You'll See Your Eye Out!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Smashing two-by-fours to snap 3" long deck screws made for a good workout.
One word: sawzall
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That's two words kind of glommed-together with a Z as glue.
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Yes, that is how they got the name for the tool referenced.
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That's two words kind of glommed-together with a Z as glue.
It saws all things[1], and then "saws" -> "sawz" brought to you by the same mindset that brought "kwik-e-mart".
Also, I don't care if you don't care.
[1] That would actually be false advertising.
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Yeah, but one bad-ass tool!
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That's two words kind of glommed-together with a Z as glue.
It's the Milwaukee Tools brand name for their reciprocating saw, which has turned into a bit of a generic name for them. I have one, and it is awesome. My second favorite saw (Fein Multimaster is number 1).
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My second favorite saw (Fein Multimaster is number 1).
Track saw is #1 for me. If you ever buy a track saw, a standard circular saw feels like a piece of knapped flint in comparison.
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Thank you, Doctor Science, but I knew that (I own one), I was just making a joke.
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The real joke is I lent it to my dad once and he cut his own power cord while de-limbing a small tree.
Then he "fixed" it with wirecaps and electrical tape. Eh. Whatever, it works.
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The real joke is I lent it to my dad once and he cut his own power cord while de-limbing a small tree.
Then he "fixed" it with wirecaps and electrical tape. Eh. Whatever, it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61e5xG4kqXE
That is an easy enough fix.
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I'll bet that cord won't work with a reciprocating saw (without the same sort of surgery applied by blakeydad).
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I'll bet that replacing a cord on a power tool is a relatively generic process and that the same concept carries over to a Sawzall.
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Some models come with a cord that detaches at both ends, so you can replace the whole cord. Mine was a garage sale find, so it doesn't have that feature.
If you go in a store and buy a new one from a good company, it'll have a replaceable cord.
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Some models come with a cord that detaches at both ends, so you can replace the whole cord. Mine was a garage sale find, so it doesn't have that feature.
If you go in a store and buy a new one from a good company, it'll have a replaceable cord.
Have you ever handled any Festool power tools? They have so many little interesting engineering touches, like their cords. They all remove with a twist and can be replaced in seconds.
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The one I have is a Milwaukee from the 80s. I'm not enough of a do it yourselfer to justify buying a new one. And honestly with tools like that, older ones seem to work better half the time anyway.
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It's 2015 how can saw manufacturers have such sorry interfaces that they don't come with replaceable cords!!!! And why can the saw cut it's own cord in the first place! That's like git letting you trash your work for typing commands in the wrong order!!!
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The one I have is a Milwaukee from the 80s.
If you are worried about it, the cord should be able to be replaced.
And honestly with tools like that, older ones seem to work better half the time anyway.
They usually do. Steel gears, etc.
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I've wanted a Festool biscuit jointer and router for a while now. I guess I'd get the router first.
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Track saw is #1 for me.
I always liked the band saw as a proper sawing tool. You wouldn't carry one up a tree though; it's easier to just chop the tree down with an axe and bring it to the saw…
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I've wanted a Festool biscuit jointer and router for a while now. I guess I'd get the router first.
I would get the Domino first. It is next on my list, and I have borrowed a friend's Domino on more than one occasion. Their routers are pretty cool, but for 90% of what I do it is no better or different than my Hitachi or Bosch routers. The dust collection is better than nothing, but it is still difficult to catch chips from a bit turning at 26,000rpm.
Where their tools really excel are the tracksaw (which they invented) and their sanders. Lately I have been doing a lot of work on our closets and it would be a lot more time-consuming without the tracksaw.
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I always liked the band saw as a proper sawing tool.
I use the bandsaw a lot. It is always in the garage, just set up and ready to go and it will cut nearly anything as long as it does not need to be more than 14" or your offcut will be less than 14". I even go to it when I need to cut PVC or copper pipe for something.
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I don't use sanders. I'm a card scraper kind of guy.
I'll look into domino. Does anybody make a decent biscuit joining jig for a router?
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Does anybody make a decent biscuit joining jig for a router?
Do you mean mortising jig?
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It's 2015 how can saw manufacturers have such sorry interfaces that they don't come with replaceable cords!!!! And why can the saw cut it's own cord in the first place! That's like git letting you trash your work for typing commands in the wrong order!!!
In my opinion, EVERYTHING which runs on wall power should have an IEC socket on it.
