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Also see info in this thread about bearing swap --

http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/messages/26/34075.html?1221518900

Just a follow-up report about Porter Cable bearing-swap ...

The result, in brief: New bearings = cooler running.

My SKF replacement bearings arrived from MSC Industrial. The larger bearing...

There are a couple of threads from 2005 about Porter Cable router 7518 (or the motor 75182) running very hot, and the consensus is suggestive that (at that time) some really poor bearings were being...

I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to me that whenever you see the word 'bits' that it means the bit will be chucked into something like a drill. And when you see something called an 'endmill', it means...

I'm grateful this was posted. I've had a couple of puzzling non-alignment instances, and have pondered how to install laser devices to *really* make sure that the XY=0,0.

I think I'll get one...

I have a blog that's been running since 2003, except for about a year when our server was slightly damaged due to being hijacked by a spammer to as to send important body-improvement info to needy...

The manual is your friend.

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And of course...

I could easily be wrong, but my guess is that the 'arithmetic-scanner' that lets you enter things like 'JX 15-5+(1.75/3)' probably runs on the input, and is therefore trying to subtract 'profile'...

I get that you're talking about compressors, but what's a mystery to me is ... why?

What is this thing you are hooking up? Why is it desireable? (I thought a cool gun was a drill.) From...

You know, I have actually been receiving a number of emails from what must be this same South African source. As I recall, the fellow is a lawyer, actually a 'barrister', handling the estate of the...

What I'd like to know is why not use an electric drill gun? They're relatively cheap, sturdy, easy to replace, run off electricity which you already have right there on the carriage (at least I do). ...

ShopBot has plans. If no findo on their site, then ask them. They gotto.

In the past they had plans for both metal and wood. I made metal. I'm glad I did, and cannot imagine that wood would be...

Jack Jarvis asked: "Arthur does your 2.5 makita fit in the carrige without modification? What is the full model number?"

Jack, I think it's the RF1101, and no, it required a collet-like sleeve...

I had concerns about noise, so I bought a 2.5 hp Makita, which had reviews claiming it was (relatively) quiet.

It is.

And it seems to have adequate power for the cutting I'm doing in wood.

I had an interesting situation, that might possibly be related. I was cutting a thing on the front, and then turning it over to cut it on the back. I had holes drilled for index pins on the first,...

I got a smallish dust filter from Penn State, with remote control, five speeds, programmable duration. All very inexpensive.

And in my opinion, even with dust collection, it makes a noticeable...

I know that this thread has moved all around the room, however, the initial question was regarding setting Z-height when using very fine bits.

I have this same issue, and the solution I found...

I use masking tape, securing the probe housing and wrapping the tape onto the router housing in one direction, and then another strip, fastening it in the other direction. Quick, cheap, and easy.

I've used a lot of computer-driven things over the last 20 years, and three things never hurt: (a) earth grounding, (b) air-conditioning if it's warm, and (c) power-conditioning. Do these three...

I used to have an application running on DOS, and so we had a DOS computer in one corner of the office. I found that using pcAnywhere (which at that time was available in both DOS and Windows), with...

And I have taken a word from the wise, and I'm keeping past versions myself from now on. Just in case.

This may be a real dumb idea ... but would it be possible to 'sandwich' the balsa between sheets of some other (expendable) material?

(I'm imagining that if the balsa was stabilized by a bit of...

I think I've got the 3.4.26 sitting around, and surely ShopBot has it. If you want me to email it, send request to me with your email address, and I will.

This seems unlikely to be the problem,...

In a book I'm reading (The China Study), it quotes an article from JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), wherein the writer has statistics showing that, due to errors in surgery and...