A new shop in the making #16: A little siding makes a big difference

It is looking to pretty to be a workshop, when do you expect it to fully operational?

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I gotta pay more attention when I’m reading. I seem to add letters to words, so the title ‘A little SLIDING makes a big difference’ confused me a bit. However, when looked closer things made a lot more sense.

All in all Bob it’s looking good. I’ve never heard of putting the blade on backwards and I’m kinda curious why that would cut better than putting the blade on forward.

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Hello my friend;

It’s looking good! I sure hope you plan on putting plant holders under the windows. Makes it more cheerful.

Russel, putting the blade in backwards causes the face to have a clean edge.

That is often done when cutting aluminum as well.

I first tried this on a piece of aircraft aluminum, which to my surprise is hardened via various alloys. It was a piece of 2”x 2” x 3/16” thick. I was at the supply house to buy a blade for my chop saw designed to cut aluminum. The sales guy talked me into buying a 60 tooth wood blade, with the instructions to mount it backwards in the saw.

Well I tried it. Upon touching the aluminum EVERY tooth on the blade became shrapnel.

A $120.00 blade that lasted for about three seconds.Turns out that aircraft aluminum is very hard.

FIY: For cutting aluminum, that isn’t hardened an alternate bevel blade in the miter saw works fine, installed the normal way using light pressure. I’ve cut 3” x 4” x 1/4” thick angle using this method, without any problem.

Lee

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lee—I hope the sales guy took it back :-/

For vinyl I found that a wood blade backwards works well, but NOT carbide. . . the teeth catch and break out chunks of the siding

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Tony:
I am hoping the cosntrucition is done next week and I canstart movingthe tools in. It will take a few weeks to get new counters done up and some shelve in place.

Lee: there wil be planters on each window and the square foot garden are to be swept back in arcs on each side of the stairs . We share similar experiences with brittle carbide. Folsk don’t even know how brittle is is.

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Looks like you will be moving in sooner rather than later!

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Fascinating stuff. I’m always learning something new here.

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Nice progress. Looks great.

Lee I hope you had your safety glasses on when that blade exploded..yikes!

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I’ve cut Aluminum and brass on my chop saw using a negative raker angle on the carbide tooth. I’ve also used the blade backwards to cut vinyl or fiberglass roofing.

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Looking good!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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I wanted to revisit Tungsten carbide again for a second. It is very popular in machining trades as it is extremely hard and able to keep a decent edge much long than alloyed steels.

The problem is it is brittle.

In woodworking there is a constant danger of having a carbide tip fracture or actually separate from a weld at extremely high speed. I caution you all to focus on staying out of the line of fire from all your tools and if possible and practical, use complete face protection. We had a guy up here get a piece of tungsten shrapnel hit his cheekbone and travel another inch underground into his right eye.

As far as storing carbide instruments are concerned make sure the don’t bang into each other when you close the drawer. That’s enough to micro fracture them and give you nightmares later.

Cheers
Bob

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Looking awesome. I’m excited for you. Thank you for sharing.

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This is exciting. I bet you can’t wait to get those tools in there and get the inside finished up. It will be great when it’s done and you are back to making projects instead of buildings.

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Ok, Bob. It’s been a week since we saw some new photos. I happen to know that when you get this close, it’s hard to get side tracked. How the progress going. Keep us posted. It’s looking really good.

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Tim, I put a new segment up a couple of minutes ago.

Cheers
Bob

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