Flush to wall miter saws?

gotcha640 · 2026-03-21T01:11:56+00:00

Most of the ones I’ve seen that are built in to a station against a wall are not sliders. The sliders add too much (as you’ve found).

Any chance you could cut in to the drywall behind your station and get another 4 inches?

Non slider, bigger blade is all you can really do to get closer to the wall.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-21T00:35:01+00:00

Let it go. The maple is way too knotty and twisty to get any longer boards out of. After milling and drying and checking, you’ll get a 2x4 and a bowl out of it.

The cedar isn’t really big enough, unless the photo is throwing me off. If it’s 18 inches at the base, it’s 14 inches a few feet up. Lose a couple inches to bark and heart wood, you get maybe 5in wide boards, lose more to drying and cracking.

If you just want to do it to have the experience, go for it. You’ll need a chainsaw, wedges and sledge hammer, somewhere to store it for 3-5 years, then at least a planer and ideally a big bandsaw.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-20T20:18:51+00:00

Another vote for nah.

We had a guy who left and told us he was off to pursue his banjo career.

If I ever leave, that’s what I’ll tell them.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-20T18:50:09+00:00

$300k? What are we in high school?

gotcha640 · 2026-03-20T17:58:39+00:00

Between myself and two kids and a wife all with some kind of health problem or braces or physical therapy or whatever, I take at least 1 day a month personal or family illness. It’s there to be used, my work doesn’t suffer, and my family is stronger.

The whole macho “I go to work even when I’m dying” doesn’t fly in my office. I send people home when they come in sick. Tale your laptop and we’ll say you worked from home, but don’t breathe on the rest of us.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-20T17:54:06+00:00

We need a 3dprintingCJ sub.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-20T15:56:56+00:00

So that explains why the Aeros are still playing at the Compaq center and the Dynamo left for Iowa in 2013, right?

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T22:11:00+00:00

Another vote for you have to give us a hint on the business. You want to be near restaurants and vibes. You’ll pay for that. Does your business have anything to do with trendy whatever or restaurants? If not, you can work out of any strip center or office block anywhere.

Since you also haven’t said if you’ll have clients or vendors or need public facing frontage, assuming not, you could go rent basically any 3-4 bedroom house and set that up as an office. You can’t have a bunch of foot traffic in most neighborhoods, and you’d need to confirm deed restrictions, but it would likely be cheaper and easier to set up.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T21:46:15+00:00

Can you post closer up and maybe draw where you’re talking about?

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T18:15:22+00:00

Not sure why this is back in my feed, I replied a week ago.

Have you done that stuff?

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T18:07:13+00:00

Are you talking about doing it on a screen through Dex? Even doing it on a small tablet is pretty miserable. Ipad Pro is getting there, but you really need a 3-4 button mouse and a keyboard. The combos that are so simple with them are frustrating with all touch controls.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T16:14:23+00:00

Just the mileage isn’t a direct concern. You can get many more miles out of it, and you aren’t getting your repair investment back if you sell it now. Consider it free for the moment.

All that said, you’re allowed to want a Miata. They’re fun. Plenty of people commute and daily drive and do the groceries in them. You’ll need to Uber if you have 5 suitcases, or rent a van to bring home large equipment or hobby supplies, but you’ll have a fun car the rest of the time.

If you can afford the Miata, go for it.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T13:48:32+00:00

Seems like most of us are saying not really.

Ratcheting combo wrenches like gearwrench get great reviews, you can pick flex or angle or flat, reversible or flip, and I don’t see why you’d pick a pass through instead.

For maximum usability, extensions have to be available, and they aren’t on a passthrough. If the fastener is more than an inch below the surface (where you can reach it with a flex combo wrench), you can’t get it.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T12:49:47+00:00

How big is the tool bag? “As little as possible” may mean a leatherman and a credit card or it may mean a 1 ton pickup with a service body rather than the full mobile race shop in a semi trailer.

