{"id":2393,"date":"2008-12-23T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2008-12-23T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T20:50:52","slug":"witness-the-might-powermatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Witness the Mighty Powermatic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gorgeous<\/em><\/p>\n

I am feeling pretty smug. The new old saw is out of the car. It’s assembled. The car has been vacuumed. The tools have been put away. I am DONE. Look:<\/p>\n

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I had to order a new plug for it. It has a dryer plug, but my other stuff has 6-50P plugs, so I’m converting this one. I Googled around. Guess what a Leviton 6-50P goes for? About sixty bucks! For two ounces of plastic and a tiny amount of brass! Fortunately Ebay had one for five bucks. Which one do you think I bought?<\/p>\n

The miter gauges on this thing are not looking good. I may upgrade.<\/p>\n

I’m going to have to figure out the shims and get the top trued up and so forth. It seems like the dead blow hammer was made for this work. You can move the table in tiny increments, and it won’t mar the iron.<\/p>\n

I checked the top with a straightedge. You can sort of see daylight under it, but just barely. It would take a pretty tiny feeler gauge to get in there.<\/p>\n

I thought the 5 HP motor was a mistake, but apparently there are advantages. You can use any blade you want, and it will cut thick stuff without slowing down and causing burns. I think a lot of people use smaller motors, though. I am pretty sure Kelly Mehler uses a 110-volt job in his table saw video. I believe the saw is a contractor model, because the motor hangs out the side, supported by the belt.<\/p>\n

There is a lot for me to learn. In addition to aligning everything, I have to find out how to tension the belts (plural). <\/p>\n

I’m so grateful for this thing. What an adventure it has been already. And if I eventually manage to do useful work with it, it will be even better. This whole experience has been a blast. I wish I had a band saw so I could make new throat plates for it.<\/p>\n

Now, how do I make myself sell my precious portable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gorgeous I am feeling pretty smug. The new old saw is out of the car. It’s assembled. The car has been vacuumed. The tools have been put away. I am DONE. Look: I had to order a new plug for it. It has a dryer plug, but my other stuff has 6-50P plugs, so I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}