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Shep | Posted in General Discussion on May 9, 2009 02:24am

Made a mistake today I’ve never done before.

So I’m changing the blade on my RAS today, and as I’m putting the guard back on, I notice I have the blade on backwards. Oops!

I’m glad I caught it before I tried cutting something.

And I’m really glad its Friday. Been a long week.

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  1. mike585 | May 09, 2009 02:36am | #1

    If I posted every time I made a mistake I'd have more posts than Piffin!

    As long as nobody saw it who cares?

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    Sphere | May 09, 2009 02:42am | #2

    Was the blade drinking that 10 buck a bottle beer?

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    1. Shep | May 09, 2009 05:05am | #11

      hey, its only $6 a bottle.

      What the heck are you drinking at that price? LOL

      I wish I'd been drinking, at least then I'd have an excuse.

  3. KenHill3 | May 09, 2009 03:06am | #3

    Blade on backwards? Boy, yer a real dumbass. I've NEVER done that!

    1. davidmeiland | May 09, 2009 03:09am | #5

      I didn't know you could say dumbass on here.

      If you put a blade on backwards, just use it to cut some metal roofing. Works great.

      1. brownbagg | May 09, 2009 03:25am | #6

        works for formica too. so maybe he was thinking about cutting formica, getting ahead of the game, geeting prepared to cut formica, yea that the ticket formica

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          Sphere | May 09, 2009 03:45am | #7

          And after that, vinyl siding.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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        Lawrence | May 09, 2009 09:24am | #16

        Bass is a fish... should be fine.

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  4. stevent1 | May 09, 2009 03:08am | #4

    Shep,

    I put a bandsaw blade on insideout.

     

    Chuck S

     

    live, work, build, ...better with wood
  5. dovetail97128 | May 09, 2009 03:50am | #8

    Don't feel bad.
    Skil corp had a full color , full page ad in FHB back in the early days that showed their saw with the blade in backwards.

    I busted em. Wrote them a letter and pointed out the error. Got a couple of free blades for not writing to FHB about it.

    They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
  6. DonCanDo | May 09, 2009 04:25am | #9

    You ever swap blades and then momentarily forget which way it goes on?  So then you start thinking about which way the moter spins, but then something in the back of your head says, wait... maybe it spins the other way?

    It's times like that I need a mental eraser because I just know I'm over-thinking it.

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      IMERC | May 09, 2009 04:39am | #10

      Left or right hand thread on the bolt???? 

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      WOW!!! What a Ride!

      Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

       

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    Ted W. | May 09, 2009 06:09am | #12

    I once was changing the blade on my recip saw, took the blade out and set it down and picked up a the correct circular saw blade to put in it. I stood there for just a few moments trying to figure out what's not right about this before I did a perfect Homer Simpson "D'oh!".

    Then I put the old blade back in the recip saw. I guess it was just one of those daze.

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    Dinosaur | May 09, 2009 07:13am | #13

    I put the dado head on my TS backwards once. Both blades and all five chippers.

    Looked at it when I was done; scratched my head. "Something don't look right...."

     

     

    oops!

    Dinosaur

    How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
    low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
    foolish men call Justice....

    1. oldbeachbum | May 09, 2009 08:27am | #14

      new sheet of beadboard style ply....wanted a nice clean cut so put a fresh blade in my blade left circ. saw.......took forever to make that first cut............

      &*^%$&# blade anyway, "gonna' get my money back on THIS one.....yeah sure.....

      5 minutes of staring and it and,  d'oh.   Looked around, no one noticed (I was alone but did it anyway) fixed my f/u and put it all away.

       

       

      would I have been OK in Australia?...... 

      I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits

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        Dinosaur | May 09, 2009 08:30am | #15

        LOL....

        Dinosaur

        How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....

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        IMERC | May 09, 2009 09:28am | #17

        almost like running the drill in reverse...

        damn dull bit... 

        Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

        WOW!!! What a Ride!

        Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

         

        "Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"

        1. eddyohoho | May 09, 2009 09:51am | #18

          Used to work in a Can Plant in Walla Walla. Came up on three guys trying to drill holes on our portable driil station (3rd shift, some home project)  Something didn't look right, two guys pulling on the handle and one blowing the smoke away.

          As I walked up they were getting ready to put in the last drill bit.  I noticed something as it came to a stop.  They were all telling what crappy drill bits we had , and how hard the metal was they were drilling.  When they replaced the bit, and started it up, I said, just a sec, stopped it, reversed it, and walked out of there laughing my head off.

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          Lawrence | May 09, 2009 06:35pm | #21

          Rented an auger from a 2 bit shop in Barrie once...

          The sharpened the teeth exactly backwards... like surfing over the dirt.  That's infuriating... but not as bad as trying to explain it to the 70 IQ manager.

