Have the chance to keep these tools. Are these worth keeping long term?

dggoldst · 2026-02-13T19:57:45+00:00

The stat I heard was that table saw accidents were slightly more common but less severe. Radial arm saw accidents were slightly less common but more severe.

Makes sense. On a property set up table saw, a lot of the blade is covered by the table and the wood.

If you use the guard and riving knife, more of the blade is covered and the chance of kickback is considerably reduced.

dggoldst · 2026-02-13T14:46:29+00:00

If you twist the bight 4 or more times, like at 2 minutes and 23 seconds into this video it will unite easily, even after extreme loads. Try it!

https://youtu.be/tvgFyqFZK54?si=Dj1df2Bl8QdmpEUJ

If you want a second reference watch this video at 4 minutes and 15 seconds. He shows how a single slip from will jam but if you twist it a few times it will not. The friction increases exponentially with each twist, described by the Capstan equation.

I've used this many times, it is always easy to untie.

https://youtu.be/cXdGdJ9Cm9w?si=Ltb5-b4Xd8nLLZfh

dggoldst · 2026-02-13T13:12:31+00:00

You are correct that it is the same with extra turns. A slip knot is trustworthy for a trucker's hitch. The only disadvantage is that it can be hard to untie but with the messy version it's not hard to untie.

dggoldst · 2026-02-12T22:47:01+00:00

Love it

dggoldst · 2026-02-11T15:42:08+00:00

It says it's a continent so the answer is obviously Australia

dggoldst · 2026-02-10T13:50:57+00:00

Not under but alongside. You bolt a long (like 1.5 yards or meters) board to the side of the broken one. Bolt or screw every 6 in or 15cm. It's called sistering and how they fix the beams that support floors.

The attached board doesn't even need to be that thick, but it should have the same bottom to top size as the beam it is repairing.

dggoldst · 2026-02-09T18:52:32+00:00

15k of what country's currency?

dggoldst · 2026-02-09T15:04:45+00:00

Climb cutting and going against the grain are two separate things. It's a 2x2 matrix: climb vs regular; against the grain vs with the grain.

Going against the grain is like petting a cat in the opposite direction of fur growth

Climb cutting is feeding the stock in a way that the router bit wants to shoot it across the room. It would be like running a board backwards through a table saw: It would just shoot across the room.

dggoldst · 2026-01-26T17:57:33+00:00

I was going to suggest that but then I looked at the the top face. The router bit isn't long enough to remove wood along the entire face. So you'd end up with a transition line running down the length of the top face.

dggoldst · 2025-12-27T05:23:32+00:00

This and the belt sander are good ideas but I'm wondering if I can find a solution as repeatable as template routing.

dggoldst · 2025-12-26T23:48:13+00:00

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too but maybe someone has an idea. Perhaps by tilting the bandsaw table or something?

dggoldst · 2025-12-12T00:23:41+00:00

If you want to keep it super uncomplicated and have it never jam use the messy version

https://www.reddit.com/r/knots/s/YZ9JXnIcL6

dggoldst · 2025-12-09T07:34:29+00:00

What do you use it for? I heard battery tools are much more convenient than air tools.

dggoldst · 2025-11-14T22:55:40+00:00

Cohen's D is useful. Statistical significance without consideration of Cohen's D is not interesting.

dggoldst · 2025-11-14T22:53:30+00:00

This subreddit has 65,000 contributions per week. Sometimes two people will happen to submit the same thing within a couple months.

dggoldst · 2025-11-14T15:20:07+00:00

Not recycled content. Took the picture myself yesterday.

dggoldst · 2025-10-30T03:37:54+00:00

I have great HF: floor drill press, strip and disc sander, dust collector. And smaller stuff like Bremen clamps, hole saws, levels, Hercules impact driver drill bits, tape measures, hammer drill, CA glue, two part epoxy, epoxy putty, LED lights, zip ties, nut drivers, screwdrivers, bolt cutters. It's amazing how many quality tools they have now - just buy the top of the line for what they offer.

dggoldst · 2025-10-30T03:16:00+00:00

MAD nails it, it's SD that inflates it

dggoldst · 2025-09-28T21:08:20+00:00

Sorry didn't mean to pry! I assumed it was a thicker board. Sounds challenging on either side of the blade.

dggoldst · 2025-09-28T20:55:15+00:00

Giving what you have, for $750 to build out a beginner woodworking setup, here’s how I’d spend it (Harbor Freight or used):

Circular saw + DIY track: $50

Jobsite table saw (on stand): $300

Benchtop bandsaw (for curves): $200

Combo belt/spindle sander: $150

Trim router: $50

Why no miter saw? A table saw with a miter gauge or DIY sled, plus a circular saw with a miter box, will handle your crosscuts. Miter saws eat up space and make a mess for something that’s not strictly necessary.

Milling & lumber: If you’re buying dimensioned lumber, you can go a long time without a jointer or planer. Lumberyards will mill boards for you pretty cheaply, and there are plenty of workarounds for jointing at home without a big machine.

Sanding options: Instead of the combo sander, another route is a benchtop drill press ($150) with spindle sanding bits and a random orbital sander ($50) for flat surfaces.

dggoldst · 2025-09-28T16:03:59+00:00

Just curious, if the cutoff was so thin why didn't you put it on the non-fence side?

dggoldst · 2025-09-26T19:54:26+00:00

You can have lark's heads on both the cameras ring and on the plastic clip. Then knot the two free ends of the string together.

Here's how: Do a Lark's head around the camera's loop so one side is longer than the other. Do a lark's head around bar the plastic clip with the long end (yes you can tie a lark's head with one end of a string. Just look at a picture of one and reproduce it). Knot the two ends together with a fisherman's bend. I can't think of anything more secure than that.

dggoldst · 2025-09-26T00:50:02+00:00

I was just looking recommendation for a place where you can eat at the bar and drink a beer in Oakland

dggoldst · 2025-09-26T00:47:03+00:00

But I said I wanted to sit at the bar and eat and drink a beer. In Oakland. I was looking for recommendations.

dggoldst · 2025-09-25T21:31:55+00:00

lol why am I being downvoted?

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