I woke up today feeling like death. I think maybe I got a little sun sick this weekend with this whole crop-fit exercise thing my wife has me working on. You know, rototilling, weedeating, planting, mowing, fixing, etc. Anyhow, I felt better early afternoon so I went to my shop where things are shady. My trip to Grizzly a couple weeks ago was still sitting there waiting for assembly. So, I cleaned up my shop and got to work.
The dust collector wouldn't fit where the old one did, but man, does it pull some CFMs compared to the old one! I think I still want to re-think my setup with perhaps a rigid duct system (or at least partial.)
The sander comes with a stupid little base, but I needed it to roll and I figured a place to store sandpaper wouldn't hurt. So I made a base with locking casters for it. Turned it on, ran a board through a couple times with my daughter and the paper came loose on the drum. I know Grizzly says to tape the one end down (and that's how it came from the factory,) but that seems stupid. Growing up in the cabinet shop we use large hose clamps for the end opposite the spring tensioner. I'm also not sure about their whole felt on the second roller idea. I think I'm just going to pull that off while I'm at it and adjust the drum heights to suit.
But, don't get me wrong. It's frickin' awesome. I can't wait to build my first bow with home grown, home harvested, and home ground lams!
And just to make sure the day was complete, I finally pulled the last bow out of the form that I had glued up at the beginning of April. Still had 20psi on the hose. Man, life gets away from you sometimes...
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