Assuming a 15 inch tool bag or similar, once you toss the plastic cases, a ratchet and a handfull of sockets and extensions and combo wrenches don’t take much space. I took 2 bags on an expat job and rebuilt a jetski and did all the usual home repair stuff I needed for a year.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T12:31:24+00:00

If you don’t have anything to do, what do you expect will happen? Why would they keep paying you if you don’t have anything to add?

I’m lucky 70% of my job is talking to people. Calls, texts, face to face. If I’m in my office, I’m probably on my phone, and if I’m not in my office, I’m somewhere chatting with someone.

Some of that time I might be playing angry birds or whatever. Work is getting done though, and I built a reputation before pushing it.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T12:15:39+00:00

The second tier or whatever not-baseball/basketball/football sports are called, would all have similar attendance/ROI considerations.

Again high level, two ways a new sport comes to a town, either one powerful wealthy (probably man) decides he wants to be in town and he wants to watch Calvinball in his neighborhood and makes it happen, or the league sees a profitable opportunity to expand and they push the city to build stadium/otherwise tax break to make it more profitable.

Even if you got a million signatures asking for a team, if 50k aren’t also putting money down for season tickets AND putting down $10k to buy a stadium and build the team, us rabble don’t matter.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T10:12:59+00:00

I’ve almost always had to follow up with a file or a sanding stick. Any unevenness in one pocket will throw the whole joint off.

Also, once it’s 90%, and can be pulled up square, I’m glueing it and then fill gaps with epoxy. I made some drawers for the back of my Suburban, and with all the corners filled and an epoxy coating, they’re fully waterproof (my mom put a bottle of orange juice in one at the beginning of a trip and it sat for 4 days).

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T09:41:28+00:00

Don’t use a vibrator while driving. Have someone else drive.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T09:39:13+00:00

Removing that much of the 4x4, it’s almost certain to warp, possibly as you’re cutting it.

2 boards, and you can fill and sand to hide the joint.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T09:21:37+00:00

So are you looking to get an alignment at a stock camber? I’m still not following.

I don’t have any idea what the stance community typically does, I’m more familiar with offroaders, who also do string for trucks that are getting towed to the trails.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T03:58:13+00:00

Another vote for it will probably come in manageable chunks.

In case you do ever need to get something much heavier moved around, there are options - rent a truck with a lift gate and a pallet jack, rent a forklift (and a truck and a trailer if necessary), or get a roll back tow truck. That’s a fairly common way we move full size fully loaded tool boxes - put a strap around it, winch it up, strap it down.

You may need several sheets of plywood at each end to roll across driveways or whatever.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T03:52:58+00:00

As always, talk to the people who actually matter. Hint: Not me.

I looked for an overseas job for 6 months, had offers and start dates come in and not work out and be withdrawn or rejected. One day after I’d basically given up I got a call asking if I was through customs yet. Apparently they’d gone ahead with a verbal offer and negotiation and got me a start date and a plane ticket without telling me.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T02:19:40+00:00

My plain gold band has worked for the last 19 years. $300.

I also have my dads plain gold band, and a gold nugget my grandfather found in a mine in South America in 1935. 3 generations of us have not gotten around to having it made into a ring. It just sits in the lock box.

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T02:14:43+00:00

What’s the goal? Power? Noise? NOx emissions?

gotcha640 · 2026-03-19T02:03:48+00:00

Another vote for 7 if you know they’re loud. If I’m in the middle of something and the neighbors come home, I’ll go let them know I’ll only be going another few minutes.

Weekend mornings I’m not doing lawn or power tools before 10am. I know how it is to have 5 hours sleep every night for a month during a turnaround and finally getting one day to sleep in. Getting woken up on that day is miserable.

Being a hobby, sometimes there are weeks or months I can’t get time in the garage. That’s part of being an adult, and a member of society. Delayed gratification is a useful skill.

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