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Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 10/7/2017, 1:31 pm
In Response To: Re: Tools: First strip build - first question (Nick R.)

I purchased the small "digital bevel box" that I realized what I was missing all these years. This small beauty gives you true 90* from saw table to blade, drill press table to drill bit. band saw table to blade and many many more uses that we take for granted. And the beauty of it all IT'S CHEAP!

I agree with Nick - the digital 'box' is handy, though mine wasn't cheap when I bought it some years ago. It's excellent for setting bevel cuts on the table saw, and then checking the blade for square when the bevel cuts are finished.

To square the drill press table, a handy and free method is to bend a (foot-long ?) piece of wire clothes hanger into a 'Z' shape.
Chuck one end in the drill chuck, and rotate the chuck by hand. When the other end of the 'Z' is touching the table all round, it's square.

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Tools: First strip build - first question
Paul Harker -- 10/6/2017, 5:46 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Ken Blanton -- 10/6/2017, 7:08 pm
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GCole -- 10/6/2017, 7:25 pm
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anewhouse -- 10/6/2017, 9:06 pm
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M A Bielski -- 10/6/2017, 10:30 pm
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Dave ( of Calif.) -- 10/17/2017, 7:21 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/6/2017, 11:26 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 10/7/2017, 4:42 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/7/2017, 4:48 am
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Jay Babina -- 10/7/2017, 8:34 am
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Paul Harker -- 10/7/2017, 9:12 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2017, 10:55 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2017, 11:06 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
M A Bielski -- 10/7/2017, 11:37 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/8/2017, 1:48 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Bill Hamm -- 10/10/2017, 2:07 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
M A Bielski -- 10/12/2017, 10:55 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Phil -- 10/7/2017, 12:08 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Dave ( of Calif.) -- 10/17/2017, 7:47 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Bill Hamm -- 10/10/2017, 2:32 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Dave ( of Calif.) -- 10/17/2017, 8:23 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Nick R. -- 10/7/2017, 11:47 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/7/2017, 1:31 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Paul Sylvester -- 10/8/2017, 6:05 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/8/2017, 2:59 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Jay Babina -- 10/8/2017, 6:54 pm
Tool are worthless, unless..... *PIC*
Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/9/2017, 11:51 am
Well said. *NM*
Curtis Fisher -- 10/9/2017, 1:33 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
John Messinger -- 10/10/2017, 8:31 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/10/2017, 9:11 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/10/2017, 11:48 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Bill Hamm -- 10/11/2017, 12:20 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/11/2017, 9:21 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/11/2017, 11:58 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Bill Hamm -- 10/12/2017, 2:13 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/11/2017, 8:24 pm
Re: Tools: Belt sander CAUTION
John Messinger -- 10/11/2017, 9:08 pm
Re: Tools: Belt sander CAUTION
JayBabina -- 10/13/2017, 11:22 am
cautionary advice
Jay Babina -- 10/11/2017, 6:31 pm
Re: cautionary advice
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/11/2017, 8:14 pm
Re: cautionary advice
Björn Thomasson -- 10/27/2017, 4:31 am
Re: cautionary advice
M A Bielski -- 10/27/2017, 8:38 am
Re: cautionary advice
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2017, 9:28 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Paul Harker -- 10/13/2017, 10:51 am
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/13/2017, 12:24 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/13/2017, 2:06 pm
Re: Tools: First strip build - first question
Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2017, 12:56 am
Re: Tools: ROS and Sanding
Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/16/2017, 9:18 am
Re: Tools: ROS and Sanding
Paul Harker -- 10/16/2017, 10:11 am
Re: Tools: ROS and Sanding
Bill Hamm -- 10/19/2017, 2:01 am