| Project by Brad | posted 56 days ago | 665 views | 1 time favorited | 5 comments |  |
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I found this little beauty on craigslist last week. I’ve been meaning to upgrade my old craftsman flex-drive TS so seeing the Jet on Craigslist for $300 wasn’t bad at all. So i sold my craftman for $200 and got my new jet for $300. The saw only had a few sheets of plywood ever run through it any otherwise was used as a table top for a car guy.
Refinished the cast iron with penetrating oil and purple scotchbrite finished with a few coats of wax and polished with the fine grade white scotch brite pads.
Replaced all the bolts, lock washers, and flat washers with fresh stuff.
All the internals were solid nothing worn so just cleaned everything up scrubbed it up and lubed it it white lithium grease.
The fence was WAY outta alignment but got it down to +/- 1/164”
Only thing let is to build a nice out feed table which I will post here in a few weeks once completed.
brad
-- Great Coffee= 8oz strong coffee, 1tbsp brown sugar, 1tbsp 1/2&1/2, 1 heaping teaspoon mahoganny
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woodworm
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posted 56 days ago
Nicely refinished & refined! I can see the different look of the table bed/top.
Great job.
-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.
Beginningwoodworker
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posted 56 days ago
You did a great job on the saw!
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Douglas Bordner
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posted 56 days ago
My old garage-bound Jet is jealous.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
Darell
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posted 56 days ago
Nice find and clean up. Had one of those old flex drive Crafstman table saws. Bet you’re glad to get rid of it as I was. I guess it wasn’t all bad though. Served me for 20 years.
-- Darell, Norman, Ok.
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posted 54 days ago
Nice job! Are those extension wings from the Craftsman?
-- Trying to follow the example of the master.