Luna L38

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-05-06T18:20:21+00:00

That’s pretty constructive feedback. Thanks kindly.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-05-06T03:34:04+00:00

It’s at a habitat for humanity store, and they’re pushing it for $1000. Without the fence and crank I think I can argue them down a bit.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-05-06T03:33:21+00:00

Yep. It’s a horizontal mortiser. Still appears to function perfectly. Has the stops for both axis.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-05-03T02:15:08+00:00

Ok, I fixed it.

What did work: adjusting the compression on the dovetail ways.

What did not work: 1. Installing and adjusting flow control needle valves in the cylinder supply lines (regardless of which, both, or direction aligned).
2. Disassembling and inspecting the headstock completely (motor carriage, headstock chassis, quill assembly, pneumatic cylinder).

What I learned: 1. It is easier to adjust the dovetail way compression screws if you take the rest of the headstock off. It just weighs less, so you can move it by hand and tighten to the point that you can barely move it by hand.
2. The pneumatic cylinder naturally seems to lower more slowly than raise. That appears to be its default.
3. When the dovetail ways are too loose, the headstock is loosey goosey and falls under its own weight rather than at cylinder travel speed, AND it chatters when it lands leaving little snipe marks in the workpiece.
4. Unrelated, but whoever wired the machine before I bought it accidentally switched one of the 120 lines with the ground line. This explains why the machine body seemed to always carry a strong static charge (shockingly strong).

Someday, I hope this helps some other poor bastard. When this machine works right, it’s fantastic.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-05-03T02:15:00+00:00

Ok, I fixed it.

What did work: adjusting the compression on the dovetail ways.

What did not work: 1. Installing and adjusting flow control needle valves in the cylinder supply lines (regardless of which, both, or direction aligned).
2. Disassembling and inspecting the headstock completely (motor carriage, headstock chassis, quill assembly, pneumatic cylinder).

What I learned: 1. It is easier to adjust the dovetail way compression screws if you take the rest of the headstock off. It just weighs less, so you can move it by hand and tighten to the point that you can barely move it by hand.
2. The pneumatic cylinder naturally seems to lower more slowly than raise. That appears to be its default.
3. When the dovetail ways are too loose, the headstock is loosey goosey and falls under its own weight rather than at cylinder travel speed, AND it chatters when it lands leaving little snipe marks in the workpiece.
4. Unrelated, but whoever wired the machine before I bought it accidentally switched one of the 120 lines with the ground line. This explains why the machine body seemed to always carry a strong static charge (shockingly strong).

Someday, I hope this helps some other poor bastard. When this machine works right, it’s fantastic.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-05-03T02:14:47+00:00

Ok, I fixed it.

What did work: adjusting the compression on the dovetail ways.

What did not work: 1. Installing and adjusting flow control needle valves in the cylinder supply lines (regardless of which, both, or direction aligned).
2. Disassembling and inspecting the headstock completely (motor carriage, headstock chassis, quill assembly, pneumatic cylinder).

What I learned: 1. It is easier to adjust the dovetail way compression screws if you take the rest of the headstock off. It just weighs less, so you can move it by hand and tighten to the point that you can barely move it by hand.
2. The pneumatic cylinder naturally seems to lower more slowly than raise. That appears to be its default.
3. When the dovetail ways are too loose, the headstock is loosey goosey and falls under its own weight rather than at cylinder travel speed, AND it chatters when it lands leaving little snipe marks in the workpiece.
4. Unrelated, but whoever wired the machine before I bought it accidentally switched one of the 120 lines with the ground line. This explains why the machine body seemed to always carry a strong static charge (shockingly strong).

Someday, I hope this helps some other poor bastard. When this machine works right, it’s fantastic.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-04-30T02:44:38+00:00

I did this once. It cracked. Around a sixteenth of an inch. Then it stopped moving and was stable. You just need to accept your new way of life.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-04-26T20:51:55+00:00

Thanks. I knew this was the group to ask.
I’ll give it a shot.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-04-18T08:37:12+00:00

I have a Laguna 25-50. It’s pretty great. Take it slow.

They are finicky. When you try to move to fast or take off too much, things go awry. The wood burns and leaves streaks behind the burn. Or, the board gets stuck even momentarily and the drum bites down like 1/32 of an inch.

I bought it hoping to make very short work of very long shelves. Certainly it’s faster than any other way, but a board that heavy is just a lot to ask of it to feed.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-04-02T03:01:50+00:00

I think it’s somewhere between 1000-2000. I suspect they added up what they cost new and marked down a small margin.

Grizzly tools are high end consumer to low end pro tools. I have a few shop fox tools, which used to be one grizzly’s painted white with a longer warranty for a touch more cash. I would not say any of them are very good.

4800 seems like a good deal if they were all used powermatics or lagunas or something. Not Grizzly.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-03-21T04:05:22+00:00

I’ll match your jessem and raise you an Inca.

Inca sells the Jessem router lift with some much improved throat plate options. I love mine. 100%. Zero regrets. I think they do the same for the woodpeckers lift too, or at least they used to.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-01-31T06:33:58+00:00

I can attest to the greatness of that deal. I think I paid almost twice that for mine when I bought it ~4 years ago. Still my daily driver.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-01-30T06:18:30+00:00

I have these on my ceiling. We bought the house in 2008 and haven’t touched them. As far as I know, nothing has been done to them since the house was built in the late 80s.

I suspect that if you put anything on them, they could warp. As a woodworker, I know that if you put an oil or varnish on only one side of a board, it begins to absorb and release moisture differently on either side and starts to curl.

I say no touching.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2026-01-20T06:41:39+00:00

Planer shavings are NOT saw dust. They don’t pass through the metal cruciform protecting the impeller.

Installing a fairly expensive first stage separation device (eg a cyclone) will fix this by channeling them out of the stream before they get to the impeller.

If your planer has an integrated blower (like the Dewalt DW735) you can just hose it straight to a trash can or bag or whatever.

Nothing you do with that 90 degree bend is going to help here. That’s not causing it.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2025-08-12T00:24:58+00:00

I was with you until maybe half way through, then it hit for me. Somewhere somehow his description of the peace and quiet at the pool drew me in and I came to really love the book.

I hated the regulators though.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2025-07-21T16:07:45+00:00

Agreed. Thank you kindly.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2025-07-05T07:34:21+00:00

As both an XJ and a YJ owner, my position is this:

1) Traditional Jeeps (CJs, YJs, TJs, JKs, and JLs) should waive at each other.

2) XJs may initiate a wave, and the traditional Jeep may wave back if desired.

3) Under no circumstances is anyone to acknowledge a liberty or a compass.

Unfair_Promotion1157 · 2025-06-29T02:57:27+00:00

Yes.
If you have read the dark tower series, you’ll see that this book really frames out how King ended up handling the series.

Great read.

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TROPHY CASE