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It's 2015 how can saw manufacturers have such sorry interfaces that they don't come with replaceable cords!!!! And why can the saw cut it's own cord in the first place! That's like git letting you trash your work for typing commands in the wrong order!!!
In my opinion, EVERYTHING which runs on wall power should have an IEC socket on it.
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Same idea, but for cutting biscuit joints. Simpler, and hidden. A biscuit jointer is basically a router set up to do two kinds of related cuts. It cuts opposing grooves, and then you jam in a "biscuit" with glue on it into both grooves.
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And if it requires any kind of external power adapter, have a freaking cord coming out of it instead of making me plug the whole damned lump of plastic directly into my extension cord and making at least one other outlet useless!
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some people get the "too similar" toaster for things they didn't even posted. and you manage to duplicate your post.
The force is strong in @mott555
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Same idea, but for cutting biscuit joints. Simpler, and hidden. A biscuit jointer is basically a router set up to do two kinds of related cuts. It cuts opposing grooves, and then you jam in a "biscuit" with glue on it into both grooves.
Biscuits aren't that strong, so I mainly just use them for panel alignment and attaching face frames. If I did not have a biscuit joiner, I would probably just cut grooves for splines.
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some people get the "too similar" toaster for things they didn't even posted. and you manage to duplicate your post.
The force is strong in @mott555
In my case, it said it failed to post so I tried again. Then I got the "Too Similar" toaster, so I added an HTML comment and posted. Except the post that failed to post had actually succeeded...
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And if it requires any kind of external power adapter, have a freaking cord coming out of it instead of making me plug the whole damned lump of plastic directly into my extension cord and making at least one other outlet useless!
Years ago I got 10' of lamp cord and a bunch of male and female cord ends and made a bunch of 6" "extension cords" so that I can get the wall warts off of the power strips.
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Male in one end, and female in the other? <gasp!>
Filed under ok, I'm going over to that thread now...
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What really grinds my gears is when you get a plug strip with wall wart spacing, but then all your wall warts end up being designed to work with normal spacing (usually thin and turned 90°), and you end up losing at least half your outlets anyway.
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then all your wall warts end up being designed to work with normal spacing (usually thin and turned 90°)
Any consumer product made by Netgear, Linksys or D-Link, along with pretty much all of the cell phone chargers made in the last 5 years.
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Male in one end, and female in the other? <gasp!>
Filed under ok, I'm going over to that thread now...
Bigot.
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That looks useful for poking people!
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That looks useful for poking people!
Or hooking up a generator to your house. ;)
Way back in the day I moved out of a house I was renting and the water company was unusually efficient in shutting off the water to the house and I was left with no water supply to do final cleaning. I made up a short hose that was female on both ends, hooked up the neighbor's hose to the outside spigot and didn't have to carry any buckets.
I missed a chance to call it a lesbian hose.
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I missed a chance to call it a lesbian hose.
LOL, a new oxymoron that I'll have to remember.
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Which is why I get plug strips where the sockets are turned 45 degrees. It gets wider, but I usually don't have to waste any sockets.
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Biscuits aren't that strong, so I mainly just use them for panel alignment and attaching face frames.
That's what I usually see them used for, but my experience is limited to watching New Yankee Workshop a long time ago.
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Then I got the "Too Similar" toaster
I got a 50something OK last week, and then when I tried to post again got a Too Similar. Except that the first post never happened. Yay Discurse, the forum for the next ten years! (Can I go to sleep until it's gone?)
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Years ago I got 10' of lamp cord and a bunch of male and female cord ends and made a bunch of 6" "extension cords" so that I can get the wall warts off of the power strips.
Or you could buy a premade one for $1.50 at Micro Center or something.
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Or you could buy a premade one for $1.50 at Micro Center or something.
I made these 15 years ago. I could not find anything suitable at the time.
Also,
is Micro Center?
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Ugh, that was from Family Guy?
I must remember to never use that phrase again.
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Also,
is Micro Center?Kind of like a better Best Buy but I don't think there are very many of them.
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Kind of like a better Best Buy
That wouldn't take much.
The only use Best Buy is anymore is to go in and look over things before you buy them on Amazon.
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I made these 15 years ago. I could not find anything suitable at the time.
Matter of the right store, I guess.
Also,
is Micro Center?:jaw_drops_in_horror: It's like Fry's. Except they usually have a handful of stupidly-awesome deals, like "$70 off on an unlocked core i5 and i7 if you come in and buy one", or at least they did until Skylake.
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Kind of like a better Best Buy but I don't think there are very many of them.
Comparing them to Best Buy is kind of insulting, lol.
