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Always stuff to learn.

setting up the vertical travel.

I made new shafts for the rise and fall handles, and was just playing around with an offcut of the precision ground shafting. I also made new collars and bushings, and and new washers etc.

I just recently finished rebuilding this model ET/E Thomas Robinson table saw. 7.5 HP, 18" blade, weighs 2300Lbs

Hi all, I have read the whole thread with interest. First off I am sorry that you got injured, I hope that you heal well and continue with your work. Thank you for posting, it is helpful to all to understand the circumstances of an accident. I would like some more information, to help me...

http://www.woodmachinery.f9.co.uk/robinson.html

I Wish you all the best in your recovery. good luck to you!

Welcome from Canada! Good luck on your journey.

Nice job, congratulations.

No one can answer your question.

It takes what it takes, for however long it takes! If you are not willing to do what it takes, for however long it takes.............do something else.

When i watched it the theme song was "Out of town" by Max Bygraves

He is only a God in your mind, he's just another woodworker to me.

Not really Ikea to Chippendale. I have made a few chairs. Chairs are fairly complicated, compound angle mortise and tenons compound curves, complicated clamping. The Maloof style rockers, are more like Ikea construction, mostly but joints and screws. They have only four joints in the leg to...

These chairs are pretty easy to make. Probably why Sam Maloof started making them. I made a few of them decades ago, and they got pretty boring pretty quick. No mine weren't anywhere near as pretty as as Sam's, Hal Taylors of the Barnsley workshop ones. I probably could have made them a...

I grew up in the South of England, my father was a carpenter and joiner, I was the youngest of four kids and we made most of our own entertainment. I would get up early Saturday morning, go out to the shed and sharpen my axe and knife on an old hand grinding wheel, take my slingshot and dog...

I rebuild a lot of machines with worn shafts. have made a few shafts and flame sprayed a few, but you can also order shafts cut to size and threaded, I think that may be your best bet. I am sure that you could find a company to supply them online. Flame spray is not that expensive to get set...

Great thread, nice machine. You have to be a bit of a detective to do machinery rebuilds, I get nervous going on if I don't understand something. Really interested in seeing the rest of the rebuild. I have a German grinder, not overly impressed with the design, so I look forward to seeing how...