanding, the fence is not there. Well, when I reached for another door to run through the router, the insert blew into pieces, just as I was turning back around. The pieces hit my hat and knocked it off my head. Not a single piece hit me, though.Here is a picture of the insert I am talking about. All I can figure is that it must have somehow vibrated loose, and got caught in the spinning bit.I no longer use inserts.near the ditch...James "Loving Life" DuHamel

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   Guest_ | Aug 16, 2000 03:31pm | #3

   *You know folks think I am paranoid when I ask the question: "In what weird way could I get hurt doing this?" I ask that question often! But it seems a little paranoia, no a LOT of paranoia, is good for the longevity. You have just given one good example.Have you considered using loktite on the insert screws? I would rather do that than have all the chips flying by my face. I'm too lazy to run downstairs and check which color loktite you can break with hand tools. But that is the one I use.

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   cheesehead | Aug 17, 2000 05:01am | #4

   *blue, in the red bottle (locktite brand)...i thinks it's 442???

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   Guest_ | Aug 17, 2000 05:27am | #5

   *It's 242 for the removable grade thread locker, I just bought some at my not so cheap auto supply store - $6 for a small tube...However, they make a number of products, so maybe you were thinking of something other than thread locker compound. For thread lockers: 222 is the low strength 242 is the removable grade 243 is the medium strength, oil tolerantLoctite has a web site at:http://www.loctite.com/catalog/

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   Guest_ | Aug 17, 2000 06:09am | #6

   *Blue is recommended for bolts larger than 6mm, maybe purple (222) is better; but both are expensive compared to rubbing a little non-corrosive pipe dope on the screws. For my routers (Ryobi RE601) I got some extra-length screws just for piece of mind when table-mounting. I first bought a set of long screws from Bob Rosendahl; however, 2 bottomed out when used with my shop-made insert, so I got a bunch of them in 2mm length increments so I'll always have the longest that will fit available.

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   Guest_ | Aug 17, 2000 06:32am | #8

   *In grade 9 woodshop (I think grade 9 is a high school freshman in the US) we had this 24" bandsaw where the blades couldn't be directly mounted, the machine had a built-in gap-welder and you threaded the bulk saw blade in the frame, then clamped and arc-welded the blade, and then put it up over the upper wheel and tensioned. This welding technique was also used to make "inside cuts". Well, during the first week of school every student in every shop class had to learn to remove/replace the bandsaw blade and during the second week we all had to demonstrate an inside cut. You can imagine the number of welds a blade would have on it before it was tossed and replaced. About mid-way through the second week, someone was up doing their inside cut with the machine running at max RPM/FPS and the blade broke. By some miracle no-one was injured, but that blade snaked out of that machine, danced around half the room and did several thousands in damage along the way, including taking out several square feet of a 14' high accoustic ceiling. And I'm still afraid of bandsaws.