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        BossHog | May 09, 2009 03:53pm | #19

        I did ther same thing on my left blade saw the first time I put a blade on it. I installed it so I could read the label, just like always.My BIL was actually the first to use it. He made several cuts with it with both the blade and the wood smoking. He never did figure it out. I didn't realize what I had done until he brought it back and said it didn't cut well.
        Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! [George Bernard Shaw]

      4. alwaysoverbudget | May 10, 2009 11:30pm | #27

        well you don't have to be south of the eqautor,

        just turn the plug around and your ready to go. i can't believe you guys think it matters which way a blade goes in,geez.

        sometimes i put my chainsaw blade on backwards,so then i have to rewrap the pull rope so it will turn the other way.YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT DOESN'TMOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40. IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THEDUCT TAPE.

    2. migraine | May 11, 2009 10:48pm | #28

      Worked for a company in early 80's where they hired a guy who supposedly worked for a european cab shop in Italy.  After asking if he knew how, i told the guy to set up the datto set and about ten mins later, I hear this loud roar.  Guy put the inside chippers on with no outside blades.

      Next day he did a 1/4" datto setup with the outside cutters backwards.  You should have seen the smoke coming out of the saw as he forced the plywood through.   Then I started smoking as the owner and I had a "discussion".  He wouln't fire the guy because he hired him as a favor to his cousin.

      Amazing you never forget the names of these people... "Glauco, the Rajnish"

      Sitting here shaking my head just thinking about it.... memories

      1. [email protected] | May 12, 2009 06:43am | #32

        IIRC, Dado blades are not allowed in the EU because they are considered unsafe, since they don't work with the riving knife.

        1. migraine | May 12, 2009 02:16pm | #33

          Never knew that.  Was that the same in the 80's?  It might explain some of his    oops(es), but not even close to all of them.

          nor, going to the men's room with his own douch bottle a few times every day...maybe medical necessary, but we never wanted to ask.  Mainly because he lived in a commune in Laguna Beach Ca. where they were reported to be in free/group sex leg by some "Guru".  All of this is another story...

  9. logcrafter | May 09, 2009 05:23pm | #20

    Chain on a chain saw backwards cuts a little slow too.

    1. Shep | May 09, 2009 07:58pm | #22

      LOL

      I'll bet!

      1. Piffin | May 10, 2009 02:24pm | #23

        There is a story from the lumberyard where I did business in CO of a guy who brought a saw in to tell the manager that he couldn't get it to cut, even after trying a couple different blades. He was a DIY and had not used the saw for a long time and it was off warrantee, but since he had not given it much actuall work time, he was peeved.An old contractor was standing there looking at the saw as this guy laid it up on the counter, expressing his complaints and displeasure.old guy tells him, I can fix that for ten bucks, but I'll have to take it home overnight. DIY agrees and they meet there again the next AM, run a test cut to prove it's fixed. Old guy gets paid and customer leaves happy.Yard manager asks him what did you do?"Put the blade in facing the right direction. if he comes in again needing another repair, the next tenspot is yours" 

         

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    2. Jer | May 10, 2009 06:12pm | #24

      "Chain on a chain saw backwards cuts a little slow too."Yep. You got to it first and I fully agree.

      It's especially fun when you're the supposed "big cheese" with your 20" bar saw with a brand new blade you just installed in front of all the parents who came to help clean & cut up some fallen trees at your wife's day school.Keeps ya humble.

      1. logcrafter | May 11, 2009 11:28pm | #30

        Oh that sounds classic.Kinda like running a logging side (crew) and just finish dressing some down for stupidity. No that's not a mustache those are crow feathers!

  10. brucet9 | May 10, 2009 09:52pm | #25

    What's the big deal? With a RAS you could just push through the cuts instead of pulling them. :)

    BruceT
  11. brucet9 | May 10, 2009 10:03pm | #26

    I was making a frame for cork board. I used my Freud no-shims dado to cut the 3/8" deep grooves, then adjusted it up to full height to cut slots for mortise and tenon corners.

    When I turned on the saw, the insert started rattling like heck and nearly jumped out of the table. Did you know that there are 3 nuts surrounding the arbor hole on the Freud dado's inside cutter blade that can hit the underside of your insert if you raise it a little too high?

    I do now.

    BruceT
  12. WHILEWEREATIT | May 11, 2009 11:12pm | #29

    Rented a walk behind trencher to replace a water supply line from a well to a business. Left the job to one of my employees and left for about an hour. Came back to the job to find 2 of my employees almost passed out from exhaustion. They told me that the trencher was about to kill them! They had only done about 30 ft of 300! I started the machine, reached down and locked the drive hubs and started trenching. Both walked away mumbling profanities. They had been pulling the trencher by brute force!!! Last time i ever heard "Sure i've done that before" from these guys.<G>

    1. oldbeachbum | May 12, 2009 12:53am | #31

      where's the video.....priceless!!!!  :0) 

      I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits

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