{"id":2472,"date":"2009-01-05T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2009-01-05T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T19:15:39","slug":"help-me-fix-my-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Help me Fix my Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>They Need a Bath<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Help me out, tool nuts.<\/p>\n<p>The rails on my Powermatic 66 have a lot of rust and crud on them. It&#8217;s bad enough to make me worry that the fence&#8217;s accuracy will be affected. I started working on it with a wire wheel, but that&#8217;s pretty slow. And I had to be careful to avoid the paint.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if I should just strip it bare and repaint it. The paint looks bad, and it will be hard to clean off the rust and gunk without removing the paint. Problem: the tape-measure part does not come off, so I don&#8217;t know how to work around it, and I can&#8217;t figure out how to replace it if I strip the markings off of it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what kind of paint to use, either. It would have to be very tough.<\/p>\n<p>I could get some blasting media and a blaster and Northern Tool and give it hell.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Need a Bath Help me out, tool nuts. The rails on my Powermatic 66 have a lot of rust and crud on them. It&#8217;s bad enough to make me worry that the fence&#8217;s accuracy will be affected. I started working on it with a wire wheel, but that&#8217;s pretty slow. And I had to [&hellip;]<\/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-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}